Recent News

The church building will remain closed until May 30 in keeping with the Illinois Governor's directives. We will assess the situation as time goes on and keep you updated.

All in-person church activities and events through May 30 are cancelled, including Friday Night at the Movies.

Worship services will be offered online on Sundays at 10:00 a.m. through Zoom. 

All employees will be working from home. Call or email church staff with any questions or needs can also be easily reached via email or cell phones:

Pastor Claude King
Email: claude@dgfumc.org
Phone: 630.297.8574

Pastor Anna Voinovich
Email: anna@dgfumc.org
Phone: 847.504.6782

Pastor Wes Dorr (Youth Ministries)
Email: wesley@dgfumc.org
Phone: 630.968.7120

Pastor John Smoke (Children & Family Ministries)
Email: john@dgfumc.org
Phone: 630.670.3592

Carolyn Donnelly (Office and Giving)
Email: carolyn@dgfumc.org
Phone: 630.244.3723

We are counting on your continued giving to maintain salaries, essential building services, and ministries that allow us to maintain our community. You may mail your contributions to the church or click here for online giving.

Here is a Sunday school lesson for Sunday, April 19, 2020. It includes a fun craft that you can do at home. Peace and Love, Pastor John

Happy Easter Messy Church! We may not be able to be together at church this second Sunday for Messy Church but we can still get messy in our own homes!. Enjoy our first ever virtual Messy Church. God's love and peace to you and your family!

Just in time for Easter, popular hymn writer Carolyn Winfrey Gillette has written a new hymn titled, This Easter Celebration, specifically for this time in which the Church and its members are dealing with the coronavirus, according to the United Methodist Church website at UMC.org. 

Written as a prayer, when put to music, it can be sung to the tune of The Church's One Foundation. According to the UMC website article, the author has given permission for churches to use the hymn for free during this unprecedented time.

The verses are below:

This Easter Celebration
AURELIA 7.6.7.6 D ("The Church's One Foundation")

This Easter celebration is not like ones we've known.
We pray in isolation, we sing the hymns alone.
We're distant from our neighbors — from worship leaders, too.
No flowers grace the chancel to set a festive mood.

No gathered choirs are singing; no banners lead the way.
O God of love and promise, where's joy this Easter Day?
With sanctuaries empty, may homes become the place
we ponder resurrection and celebrate your grace.

Our joy won't come from worship that's in a crowded room
but from the news of women who saw the empty tomb.
Our joy comes from disciples who ran with haste to see —
who heard that Christ is risen, and then, by grace, believed.

In all the grief and suffering, may we remember well:
Christ suffered crucifixion and faced the powers of hell.
Each Easter bears the promise: Christ rose that glorious day!
Now nothing in creation can keep your love away.