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For September

Encourager

August 15

Birthdays & Anniversaries…..…..p. 4

Calendar of Events…………...…..p.5

Christian Education news…...…..p.3

Endowment Presentation.……....p.6

Message from Pastor Sarah…....p. 2

Picture Page…………………...…......p. 7

Prayer Requests…………..….........p. 4

Safeguarding Children ….………..p. 6

Small Groups………. ………………….p. 5

Pastor Sarah Wilson...Pastor

Jeanne Soberg, Parish Administrator

Chuck Masny, Music Director

Dennis Mitchell, Custodian

Jill Voelz, Nursery Supervisor

Lorena Skelley, Wedding Coordinator

S t a f f

I n t h i s i s s u e

St. Barnabas Lutheran Church . . . to grow up into Christ.

T h e E n c o u r a g e r

Ministry Night coming this month to St. Barnabas

Ministry Night will be the 3rd Tuesday of each month at 7pm when all our minis-

try teams will meet to do their work. We'll begin in the

Family Life Center with a group devotion, teams

will do their work, and then we'll end with a 1-minute recap from each team about what

decisions they made. Thanks for your flexibility as we try something new that we think will help us

work together more effectively and communicate better!

Backpack and

College Blessing

Is it really back

to school time?!?

We’d like to send everyone

to school or on to college with God’s blessing, so

bring your backpacks to either worship service on

Sunday, August 12, so we can bless them.

God’s Amazing Journey:

Growing Disciples & Stewards

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Message from Pastor Sarah

Dear People

of God at St.

Barnabas,

Change! Chanc-

es are you say

that word and

feel an emo-

tion: fear or joy

or anger. It’s a loaded word. In

my personal life, I’ve been think-

ing about change because we’re

buying a new house, and in Au-

gust, we’ll be moving! We spent

many months looking at homes,

and we finally found one in Crys-

tal Lake, just off 31, that’s exact-

ly 11 minutes for both me and

my husband to our work. We

couldn’t ask for a better location,

and the house is great, too!

Not only will we be changing our

home, but our kids will be

changing schools. This is much

harder than moving homes

(though I have to say that pack-

ing and sorting is NOT an easy

thing!), and I’d really appreciate

your prayers as they transfer to

new schools.

I’ve also been thinking about

change in my professional life.

My office has been in a state of

continual change, but it’s almost

where I’ve been wanting it to be.

Many thanks to Linda Hamann

and Patti Hill for their excellent

painting skills, the Property

Team for moving furniture, and

Lori Gracely for helping me find

comfy chairs.

It was uncomfortable to wait for

the changes and then go through

some people feel more com-

fort and peace after chang-

es.

I wish I could tell you how

to handle change—both at

church and in your personal

lives. I’m not always great at

it myself. What helps me is

prayer, exercise, taking deep

breaths and remembering

that God is always with me,

and talking with others to

get a new perspective. I also

have to remember to apolo-

gize when I take out my

anxiety on other people!

I’m sure you’ll hear this

many times, but one of my

favorite Bible passages is

Philippians 4:4-7 where Paul

urges us to rejoice in all

circumstances, pray instead

of worry, and

let God’s

peace work in

our hearts

and minds.

This has

helped me

through many

changes, and I pray that it

helps you, too.

Maybe the most important

thing to remember is that

God’s love for us never

changes—except to grow

deeper. May you rest in that

knowledge and gain strength

from it as you face all kinds

of change.

Pastor Sarah

them, but the end result

has been so worth it.

Obviously taking a new

church has been a lot of

change, and now we’re

changing the change. For

instance, this month we’ll

try out Ministry Night for

the first time on August 21.

We have no idea how it will

be for all our ministry

teams to meet on the same

night, but we know it’s

worked in other churches,

and we hope that God will

similarly bless our efforts.

We’ve given ourselves 6

months to see how Ministry

Night works. If we find that

it doesn’t help us communi-

cate and coordinate our

work better, we can always

go back to how we used to

do things.

I’m sure you’ve noticed

other changes at church—

changes with worship, with

furniture, with people, with

programs. You may be wel-

coming some of these

changes, and you may be

dreading some of these

changes.

We want church to be a

place of comfort and peace.

Some people don’t feel

comfort and peace after the

sanctuary is rearranged or

the liturgy is changed, and

Christian Education News Page 3

Confirmation classes will resume on Wednesday, August 29, with our parent-

student meeting from 7-8:30pm in the Family Life Center.

All parents and students are required to attend this meeting so we can work out all the pieces of this

important part of our spiritual journey. If you have a child going into 7th grade, please let the office know

by email that they will be attending. If you have any questions, please talk to Jenny Vogt

(vogtjen@yahoo.com), Laura Whyte (jlwhyte@sbcglobal.net), or Pastor Sarah

(pastor@stbarnabas-cary.org).

