Dear Friends, Grace and peace be with you! We hope your summer has been wonderful. As we move into our last days of August, we wanted to share some Westminster News with you. In this newsletter, you will find an update from the Westminster Reopening Task Group, as well as other plans and activities happening in our church community.

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Upcoming Worship Services

• Sunday March 29, 2020, at 10:30 am
  Congregational Annual Meeting, during worship service
• Sunday April 5, 2020, at 10:30 am
  Palm Sunday Service, with Procession of Palms
• Thursday April 9, 2020, at 7:00 pm
  Maundy Thursday Service, with communion
• Friday April 10, 2020, at 10:30 am
  Good Friday Service
• Sunday April 12, 2020, at 10:30 am
  Easter Service, with communion, and special guests: Brass 5

Please keep the congregation and staff of  Strathclair United Church in your thoughts and prayers this week.

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Random Notes

• The Annual General Meeting of Westminster United Church will be held, Sunday, March 29th, 2020 during the morning worship service.
• Please keep the congregation and staff of Dugald United Church in your thoughts and prayers this week.

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Lord, let me be an instrument of your peace

Piano keys, acrylic, St Francis of Assissi prayer on plywood board, by Robert Burton 2020

Rev Burton reflects: “I have been a recipient of Friar Richard Rohr’s meditations on his website for several years. In his meditation for February 2, 2020 he reviews, in part, St Francis of Assissi’s rule of life to simply “live the gospel.” Within that context I have used his famous prayer to give some direction to that living midst its pain, confusion and disorder.

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