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Westminster’s outreach efforts are patterned after Christ’s example of healing the sick, feeding the hungry and proclaiming his saving grace. We accomplish this through direct participation and by supporting the work of others locally, nationally and worldwide.
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 Westminster sends a mission team to Costa Rica, February 25–March 4, 2012, to work at the Spanish Language Institute, and helping to support other work there, including women’s prison ministry. Pray daily during the mission trip week for our mission team members and their work.
Costa Rica women's prison inmates will welcome your donations of sample size toiletries: toothpaste, shampoo and the like. Westminster's mission team to Costa Rica will take these item with them in late February, to support ongoing women's prison ministry there. Please place donations in the Gold Box in the entry to the fellowship hall.
Children’s book drive, January 1–February 12, benefits the library at the Spanish Language Institute in Costa Rica. Please donate new or gently used books appropriate for kindergarten through 12th grade, to be delivered by our Westminster mission team in late February.
 Westminster joins with Habitat for Humanity in Washtenaw County to build 2012 House of Faith
Take a day away from your routine and help make an amazing change in the life of one young mother and her children. Westminster is signed up to provide four to six people on each of four days in February and March, to remodel a home for a Habitat client.
Please sign up in the fellowship hall entry, or see Ron Fairchild, to help out on one of these days:
• Friday, March 16: Install cabinets and thresholds.
• Saturday, March 24: Painting. Westminster will also provide lunch for the work crew.
• Thursday, March 29: Mount door hardware and handrails; hang blinds and mirrors.
We will meet at the house at 9 am each day and work until 4 pm, with a one hour lunch break. Tools and Personal Protection Equipment are provided by Habitat for Humanity. The home is in the Gault Village neighborhood of Ypsilanti. |
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 October 22–29, Westminster sent a team to Joplin, MO, in partnership with Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, to help there following spring tornados in 2011. See our photos.
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 Family summer mission trip
Westminster members young and old served in Detroit, July 17–22, running a Fine Arts Camp for young children at Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian Church;serving
and sharing in meals around Detroit, reaching out to young Hispanic families,
and cleaning and building and weeding and planting and laughing and crying and worshiping.
See some of our photos . . .
Garden project provides food for many
Our goals in creating a garden on our Westminster property are to share food with the hungry of our community, and to provide a sacred space, open to the public, for contemplation, prayer and reflection.
Garden project FAQs . . .
What’s happening in the Westminster garden?
“Child” of Westminster, Rachel Smallish Dziku, and her husband work with YWAM in Ghana. Read their newsletter here.
David Kornfield, of OC International, supported by Westminster’s Faith Promise funds, writes to his supporters.
A team of dedicated volunteers provides rides to church for our Westminster members living at Brookhaven. Conversation, laughter and friendship have evolved from this caring ministry. If you would enjoy being a regular or substitute driver for this “lifting” ministry, please call Marla Johnston.
Westminster provides financial assistance when needed for members doing short-term mission work. Guidelines and application are here . . .
Clothing donations welcomed | Used electronics and printer ink earn money | Cancelled stamps benefit mission work
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What is Riverside Community Gathering?
How can I help at 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 2008, 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.
How can you get involved? Volunteers are always welcome to host dinners and support the activities. Andplease 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 Pastor Cathi King.
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