Posts from December 2021
Our Father’s House Support
Our Father’s House and the Women’s Fellowship Every year at Christmas one of the favorite charities of the Women’s Fellowship has been supportive of Our Father’s House in Fitchburg. Although the impact of the virus has curtailed many of the Fellowship’s activities, we have not lessened in our commitment to provide support where needed and possible. Our Father’s House for almost 40 years has been dedicated to getting people off the street where they can be safe and find self-sufficiency. …
Thanksgiving Food Collection
The members of the Christian Outreach Committee thank all of you who contributed food and money to the annual Thanksgiving Food Collection. The pandemic did not dampen your response to the needs of the Westminster Community Food Pantry. Your generosity was greatly appreciated! We are well aware that the need for food at the pantry does not end with just one successful food collection. It is a year-round need. A few years ago John Aalto shared an idea to…
Gifts For Children
The Christian Outreach Committee is beginning to think about the holiday season and the mittens in past years we have hung on The Giving Tree in the Narthex. There will be no tree this year as you enter the church, but that doesn’t take away the feelings we have for giving to others. This year we have decided to again support the Residential reunification homes run by Community Healthlink whom we worked with last year. These three homes, two in…
Children’s Christmas Pageant
Hi Families! This year we are trying something new for our Christmas Pageant. If you are interested in having your child participate, below is the following format of how it will be taking place. As always, please message me with any questions. My idea for the Christmas pageant is based upon the suggestions from the Covid crisis committee. I have a cute book about the birth of Jesus as told from the animal’s point of view. I have a list…
From The Pastor’s Pen
Advent Schedule of Services and Activities The year 2021 has been a time of growing uncertainty. With the development of vaccines to defend against COVID it seemed reasonable to hope that the virus would be contained and life, as we were accustomed to it, could soon resume. As we near the end of the year, numbers of cases are resurging instead of retreating. The cloud of uncertainty also takes the forms of increasing effects of climate change, the specter of…