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Candlelight Cross created by Gertrude Schop, to honor 8,000
Covid victims in Germany
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Hello Westport Presbies, families and friends!
You are invited to experience the Passion of Jesus through the window of an Illuminated Good Friday Service. This Facebook Livestream service will be held this Friday, April 2 at 7:00 p.m. While the Passion story is read, hymns sung, and candles extinguished, art and photographs from every continent and from ancient times to today will be displayed. The art either depicts the story, interprets it or suggests some meaning beyond our usual capacity to express meaning through words. We hope you will join us in this hour of sacred commitment to Jesus’ Passion for the Kingdom of God.
Then on Easter Sunday, April 4, 11:00 a.m, we celebrate the Resurrection of the Lord. We will sing hymns of Resurrection! We hear the Resurrection story! We pray for God’s Resurrection power to grow in our hearts and minds! We celebrate Holy Communion! All these spiritual exercises are meant to lift our hopes and strengthen us for the hard work for the coming Kingdom of God—and a transformed post-pandemic life.
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The Empty Tomb, by Rik Berry
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The work of the Shower Ministry and the Weekday Lunch Ministry continue to grow in scope and impact. We praise God for all the love and mercy that is spreading through these great works of the church!
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Our Earth Care Team meets this Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. via ZOOM.
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As Moderator of the Presbyterian Urban and Immigrant Ministry Network, Rev Scott is leading a team to hire a part-time anti-racist organizer to work in Heartland Presbytery to build community and create an anti-racist culture in the church. A team of nine has defined the scope of work, created a job description and is circulating it now. We hope to hire an organizer by May 1. This is a concrete illustration of church wide mission funds doing hard, needed work.
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Azia Gambrell (dancer) and Glenn Stewart (poet) in front of church stained glass windows during The Dancing Word, a Westport Center for the Arts performance.
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We pray especially for Bettie Taylor (very ill in Minnesota), Fred Culver and Rae Peterson, Donna Kay Campbell, all the families of victims of gun violence in Atlanta and Boulder, everyone trying to make the border a place of compassion and safety, continued recovery for Karen Gall, Stan Morgan, Julie Thomas (done with all surgery and treatments), Glenn Stewart, Jeff Kuhn, Steve Zeoli’s mother, and Mary Jo Draper (pneumonia) We pray for increased power for Carly Simon, Laura Hughes’ mother, Roy Fester, Nancy Gay, Linda Smith (upcoming shoulder surgery), Elidah Chibanda (traveling to her home in Zimbabwe for several months), John Krugh (in his work to make public school buses much safer) and for all the babies, infants and young children in the Raach/McFadden, Irwin/Rozga, Roth and Capps families.
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Please consider making an Easter gift to the church to help Chris Roesel in his clean water and sanitation mission to Kenya and Uganda later in April. We have received over $1,250 so far. Just designate your gift “P2P” (People to People) project.
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Stay strong and keep the faith!
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At Westport Presbyterian, we believe that Jesus calls us to—
Love with abandon!
Stand up for justice!
Be healed ourselves!
We’ve recovered from two fires! Now we are on fire!
Our mission for nearly 200 years in Westport is the same:
Create compassionate community!
Make space for God’s grace!
Nurture relationships which create local and global neighbors!
Join us in a life changing adventure!
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