February 25
Westminster Blood Drive
9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Goodpasture Hall Severe winter weather and wildfires have forced thousands of blood donations to go uncollected. There is an emergency shortage of platelets and types O negative and B negative blood. Donors are needed—make your appointment TODAY!
For more info, or to make an appointment, please contact Kris Pardue.
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Tuesday-Friday
Westminster Café
8:00 a.m. - Noon
Come out of the cold and enjoy a cup of hot coffee and visit with friends.
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February 12
Musik Garten4:15 - 4:45 p.m. • 292Cost $75 for 12 weeks
Music and movement can have a dramatic effect on babies, toddlers, and older children. Some studies indicate that early music instruction positively impacts language and literacy development; others point to improved pattern recognition skills which are the basis for mathematical learning; still others reveal the social and emotional benefits of being involved in music. Given our long-standing reputation as the leader in the field of affordable early music education, Musikgarten can give your child a learning advantage for life.
Kelly Posey has been teaching music to preschoolers for over 23 years and is currently one of the music teachers at Westminster School for Young Children. She has been a certified MusikGarten teacher since 2007 and it is one of her biggest joys to be able to introduce the world of music to our youngest of God’s children.
Learn more about it here.
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Wednesdays in February
A Drop-In Chess/Puzzles/Games for Adults
4:30 - 5:30 p.m. • Westminster Café
Join us before Wednesday Night Dinner.
If interested, come on by! Use the Café door by the blue umbrella and ring the doorbell. Questions? Contact Beth@westminsterjoy.org.
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Wednesday, February 19
Wednesday Night Dinner
5:30 p.m. • Youth Cafe
Reservations for tonight are closed BUT next week we will have Martin's BBQ.
Sign up tomorrow on our website or on a pew pad on Sunday. Hope to see you there!
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February 12
Westminster Academy
6:30 p.m. | Overlook
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows.
Join Sue Tully Trout as she discusses this interesting novel by James McBride.
Buy a copy of the book here.
Meeting ID: 871 7422 8005
Passcode: 238331
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February 13
M.E. Moms
Westminster Café • Breakout Room 89
M.E. (Mary and Elizabeth) Moms is a space for moms with littles who could just use a moment: a moment to breathe, a moment to connect with other mamas, a moment to pray together, a moment to think about something other than that day’s long to-do list.
As an added bonus, we’ll do this with a few moms whose “littles” aren’t little anymore, moms who’ve said yes to being a voice of encouragement, perspective, and perhaps comedic relief with us along the way.
(Childcare for kids not yet in grade school is provided for those who need.)
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February 18
Theology on Tap
7:00 p.m. • Location TBD
For more info, please contact:
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February 23
TheoEd Nashville 4:30 p.m. • Woolworth Theater Westminster is co-sponsoring an exciting new speaker series hosted by West End Methodist and the Candler Foundry at Emory University. This unique initiative seeks to bring in-depth theological learning to churches and communities outside of seminary degree programs through TED-like, theologically focused talks. TheoEd Nashville features a lineup of four dynamic speakers:
- Josh Scott, has been a pastor for more than twenty years, and currently serves as the Lead Pastor at GracePointe Church in Nashville, TN.
- Julian Davis Reid, a jazz musician who writes about faith, music, Blackness, and rest
- Suzanne Stabile, an internationally recognized Enneagram teacher and author
- Lanecia Rouse, an artist-theologian who works at the intersection of creativity, beauty, and theology.
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February 25
Westminster Book Group
9:30 a.m. • Fellowship
10:00 a.m. • Presentation
Overlook Room
- ROOM CHANGE -
The Demon of Unrest
by Eric Lawson
Presented by Joe Gaines
Drawing on governmental records, diaries, communiques, and plantation records, Eric Lawson writes a political story that captures the intense feelings and built-up hostilities that led America into an unforeseen and unspeakable Civil War. The book covers events preceding Lincoln’s election in November 1860 to the April 14, 1861 Confederate firing on Fort Sumter in the Charleston Harbor.
Much has been written about the U.S. Civil War. It's in the details about people, places and actions that made the approach of war inexorable.
Buy a copy of the book here.
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February 28-March 1Life Together Conference
We were created to do life together. Our friendships, partnerships, families, churches, and communities flourish more fully when we choose to live them in deep relationship with God and one another.
This is the conviction behind the Life Together Conference.
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February 28
How To Human
A discussion with Carlos Whittaker
6:00 p.m. - Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
Cost $10
Carlos Whittaker, Best-Selling Author & Speaker
These feel like crazy times. We’re agitated, fighting, and wrestling with big issues. It can feel like we’re less connected than ever to one another and to God. It’s a perfect storm: debilitating anxiety, crashing relationships, and forgetting what it feels like to be human.
When it feels impossible to love our neighbor the way Christ commands, Carlos will help his audience shift from “me” to “we” to “everybody” in a three-part journey to be human, see fellow humans, and free those around us.
Your community will walk away feeling inspired to help others, hope fiercely, and experience the thrill of being fully human. Carlos uses scripture to guide his audience toward a radical path of love– one that requires us to become builders rather than demolitionists. One that gets personal. One that moves toward others in faith rather than away in fear.
Learn more about Carlos here.
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Saturday, March 1
Join us for all or part of the day. Cost for lunch is $10.
9:00 a.m. | Unplugging Childhood with Erin Loechner
10:30 a.m. | Follow Me with Adam DeVries
12:00 p.m. | Lunch Together ($10/person)
1:30 p.m. | Parenting Adult Children with Dr. Lauren Spooner
1:30 p.m. | Holy and Whole: Reclaiming the Goodness of Our Bodies with Jami Nato
Questions? Contact Ashley Higgins.
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March 2
Basketball Jamboree
4:30 - 7:30 p.m.
WPC Gym
Come join us for Westminster's Annual Basketball Jamboree.
This is a fun, intergenerational event, open to the entire congregation! We would love spectators, as well as teams of all ages
and abilities.
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March 13
Music Box Series
11:00 a.m. • Fellowship
11:15 a.m. • Program
12:00 p.m. • Lunch
We are taking the month of February off BUT back in March with the Hollerin' Hunnys. Who are the Hollerin' Hunnys? They are Westminster's own Hannah Boles, Anna Ketron, and Emily Zapata. They will sing a collection of songs from the Wailin' Jennys. Please click the video below to hear the Wailin' Jennys music. Contact Sherri Givens if you would like to make lunch reservations.
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| June 2-8
Music Camp
Registrations for Summer Music Camp are open! Rising 1st-6th graders are welcome to participate in the Staged Musical Play June 2-8, 2025. Throughout the week they work on singing, speaking lines, staging with costumes, choreography, arts & crafts, and Bible stories with a performance at the end. The registration link and more information can be found on the church website, with registrations open until February 1.
All children that would like a solo singing and/or speaking role must attend the Music Camp Audition Rehearsals (Sundays 4:00-4:50 p.m.): April 27, May 4, May 11 and May 18.
Music Camp Daily Schedule
Monday-Friday, June 2-6
8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 7 (Dress Rehearsal)
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Sunday, June 8
9:00 a.m. Warm-up
9:45 a.m. Performance
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