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​​​   Come Worship with Us...   



Sundays at 11:00 a.m.
Worship Service and Church School
    Coffee Hour after Worship
in Bodge Lounge
All are Welcome! 

Celebrating over 100 Years since the formation of the  
  West Center Sunday School
 and the start of West Center Church as we know it today.

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Click here for  Sunday's Worship Bulletin


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The Rev. Erv Graves, preaching.

Arnold Ostlund, our Music Director, will lead the choir.
This is the last Sunday the Chancel Choir will sing for the season.  We thank them for their music this past year. 
The fine singers are Russell Ashley, Jo-Ann Dierks, Amanda Moore,
Andrea Nwoke, Robyn O’Brien, Roger Ohlsen, and Susie Reisinger.

Fellowship hour follows worship.

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​​Feed Your Spirit

Your spirit needs to be fed on a daily basis with devotionals, prayer, and even laughter.
Nourish your soul

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From Pastor Erv ~

                                                May 2019
            Mother’s Day.  For most this is a happy day, but for some it can be painful for a variety of reasons.
            First, not all women are biological mothers, because neither want to be, or can’t be.  Second, motherhood and being a mother is complicated.  Mothers, like  everyone else, are human resulting sometimes in abandoning, abusing or neglecting their children.
            Mothers (and fathers) pass on patterns of relating to others that are both healthy and unhealthy.   Some of us yearn for closeness or honesty, or feel controlled or stifled in family relationships that just aren’t perfect.  Families are sometimes hard, so Mother’s Day can be hard.  It can also be a challenge for grieving mothers who are separated by distance, death, deployment or other reasons.  And then there are the refugee mothers, and mothers in war torn areas of this globe, living in terror as they try to protect their children.
            Mother’s Day is especially hard on poor women, who want to give their children the best life possible.  Those women try so hard to make ends meet, often working in multiple low-wage jobs which keep them away from their children, as they face the burdens of child care and medical expenses.  So yes, Mother’s Day can be a bitter sweet day – a day of happiness and celebration for many, who are grateful for those who mothered them, and for those who have felt proud to have mothered young ones in their lives, but hard for others. 
            No matter what our lot is in life, I believe that God calls us all – female and male, younger and older – to provide caring, nurturing and “mothering”. One example I give is of an individual who believed this and became the Mother to the world.  You know her as Mother Teresa of Calcutta, born in 1910 and  became a nun at eighteen moving to Ireland then to India where she lived most of her life.
            This year, let us give thanks to God for those who have mothered us throughout our lives, and those like Mother Teresa, who selflessly mothered so many others who were unable or not fortunate enough to have that gift within their own family context.  A few famous quotes…
            If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
            Yesterday is gone.  Tomorrow has not yet come.  We have only today
            Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
 
                                                 Happy Mother’s Day!
                                                             Pastor Erv
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