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First Sunday Food Collection
1st Sunday of each month prior to the
9:00 a.m. worship service
On the first Sunday of each month, we collect food donations for those in our community struggling to make ends meet. Cans (beans, tuna, chicken, soups) and boxes (cereal, pasta, rice) of food you bring to church will be delivered to Hanover Presbyterian Food Closet and St. Stephen's Lutheran Food Pantry. Jim and Polly Carter happily collect your donations. They park their car in the church parking lot next to the stairs leading to the 1502 entrance.
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Wilmington Gun Violence: A Sunday Seminar Series
in March
Sundays, March 4, 11, 18, and 25
10:10 a.m. in Community Hall
- March 4 - Lynne Kielhorn will review the background and recent trends related to Wilmington's street violence.
- March 11 - Mayor Mike Purzycki will discuss the city's efforts and plans to address Wilmington's gun violence.
- March 18 - Rob Prestowitz from UrbanPromise will share how pursuing mutually transformative relationships, in a structured program, empowers youth to achieve sustained positive outcomes, despite the surrounding violence.
- March 25 - Yasser Payne and Darryl Chambers from the University of Delaware will share updates from their new study that examines the relationship between opportunity, health and violence in the Northside and Westside neighborhoods.
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"Girl Talk" Women's Book Group
Thursday, March 8, 10:00 a.m.
in the Ruth Christie Room
God's Hotel is author Dr. Victoria Sweet's story of her time at San Francisco's last alms house for the indigent sick. In the relatively low-tech but human-paced environment, these extraordinary patients and her discovery of the medieval medicine of Hildegard of Bengen transformed the way Dr. S. understood her work, evoking an older idea of medicine, where the body is a garden to be tended rather than a machine to be fixed. Whether you have read the book or not, come join us.
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2018 Winter Musical Gala
Friday, March 9, 8:00 p.m.
This year's winter concert promises to be one of our best ever! Soloists Elizabeth Holmes, Sharon Babcock, Christian Sanders, and Travis Lucas, along with the Westminster Choir, guest violinist Timothy Schwarz, and Paul Fleckenstein at the organ and piano, bring us a stellar evening of music from the church, the opera stage, musical theatre, gospel/spirituals, and more. With selections ranging from Mozart to Bernstein, this is one not to miss! Click here to see the flyer.
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Chimes Deadline Reminder
Monday, March 12, 11:00 a.m.
The deadline for the APRIL 2018 issue of our newsletter, The Westminster Chimes, is Monday, March 12, at 11:00 a.m. Please submit your articles online. Go to www.wpc.org/communications and click on "Submit an Article." If you have any questions, please contact Nicole Hughes ([email protected] or 302-654-5214 ext. 130).
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Easter Lilies
Submission deadline: Monday, March 19
You are invited to contribute toward the decoration of the church on Easter Sunday in memory of, or in honor of, loved ones. Click here to download and print the form. The form is also available on the main literature table next to the reception desk at church. The deadline is Monday, March 19, at 12:00 noon. For any form received after that dates, the names will be listed in the April 8 bulletin.
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Featured Photo
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John (pictured) and Dede Johnston help prepare for Westminster's Code Purple ministry, which serves soup and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to homeless men, women, and children when temperatures fall below 20°F.
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Our Story - Mary Kay and
Dick Haden
We joined Westminster in September 1980. We have found here a caring, supportive community that has helped us raise our children, celebrate many joyous occasions, and ease the burden of times of stress and sorrow. Our faith has grown here through inspiring preaching and education and through the example of other members. We have had many opportunities to be directly involved in community and world mission and in service to our church. The loving support we feel each time we attend worship or participate in activities here causes us to look forward to our next visit. We have been blessed beyond measure through our involvement in this WPC community. - Mary Kay and Dick Haden
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Saturday Breakfast Help Needed
Saturday Breakfast is working hard to have a "Plan B" when their current location is sold. We have eliminated SAMs and are looking into Grace Methodist. We have received two more suggestions - Bethel AME and Ezion UMC. We need two individuals to volunteer to contact them. If you are able to help by contacting one of these churches, please let us know, then go ahead and make the initial contact. Your help will be appreciated by all who benefit from Saturday Breakfast. - Sue Weissinger and Tenney Wheatley
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Volunteers Needed
Questions: If you and your family were suddenly in a financial crisis, would you seek help? Would you want to keep your family safe while you got back on your feet? That is what a faithful group of Westminster members do when we house four Family Promise families for three or four weeks a year. But the faithful group needs more volunteers! Would you consider taking a 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. shift for this fantastic mission? Marlys Kerr ([email protected] or 302-588-3759) is anxious to help you consider the possibility. Will you take a few minutes to contact her?
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Congo Partnership
Westminster has a partner parish, Kamalumba Ditalala, in The Democratic Republic of Congo; New Castle Presbytery's partner is Kananga Presbytery. Several churches here have sister parishes there and there have been several cross-cultural trips. Presbyterians have been in Congo since 1890 when missionaries Lapsley and Sheppard arrived. The Presbyterian Church has a profound presence and influence in Congo and now three mission co-worker couples are serving there. We Christians no longer try to convert the Congolese as their faith is extraordinary and powerful. Our partnership is two-way: we learn from them and they learn from us.
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Souper Bowl of Caring: A New Record High!
What an amazing Super Bowl Sunday and Souper Bowl of Caring! We collected $1,017.25, which is the first time we broke the $1,000 mark. Many, many thanks to all who gave so generously and so joyfully. Our Souper Bowl of Caring collection is always divided between St. Stephens Food Closet and the Hanover Food Pantry, and this year's collection provides gracious donations to help fund their ministries with families in need.
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Member Deaths - Those Who Have Joined the Church Triumphant
Please remember in prayer those who are grieving the loss of their loved one.
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Gertrude T. Hood (
obituary)
July 27, 1922 - February 16, 2018
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Congratulations on Your Little One!
We welcome this child into the Westminster family.
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Photo Prayer
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Make Us New
Do not say the world
is a place of decay. Do not say the old
should get out of the way.
There is but one God
who makes all things new:
my country, my church,
and us, too.
Detail of a patched and repainted wall at Jovita's Restaurant in Austin, Texas, 2018. Photograph and prayer © 2018 Danny N. Schweers
www.photoprayer.com
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Welcome to the Westminster Weekly Word!
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