Consider serving in Loaves & Fishes Outreach! Able-bodied helpers with a Van or SUV are needed to pick-up food donations from a nearby grocery store once a month on Sunday mornings. Please contact Ed or Sally (838-3131).
Loaves & Fishes Ministry
Our main local mission is Loaves & Fishes Ministry, cooking for the homeless at the Baptist run City Rescue Mission in Hammond, Indiana. Westminster coordinates over 25 various churches and organizations to make sure the men at the shelter have lunch and dinner every day. Westminster's teams prepare and deliver at least 1200 meals each month.
HELP NEEDED:
Substitute cooks and drivers are needed when our “regular” volunteers are vacationing or ill. If you would be available on short notice or if you’d like
to serve Christ in a regularly scheduled way, please contact Ed Harrison (730-3055) or Bunny Schlotman (922-6315).
Heart for Africa
We are working with Heart for Africa to help educate and feed AIDS orphans in Swaziland Africa. Since Christmas we have made over 800 hats for these children to be given at a grand celebration in July.
Doctors without Borders, the International Red Cross, Yele Foundation and the World Food Program
One of our church members is from Haiti with family living in Port a Prince, so an immediate response for money and goods brought in over $47,000 which was donated to Doctors without Borders, the International Red Cross, Yele Foundation and the World Food Program. We have been very supportive of the relief efforts.
Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity works in partnership with God and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with people in need by building and renovating houses so that there are decent houses in decent communities in which every person can experience God’s love and can live and grow into all that God intends.
Knitting Group
Greater Hammond Community Service
To lead our community in providing the basic needs of those elderly and poor people for a more fulfilling life. Provide those services in a fiscally responsible manner to do the greatest good with the funds available.
OUR GOAL: Alleviate the dependency of the poor and elderly on Charity and aid the families of those who are in need of assistance.
New Opportunities for Romanian Orphaned Children
At the present time, our congregation is corresponding with the Rev. Mary Ferris in Romania. One of the youth on our Mission Team is an adopted orphan from Siberia- thus our response to New Opportunities for Romanian Orphaned Children and Mary Ferris' ministry in Romania. At present, we have not sent money, but have chosen to pursue a relationship with her as Westminster's adopted mission co-worker. I participated in our presbytery's Mission Co Worker presentations while serving on our presbytery (Wabash Valley) Council. We hope to build on this relationship.
