Community Connections
Community is welcome here!
Baker Memorial UMC frequently opens its doors to welcome the community at large. Beyond Baker events like our indoor and outdoor Farmers Market (read more about below), the church hosts such groups as our Administer Justice, Mid-Valley Special Ed, Boy Scout/Cub Scout troops, Alcoholics Anonymous, St. Charles Kiwanis and Pottawatomie Garden Club, as well. Baker Memorial is the home church for the renowned St. Charles Singers group. We sponsor blood drives, CPR training, medical screenings, and outside groups use our facilities for meetings, concerts, recitals and more.
We’re always on the look-out for ways to serve Christ here, near, and far away.
COMMUNITY EVENTS
- St. Charles Outdoor Farmers Market
Fridays, June-October | 8 am-1 pm | Come shop local! Vendors sell produce, baked goods, eggs, meat, cheese, olive oil, hand-made goods and more. Located on 4th Avenue between Cedar Ave and Main Street. - Baker Memorial Blood Drive
Thursday, October 3 | 2:30-6:30 pm | Save a life by donating blood! Our fall community blood drive is a great opportunity to help others. Versiti Blood Center will be on-site to take donations. Sign up for an appointment here. - St. Charles Singers: Pause, Reflect and Ponder
Saturday & Sunday, October 26 & 27 | 7:30 pm | The St. Charles Singers’ season-opener concert, “Pause, Reflect, and Ponder,” spotlights works by three northern Illinois composers: Marybeth Kurnat, of DeKalb, a soprano with the St. Charles Singers; Rockford-based, British-born Donald Fraser, “noted and widely performed as a composer” (AllMusic.com); and veteran choral director and educator Robert Boyd of Westmont.
Concerts are scheduled for 7:30 pm Saturday, October 26, and 3 p.m. Sunday, October 27, at Baker Memorial United Methodist Church. Get ticket information at stcharlessingers.com/tickets/ - healing heARTS Northwestern Medicine Living Well Cancer Resources Art Show
Friday, November 8 | 5-8 pm | Use Cedar Avenue entrance. - Chamber Music on the Fox
Monday, November 25 | 7:30 pm | Chamber Music on the Fox Goes Baroque. Music by Bach, Frescobald and Handel. Concert at Baker Memorial UMC. Get ticket information at chambermusiconthefox.org/ - St. Charles Singers: Candlelight Carols
Friday, December 6 | 7:30 pm | St. Michael Catholic Church, Wheaton
Saturday, December 7 | 7:30 pm | Sunday, December 8 | 3 pm | Baker Memorial United Methodist Church, St. Charles
For the first time in more than a decade, the St. Charles Singers will enlist a group of string players to perform in their annual Candlelight Carols concerts. Joining the choir will be the 10-member Metropolis String Ensemble. “Strings will bring an extra touch of holiday magic to the beguiling sounds of our choir and the enchanting melodies of the songs,” Hunt says. Get ticket information at stcharlessingers.com/tickets/
Farmers Market
The St. Charles Farmers Market is a year round farmers market.
The St. Charles Outdoor Farmers Market runs every Friday from May through October each year 8 am and runs until 1 pm. You’ll find us at Fourth Avenue and Main Street.
The St. Charles Indoor Farmers Market runs Fridays, weekly, November – May from 9 am-noon in Wiley Hall. Enter at lower level entrance on Main Street.
ABOUT THE MARKET
The St. Charles Farmers Market offers fresh produce, fruit, cheese, eggs, beef and goat meat, poultry products, and fresh flowers, garden plants, honey. The Market also offers a tempting array of gourmet food products, fresh baked bread, jewelry, arts and crafts. Stop by and shop local!
We are thrilled to see the growing interest by farmers and food vendors in our market and very proud of the large number of farm-fresh family-owned farmers selling their products at this market. I encourage the community to visit the Market on Fridays and make it a weekly trip.
“Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.”