Join the Team WPC-Durham for the 48th Annual CROP Hunger Walk! April 10, 2:30pm at Duke Chapel
Lace up your sneakers and invite your friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers to this fun, family-friendly 5k walk with music and educational activities for all ages! Join Team WPC-Durham to help raise $10,000+ for hunger relief. Let's see if we can beat last year's number and take home the CROP Walk "Silver Sneaker" award! Register and join team WPC Durham and/or make a donation. Questions? Please contact Blair Chesnut.
Remember a Loved One with an Easter Lily & Donation to the WPC Flower Guild
You are invited to offer an Easter lily in memory, in honor, or in celebration of a loved one by making a $10 donation to the WPC Flower Guild. Complete the online order form to submit your dedication by Sunday, April 10. Dedications will be shared in the Easter worship bulletin. Donated Easter lilies will adorn our Memorial Garden on Easter Sunday and may be taken home after the 11:00am Easter worship service. Please contact Bonnie Derr with any questions.
Easter Egg Hunt Donations Needed
The Children & Youth Christian Education Committee needs your help! We are planning an egg hunt for Easter morning and need “fillers” to put inside the eggs before the hunt. These small items could include sweet treats (safe for little ones), stickers, tattoos, small toys, keychains, etc. Please bring all donations to the church office by Monday, April 11. Thank you!
2022 Easter Offering: How You Can Help Refugees
Every year, millions of people around the world are forcibly displaced. So far this year 123,000 Afghanis were evacuated by US Forces during the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, and 2.2 million more sought sanctuary in neighboring nations. More than 2.8 million people have fled Ukraine last month, the fastest-growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.

Your Global Missions Committee is offering you two opportunities to respond. First, consider giving to our 2022 Easter offering, which will be dedicated to World Relief Durham, Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, and Music Mission Kyiv. These Westminster partner organizations each serve refugees and immigrants. Second, consider becoming part of WPC's Refugee Resettlement Team if you'd like to move beyond donating money. Durham is privileged to be home to many refugees from all over the world. Organizations like World Relief Durham (WRD) help in the difficult process of resettlement. Our team is currently making plans to begin training with WRD so that we might collect home furnishings and set up an apartment to make it a home for an incoming family. We also hope to welcome families at the airport, transport them to their homes, and provide a warm meal. In addition, WRD is also looking for persons who can house a family or individual in their home for one to seven nights until their permanent housing is ready.    

We feel so helpless seeing the suffering of our brothers and sisters, but there are opportunities for us to help! Please give generously to the Easter Offering and consider being a part of the Refugee Resettlement Team. Please contact Eileen McAvoy, Cara Bolton, or Cherrie Barton Henry for more information. 

Ways To Contribute to the Easter Offering:
  • Give online now. Choose the fund “Easter Offering” and complete your transaction. 
  • Text WPCDURHAM Easter $50 to 73256 to give $50 to the Easter Offering fund using your text messaging. Change the amount to be whatever amount you want to donate. Standard text messaging rates may apply.
  • Write a check to WPC with “Easter Offering” in the memo line and place it in the offering plate or drop it in the Finance Office door.
Fun Way to Support Y Learning Students at WPC
As a church, we'd like to come alongside and support the students in the Y Learning literacy program that meets here each weekday afternoon. The Y leadership suggested we create “congratulation bags” for the kids to help celebrate their progress and encourage them to keep up the good work. We’ll also prepare bags of goodies to prepare them for Y summer camp. We’ve compiled an Amazon wish list of items we’re collecting for the kids. Please consider purchasing an item or making a donation. The deadline is Easter Sunday, April 17. Questions? Contact: Anne Vann.
Westminster This Week – Quick Links


Sunday at Westminster – April 3, Fifth Sunday in Lent - Communion Sunday
9:30am Nursery for Infants and Toddlers
9:45am Church School for All Ages
10:30am Chancel Choir Warm-Up
11:00am Worship in the Sanctuary and on YouTube
5:00pm Session Meeting (in-person)
5:30pm  Youth Group Scavenger Hunt at Duke