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Home / 2020 / March 2020

Archives for March 2020

Thanks to Westminster for Hosting PACEM 

March 25, 2020 by Kate Brinkley

Many thanks to the 100+ volunteers, our staff, and partner congregations who worked to make the PACEM men’s homeless shelter at Westminster a reality. The corona virus pandemic presented unprecedented challenges during our hosting period, but we nevertheless provided a warm meal and a safe place to sleep for 30+ men for sixteen nights. We extended our hosting period by two days when the shelter was unable to move to the next church due to the pandemic, and additional volunteers (including all three of our pastors, college students home unexpectedly, and folks from other congregations) stepped up when asked. The shelter is now housed at the Key Recreation Center downtown, where guests will have the space to place their beds six feet apart.
Every year it is remarkable to see how our church family comes together to host our homeless neighbors, but this year was particularly striking. While most of us prepared to quarantine ourselves at home and help “flatten the curve,” those without a home in which to quarantine were on our doorstep. Never before have these men, many of whom we have gotten to know over the span of numerous years, seemed more vulnerable. We ask that you join us in praying for their health during this crisis.
Many thanks to all who made the shelter at Westminster possible—we could not have done it without you. Your generosity in terms of time, talent, and treasure (many gift cards and donations were received!) was remarkable.
—The PACEM Committee

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New Members Classes Coming!

March 5, 2020 by Kate Brinkley

Are you Interested in becoming a Westminster member? Looking for a place to call home and learn more about what it means “to do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God?” (Micah 6:8). If you find yourself answering “yes” to any of these questions, then come to any or all of the new member classes offered in March: Sundays at 9:45 a.m. in room 208.

 

March 15

What is Westminster?

In this class, Ken Henry will talk with class members about the meaning of membership, as well as the various ministries at Westminster. You will leave this one-hour class with a greater appreciation of how the church is organized to carry out its mission and purpose in the world.

 

March 22

What is our mission?

In this class, Dorothy Piatt, with other church leaders, will talk about our benevolence giving and our commitment to other nonprofit organizations in Charlottesville, as well as how our church feels called to reach out to UVA students and faculty.

 

March 29

What does it mean to be a Presbyterian?

We are a congregation of the Reformed tradition in the Presbyterian Church(USA). For hundreds of years, our motto has been “Reformed and Always Reforming.” Ken will speak about the roots of the Protestant Reformation and the emergence of the Presbyterian Church in America.

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March 3, 2020 by Kate Brinkley

On March 22 at 9:30 a.m., come to the library, to hear Earl Swift, nominated seven times for the Pulitzer Prize, discuss his celebrated book, Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Waterman of Vanishing Tangier Island.

Tangier Island, located in the middle of Chesapeake Bay, has been called the “soft-shell crab capital of the world,” as well as being at the heart of Virginia’s oyster industry. Tangier was settled at the time of the American Revolution by families from Cornwall and Devon in England, and the people there still speak with an accent described as a “colonial-era Cornwall patois wrapped inside a Virginia twang.”

Unfortunately, its inhabitants might also prove to be among the first climate refugees in the United States. Tangier has lost more than two-thirds of its landmass to sea-level rise and land subsidence since 1850, and if current trends continue, and in the absence of expensive coastal restoration and protection efforts, the island will likely be uninhabitable within 25-50 years.

Now, with the help of community leaders on Tangier, arrangements have been made for church members to spend the weekend of May 2-3 on the island, staying in their community center and attending services at Swain Memorial United Methodist Church, before returning on the afternoon ferry to Reedville, VA. The cost for the ferry and car-pooling to Reedville is $50/person, and there will be an orientation meeting for the trip on March 25, at 7 p.m. in the lounge. If you would be interested in going on the trip,  contact me or Ken before Earl Swift’s class on the 22, so we can reserve seats on the ferry soon.
Peter Gates
on behalf of the WPC Green Team

https://www.westminsterva.org/14322-2/

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