THIS WEEK at WESTMINSTER March 8 - 14, 2020 It Is So Good to Have You with Us Wor- Shipping Today at Westminster Pres- Sunday - Second Sunday in Lent Byterian Church

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WELCOME! THIS WEEK AT WESTMINSTER March 8 - 14, 2020 It is so good to have you with us wor- shipping today at Westminster Pres- Sunday - Second Sunday in Lent byterian Church. Whether you are a 10:00 a.m. Worship Service (S) regular attendee or a first-time visi- 11:15 a.m. Lenten Bible Study (P) tor, we are blessed have your pres- 4:00 p.m. Jazz Vespers (S) ence with us today. When we open our Bibles to read the Scripture for Monday the day and meditate on those 9 to 11 a.m. WestMark Food Pantry Open (FP) words, we show God that we love 6:30 p.m. Taiji/Qi Gong Classes, Adv. (FH) Him with our minds. When we sing in earnest our songs of praise and ado- Tuesday ration, we are worshiping with our 4:30 p.m. WICC Board Meeting (P) heart and soul. When we pray and lift 6:30 p.m. Session Meeting (P) up others in prayer, we are exercis- ing our faith and showing God we Wednesday love him with all our strength. And 7:30 a.m. Men’s Coffee Fellowship when we treat each other with genu- (Panera Bread - 2515 N. Westlake) ine kindness, respect, and interest, 10:00 a.m. Staff Meeting (CO) we are loving our neighbors as our- 10-2:30 p.m. OLLI Spring Kick-Off Luncheon selves. (Michel Student Center Ballroom) 6:30 p.m. Taiji/Qi Gong Classes, Beg. (FH) Guests, please feel free to join us in fellowship and conversation after the Thursday service. Members, say hello to our 1:00 p.m. Food Delivery (FP) visitors and get to know them this 1:30 p.m. Lectionary Bible Study morning.

And now, let us enter into a worship FRIDAY service that gives all the glory to God. Newsletter Deadline TODAY!

(S) Sanctuary (FP) Food Pantry (P) Parlor (N) Narthex (CR) Choir Room (FH) Fellowship Hall (CH) Chapel (B) Sanctuary Balcony (CO) Church Office SCRIPTURE READINGS TODAY

MARCH 8, 2020 JAZZ VESPERS Genesis 12:1-4a | Psalm 121 Sunday | March 8 | 4 PM Romans 4:1-5, 13-17 We are pleased to welcome you and hope that this service will John 3:1-17 inspire and bring you peace. Our lead musician is David Hoffman, and with his many friends in the Central Illinois area who love MARCH 15, 2020 and play jazz . This will be the last 4 p.m. Jazz Vespers until Exodus 17:1-7 | Psalm 95 next fall. So be sure to come back this afternoon. Bring a Romans 5:1-11 | John 4:5-42 friend or two as we swing a new sound unto the Lord. Next month, April, David and his friends will be joining us for a com- bined Easter Sunday Celebration. Start thinking about it now… who are you going to bring to celebrate Christ’s Resurrection!

SERVING MARCH 8 LENTEN BIBLE STUDY PART THREE LEADING WORSHIP “Why We Do What We Do During Lent” Pastor Denise Clark-Jones Sunday | March 8 | 11:15 a.m. Liturgist - Jan Leonard The Resurrection is the joyful day on which Christ entered the Sound - Don Bell world as the triumphant Savior of humankind. So join in the Greeter - Dick Helfrich Lenten pilgrimage positively and joyously as we look to the tri- Ushers - Gary Dutro, HU umph of our Lord Jesus Christ in final victory over the grave! Alan Kupper, Linda Kupper, Today will be the last study of the three-part series, led by Pas- Marge Willadsen tor Denise Clark-Jones of the history, meaning, and practice of (HU - denotes Head Usher) Lent. Come, you don’t want to miss it!

