Neighborhood & Community Ministries

Adopt-a-Street
Westminster members head out on a quarterly basis to clean up designated streets in the church neighborhood. 

Get involved: Join our team and help keep our neighborhood clean!
 

Children of Abraham
WPC joins with faith groups across ethnic & religious boundaries, bringing children and youth together to build mutual understanding and respect. Four annual gatherings culminate in a joint service project, which Westminster funded with $1,500 this year.

Faith Coalition for the Common Good
This faith-based group links community institutions and people to build power and change systems for fairness, equity and participatory decision-making. WPC is a member organization and contributed $3,560 in 2019.

Historic West Side Neighborhood Association
Westminster Presbyterian Church is a member of this association, which since the 1970s has been involved in city planning, advocacy, and development of the residential character of the neighborhood in which our church sits.
 

Steadfast Neighbor Mission
We had a beautiful week in the neighborhood August 10-14 as 42 members ranging from age 15 to 85, 2 neighbors, and 8 staff came together to shower our neighbors with love and to live out our mission statement in a practical and meaningful way.  We are grateful for those who served from ½ of a day to 5 days sharing their time, labor, and expertise and the delicious lunches prepared by the Hospitality Team.
Because rain was forecast for the week, Dr. Kieffer chose the theme of water for our devotionals as we gathered in the sanctuary with a new appreciation for the symbolism of the lovely wooden ceiling above us shaped like an ark.   As it turns out, other than a very hot Monday, we had beautiful weather as well.   
Together, we were able to:

1. Power wash nine homes
2. Paint a picket fence white, the Verizon garage, the transformer, the back addition to our rental home, and miscellaneous doors and porch railings throughout the neighborhood.
3. Remove a concrete sidewalk, design and install a brick sidewalk in its stead.
4. Install fence panels enclosing a backyard.
5. Remove steps to a front porch, design and install new steps and railings in its stead.
6. Repair brick foundation of a porch.
7. Remove shrubbery and trim trees and bushes for five homes…and haul our shrubbery and additional piles of shrubbery in the neighborhood to the recycle center.

Westminster covered the cost of all these projects as part of our Steadfast Neighbor Endeavor.  We are grateful for the leadership of team captains Gary Warnick, Dale Rogers, Rev. McGill, Rev. Choi, and for the relationships built among our members and with our neighbors.  We look forward to the 2021 Neighborhood Service Week as we continue to steadfastly invest in our neighborhood.
 
Our intention over the next ten years is to invest $450,000 in our neighborhood.  This is 1/3 the cost of the Steadfast Neighbor Site and Landscape Plan. ​

Get involved: Watch for upcoming opportunities to share love and service with the people living right in our own backyard!