Keep an eye out for our fall schedule of high school youth

group events coming soon! St. Barnabas, Bethany Lutheran (Crystal Lake), and Living Waters (Crystal Lake) will be joining forces to create one amazing youth group in the coming year. We’ll generally meet the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month, 5-7:30pm, and rotate locations and leader-ship. Each church will be responsible for providing dinner when they host (Attention parents! We’ll need help with this.)

Middle School Lock About

Mark your calendars for Friday, September 21, from 7pm to 7am the next morning when all the Lutheran churches in McHen-ry County will join forces to put on a huge “lock about” for kids grades 6-8. We’ll

begin at Bethany Lutheran in Crystal Lake, play at the Sage YMCA, head to Grace Lutheran in

Woodstock for worship and pizza, and end up at Shepherd of the Hills in McHenry. The cost will be about $30 per person, and we’ll need adult chaperones. Friends are welcome to join!

More info coming soon…

Rally Day

We will be kicking

off our new year

with an intergen-

erational event on Sept. 9th at

9:15am in the FLC. The whole

congregation is invited. We’re

calling it “God’s Amazing

Journey: Growing as Disci-

ples and Stewards. An email

will be going out to all families

this month with the details.

PLUS...We are please to an-

nounce... we will be offering a

new Sunday School class for our

2 & 3 year olds called Frolic

Nursery! Exciting things are

happen this year…

COME CHECK IT OUT!

We pray

for each St.

Barnabas

member &

their fami-

lies. NOTE: We will pray for every

member/family by name during the coming year. The names are listed at random.

August 5 Debbie Ramirez. Chris Taylor, Tabitha, Pat, Kyle, Aubrey & Madden Gunn. Alan & Catherine Cox. Tim Dornfeld

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August 12 Brad, Janet & Matthew McCumber. Barb Jackson. Lindsey Sherman. Phil, Lisa, Kyle, McKenna, Lauren & Keegan Brennen.

August 19 Pat & Patti Hivon. Mark & Cheryl Rickerd. KC Segerson. Jil & Kierstin Voelz. Helen Ballantyne August 26 Alix Rozolis. Paul, Alexandrina, Mikayla & David Thon. Katie Logan. Steve & Lin Roehrig. Chris Zimmer

Continue to keep our military families in your prayers: Jonathan Barstow, stationed in California.

Nick Zimmer,

stationed in Virginia

Ryan Blackwell,

Joe Cafferata

AUG 16 PAULA SEJUD AUG 19 CLAIRE ROEHRI AUG 13 CHRIS ZIMMER AUG 13 CATHERINE COX AUG 20 KIERSTIN VOELZ AUG 22 BETTY WATKINS AUG 23 ADELINE ZIMMER AUG 24 ERIC VOGEL AUG 24 AMANDA DROZT AUG 25 CHRISTIAN TAYLOR AUG 27 BAILEY GATES AUG 28 FRED DODGE AUG 28 EVA BECIROVIC

If your birthday or

anniversary is miss-

ing please call the

church office.

We don’t want to

forget you!

AUG 30 DAVID VALENTIN AUG 31 MICHAEL DROZT

ANNIVERSARIES AUGUST 4

NANCY & BILL ROCHFORD AUGUST 5

AMY & MICHAEL SWANSON AUGUST 7

LYDIA & CHICK RANDOLPH AUGUST 8

SUSAN & KEVEIN CARRICK AUGUST 14

JENNY & SEAN VOGT

MEMBERSHIP ROLLS

We’re in the process of finding out who still would like to be an official voting member at St. Barnabas and who no longer considers themselves members. This hasn’t been done in several years, and in order to give a true membership number, we’re sending letters to anyone who hasn’t been in worship and made a “contribution of

record” (that’s language from our constitution) in the last 2 years. If you talk to anyone who’s offended or confused by this effort, please let them know that we’re not trying to kick anyone out of church; we just want to be honest about our numbers. Thanks!

AUGUST 18 BARB & KURT KREUTZMANN

AUGUST 26 LISA & JONATHAN DREWS

AUGUST 31 LISA & PHIL BRENNEN

Cary Grove Food Pantry

Serving the Community

In May 137 families

Total # 437 folks

In June 144 families

Total # 522 folks

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The Transition

Team News

Steve Roehrig - chair

Danielle Anderson

Stefanie Flach

Mark Gates

Kurt Kreutzmann

Jeanne Soberg

Jen Vogt

Laura Whyte

The Witness Team is hosting a friendly game of whiffle ball between

worship services (9:15-10:15am) Sunday, August 19. Whether you play or

watch, this will be a great time! Game to be held in our own backyard. Concessions will be served in ballpark fashion.

All ages are welcome… invite your family and friends!