SERVING MARCH 8 Jazz Vespers THIS WEEK LEADING WORSHIP TAIJI FOR LIFE Pastor Denise Clark-Jones Monday, Advanced | Weekly | 6:30 PM Music - David Hoffman Wednesday, Beginner | Weekly | 6:30 PM Sound - Tom Clark-Jones Come join us for either class or both. There are great benefits Greeter - Brooks McDaniel from doing Taiji. Taiji is often described as “Meditation in mo- Ushers - Suellen Kirkwood, HU tion,” but it might well be called “medication in motion.” There Linda McDaniel is growing evidence that this mind-body practice, which origi- (HU - denotes Head Usher) nated in China as a martial art, has value in treating or prevent- ing many health problems. And you can get started even if you aren't in Top shape or the best of health. Taiji can be easily adapted for anyone, from the most fit to people confined to SERVING MARCH 15 wheelchairs or recovering from surgery. Questions? Call either LEADING WORSHIP instructor, Donna Sturm (303-3631) or Terrisa Worsfold (472- Pastor Denise Clark-Jones 4119). Liturgist - John Jackson Sound - Art Schlesinger WICC BOARD MEETING Greeter - Dick Helfrich TUESDAY | MARCH 10 | 4:30 PM Ushers - Gary Dutro, HU There will be a meeting of the Westminster Infant Care Center Diane Case, Jeff Case (WICC) Board at 4:30 p.m. in the Parlor. Dan Callahan (HU - denotes Head Usher) SESSION MEETING TUESDAY | MARCH 10 | 6:30 PM This month’s session meeting will take place on Tuesday, 2020 LENTEN March 10, at 6:30 p.m. in the Parlor. Reports are due to the DEVOTIONAL BOOKLETS office by 12 p.m., noon, Tuesday, for copying and preparing

These can be found in the reports for that night’s meeting. Please email them to Narthex. There are still plenty [email protected]

of copies available. Pick up OLLI SPRING LUNCHEON your copy before you leave today. WEDNESDAY | MARCH 11 | 10 AM - 2:30 PM Help yourself, they are free. Emily Cahill, Executive Director of Peoria Park District will be

FAST  PRAY  GIVE  FAST  PRAY  GIVE the keynote speaker for the OLLI Spring Kick-Off Luncheon in the Michel Student Center Ballroom. 2 LECTIONARY BIBLE STUDY WESTMARK FOOD PANTRY NEWS Open Mondays from 9 to 11 a.m.

Have some free time? Help us unload the food deliveries for the food pantry. Extra hands make for lighter work and reduce the time of unloading the truck and putting away. Consider helping on one or more of the delivery days below:

DELIVERY SCHEDULE Thursday, March 12, at 1 p.m. Tuesday, March 17, at 11:20 a.m. Wednesday, March 25, at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 7, at 11:20 a.m.

YOU CAN HELP IN OTHER WAYS TOO! This week’s requested item by the food pantry is: LAUNDRY DETERGENT. There is a HUGE need for laundry detergent and it is requested often. You may place these items in the green tubs which are located in the Narthex. Your help is greatly appreciated.

VISIT http://westminsterpeoria.org/serve/food-pantry/ for more information or contact Elizabeth Richmond.

THURSDAY | MARCH 12 | 1:30 PM DEADLINES: The Lectionary Bible Study will meet this Thursday at 1:30 in the Please submit copy by email to: Parlor. Scripture readings for March have been handed out. If you [email protected] did not receive a copy, contact Nicole in the office and she will BULLETIN SUBMISSIONS - All bulletin have it ready for you to pick up in the Narthex on Sunday or at the announcements need to be into the next Bible study, or look online at: http://westminsterpeoria.org/ church office by noon on Monday for worship/bible-study/ inclusion in the following weekend’s bulletin. NEWSLETTER SUBMISSIONS ARE DUE NEWSLETTER “THE WINDOW” FRIDAY | MARCH 13 All submissions are due the Friday The deadline for submissions for the April Westminster Window is following the Session meeting. We Friday, March 13. If you have something you would like to share welcome all articles from the congre- with the church, please email your information to communications gation. APRIL Newsletter Deadline @westminsterpeoria.org Please help the office stay on schedule is: Friday, March 13. by sending it in on or before March 13. READ THEM ONLINE SERMONS - are available to read on the website. So, if you missed a Sun- UPCOMING day or you would just like to read the GRETCHEN R. IBEN ARTS SERIES PRESENTS sermon again, they are available for Music for the End of Time two months and the WEEKLY AN- Friday | March 27 | 8:00 PM NOUNCEMENTS are usually online Please note… due to a scheduling conflict the time on this the day before the Sunday service. concert has been moved to 8 p.m. Please update your calen- dar now with this change. We apologize for any inconvenience CHANCEL FLOWERS this may cause. If you would like to reserve a Sunday in honor or in memory of a loved one, check the flower schedule in the Nar- thex for available dates.

DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT! SAVE THE DATES ANOTHER family donor will make YOUR donation double the Read more about the events in this amount of what you give to the Westminster Infant Care Cen- month’s newsletter or online. ter. So Double Your Impact Today! Donations will be matched March 15 WestMark Can-A-Thon thanks to the Mary Cummings Matching Fund. March 17 Remember to Vote! March 27 Iben Concert FLOWERING OF THE EASTER CROSS Music for the End of Time SUNDAY | APRIL 12 | 10 AM All of April WICC Baby Shower On Easter Sunday, we invite you to be part of the “Flowering April 05 Palm Sunday of the Easter Cross,” an ancient and meaningful tradition. April 09 Maundy Thursday More information to come in the weeks ahead. April 10 Good Friday April 12 Resurrection Sunday April 13 Easter Monday 3 CANCELLATION OF CHURCH SERVICE AND OTHER EVENTS In the case of bad weather, the Session, under the direction of Pastor Denise, will decide by 8 a.m. on Sunday morning or at least two hours before any other scheduled event. Cancella- tions will be announced through e-mail, Realm app notifications, Facebook, Twitter, on TV (channels WMBD 31 and WEEK 25); on the website of ciProud.com. On our website, a red- box will appear on our homepage. If you have no means of checking for this information, by phone, email, or television, please contact your deacon and make arrangements with them to be notified. If at anytime you feel it is not safe for you to go out, please stay home.

SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT - MARCH 8 Jesus said also to the one who had invited him, “When you give a TODAY luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in re- SUNDAY turn, and you would be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.” ~Luke 14:12-13 MARCH 8 “Vegetarian? Are you sure it is vegetarian?” he asked. “Yes, Dwight. 4 PM Vegetarian,” I answered as I gave him a vegetarian “quick bag.” We don’t call the bags we hand out on Monday mornings at the food pantry “homeless bags”; we call them “quick bags.” Language mat- HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO ters. Dwight may call the streets home. Most of the time people may Don & Jill Bell treat him as invisible and sometimes even fear him when his behav- ior is erratic, but he deserves dignity and he finds it in the right to ask for a vegetarian quick bag at the pantry. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO When we are out and about in the neighborhood and recognize one Jeff Putnam of our food pantry clients like Dwight, we greet them by name, and they greet us. We are, after all, neighbors. And joy comes when the IN THE HOSPITAL pastor greets you by name out loud, stops and chats. A brief conver- No one, as of sation speaks volumes, saying, “I matter. I am seen. I am more than Thursday morning. my circumstances. I am a person.” If you or someone you love Dignity is the right to chat with my neighbors when our paths cross. Dignity is the right to be heard. Dignity is the right to have a vegetari- is hospitalized and needs a an quick bag given when asked. visit from WPC, please make sure you contact us God of compassion, help us to accept in our heart of directly at 673-8501. We hearts that you love and affirm us as we are, so that do call the hospitals each we may turn around and treat others with the same morning but unless the hos- unconditional compassion and acceptance. ~Amen. pital tells us you are in, we Excerpt taken from the Presbyterians Today 2020 Lenten Devotional. won’t know to visit or reach Devotionals are found in the Narthex. Take one for you, a friend or a out. We appreciate you fill- stranger. Let’s share about the Greatest Sacrifice. ing in our knowledge gaps this way. Thank You.

Westminster Presbyterian Church A Presbyterian Church in the Presbytery of the Great Rivers 1420 W. Moss Avenue, Peoria, Illinois 61606 Office Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Telephone ...... 309-673-8501 CHURCH STAFF Our mission is to serve Fax ...... 309-673-6708 Steven Sager God with open mind, Buildings Manager Website...... WestminsterPeoria.org hands and heart. We Nicole King are a diverse and Office Email ...... [email protected] Office Assistant dynamic community of Brooks McDaniel, Shepherd Emeritus Denise Wirth believers dedicated to Rev. Denise Clark-Jones Financial Secretary wor sh i pi ng God, Office ...... 309-439-9739 Mary Lee Caudle increasing our faith and 4 serving our community. Mobile ...... 717-329-7121 Adm. Assistant Email ...... [email protected] Communications

