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Chris Winkler

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  Worship:

  Sundays

      8:30 a.m.
    10:30 a.m.
 

   3rd Saturday
  of the month

      5:00 p.m.

 
Pastor Chris Winkler

With deep roots in the Wesleyan tradition, Christopher E. Winkler serves as Pastor of Roselle United Methodist Church.  He and his wife, Kerry, an executive with Lucent Technologies, met in the Youth Fellowship of Community UMC, Naperville, when they were in high school. After they were married, they served as counselors to the youth group. Their two children,  Kristen (married to Darren Garvey) and Brandon have similarly grown up in the church.

After graduating from Naperville North High School, Chris worked primarily as a carpenter and general contractor.  Out of his construction experience he has taken his church’s youth and adults on literally dozens of summer work projects in Appalachia, New Mexico, Maryland, Kentucky and Tennessee.

Always experiencing God’s call to ordained ministry, Chris served as Pastor of Winfield United Methodist Church while joining that congregation in an affiliation with Gary UMC, Wheaton, Illinois, where he also served as Associate Pastor for seven years.
 

A magna cum laude graduate of North Central College, Naperville, Illinois, and a graduate with honors from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Chris brings a love of preaching, teaching, youth work, and pastoral care to his ministry. The son, grandson and nephew of Methodist ministers and the brother of a United Methodist national executive, Chris is deeply rooted in Christ’s Church.