Westminster Family,
We have been blown away by our congregation this past week.
Not surprisingly:
• we have had a huge response with members offering services: meal services, spaces to sleep/work/laundry/etc., as well as countless folks offering to help with cleanup.
• thanks to the help of our youth interns, numerous homes can access their driveways because of ice and brush removal.
• volunteers have provided meals to eight families and will continue to do so through Meal Trains as long as people need them.
• Westminster Home Connection is busy helping members assess heating and roof damage in order to either repair, mitigate damage, and/or provide recommendations for repair. (See below for available help for our congregation.)
• Fran Linley has gathered the donated supplies from the church to deliver to the Hispanic Family Foundation.
A continued thank you to Fran Linley, Claire Harris Kramer, and the growing numbers of volunteers who are leading the charge with these volunteering efforts.
NEEDS
1. If you or someone you know of in our congregation have a storm recovery need that we can help with, please CLICK HERE to let us know.
2. Westminster Home Connection
If Westminster church members need help assessing storm damage issues, please reach out to a pastor or Fran at fran.linley@gmail.com so that we can contact Westminster Home Connection directly to help. Westminster Home Connection has six full-time construction employees and can deploy three construction teams at a time. This is a huge gift to our congregation. (Westminster Home Connection is working with Nashville VOAD to help with plumbing repair request needs all throughout the city. It is such a gift that they have offered their broader services to the WPC community and those within the concern of the church.)
3. After Storm FAQ's
Download info here for helpful information on how to navigate storm related repairs and needs.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
1. Hands On Nashville Service Opportunities
We continue to monitor storm-related service opportunities through the Hands On Nashville website. You are invited to join us Friday at Nueva Vida's food bank. CLICK HERE to sign up. E-mail Fran at fran.linley@gmail.com to let her know to look for you.
2. Feeding our Security Staff and Sextons
We have a team of volunteers in place to provide daily meals to Braxton and Nicholas who are providing a 24-hour watch of the church in addition to the sextons and workers working during the day. We are SO grateful for their work. If you would like to be involved in meal delivery, please email Claire at claire.k.harris@gmail.com. (At this time all meals are spoken for, but we may have more need next week.)
3. Room In The Inn Donations
This week we are collecting donations for Room In The Inn. You can drop off any of the following in the bins under the North Entrance portico at WPC:
Winter Coats (especially size XL and up)
Cough drops
Multivitamins
Cold medicine
Additionally, Room In The Inn has an AMAZON LIST of items they are needing. Items purchased from this list will be shipped directly to Room In The Inn.
4. Donations Drive Sunday Morning
We hope you'll join us for worship this Sunday, February 8 at 8:30 a.m., at Vine Street Christian Church, 4101 West End Avenue. We will be collecting items for St. Luke's Community House, 5601 New York Ave, Nashville, TN 37209, on Sunday morning from 10:00 - 11:30 a.m., and invite you to bring any of the following:
Canned goods
Peanut butter
Cereal (anything shelf stable)
Laundry detergent
Soap
Toothpaste
Deodorant
With so much gratitude for all of you,
The WPC Ministry Staff
