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Issue: September 2021 |
Posted on August 26, 2021
Wednesday, September 29
Noon – 1:15 p.m.
Room 238 & Zoom
The next meeting of the Westminster Book Group will be on Zoom and in Room 238. The zoom link can be found in the meeting announcement on the church website. Our book is Caste by Isabel Wilkerson.
“The real power of Caste lies tucked within the stories she strings together like pearls…. Caste roams wide and deep, lives and deaths vivid…
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Issue: September 2021 |
Posted on August 26, 2021
September 5 - October 3
We are all invited to join this four-week journey to focus on what it means to be a “people of peace.” This year’s theme returns to a text that the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program has used for a number of years to guide its work. It is the concluding hope of the second letter to the Thessalonians: “May the God of peace grant you peace at all times in all ways” (2 Thessalon…
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Issue: September 2021 |
Posted on August 26, 2021
When I was in my sophomore year of college I lived at home with my parents. On Wednesday nights my mom volunteered at Westminster and my dad worked late. Those nights were quiet – sometimes lonely. I’m not sure how exactly I got roped in to volunteering with my mom, but I did. We worked with 5th & 6th grade kids in JAM and spent time playing “hey fishy fishy” and acting out Bible stories in silly s…
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Issue: September 2021 |
Posted on August 26, 2021
Welcome…back? Welcome to the new normal? Welcome…to something. It seems for the past year and a half it has been adjustment after adjustment, change after change. And just when we think we might be out of the woods, COVID cases are rising again.
It’s been a pretty tumultuous time for everyone, but recently I’ve been trying to see the pandemic through the eyes of a child. On one hand, perhaps since c…
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Issue: September 2021 |
Posted on August 26, 2021
Hey kids! In person Sunday school will be coming your way on September 12. It has been a while since we have had regular in person Sunday school at both 9:45 and 11:00 a.m. We can’t wait to see you and continue with you on your journey of faith. Don’t forget your masks!
September 12 is also Super Sunday at Westminster. This is a fun kickoff to the start of a great year. Join us for Sunday sch…
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Issue: September 2021 |
Posted on August 26, 2021
Westminster's Mission in India
Doug Mitchell, Outreach Commission
Jesus tells us to “love our neighbors as ourselves.” Westminster has been loving our neighbors in India for the past 31 years, when 10% of a capital campaign funded a cardiac monitor for Miraj Medical Centre and provided operating funds for Sangli Industrial School (SIS), Creche Nurses Training Centre (CNTC), and Vadeketh Dev…
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Issue: September 2021 |
Posted on August 26, 2021
Baby Bundles: A Mission to New Mothers
(and Not-so-new Grandmothers)
Bobbie Hartman, Outreach Commission
Everybody loves a new baby – and grandmothers everywhere love shopping and knitting and crocheting for them. But those babies grow up to become teenagers, and their gift lists often include things most of us grandparents can’t even pronounce. And while buying the latest electronic gizmo for the…
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Issue: September 2021 |
Posted on August 26, 2021
Mondays, September 13 – November 1
5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Cost: $56
The WROC is offering a new class and a new instructor, Kristy Skerbetz. Kristy is a Certified Kickboxing Skills & Choreography Instructor and AFFA Group Fitness Instructor. She has been teaching group fitness classes for 12 years.
Cardio kickboxing combines kickboxing moves with fast-paced cardio all set to great music! No equ…
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