Prayer List

"Breathe in your inherent belovedness.

Breathe out the lure of toxic cycles.

Breathe in love that makes your heart soft.

Breathe out any anger that is being misdirected.

Breathe in acceptance 

that all cannot be immediately solved.

Breathe out the need to control.

Breathe in the wisdom of ancestors 

who labored for collective love and justice.

Breathe out the temptation towards the superficial.



Breathe in a breath of humility.

Breathe out all that makes you shrink.

And then remember the trees.

Their giving and receiving of breath.

See them holding so much for us.

Offer a confession. And a prayer of gratitude.

And let your roots sink deep into the soil of God."

*Enfleshed - Liturgy That Matters

This week we pray for:

Sherry Hatter-Miller's mom

Continued prayers for healing and peace for Sherry's mom. She is making good progress and is planning to go home next week. Prayers for Sherry as she prepares to travel to Virginia this weekend to help her mom with the transition. 

David Gillespie

Prayers for comfort and peace for David who will have surgery to have a pacemaker put in on September 27.

Dorothy, Dawn Kridel's mother-in-law

Prayers for healing and comfort for Dorothy who is in the hospital. She sustained a compression fracture in her spine following a fall last week.

April Gallagher's family and friends

Prayers of thanksgiving and gratitude for the April Gallagher, a former teacher at the Nursery School. Aprildied of cancer in 2020. A service of celebration of April Gallagher's life will be held in Mackey Hall on Saturday, September 17 at 2:00pm. We prayer for peace and comfort for her husband Jack, son Ryan and all who loved April.

Barbara Mykkanen

Continued prayers for healing and comfort for Barb during her remaining two chemo treatments. Lots of love as you continue this journey.

Debbie Hostettler 

Prayers of gratitude for Debbie whose latest scan showed no evidence of cancer. We continue to surround you with love.

We pray for

• those in our midst grappling with health challenges, transitions, grief and loss. We pray for God’s presence and care;
• A world in crisis – warfare and economic uncertainty, critical energy and climate issues, fires and droughts, terror and poverty, and more – and for God’s peace to reign;
• Our leaders, locally and nationally, as they make difficult decisions about business development, climate issues, homelessness, and other large concerns
• God’s light to shine in every darkness, and for God’s emerging and promising dawn of new life and peace to cover our hearts and cover the earth.
• Courage and guidance to follow God's call to partnership in healing the brokenness of the world.

Upcoming Events

Wednesday, September 14

• Q&A Gathering with MVP GA Commissioners - 7:00pm - Zoom

Thursday, September 15

• Dance & Exercise - 8:30 am - The Meeting Place
• COW Welcome Back Dinner - 6:30 pm - Mackey Hall

Sunday, September 18

• Worship Service - 10:00 am - Mackey Hall

Tonight: Q & A Gathering with MVP Commissioners

Please join us for a Question and Answer Gathering with our MVP General Assembly (GA) Commissioners via Zoom September 14, 2022 at 7:00 pm.

Here is the Zoom link for the gathering:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83916160644?pwd=aWpHUlU3MG5RWkc0a3ZZTWFWZkFBZz09

Meeting ID: 839 1616 0644

Passcode: 819389

COW Students Welcome Back!

We are quickly approaching our first vegan dinner of the 2022-2023 school year.

It is scheduled for September 15

at 6:30 pm in Mackey Hall.  

We welcome any help you are able to provide by signing up here

for "set-up", "clean-up" or a vegan dish. 

Thank you for helping us welcome back the students.

Changes to the Office Schedule

Friends, as we move forward to searching for our next Office Administrator, office hours may be irregular for the next few weeks. Pastor Enikö and the Personnel Committee are working on finding help in the meantime. 

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Pastor Enikö via email or calling her cell phone (804) 426-9392. Monday will remain her day off.

Thank you for your patience and support during this time of transition!

Peace & Global Witness Offering 2022

The PCUSA Peace & Global Witness Offering enables the Church to promote the Peace of Christ by addressing systems of conflict and injustice across the world. We are collecting this offering through October 4 - World Communion Sunday. 

Individual congregations are encouraged to utilize up to 25% of this Offering to connect with the global witness of Christ's peace. The Westminster Benevolence Committee decided to support a clean water project in Jackson, MS coordinated by First Presbyterian Church in Jackson. Learn more about the Jackson initiative here.

To learn more about how Mid Councils and the Presbyterian Mission Agency advocate for peace and justice in cultures of violence, including our own, through collaborative projects of education and Christian witness, read here.

Hope you will support this important ministry of our denomination! Through your generosity, we embody our calling as ambassadors of peace.

Ohioan for Sustainable Change

Ohioans for Sustainable Change is a local interfaith nonprofit that I mentioned in my sermon on Sunday.

OSC works together with faith and community leaders on issues of climate, racial, economic, and environmental justice and health equity. They use public and popular education, leadership training and development, direct action, and advocacy to create long-term sustainable change. Members of OSC organize, engage, and center the voices of directly impacted people of diverse beliefs. 

Check out their blog for great examples of how faith communities can become agents for sustainable change here. Listen to the introduction by Bishop Marcia Dinkins, Executive Director of OSC.

Let me know if you'd be interested in learning more about the work of OSC!

Public Health Safety Update

With Covid infection levels rising to HIGH again in Wayne County,

the College of Wooster is

requiring masking in indoor spaces through September 20.

Westminster Church will continue to encourage safe health practices 

and will adjust our guidelines as needed.

Thank you for your understanding and support to keep all of us safe.

Sunday Morning Hospitality & Liturgist - September & October

Westminster's worship and fellowship time is an important way to build relationships among all attending.

We invite you to participate as a liturgist, assistant, provide flowers to decorate our alter or supply treats for our after worship fellowship time.

If you are able to fill one of these areas,

please click here to sign up.

Thank you for your contribution to our worship service.