Neighborhood & Community Ministries
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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! |
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Bundles of Joy
Bundle of Joy aims to serve the under-served families with newborns by providing a ‘bundle’ consisting of clothing, a blanket, books, and a diaper bag. In 2021, Westminster gave $1,000 to help this project. |
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Children of Abraham
WPC joins with faith groups across ethnic & religious boundaries, bringing children and youth together to build mutual understanding and respect. |
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Creative Reuse Market
Creative Reuse Marketplace is a community donation center & marketplace focused on community development through job training, education & creative reuse. In 2021, Westminster gave $1,500 help start this new business. |
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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 $400 in 2021. |
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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. |
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Motherland Gardens
This community project looks to address the social-economic equity in low-income region of Springfield by working towards creating a sustainable access to fresh produce, Westminster gave $1,000 to fund this project. |
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Steadfast Neighbor Mission
Neighborhood Service Week – 72 members of the Westminster family, including youth and adults, spent a week in the summer tackling home and property improvement projects on behalf of neighbors of the church, taking on numerous painting, fence-building, bricklaying, landscaping, power washing, and other assignments by request of the homeowners. In 2021, Westminster gave $13,191 to fund neighborhood projects. Matching Grants – WPC also offered nearby residents the opportunity to request grants to help them pay for other needed repairs and improvements to their homes. In 2021, WPC funded $14,994 in matching grants. Funded by the Support & Endowment Fund, we are committing $450,000 (years: 2020 - 2030) to serve WPC's neighborhood. Click here to learn more about Steadfast Neighbor Endeavor. Get involved: Join the next neighborhood service week, and watch for news of additional initiatives coming out of the Steadfast Neighbor Endeavor. |
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Wooden It Be Lovely
Wooden It Be Lovely offers hope and employment to women healing from lives of poverty, addiction, and abuse by providing transitional employment, mentoring, recovery tools, education, community networking, and a safe community. Westminster gave $7,000 to assist this project in 2021. |
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