Sam Adams-Lanham

I grew up attending St. Phillip’s Episcopal Church in Palatine, and have been a member of St. Michael’s since 1989. I was married here in 1990, and my two now-adult children were baptized and grew up attending Sunday school and youth choir; my younger kid was the youth representative to the vestry in 2013.

I hope to serve a three-year vestry term. In the past, I’ve participated in or led a number of different meaningful ministries with St. Michael’s; two that really stand out for me are teaching Catechesis of the Good Shepherd to 3 – 6 year-olds and 1 st – 3 rd graders, and going on adult/family work trips to the Wind River Indian Tribes in Wyoming and doing Hurricane Katrina clean-up in the Gulf Coast. I am currently a brand-new member of the Outreach Committee.

In 2012, I started working in Adult Services at the Barrington Area Library, completing a Master’s in Library & Information Science in December 2015. Since early 2017, I have been the Community Engagement Librarian at BALibrary, working alongside and for the benefit of Barrington area nonprofit leaders. This includes facilitating a local Courageous Community cohort and discussions; creating a plethora of programs, and serving on various community committees and boards.

In both my personal and professional life, I see the impact of bias on people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and those of differing socioeconomic status. I am really grateful that the Episcopal Church in general, and St. Michael’s in particular, works to encourage us to see and celebrate the inherent value and dignity of all other human beings.

Wes Kimes

I believe that St. Michael’s is at an exciting point of renewal and growth - a place to honor our legacy of 75 years while accepting the challenge of discerning God’s calling for us as a parish family. I believe we are called to do that by deeply respecting and honoring our past while discerning what it means to be St. Michaels now and in the future.

I believe that we can do that in a way that Christ would want us to do in the context of the world today - to best serve our parish, our community, our diocese and the world in which we live - and in doing so, we have the chance to make a difference, one person at a time...

We have the opportunity to work collaboratively as vestry and Rector to cultivate congregation-wide conversations about who we are and where God is calling our faith community. It means working together to discern God’s mission and vision for us and supported with sound stewardship of our gifts, our property and our resources.

St. Michaels and its people are very dear to me and it is a big part of my life. I am committed to serve our parish in any way, as we live into the opportunity and the challenge to discern what it means to be a faithful and thriving parish.

Thank you.

Lynn Mayberry

My name is Lynn Mayberry and my husband and I have been attending St Michael’s since August 2000. I am running as a candidate for a 3-year vestry term.

Through my years at St Michael’s, I have been a Home Eucharistic Lay Minister, a reserve volunteer for Jr. & Sr. Lift, the leader for Foyers Ministry, a member of the Outreach Committee, a member of the Renk Ministry Partnership, and most recently have joined the St, Michael’s Book Club.

Prior to my retirement 3 years ago, I worked 40 years as a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)RN at Evanston Hospital. I was a bedside patient care nurse for the first half of my career. The second half of my career I was the unit Care Coordinator. In addition, I was the chairmen of the Nutrition Committee, sat on the hospital system wide Child Protection Committee, and I was the coordinator and developer of our unit’s Simulation Parent Education Program (a simulation-based training program for our families preparing to transition their medically fragile baby to home). I also was a unit Research Nurse and enjoyed the several research projects that I was involved in. Outside of my hospital-based job I was a consultant, Key Opinion Leader and a member of the Speakers Bureau for Mead Johnson Nutrition.

My husband and I love spending time at our Wisconsin vacation home, gardening, swimming, boating, birdwatching, and reading. Now that we are retired, we are enjoying spending more time doing fun adventures with our daughters, son in laws and 4 grandchildren.

I feel blessed and honored to be a candidate to serve on the vestry for the next 3 years.

Bill Ferry

I am running for Junior Warden in 2023. Sue and I became members at St. Michaels soon after moving back to Barrington in 1994. We have raised 3 children at St. Michaels, and now enjoy being grandparents.

At St. Michaels, I have served on the Vestry for a 4-year term, and have been involved in Building and Grounds, Outreach, and fill in as a LEM / Acolyte. I look forward to continuing to serve. To quote from Jessies first sermon at St. Michaels, I believe “The local church is the hope of the world?“. The people of St. Michaels take action on this hope every day.

Outside of St. Michael’s, I am recently retired from a Sales / Marketing career, and enjoy cycling, working out, and traveling.

Lindsay Taylor

I am running for Senior Warden this year. My husband Kevin and I have been attending St. Michael’s for 7 years, along with our kids, Eddie (6 years old) and Willa (18 months old).

At St. Michael’s I have been a lector and a LEM. I am currently Junior Warden after serving a 3 year term on Vestry. I served as lay delegate to the Diocesan convention two years ago. For the last several years I have co-led the Stewardship program. 

I am looking forward to the opportunity to continue to serve St. Michael’s. 

Outside of St. Michael’s I work as Associate General Counsel at Weber Grills, where I have worked for 10 years. I am also Vice President of the Algonquin Area Public Library District board of trustees.

Ellen Lindeen

Ellen Lindeen and her husband Ric have been members of St. Michael’s for 33 years. Our children, Eric (35), Jessie (33) and Katie (31) grew up at St. Michael’s and were very active in Sunday School, Youth group, and Mission trips.  I am being considered for a two-year term to replace John Totten’s unfinished term. 

Now retired, for 39 years I worked as an educator. After graduating from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1976, I taught high school English for 11 years. I earned my Master of Arts in Literature at Northwestern University in 1983 and a Certificate in Peace Studies from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2009. I taught Composition, Shakespeare, Peace Studies, and Human Rights as a Professor of English and Peace Studies for 28 years. 

In 2020, I went through the two-and-a-half-day Crossroads Antiracism Training by Chicago Regional Organizing for Antiracism (CROAR): Understanding and Analyzing Systemic Racism. I am currently a second-year student in the four-year Education for Ministry (EfM) adult formation program offered by the School of Theology at the University of the South-Sewanee. 

When our family first came to St. Michael’s in 1990, I served as Nursery Coordinator, on the Altar Guild, and as the leader of the New Mom’s group. I went through training with Catechesis of the Good Shepherd Levels 1 and 2 from 1994-1996 and became a certified Catechist and worked in our Sunday morning program from 1996 to 2009. From 2013-2019, I served on the Episcopal Peace Fellowship National Executive Board for two terms. 

Since 2012, I have been a member of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago Peace and Justice Committee and in 2022, I was elected Chair. This January of 2023, we are launching the One Book, One Diocese program with our selection, Resurrection Hope: A Future Where Black Lives Matter, by The Very Reverend Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas. 

In 2015, St. Michael’s formed our own Peace & Justice Committee and one of our first initiatives was to co-sponsor a Syrian Muslim refugee family. Our committee also offered a monthly Zoom program, in recognition of the continued scourge of racism evidenced by the death of George Floyd, called “Journey toward Awareness and Understanding of Antiracism” from September 2020 to June 2021. We drew over 100 participants from around our diocese and from other churches. We have been looking into sponsoring an Afghan or Ukrainian family for the past year.

I am very honored that I was selected by Presiding Bishop Michael Curry to serve as a Delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women representing Province V of the Episcopal Church for 2020 and 2021. Since 2019, I have served on the Fellowship of Reconciliation National Board as Executive Secretary. 

My efforts on the parish, diocesan, province and national level show my passion to work on issues of peace and justice. I believe growing up in the Episcopal Church has led my life choices. I am grateful for the nomination to run for our Vestry. I am ready to serve.