Outreach
Worship and Fellowship Opportunites
Traditional Worship Service: Sunday 11:00 a.m.
Christian Education Classes: Sunday 9:30 a.m.
Traditional Worship Service:
Sunday 11:00 a.m.
Check out this weeks Bulletin HERE
Christian Education Classes:
Sunday 9:30 a.m.
OUTREACH
 Meals on Wheels |
| ICU Waiting Room Snack Baskets |
| Presbyterian Home for Children |
| Help Center |
| Salvation Army Teen Christmas Gifts |
| Westminster Wheels |
| Safe Place |
| WICP |
HELP CENTER
COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE MINISTRIES HELP CENTER
Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has not my soul grieved for the poor?
Job 30:25 NIV
Located at the corner of Veterans Drive and S. Court Street, Florence
Food is badly needed at the Help Center. While all persons receiving food get a bag or box of food that contain the same standard items, donations of food in boxes, sealed bags, or cans are accepted and added to the bag of standard items. If you prefer to donate money for food, you may make your check payable to Westminster and specify on the memo line that is is for The Help Center. If donating food items, please check to be sure any bags or boxes of food products haven't been opened and are within the "fresh" date (non-expired date).
Nancy Moore and Sandra Perry at Westminster will be happy to answer any questions about volunteering at The Help Center on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday mornings.
Contacts at Westminster: Nancy Moore or Mariann Flynn
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... for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
Matthew 6:8 NIV
It costs $700.00 to feed one client a hot lunch five days each week for one year. It also takes volunteers who are willing to go get the meals and deliver them to the recipients. Westminster provides drivers for one five-day week at six week intervals. If you are interested in serving as a driver in this ministry for one or more days, please e-mail one of the Outreach Chairpersons above for information. If you prefer to make a money donation so that others can continue this vital work, you may make the check payable to Westminster and specify that it is for the the Meals-on-Wheels Program.
Contacts at Westminster: June Howard or Mariann Flynn
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As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted. Isaiah 66:13 NIV
Northwest Shoals SafePlace is a refuge from domestic violence. To visit the NW Alabama SafePlace website click on the SafePlace title above. Warning: If you are a victim of domestic violence please read the instructions regarding the red EXIT button on the top right of the NW Shoals SafePlace wesbsite home page and delete any evidence that you have visited the SafePlace site as such evidence could endanger you.
Westminster has a long history of involvement with SafePlace. Through volunteers, budgeted dollar contributions, and monthly donations of items for the victims of domestic violence, women and children and men, we hope to add some comfort and a show of love and support to those who have taken refuge there from an abusive relationship.
SafePlace baskets are placed at four entrances to the sanctuary to make it convenient for you to deposit your donations as you come into the church sanctuary.. The OutReach Task Group delivers donated items twice each month to SafePlace. Suggestions for donations:
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Contact at Westminster: Mariann Flynn
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CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR SALVATION ARMY TEENS
This ministry provided 305 gifts for Shoals teens who
would otherwise
be
forgotten in December 2007.
For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected
if it is received with thanksgiving.
1 Timothy 4:4 NIV
The Salvation Army Teen Christmas Gift Program is on the forefront for action right now. Westminster Presbyterian is the only source of Christmas gifts for teenagers in families that otherwise have Christmas gifts provided to their younger children by Salvation Army.
This program was founded by Westminster's Francis Moody and Ann Freeman and others many years ago and has now been adopted by Westminster's Outreach Task Group. We shop for the teenagers each year and give them a significant gift and two-three smaller ones. Kathy and Rick McAdams are overseeing the gift collection program while Sandra Perry will be overseeing the set-up and distribution phase. Please read your upcoming newsletter, The Window, for ideas of gifts or, if you prefer to donate money, Outreach members will do the shopping for you.
Another Christmas project that participate in at Westminster is the Salvation Army Angel Tree Program. Stockings are available for you to take and fill for a small boy or girl. Gert Favenesi is overseeing this project.
Contact at Westminster for Teen Gift Program: Kathy McAdams, Sandra Perry
Contact at Westminster for Angel Tree Program: Gert Favenesi
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PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN
Westminster supports the Presbyterian Home for Children each year. Church member, John Offutt just completed a four-year term serving on the Board of Directors for the Children's Home.
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SNACK BASKETS FOR HOSPITAL ICU WAITING ROOM
Individually wrapped snack items, such as small boxes of raisins or other dried fruit, cheese or peanut butter crackers, granola bars, etc. are collected for the ICU waiting room at ECM Hospital for family members of those who are critically ill. You may bring these items to the church and place them in the collection baskets in the narthex.
Contact at Westminster: Mariann Flynn
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WICP
“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.” George Washington Carver
Many hopes and dreams for WICP have risen to converge with reality over the past week, a joyful week. WICP was conceived as an outreach ministry of Westminster and bears the Westminster name, Westminster Interfaith Caring Place.
Our original WICP planners committed early on to involving other churches and church denominations in supporting the WICP ministry. I think you’ll be pleased to hear just how strong this involvement is now and is growing!
“Celebration of Life”, WICP’s first fundraiser and first public debut will occur September 18 at 5:30 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church. A Chefs’ buffet of savory gourmet foods is being prepared by a cadre of Shoals chefs. We will also have a Silent Auction and Live Auction in Trinity’s Mullen Hall. Many valuable items have been donated and still arriving daily for the auction. Our goal for this fundraiser is to come as close as possible to raising the first year of fixed expenses for WICP, $150,000. Our Board of Directors has decided that to be on the safe side, we should have this amount in the bank before we start our program.
A path of story boards displaying stories by Shoals caregivers, some from Westminster, will be displayed at the event to bring into focus the roles of caregivers as they have ushered God’s eldest children through this vulnerable time of frailty in their lives.
The Episcopal women of Grace, St. Bartholomew, and Trinity Episcopal Churches are preparing and serving the food and drinks, with many also donating the foods
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You may follow our progress on the new WICP website, launched recently, at www.wicpdays.org. You may also make your reservation for the fundraiser on the website using a credit card or PayPal. A reservation for the buffet and the auction is $25.00.
However, if you are not a computer user, you may make a reservation through Jane Wilkerson in the Westminster Presbyterian church office or by mailing your check to the church office for $25.00, noting it is for the “Celebration of Life” fundraiser. , We’re accepting reservations for 250 people, so please reserve early so that we’ll have a strong showing of Westminster people.
Other Good News
Other exciting news is that the United Methodist leadership governing the Brandon Ministry Center have invited us, enthusiastically, to house WICP at the Brandon Ministry Center. Discussions are currently underway to determine the cost and viability of our entering into a lease agreement for five years. The Brandon Ministry Center Directors and staff also bought ten reservations to our fundraiser!
In addition to our fundraiser, we have two grants pending and an application to United Way for funding.
Those of us who are working daily to bring WICP to reality, within the Lord’s perfect timing, want to thank you, the church family of Westminster who have seen the vision and the mission and understood the ministry. Without your support of prayers and money, both from individuals within our church family and from the church Outreach budget, we could not have come this far. And now it appears that all the work and plans are converging in one amazing week as we prepare to make our first public debut on Sept. 18
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We are so thankful for you and for God being with us through two years of striving, always believing that WICP will come to be.
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WESTMINSTER WHEELS
Westminster Wheels Gets a New Dress!
Check out the new signage on the our bus.
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