Outreach and Stewardship
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Westminster Presbyterian Church Outreach and Stewardship |
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Westminster provides financial assistance when needed for members doing short-term mission work. Guidelines and application are here . . . The work and worship of Westminster are supported through participation in local, national and international mission work, through donations to various organizations and through financial pledges and gifts. Communities respond to overcome povertyYou can fight hunger both locally and worldwide by joining others in the annual Washtenaw County crop Walk on Sunday, October 12. Twenty-five percent of funds raised locally go to local hunger relief agencies, including Hope Clinic. Sign up to walk or to sponsor a Westminster walker. For more information, please speak with Bryce Babcock. Learn more and see the the full list of local organizations benefitted here. Hurricane relief teams invite your participationHelp rebuild houses damaged by Hurricanes Katrina and Gustav. Detroit Presbytery teams will work the weeks of October 25 through November 2 and November 1 through 9; you can go for one or both weeks. Cost is $225 for a week ($350 for two weeks); a $100 deposit is refundable until October 5. Team members must be 18 years old or older. Please contact Ron Fairchild for more details. What is Riverside Community Gathering?It’s been mentioned in sermons, referenced in the Weekly, discussed at Session and in mission committee meetings, but what is it really and how might you get involved? What is it? Riverside Community Gathering (RCG) is a joint Mission and Outreach project conceived nearly two years ago through a working team of representatives from Fort Street Open Door, First Presbyterian Church Ypsilanti, Hope Clinic and Westminster. Modeled after ministries like it in other neighborhoods in the Detroit Presbytery, the primary goal is to build community by bringing together otherwise isolated and fragile individuals and families. The target geographic area is within walking distance of the Ypsilanti First Presbyterian Church, and the target demographic is single parent families and seniors. RCG officially opened in May, takes place weekly on Wednesday evenings from 5 to 6 pm, and will be in existence for a minimum of one year. Fort Street Open Door brings and prepares the food, First Presbyterian Ypsilanti provides the facility, Hope Clinic refers families and seniors, and Westminster funds the project and provides a weekly volunteer base. What happens there? Week after week, between twenty-five and thirty people from the community gather to share prayers, a meal and conversation. Volunteers from the hosting organizations and guests serve one another and eat together. Relationships and connections are intentionally nurtured. The children have created an art gallery and weekly add their creations. Once per month there will be a special activity that happens in addition to the meal: suggestions include an arts and crafts night, matinee movie events, a parking lot barbeque, and a harvest festival. How can you get involved? This fall, the Mission and Outreach committee will post a volunteer sign-up schedule. Volunteers will be needed to host, support the monthly activity, and periodically bake special items for the weekly dinner. As the harvest season progresses, extra produce from your gardens is very welcome. Fresh vegetables are a treat. And as always, please pray . . . pray for the people from the community that they would open their hearts to one another . . . pray for their strength and for their health and life . . . pray for the host partners . . . for compassion and wisdom . . . pray that all who come to the table together would see Christ in the eyes of one another, and in so doing, come away changed. To find out more, please contact Al Flynn of the Mission Committee. Members’ connections to worldwide mission sought by Mission Committee With whom are you connected in worldwide missions through prayer, past mission experiences, family ties or otherwise?
The Westminster Mission Committee is beginning a discernment
process with respect to Westminster’s many Living Mission Connections and seeks your input and sharing at this special time of reflection. We receive many requests for our collective engagement of time and talent, for our prayers and energies, and for direct financial support from the Westminster family. We need to hear from all of you about the Living Mission
connections in your lives so that we can thoughtfully and prayerfully discern God’s will for the application of our time, talent and treasure in the area of mission. The Mission Committee would like to hear directly from you about family members, friends and contacts in the mission field. With respect to local, regional, national and world missions,
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