Westminster Presbyterian is very involved in serving our community both locally and worldwide.  Here are many of the missions we are involved in....

CAMPER PROGRAM -- This Westminster Doorstep Mission provides space in our parking lot with utility hook ups as temporary housing to families with children for up to three months while they look for permanent homes.  While there, the families may receive referral services, advocacy, help with budgeting, job assistance and training from First Place.  They may also receive some of the essential household items needed to set up their own homes.  

SPECIAL NEEDS DRIVE --  This is an annual event promoted by the Mission Commission in January  to collect items needed by the various Doorstep Missions in their service to the community.  Over a one-week period, Congregation members bring food, clothing, household items, personal grooming items, linen, bedding, etc.  These items are sorted according to the needs of the Doorstep Missions, then delivered to the appropriate groups.

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Mission Statement

Our mission is to educate, advocate, and inspire our congregation and our community to be faithful to the biblical call to care for creation in our homes, our church, and our world.

Our long-term goals are to help Westminster minimize its resource use, reduce its waste production, and renew the environment God has given us all as individuals and in community with others.

Thank you for your continued participation in our "Alternative Transportation to Church" campaign.  We encourage you to continue walking, biking, carpooling, or using public transit to achieve lower emissions for a healthier world.

 

"Westminster Presbyterian Church was certified as an Earth Care Congregation by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)'s Environmental Ministries on May 13, 2011. This honor speaks to the great commitment that Westminster Presbyterian Church has to caring for God’s earth.  To become an Earth Care Congregation, Westminster Presbyterian Church affirmed the Earth Care Pledge to integrate environmental practices and thinking into all facets of its church life and completed projects and activities in the fields of worship, education, facilities, and outreach. The Earth Care Congregation certification is designed to recognize churches that make the commitment to take seriously God’s charge to “till and keep” the garden.

 

Troop 175's origins began in 1950, chartered by Washington Elementary School.  On December 1974, the Washington Elementary School charter lapsed.  

Desiring to charter a Boy Scout Troop for the Westminster Presbyterian Church, Reverend Charles Willming (pastor: 1969-1987) seized the opportunity to charter Troop 175 for Westminster Presbyterian Church on January 1975.  The original transitional Scoutmaster for Troop 175 was a scout leader from the University of Oregon.

Thomas "Doc" Macready graduated from dentistry school in Portland, Oregon in June 1974. Doc ventured to establish a dental practice in Portland, but as fate would have it, Doc found better dental-practice opportunities in Eugene.  Yearning for active involvement in scouting, Doc articulated his desire to be a Scoutmaster with the local Boy Scout Council.

Read more: About Troop 175