Calendar of Events

Sunday Summer Specials Between Service Events...9:15am to 10:15am

August 5…Blanket Making Continues

August 19...All Church Whiffle Ball Game

August 26…ELCA Foundation presentation

September 2…. Root Beer Floats served at

a church potluck after 2nd service.

September 9….Rally Day—Sunday School Kick off and a Intergenerational Prayer Labyrinth Event!

* The Meet and Greets are winding down. We do have a few more dates scheduled. If you are interested in attending, please contact Steve. Pastor looks forward to meeting each member.

* Small Groups are starting up. If you are interested in partici-pating or have questions, please contact the main office or attend the brief info session on August 12 at 9:45am in Rm A/B

We ask that you join us in this month’s prayer:

Dear Heavenly Father, we ask that You help us with CHANGE. We pray for the ability to be open to accept change. We pray for the patience to see its potential. We pray for the excitement of all that can come with it.

In Your name we pray, Amen

Lutheran World Relief

Back to School supplies

Crayons (16-24 count)

70 Sheet spiral notebooks

30cm ruler

Pencil sharpener

Blunt scissors

#2 pencils with erasers

Black or blue pens

Collection Box in Narthex

Looking Ahead: Preschool Cookie Dough Fundraiser starting 8/30-9/13 delivery 10/4.

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Endowment Workshop About 10 years ago, a hardwork-ing group put to-gether an endow-ment program for our church. An en-

dowment is a perpetual fund that accumu-lates gifts over time with the express pur-pose of using only the earned interest for special purposes outside of the general church budget. This allows the fund to grow over time and provides another way for contributions to the church without having the money spent on general church expenses. Currently we have just over $5,000 in that fund but would like to see it grow so that we could do some additional good within our congregation and our commu-nity.

On Sunday, August 26th, Tim Urness from the ELCA

Foundation will be at church to host a workshop between services explaining how we can grow our

endowment fund.

Please join us in classroom A-B on August 26th at 9:15 am

God’s Work. Our Hand’s

Sage House Volun-

Safeguarding God’s Children

Workshop Training for all who work with children in the

congregation and community.

Offered free of charge through the

Northern Illinois Synod, ELCA

Saturday, September 8, 2018

9:00am to Noon

St. Barnabas Lutheran Church

Family Life Center

Online registration at

Nisynod.org/safeguarding-gods-

children

Questions, please contact:

Deacon Cheryl Erdmann, Northern Illinois Synod,

ELCA 815.964.9934 or CErdmann@nidynod.org

Community members, as well as congregation

members are welcome to attend the workshop.

Amazon Smiles

If you shop on Amazon.com,

did you know that you can designate

St. Barnabas to receive a donation from Amazon

each time you make a purchase? St. Barnabas

then turns around and sends those donations to

our missionary family in Japan, Rev. Jim and Car-

ol Sack. All you have to do is go to your account

information, find “AmazonSmiles,” and desig-

nate our church as the recipient of Amazon’s do-

nations.

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Easter Children’s Message

Ht decorating group!

Chili & Mac &

Cheese Bake off

Lor

The Chili Cook Off Team

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A phone call from LIFETOUCH will be coming to you on or around August 16 with details on how to schedule your photo session online.

Please join us for a free professional photography session and be included in the ST. BARNABAS LUTHERAN

CHURCH DIRECTORY.

We need your help to make our directory complete! Photography starts September 26th!

You will receive a free 8x10 portrait.You will receive a free 8x10 portrait.You will receive a free 8x10 portrait.You will receive a free 8x10 portrait.

Cruise Night in downtown Cary!

Youth Gathering in Houston with

Bishop Clements!

30,000 youth gather to

worship in Houston!

1st combined Youth Group meeting..

Living Waters, Bethany & St. Barnabas

Pastor revs up for

Cruise Night!

St. Barnabas Lutheran Church

8901 S. Cary-Algonquin Road

Cary, IL 60013

God calls us, His people at St. Barnabas Lutheran Church,

to grow up into Christ and to invite others to grow with us in

faith, service, commitment and love.

We shall respond!

Phone: 847-6

39-3

959

Em

ail:

office@

stbarn

abas-

cary

.org

www.stbarnabas-cary.org

Church office hours:

Monday –

Friday

9:0

0am

to 3

:00pm

Worship Schedule

8:00 & 10:30am Holy Communion

Nursery Available 9:00 to 11:30am

St. Barnabas

Christian Preschool

Kathy Hedgepath, Director

Chris Mathesius, Administrative Assistant

Phone: 847-516-4171

Financial Officers

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Church Council

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ST. B SUPPER CLUB

Thursday

August 2 at 6:00pm

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Red Robin Restaurant

441 S. Randall Rd., Alg.

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Self Pay.