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The 8:30am Worship Service
This 40-minute chapel service offers organ prelude and postlude, opening and closing hymns, scripture, sermon, prayer, and special music by soloists or the choir. Some families find this service to be better suited to a younger child’s attention span. Often quieter and more contemplative, this service offers a sense of intimacy found in a smaller congregation.

The Education Hour
Children’s Church School, Adult Education classes and the Social Justice Forum meet from 9:15-10:15am each Sunday. The location for each class is available on bulletin boards and at the reception desk.

The 9:30am Chapel Prayer and Communion Service
This brief service of communion and prayer is held in the chapel and led by Presbyterian ministers associated with Westminster.

The 10:30am Worship Service
The 10:30am traditional service in the sanctuary is the largest weekly gathering of Westminster, and makes clear the central fact of Westminster’s life: the living God made known in the person of Jesus Christ. Dignity and joy, warmth and beauty are its hallmarks, steeped in a rich Westminster tradition that engages the heart and mind through scripture and sermon, prayer, the best in organ and choral sacred music and profound silence. We celebrate the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper on the first Sunday of the month.

Children’s Church
Children are welcome in worship at Westminster. With parental permission, younger children may be excused during the 10:30am worship service to go to Children’s Church, where where they learn about the joy of worship. Under the direction of the Director of Children’s Ministries and occasionally one of the pastors, children are guided to discover the deeper meaning of what we do in worship.

Communion
The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper sustains and nourishes the faith community in the baptismal journey. We practice an open communion in the Presbyterian Church (USA). All baptized believers are welcome at the table. Communion is celebrated on the first Sunday of every month at both services  and every Sunday at the 9:30am Chapel service.

Celtic Worship Service
A contemplative Celtic worship service is held the second Thursday of each month in the Westminster Chapel at 7:00pm. The service is designed to return us to the central Celtic celebration of the Gospel message that worship is all that we are and all that we do. In our search for wholeness, our work and our worship are one. Music of the Celtic harp and other traditional instruments underscore a worship that comes from the heart of who we are and whose we are.

Quiet Worship Service
Quiet Worship is a time set aside each month (normally on the fourth Saturday, at 9:00 a.m.) to gather in Westminster’s Chapel, in a calm and intimate setting around the lighted Christ Candle, the open Bible, and the Cross. It is a time for quiet music, for Scripture, for prayer and for silence. It is a time to be together, resting quietly in God’s presence and love.
Many who are deeply committed to a life of service have found that their journey out into the business of the world is enriched and strengthened when they take time for the journey in, for prayer or quiet music or silence. Many have also found that contemplative worship must be experienced to be known.
Consider beginning your weekend…by intentionally taking time for yourself, time for quiet worship, for sung prayers and Scripture and deep silence in a special setting. Read more about Quiet Worship.

Daily Phone Devotional
Westminster clergy offer a daily devotional phone message based on Bible readings listed in the Westminster news and the bulletin. Call 612.332.7087 to listen to the daily devotional.

Tapes
Tapes of Sunday worship services are available for $3. Contact the church office at 612.332.3421 or by email for more information. You can also listen to past worship services online.

Memorial Services and Funerals

Memorial services and funerals can be scheduled for either the Chapel or Sanctuary by calling one of the clergy, Claudia Kapitan, or Sharon Cooper at 612.332.3421. We will be glad to help you arrange a reception following the service.