West Presbyterian Church

A Welcoming Community of Christians
in Wilmington, Delaware

 West Church In Mission...

A hallmark of West Church's life is reaching out beyond our congregation to care for persons in need, and joining in partnership with others in the struggle for justice and peace.  Some examples of the ministries that we support with our time, skills, prayers, and financial resources:

• Saturday Breakfast Club:  Each Saturday morning we provide a hot breakfast of pancakes and sausage for homeless and hungry people.  This ministry is a joint project  of West Church and Westminster Presbyterian Church
• Winter Sunday Afternoon Hospitality: On Sunday afternoons during the winter months we open our Fellowship Hall so that people who do not have a warm place to be, can find warmth, safety, conversation and coffee.  This ministry is a joint project of West Church, Friendship House, and Concord Presbyterian Church
• Prayer Shawls are knitted by members and friends of our congregation, dedicated during our Service of Wholeness and given to people who need comfort as a sign of God's love and our care.
• Meeting Ground, a faith-based response to homelessness, providing emergency and transitional housing that protects and empowers.
• Friendship House, which provides an array of services for homeless men and women in Wilmington, including crisis assistance and emergency and transitional housing.  Among the specific Friendship House ministries we support include the Clothing Bank of Delaware and the Criswell House transitional shelter for men.
• The F.A.I.T.H. Center, which provides emergency assistance to families and individuals in crisis.
• Career Insights for Teens is a vocational counseling program for high school juniors and seniors that was developed by West Presbyterian Church.
• Connections CSP, which provides mental health counseling, housing, drug/alcohol treatment and vocational services to persons throughout Delaware.
• Ice Cream on 8th Street, a periodic opportunity to become acquainted with our neighbors by sharing ice cream on the sidewalk beside the church.
• Rodney Street Tennis & Tutoring Association, which provides tutoring in space at West Church.
• West Center City Seekers, an afterschool program for children in West Center City.
• AIDS Delaware which provides services to persons with AIDS.
• Interfaith Community Housing which builds affordable housing in our community and throughout the state.
• Interfaith Community Housing which develops affordable housing and provides housing counseling.
• Interfaith Coalition Building Blocks for Wilmington which is seeking to has been evolving a comprehensive set of strategies to develop and sustain a caring community of integrated individuals and institutions to reduce violence, restore hope, and instill a more holistic and spirit lifting approach to addressing concerns and opportunities in our neighborhoods and communities.
• West Church generously supports the work of New Castle Presbytery, the Synod of the Mid Atlantic, and the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) through gifts of money and by our participation in committees.  We also provide financial support for Presbyterian Disaster Assistance.
• Members of our congregation serve on the Boards of a number of non-profits in our community including Connections CSP, West Center City Seekers, Meeting Ground, Friendship House, FAITH Center, Interfaith Community Housing.  Members of our congregation have also been involved in efforts to rebuild the Gulf Coast, working through an organization called RHINO.

 

12/2007