Morning worship on May 19, 2013

Make a great long week­end even bet­ter by join­ing us on Sunday at 10:30 a.m. for wor­ship. Ron Clem­ent and Bernie Nel­son will be greet­ing people as they arrive. Here are some of the high­lights from the service:

INTROIT “Soar­ing Spirit, Set Us Free”

ANTHEM “Sine Nom­ine”
– arranged by Earl Rosenberg

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM
– presenters: Jackie Hen­rick­son and Ash­ley Olsen

READING FROM SCRIPTURE Acts 2:1–8
– given by Tom Ford

SERMON “The Lan­guage People Under­stand“
– given Rev. Greg Glatz

MINUTE FOR MISSION “Faith Lift Cam­pus Min­istry“
– Sher­rie Steiner

SOLO “I Feel the Spirit Mov­ing”
– given by Cathyrn Har­rison
– arranged by Mark Hayes

The Mighty God with Power Speaks”, a new selec­tion from Psalms for All Sea­sons, will be presen­ted by the choir on Sunday morn­ing. This set­ting of Psalm 50 is unique in that it uses a tune strangely famil­iar to “I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say”, which uses a tra­di­tional Eng­lish folk song, titled “Kings­fold”. Psalm 50 is set to a tune called “Star of County Down”. Nearly identical to each other, this may be a ques­tion of “chicken or the egg”! Unlike the majestic and royal sound­ing Eng­lish set­ting, this inter­pret­a­tion is a little more rus­tic in nature, hence the folky sound of Greg’s gui­tar, and Nathan’s Irish fiddling.

Sunday worship on May 12, 2013

Happy mother’s day! Head out for cof­fee or break­fast, then head down to West­min­ster Church for Sunday wor­ship at 10:30 a.m. Shelagh and Ross Yar­nell will be greet­ing people as they arrive. Here are some of the high­lights from the service:

INTROIT “I Sing Today”
– tune: Engel­berg; words by Nathan J. Poole

ANTHEM “All Hail the Power”
– by Mary McDonald

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM
– presenters: Jackie Hen­rick­son and Ash­ley Olsen

READING FROM SCRIPTURE Acts 16:16–34
– given by Susie Conrad

SERMON “Mother — I’m home!“
– The Rev. Dr. James Christie

SOLO “On Eagle’s Wings”
– given by Nel­son Betten­court
– words and music by Michael Jon­cas; arranged by Mark Hayes

Youth in action

On Fri­day, May 2, the youth group and adult help­ers from West­min­ster Church served hun­dreds of hot dogs and bags of chips to a long line of guests at “Fri­day Night Light­house”, which takes place every Fri­day night at Light­house Mis­sion (669 Main St.). Two of the youth, Sam and Ash­ley, spoke about their faith jour­neys with the guests, with music provided by the B-Side Apostles (Larry Updike and Greg Glatz). Our thanks to the great staff at Light­house Mis­sion for mak­ing us feel wel­come and giv­ing us an oppor­tun­ity to share life and learn­ing with our inner-city neigh­bors. “Love all. Serve all.”

Westminster Church youth in action

Pre­par­ing hot dogs


Westminster Church youth in action

200 hot dogs served!


Westminster Church youth in action

Work­ing together


Westminster Church youth in action

The B-Side Apostles


Westminster Church youth in action

Love all. Serve all.


Westminster Church youth in action

Fri­day Night Lighthouse

Sunday worship on May 5, 2013

Shelagh and Ross Yar­nell will be greet­ing people as they arrive. Here are some of the high­lights from the service:

INTROIT “I Sing Today”
– tune: Engel­berg; words by Nathan J. Poole

ANTHEM “The Prom­ised Land”
– by J. Michael Compton

CONVERSATION TIME WITH THE KIDS
– led by Greg Glatz

READING FROM SCRIPTURE Rev­el­a­tion 7:1–17
– given by Liz Wijtkamp

SERMON “No One Left Behind”
– given by Robert Camp­bell
After this I looked, and there before me was a great mul­ti­tude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and lan­guage, stand­ing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wear­ing white robes and were hold­ing palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice: “Sal­va­tion belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.”
– Rev­el­a­tion 7: 9–10

DUET “Lamb of God” — words and music by Twila Paris
– given by Mary Ann Taylor and Nicki Kirton

Sunday worship on April 28, 2013

Sunday wor­ship begins at 10:30 a.m. and every­one is wel­come! Eliza­beth and Ron Rus­sell will be greet­ing people as they arrive. Here are some of the high­lights from the service:

INTROIT “I Sing Today”
– tune: Engel­berg; words by Nathan J. Poole

CONVERSATION TIME WITH THE KIDS
– led by Greg Glatz

READING FROM SCRIPTURE Acts 17: 16–34 (NRSV, p.137)
– given by Carol Latter

SERMON “Bear­ing Wit­ness”
– given by Robert Camp­bell
“While God has over­looked the times of human ignor­ance, now he com­mands all people every­where to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will have the world judged in right­eous­ness by a man whom he has appoin­ted, and of this he has given assur­ance to all by rais­ing him from the dead.” — Acts 17:30–31

SOLO “Our Great Saviour” (arranged by Larry Moore)
– given by Mary Ann Taylor

Jewellery, Handbags and Bake Sale

Sat­urday April 27, 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.