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Greg GyllsdorffWelcome To Greg Gyllsdorff!

Greg Gyllsdorff has joined our staff as our permanent organist and member of our music team.

Greg received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music Education from Carnegie Mellon University and later received his Masters of Fine Arts in Music Education from the same University. He has also completed course work as a Doctoral candidate from Indiana University.

Greg has won many awards and appointments throughout his career. He won the Waldron Scholarship to study organ and advanced theory at the Écoles ď Art Amèricaines, Fontainebleau, France. He was the winner of the Pittsburg Concert Society’s Organ Competition, the American Guild of Organists, Pittsburg Chapter, Organ Competition and many other awards in the field of music.


ly, Greg is the Creative and Performing Arts Coordinator, Orchestra, AP Music Theory and Piano Director, at Auburn High School, Rockford, IL and is also a Mentor teacher for orchestra and strings techniques. In addition to his teaching, he has been both Organist and Director of Music in several churches. During the past four years he has been Director of Music at First Presbyterian Church, Freeport, IL.

Church music has been an integral part of Greg’s life and he has a strong desire to glorify God through his music. We are so pleased to welcome him to our church family and hope that he will enjoy a very long tenure as our organist.

Kirsten HedegaardKirsten Hedegaard Named Director of Music    ^top
for The Presbyterian Church of Barrington

The Session, on the recommendation of the Music Search Committee, is pleased to announce the hiring of Kirsten Hedegaard as Music Director, effective April 24, 2006. She was selected from a field of thirty four applicants and brings fifteen years of experience to the position.

Kirsten received a Bachelor of Music degree in Music History and Voice from Northwestern, and a Master of Arts degree in conducting at the University of California, Davis. A professional conductor and accomplished singer, her experiences include church choirs, children’s choirs, community choirs, orchestras, classroom instruction, private teaching and music administration.

Church experiences include Southminster Presbyterian in Arlington Heights and Trinity United Methodist Church in Mt. Prospect. Further experiences as a conductor include German American Singers of America, George Eastman House Chorus, Chicago Children’s Choir, and choirs at the University of California, Davis where she was an assistant to Paul Hillier

An accomplished soprano, Kirsten has sung with Belle Voce in Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Philharmonia Baroque Chorale in San Francisco, as well as in many churches in Chicago and California. She also plays the violin.

Kirsten co-founded The Musical Offering, a music school in Evanston which provides group and private lessons, recital series, and community outreach. The former Executive Director, she
ly is a teacher of private lessons and children’s music classes. She has also taught conducting classes at Concordia University.

Kirsten is married to Andrew Lewis, an accomplished conductor in the Chicago area. His
affiliations include Music Director of the Elgin Chorale Union, lecturer at DePaul University, cantor at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Evanston, and founder and artistic director of the Janus Ensemble. Kirsten and Andrew have three young boys, George,
William and Henrik who was born February 19, 2006.

While possessing a diverse background of experiences in all music areas, Kirsten’s primary focus is more and more on church music as she strives to use her gifts in the service of God and the Church. She is enthusiastically looking forward to helping The Presbyterian Church of Barrington grow its music program, enriching the worship of the congregation. We welcome her warmly to our congregation.

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Narnia

C.S. Lewis and Finding God in Narnia

Presented by

Dr. Chris Mitchell,

C.S. Lewis scholar of Wheaton College

Sunday, June 4, 2006
10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Fellowship Hall

Admission $12
$5 for students
A light lunch will be served

Deacons CoffeeDeacons Are Looking for Hosts            ^top
to Offer the Most!

Our friendly Sunday morning traditions of being offered a warm handshake when you enter the church as well as a hot cup of coffee served up after worship come to you courtesy of our Deacons. What you might not know is the amount of time each month the Deacons dedicate to recruiting volunteers.
ly six to ten hours are spent each month to maintain these cherished traditions. In an effort to convert this time on the telephone into more meaningful pastoral care time; we are trying to implement a new way of securing hospitality volunteers to greet and serve coffee.

The Deacons are hopeful that we can create approximately eight Hospitality Teams to serve and greet on a rotation schedule. The concept mirrors our successful Usher Teams. Along with these predetermined teams, our various committees will continue to serve coffee and greet periodically throughout the year thereby supplementing the teams.

Briefly each team will be composed of six hosts including a Lead Host to coordinate tasks.
The tasks for each team on any given Sunday would include:

1. Picking up donut holes
2. Setting up coffee service at tables and brewing the coffee
3. Serving coffee at 10:00 AM
4. Greeting at 9:00 AM service
5. Cleaning up after 9:00 AM and set up self-service for 11:00 AM service
6. Greet at 11:00 AM service (excluding June – August during summer hours!)
There is no clean up required after 11:00 AM as our cleaning staff does this each Monday!

The two Deacon Hospitality Coordinators will create the quarterly schedules, instruction booklets and provide team rosters with contact information to all hospitality team participants. They will also keep track of supplies. Should you find yourself with a scheduling conflict there will be a pool of 40 - 48 other hosts to contact in order to switch dates. You would have at least 30 days prior to any schedule taking effect to secure a replacement. This makes it almost flawless and easy for the team host members!

We are looking for willing members to serve our faith community alongside your Deacons. It is also a great way to speak with friends and meet new ones! Sign-up tables will be available in Fellowship Hall through late April. Then we will all meet for training with a Q & A session before launching the team schedule this summer 2006.

Please consider participating in this new ministry to others! If you have any questions please contact the church office and leave a message for Nancy Bohren, Deacon Moderator at (847) 381-0975

Relay for LifeBarrington Relay for Life               ^top

Will be held at Barrington High School June 10 - 11, 2006 through the church relay team.

Click here to join the team
Click here to donate money

Please email Mari Franklin if you have any questions or ideas. We would love for someone to co-captain our team!