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Worship, Pray, and Sing with Us Online

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Click on the links below to find worship and other video messages and resources. While you stay at home in an effort to curb the spread of the Coronavirus, you’ll find hopeful and comforting messages, worship, and music.  We are the church still, safely sequestered in our homes.

Please check back whenever you like. We’ll continue to add more videos as they become available.

Sunday Services

April 5, 2020 – Palm Sunday
Worship Bulletin

March 29, 2020 – The Fifth Sunday of Lent
Worship Bulletin

March 22, 2020 – The Fourth Sunday of Lent
Worship Bulletin

From the Pastors

An Invitation to Palm Sunday Worship from Lynne, April 2
Lynne invites us to gather our palm frond or a branch from a flowering bush — whatever will help us celebrate Palm Sunday on April 5 together online.

An Invitation to Worship from Ken, March 26
“Now is not the time to lose faith,” seems like a good sermon title for the story of Lazuras and for the times we’re living. Ken also sings “I’ll Fly Away” for us!

Be the Love to Search and Keep Me, Prayer of St. Patrick, soloist, Megan Sharp; pianist, Jonathan Schakel
“One prayer that I am finding helpful in this time of constant change and worry is the Prayer of Saint Patrick or Saint Patrick’s Breastplate. This prayer reminds us of Christ’s presence everywhere around us and the strength that comes from our Christian faith.” Megan

A Invitation to Worship from Dorothy, March 21, 2020
“I’ve been thinking about this recommendation that we should practice social distancing, and I wonder if we can see in that an invitation to realize a deeper sense of community.” Dorothy

A Message from Lynne, March 21, 2020
“We are a creative people, because we were made by a creative God, one who continually offers us opportunities to use our imaginations and our intellects…I invite you to see worship and Christian Formation a bit differently at this time.” Lynne

A Song from Ken, March 20, 2020
“Jesus and a woman at the well meet…and Jesus talks about this living water, a water that wells up inside us, a spring water that is always there for us.” Ken

A Message from Ken, March  18, 2020
“How do we begin to deal with our own anxiety or somehow move forward through it and not let it hinder loving and caring for the people around us?…We have a choice…Will I be swept up in anxiety…or will I find a place to ground myself?” Ken

Resources

Resources for Lent 
For Adults, Families with Children, and Teachers of Classes of All Ages

Worship for March 22 Online!

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Join us for worship online now by watching this video filmed in Westminster’s sanctuary. You’ll find many of elements of worship we participate in and are fed by each Sunday: prayer, scripture, music and a message from Dorothy. She invites us all to take part in this new and unusual way to find community and connect with one another.
If you’d like to participate more fully in today’s service, click here for a worship bulletin.
It’s difficult to imagine a better time to become one of Westminster’s Prayer Partners. As a part of this prayerful community, you can lift up those in our church and local community, as well as those across the country and throughout the world in prayer. Please click here to watch a message from Lynne on becoming a part of Prayer Partners. Contact  to join Prayer Partners.
Check for video messages, resources, and information from Ken, Lynne, and Dorothy at www.westminsterva.org.
Peace be with you.

Resources for worship and study – Sunday, March 22 and the Fourth Week of Lent

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For Adults
The Faith and Family class will meet via Zoom on Sunday at 10.
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 575 598 043
Password: 11231123
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Bonus! Here is a wonderful daily devotion that you can subscribe to.
If you have an iphone or ipad, you can also download an app for daily prayer from the PC(USA) website, pcusa.org.
Click here for devotion.
For Families with children
Click on the link below for a family-friendly worship service for this week.
Church School lessons
A bonus!!
Here are some at home fun activities if you are looking for some things to do! Shared by a good friend and teacher.   Click here
For Teachers of classes of all ages!
In this time of physical distance, we can remain connected with each other.
The church has a Zoom account that you are welcome to use if you’d like to set up a time for your class to ‘gather’ – the only caveat is that we all can’t be gathering at the same time!
The account is: Westminster Presbyterian Charlottesville
PW: 400Rugby!
I highly recommend this particularly to our youth teachers.
I hope you try it out!

Lent begins at WPC

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Ash Wednesday
February 26, 2020, at 6:30 a.m. or 6:30 p.m.

As the season of Lent begins, I would like to invite you to an Ash Wednesday service at Westminster. Our Ash Wednesday services are brief — 20-30 minutes — and include music, prayer, liturgy, and the imposition of ashes. As in previous years, we have two choices: 6:30 a.m. or 6:30 p.m. If you’re on your way to work or are a morning person anyway, stop by the sanctuary for a brief service at 6:30 a.m. Then, join other morning worshippers for a cup of coffee or tea and a pastry in the Gathering Place. If this seems a little early, you’re welcome to our evening service at 6:30 p.m. Either way, the time of Ash Wednesday this year should be etched on our minds! Just remember…6:30.
Blessings,
Ken Henry

Lenten Book Study

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Lent in Plain Sight by Jill J. Duffield: God is often at work through ordinary people, ordinary objects, and ordinary grace. In this new book for Lent, Jill J. Duffield, editor of The Presbyterian Outlook and a Charlottesville resident, draws attention to ten ordinary objects that Jesus would have encountered on his way to Jerusalem. Each object will cause us to pause and reflect on the meaning of the season and its role in Christian formation. Please join us in Room 208 for Lent in Plain Site, a three-week study, running February 23, March 1 & 8 and led by Lynne Clements, Hal Collums and Jana Surdi. Books may be ordered from WJKbooks.com, Amazon or other booksellers.

“So faith, hope, and love abide, these three;
but the greatest of these is love.”
−1 Corinthians 13:13

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Sustained by grace, we are called to serve Christ, share God’s love, and work for justice in a complex world.

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