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Summary of April Session Meeting

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Westminster’s Session held its Stated Meeting on April 15. Among the business conducted:

  • Met with candidates for church membership
  • Approved the Personnel Committee’s recommendation to elect an Associate Pastor Nominating Committee for a position in university ministry and mission & outreach
  • Approved an Audit Team to review Westminster’s financial records as required by Presbytery
  • Heard updates on the following:
    • Nominating Committee
    • Safety & security audit
    • Wedding policy revision

Winston Barham, Recording Clerk

Music Notes – April 22, 2018

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This week is the fourth Sunday of Easter, which is also known as Good Shepherd Sunday, as both the Psalm (23) and Gospel reading (John 10:11-18) for the day refer to God or Jesus as a shepherd.  The choir’s two anthems also have a common theme of the shepherding God.  The first, “The Lord Is My Shepherd,” a setting of the twenty-third psalm, is an arrangement by Larry Long of an African-American spiritual.  The second, “When Some Kind Shepherd from His Fold,” is an arrangement of an American folk hymn by Alice Parker.  The text is found in John Needham’s Hymns Devotional and Moral on Various Subjects (Bristol, England, 1768), while the music derives from American shape-note hymnals in the early nineteenth century.

Westminster and Earth Day

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WPC — on the way to 100% green power

This April we observe the first anniversary of the installation of the solar panels on the kitchen roof.  This has produced excess electricity that has been sold back to Dominion for about $677.  The total production by the solar array in the most recent 12 months was 9.84 Megawatt hours (MWhr).

The church used 175 MWhr from July 2016 to June 2017.  This was down from 187 MWHr used the previous year.  A member of the committee whose all electric household only has two people used 14 MWhr during this same time frame.

Also, in September 2017, the session approved the purchase of wind Renewable Energy Certificates through Arcadia Power.  This supports wind farms in other parts of the USA.  Arcadia provides 100% offsets for all of Dominion’s electricity used at Westminster.  This program has worked well and now we, as citizens, need to make Arcadia redundant by lobbying Dominion to provide clean renewable power here in Dominion’s service area.

The Green Team

Community Events

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A Climate Conversation, April 23 7-9pm, Carver Recreation Center. States, local governments, businesses and individual citizens are the new face of American leadership on climate change as a result of the Federal government’s announced departure from the Paris Agreement. Join others to learn what is being done in Virginia and here in our own community to address climate change, how it is affecting us now and will in the future, and what we can do in our daily lives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Conversation will empower our community to foster real change through education, engagement and action.

Unaccompanied and Immigrant Minors Information Session, Wednesday, April 25 at 11:30am. Organized by Creciendo Juntos at The Bridge PAI, 209 Monticello Road. Registration required.

A Concert Conversation with Natalia Serna, Wednesday, April 25 at 5:00pm. LatinX Graduate Student Alliance (LGSA) and the UVA Art Department are sponsoring this event that will explore immigration and border topics through songs and stories. Open Grounds Studio A, 1400 University Avenue. Ticket required.

Charlottesville-area Immigrant Resource and Advocacy Coalition Meeting and Forum: Immigration Policy Hits Home: What Can We Do? Wednesday, April 25 at 6:30pm. Volunteer orientation for transportation & detention visitation at 6:30pm, Forum at 7:15pm. Each year, 50 of our Charlottesville neighbors are unjustly removed from their families and placed into deportation proceedings. Please join CIRAC and Sin Barreras, with speakers David Baluarte, Professor of Law at Washington & Lee University, Tanishka Cruz, Immigration Attorney and Lecturer at UVA, and Fanny Smedile, founding Director of Sin Barreras/Without Barriers, at a forum to understand the Policies, Practices and Harm resulting from these removals. The 6:30 Volunteer Orientation is a great way to learn more about CIRAC, even if you can’t stay for the forum. IX Art Park, 522 2nd St SE, Charlottesville

Art and Tacos: a silent art auction fundraiser for Sin Barreras. Saturday, April 28 at The Kitchen: 606 Rivanna Avenue, Charlottesville
5:30-9:00pm. Live music by Lua Project. Advance tickets $25 via sinbarrerascville.com (PayPal) or $30 at the door. Food included / cash bar

For more information on the Charlottesville Area Immigrant Resource and Advocacy Coalition (CIRAC), please visit the website or “like” the group on Facebook.

Join other PACEM Shelter supporters on April 29th from 2-5pm at the Barn at Pea Ridge Farm for a spring fundraiser. Tickets are $75 per person or $500 for a table of eight. Price includes food by C & O Restaurant, music by Michael Clem & Rusty Speidel, and beer from Devils Backbone Brewing Company & wine donated by the Charlottesville Cooking School. RSVP to ed@pacemshelter.org. All proceeds benefit PACEM! To reserve your ticket call 434.973.1234 x121

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but the greatest of these is love.”
−1 Corinthians 13:13

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  • Fellowship
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