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, 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
The following events take place at Baker Memorial Church:
- St. Charles Indoor Farmers Market
Fridays, November-May | 9am-Noon | Come shop local! Use street level entrance on Main Street/Rt 64. - Mozart Requiem Benefit Concert | Sunday, March 16 | 3-4pm | Join us for a performance by the Baker Memorial Church Chancel Choir and Metropolis Orchestra directed by Jeff Hunt. All proceeds will go toward a much needed and costly new boiler for the church. There will be a free will offering with a suggested donation of $20 per person. Find more information about the concert here.
- Church Rummage Sale | Thursday-Saturday, March 27-29th | Come find a bargain at the Baker Memorial Church Rummage Sale! Hours sare 1 to 5pm on Thursday, 10am to 6pm on Friday, and 9am to Noon on Saturday. Note that there is a $5 bag sale on Saturday. Please enter at the lower Main Street entrance.
- Purchase With A Purpose Market
Saturday, April 12 | 10am-3pm | A one-day fair trade market. Shop vendors with unique goods from all over the world! Use the street level entrance on Main St/Rt.64. Sponsored by Baker Memorial UWFaith. - St. Charles Singers Concert | Saturday, April 12 | 7:30pm | Sunday, April 13 | 3pm | St. Charles Singers perform The Passing of the Year. Find more information about the group and tickets 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 9am-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.”