PRAYING FOR GOD’S PEOPLE - This week’s church member will now be known as “Praying for God’s People.” One person or a family will be highlighted to be lifted up in prayer for that week. This could be a member or a friend of the church, we are called to pray for all. This doesn’t mean that there is something wrong. We are just being obedient to pray for all of the church body. We all need prayer at one time or another, and it is our privilege to come into God’s presence to inter- cede and lift up our church and other churches, its leaders other church leaders and our nations leaders, members and non- members and friends of Westminster and other churches. Church is not a place, it is a body. It is family, made one in Christ. Let’s join together in regularly and faithfully praying for God’s hand, presence, and work in each and every life. A postcard will be mailed to the person or family to notify them of their Sunday so if there are any special prayer needs that they may have and want to share with the church body, they may. We will continue signing a prayer card each Sunday, so don’t forget to stop by the table and write a personal message. The Great Rivers Presbyterian has also began asking that we remember to pray for our sister churches. Every week there will be two other churches listed below that we ask you to keep in your daily prayers. We have prayer cards on the table in the Narthex for these churches as well. They include a simple prayer for their Pastor, Elders, Deacons, and Members. If you would like a copy of these prayers to say each day just contact the office 309.673.8501 and we will get a copy to you.

PRAYING FOR GOD’S PEOPLE PRAYING FOR THE

(formerly known as PRESBYTERIAN COMMUNITY This Week’s Church Member) Every week other Presbyterian Therefore encourage one another Churches are praying for one another. and build up each other as indeed you are doing.” -1 Thess. 5:11 This week the Presbytery of Great Rivers has asked us to pray for the pastor, elders, deacons, We take special note today and this staff, and congregations of coming week to focus our prayers for CAROLE WILLADSEN First Federated Church of Clayton and lift her up in prayer. and Clinton Presbyterian Church of Clinton The prayers of God’s people are powerful and effective. “We do not cease to Please remember to sign the prayer give thanks for you as I remember cards in the Narthex to show our love, support, you in our prayers…” - Eph. 1:16 and prayer are with them.

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE

- For our homebound - Elizabeth Alt, Bruce and Janet Andrews, Juliet Babbitt, Hettie Beers, Marilyn Heubach, Marilyn Walker, Rosemary McCurdy, Tippy Short, and Jean Osterman..

- Prayers for Rev. Cuthill, his family, and all whose lives have been impacted by Carolyn..

- Prayers for Amy, daughter of Alice Nash, who has a rare form of leukemia, which is curable. Treatments will be at the University of Chicago medical center...

- For Kathy (Mary Lee’s Aunt), who broke her ankle and femur bone and is back in the hospital fighting cellulitis….

DO YOU NEED PRAYER? KNOW SOMEONE WHO DOES? You can fill out a prayer card located in the brochure holder in your pew and also in the Narthex in the literature holder on the wall. Prayer requests will run in the bulletin for four weeks. If you would like continued prayer, call the office and let them know. You may email your prayer requests to: [email protected] or contact Alice Nash, or call the church office at (309) 673-8501.

APRIL 5 - 10 AM APRIL 9 - 7 PM APRIL 10 - 12 PM Service will include palms and A service of Word and Sacrament A service of the reading of the special music offerings by the choir. remembering Christ’s Last Supper. Passion narrative with prayers, hymns, silence and organ music. A service Celebrating the Resurrection APRIL 12 - 10 AM with a special message of HOPE! 5 DID YOU KNOW? You may request a CD copy of most MARCH any service. Just contact the office and give the date and service time 15 which you’d like copied.

HEARING UNITS Hearing units that are integrated with our sound system are available. You may request a hearing unit from one of the ushers. After worship, you may leave the hearing unit in the pew.

LIVE BROADCAST If for any reason you need to exit the Sanctuary during worship, the service is broadcast in the Parlor.

WORSHIP BAGS We have these available for the children joining us in the Sanctuary are available in the Narthex. The bags contain items designed to engage children as we worship together. Please ask an usher for help.

CHILDCARE Childcare for infants and children is provided separately in the church nursery downstairs beyond the choir WESTMARK & PEORIA COUNTY FOOD CAN DRIVE room. A changing table is in the main Brown paper Can-A-Thon sacks and donation envelopes are floor restroom next to the elevator. available in the Narthex. Please return all bags to the church on or before Sunday, March 15. All of the food will be placed in EMERGENCY EXITS In case of emer- front of the pulpit and Pastor Denise will say a blessing over it. gency, please use one of four exits: 1) All food will be given to the WestMark Food Pantry. Suggested the exit in the front of the Sanctuary items are canned meats, fruits, vegetables, soup, stew, chili, near the piano, 2-3) the two exits in peanut butter, pasta, cereal, and box dinners. the rear of the Sanctuary, 4) the exit down the chancel staircase behind Monetary donations are also accepted. Special envelopes are the cross. hanging from the side of the stew pot in the Narthex.

Second Sunday - M a r c h 8 - 4 P M DAVID HOFFMAN AND FRIENDS