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Visitors are Welcome
at Westminster Presbyterian Church

533 South Walnut St. + Springfield, Illinois

Do not forget to entertain strangers,
for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.
Hebrews 13:2

Sunday Worship
8:30 a.m. & 10:00 a.m.

Children's Sunday School
10:00 a.m.

Childcare is offered in the lower-level nursery during 8:30 & 10:00 a.m. worship and during Third Hour Classes.

9:15 & 11:00 a.m. - Fellowship Time for all members, visitors and friends in the West Narthex between services. Join us for coffee.

11:15 a.m. - Adult Bible Study

Thank you for visiting
Westminster's Web Site

Thank you for visiting the Westminster Presbyterian Church web site. If you are searching for a new church community, we wish to respond in whatever manner will suit you best. Westminster offers a variety of opportunities for worship, education, fellowship and community services. If you would like information about participating more fully in the life of the Church or have other questions about Westminster, please call the Church office at 217-522-4415.

Please help us get to know you at church.

  • Wear a red visitor name tag
  • Sign the friendship pad during the offertory
  • Introduce yourself to one of our ministers
  • Come to the West Narthex for coffee and conversations following the service
  • Visit the information table in the West Narthex
  • Pick up a Welcome brochure from the pew and participate in a tour of the building after the 10:00 a.m. service of worship
  • Consider the next new member class in the Library.
  • Contact the office to be put on our mailing list to receive the monthly Reporter.

Services at Westminster

Sunday
8:30 a.m.
The early service is usually held in Parish Hall and lasts about 45 minutes. This is a more reflective service in which the congregation looks out over a garden and music is provided by a pianist and instrumental or vocal soloists.
Sunday
10:00 a.m.

This service is held in the sanctuary and lasts an hour. Music is led by the newly-renovated organ and adult choir.

Large-print bulletins are available from the Deacons at each door. Pocket-sized amplifiers are available for the hearing-impaired at the sanctuary entrances. Our facilities are ADA (handicapped) accessible. Signing during the service and home delivery of audio copies of the service are available.

Communion if offered on the second Sunday of each month at both 8:30 and 10:00 a.m. services. All who are baptized and affirm the Lordship of Christ are welcome to join in this sacrament.

Childcare is available for infants and toddlers at all services.

Saturday
5:30
A worship service in a casual setting is held June through August in Parish Hall. This blended service offers more contemporary music and encourages participation by members of all ages. Communion is served by intinction weekly.

Mission Statement of
Westminster Presbyterian Church

Westminster Presbyterian Church believes that it is in the world for ministry.
For more than 150 years, as a central city church, it has been a center of moral and religious strength. With positive convictions and broad sympathies it has met and solved many problems incident to its environment and, in many ways, has influenced the life of the city.

As a new century beckons, we reaffirm our common purpose:

  • To join in the worshipful praise of God,
  • To teach the children, to lead and inspire the young and to call everyone to life-long learning in the church,
  • To be influential participants in society by being accountable to the Gospel,
  • To show the love and compassion of Jesus Christ toward each other and toward those who are hurting,
  • To be a caring community welcoming both friends and strangers,
  • To own our Presbyterian heritage, reformed and always reforming,
  • To be prayerfully open to the renewing power of the Holy Spirit.

To accomplish this, the active and faithful cooperation of every member will be necessary.

Let the door of this church be a way to service.

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