A Message from our Pastor
“The members of Prince of Peace Lutheran Church welcome you to our community. We invite you to come and worship with us and to join us in our quest to become faithful disciples of Jesus Christ.

“We have an exciting and dynamic program to offer. We’d like you to be part of it.

“So, if you’re looking for a church home, we’d like to extend a personal invitation to you to come and experience what we have to offer.”

Pastor Peter Hellstedt
Pastor

Peter A. Hellstedt will be the new pastor at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church (ELCA) in Schaumburg. Pastor Hellstedt joins the church officially on Oct. 15, 2009.
Bishop Wayne Miller will be preaching and performing the formal installation of Pastor Hellstedt at 9:45 a.m., Oct. 18, 2009 at Prince of Peace, 930 W. Higgins Road, Schaumburg.
A native of La Grange Park, IL, Pastor Hellstedt comes to Prince of Peace after 17 years at Grace Lutheran Church in Mount Prospect and, before that, at congregations in Park Ridge and Decatur.
Pastor Hellstedt is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, PA. He also holds a masters degree in biblical studies from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
Prior to coming to Prince of Peace, he has been active in interfaith work and has served on the Council of the Metropolitan Chicago Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Currently, he serves as dean of the Synod's Northwest Conference.

Karen Wagner
Director of Youth and Family Ministries

Karen Wagner is Director of Youth and Family Ministries, a role she has held since the mid 1990's. Under her leadership, Prince of Peace has developed a vibrant youth ministry centered on a series of "stepping stones" of faith. She helps plan and implement the Junior and Senior High Lutheran Youth Organization (LYO) Programs; she coordinates the Sunday School, confirmation and Vacation Bible School programming; she facilities a variety of retreat experiences for the youth - including mission trips and involvement with youth programming sponsored by the Metro Chicago Synod and ELCA. Karen is a certified Youth Minister through the Center for Youth Ministries at Wartburg Theological Seminary.

Anne Yauch, Director of Early Childhood Ministries
Anne Yauch is the Director of Prince of Peace Preschool and Kindergarten. She has a B. S. in Child Development and has been in the field of Early Childhood for the past 20 years. She has taught many different classes and has been at Prince of Peace for the past eight years. Anne is also a Coordinator/Facilitator for Rainbows and works with preschool and kindergarten age children.

She and her husband Jim have been married for 4 years and have a blended family of five teenage boys. They are busy with school and sports, and they keep us hopping. They are members of the Church of the Holy Spirit in Schaumburg and have lived in Hoffman Estates for the past 15 years.

Prince of Peace has been like a home away from home for the Yauch family for quite a few years. Anne’s boys went to preschool at Prince of Peace and she loves the welcoming spirit and kindness that is ever present in the church and preschool/kindergarten. She feels that her family has been truly blessed to be a part of this vital, faith-filled community.

Sonia DeLuca, Secretary
Lois Krueger, Records Coordinator
Sonia DeLuca and Lois Krueger carry out the secretarial duties of the congregation. Sonia works full time and oversees all of the offices responsibilities of the congregation. Lois works part time keeping track of member giving and membership records, and the generation of labels for special mailings.

Lois Krueger works part-time for Prince of Peace and is our Records Coordinator. She keeps track of member contributions, individual membership records, and congregational records. She is responsible for getting the quarterly and year-end statements to our members and keeping track of address and phone number changes, baptisms, weddings, Confirmations, First Communions, etc. She also assists our Director of Youth and Family Ministries with registrations and class/attendance lists for Sunday School, Confirmation, Faithfest, and Vacation Bible School.

She and her husband, Wally, have two children, Amy age 23 and Brian age 20. Lois enjoys reading, cross-stitching, crafting, and, of course, fellowship with others!

Scott Uddenberg, Director of Music
Sam A. Cortese Jr., Crossroads Director of Music
Christine Karnick, Organist
Sandra Hilty, Sheryl Walter, Jill Wilkins, Wedding Coordinators
Rene Kobe, Amy Crittenden, Lore Mueller, Jill Wilkins, Nursery Care