Westminster United Church Winnipeg

The Sis­ters of the Holy Rock will be presen­ted by West­min­ster United Church on Tues­day, May 8th at 7:30 pm. For tick­ets, which are $15, call Peter at 889‑6983 or the Church office at 784‑1330.

The Sis­ters of the Holy Rock, a not-for-profit inter-denominational enter­tain­ment group was formed in Win­nipeg, Man­itoba, in the fall of 1993. Inspired by the “Sis­ter Act” movies, star­ring Whoopi Gold­berg, and under the dir­ec­tion of the Rev­er­end Mother Car­ole ‘Whoopi’ Stone, the group has grown to include approx­im­ately 80 people from all areas of Win­nipeg and the sur­round­ing rural com­munit­ies. While this ded­ic­ated group makes a musical and spir­itual dif­fer­ence in the com­munit­ies where they per­form, they also have an oppor­tun­ity to grow music­ally and personally.

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On Sunday, May 6th, Out­reach is pleased to host Mary Scott, recent win­ner of the Gov­ernor General’s Award, in an after church dis­cus­sion. Dis­cus­sion will begin at noon, in the Chapel. The present­a­tion is approx­im­ately 30 minutes with time for ques­tions. Mary Scott is a renowned glob­ally as a social act­iv­ist regard­ing women’s issues. Her present­a­tion, The Global Women’s Move­ment — Chal­lenges Ahead, prom­ises to be both inter­est­ing and enlightening.

On Fri­day, March 23rd, 22 people from West­min­ster helped served din­ner to some of  Winnipeg’s less for­tu­nate at Weetamah (on Logan Avenue). The even­ing began with a shared a sup­per of pizza, fol­lowed by dis­cus­sion on ‘food insec­ur­ity in Win­nipeg.’ The West­min­ster group, ran­ging in age from 12 to 82, included the Out­reach Com­mit­tee, the Youth group and other mem­bers of the church. The even­ing con­cluded with prayer in the Weetamah Chapel. Everyone found the exper­i­ence most reward­ing and all were enthu­si­astic about doing it again!

In 1909, the mem­bers of West­min­ster Pres­by­terian (now United) Church con­cluded that their 1893–94 build­ing was inad­equate for a con­greg­a­tion of almost 1,000 mem­bers. A new site, closer to the homes of many of the parish­ion­ers, was selec­ted and the church was built between 1910 and 1912. In 1992, both the City of Win­nipeg and the Province of Man­itoba declared West­min­ster Church a her­it­age build­ing. In 1999, West­min­ster Church was named a West Broad­way Her­it­age Site and was included on the walk­ing tour of West Broad­way her­it­age sites.