SUNDAY: 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. It's a WPC tradition! Join Team WPC-Durham to help raise much-needed funds for hunger relief. We are close to our $10,000 fundraising goal, but need some more donations to put us over the mark. Funds raised help feed our hungry siblings in Christ both here in Durham and across the globe.
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Remember a Loved One with an Easter Lily & Donation to the WPC Flower Guild
Order deadline is Sunday, April 10
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. 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.
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A Good Friday GiFT: Walk to the Cross
April 15 at 11:00am
Join us on Good Friday for our next GiFt (Generations in Faith Together)! Walk to the Cross is an interactive re-telling of the story of Holy Week, geared to children and their families, although all are welcome. Participants will move through various scenes (Last Supper, meeting Pontius Pilate, etc.) to participate in the story of Jesus' last days in an age-appropriate way and to be witnesses to God's amazing power in the resurrection.
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🌸🌸 Remember: Bring spring flowers to church on Easter to adorn the cross 🌸🌸 |
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Westminster This Week – Quick Links
Sunday at Westminster – April 10, Palm Sunday
9:30am Nursery for Infants and Toddlers
9:45am Church School for All Ages
10:30am Chancel Choir Warm-Up
10:50am Children line up for Palm Processional – Courtyard
11:00am Worship with Children's Palm Processional – in the Sanctuary and on YouTube
2:00pm Durham CROP Walk – Meet on the steps of Duke Chapel
5:30pm Youth Group “Palm Sundae” Ice Cream and Tie-Dye Party
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2022 Easter Offering to 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 4 million people have fled Ukraine; 10 million are now “displaced,” which amounts to 25% of the population. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees calls it 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:
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Give online now. Choose the fund “Easter Offering” and complete your transaction.
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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.
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WEDNESDAY: Aperture with Rich Gwaltney of Transitions Life Care –“Leave a Legacy, Not a Mess” April 20, 7:00pm, on Zoom
Inspired by the book A Beginner’s Guide to the End by Dr. BJ Miller and Shoshana Berger, this presentation offers practical tips for how to leave behind a legacy that will endure, coupled with strategies for cleaning out your physical and emotional attic. Register now
Rich Gwaltney serves as the community engagement representative for Transitions LifeCare. He has served nonprofit organizations in both education and spiritual care. Rich has a lifelong passion to engage people of all ages concerning the issues that matter the most in life.
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Nasher Museum Exhibit Tour: “Reckoning and Resilience: North Carolina Art Now,” Saturday April 23 at 11:00am, with Lunch at the Nasher Cafe
You're invited to a custom-guided tour of the Nasher Museum's new exhibit, Reckoning and Resilience: North Carolina Art Now, with WPC resident art expert Ruth Caccavale. See how North Carolina artists respond after two years of a global pandemic, political chaos, and ongoing deadly racism and environmental injustice. Exploring themes surrounding historical and current events, identity, trauma and healing, the artists use a variety of media to reckon with hard truths, seek healing, and demand transformative action. Register now
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