Westminster Presbyterian Church Centennial Books

Westminster, thank you for being faithful to God ’ s calling. Thank you for making an eternal impact on my life and many more like me. I promise... we ’ ll continue the legacy of faith!

Bill Whitt

And here is a great photo of the Dedication Luncheon for the Fellowship Hall. Note the original light fixtures and shuffle board on the floor. One wonders how the church ever got along without the Fellowship Hall. We use it for everything. Before then, they had the gymnasium upstairs. We ’ ve heard that the gym was sometimes used as a place of outreach. And we may have been the only church around that had a gymnasium.

But with a growing population of Baby Boomers, many growing churches needed more space. During this same year, 1957, our neighbor, Trinity Methodist Church also built an educational wing.

I have been so blessed to be part of a singing congregation here at Westminster, so blessed to have learned so many rich hymns that go down so deep and honest. I am grateful for the lives of fellow believers, many who have now passed on, who shared their distresses so openly, and who dared to believe God ’ s power might be perfected in weakness.

We see in this aerial photo, thanks to our own, Mr. Grubb, of course, the way that the three buildings merge together, and it ’ s interesting to see how the educational building is now the largest of the three. And now, the church has its first official parking lot! We have arrived. For the previous decades, very few people had cars, and if they drove to church, they parked on the street. Churches did not need to buy neighboring property and tear down houses to make room for parked cars.

Connie Bailey Kitts

But now, we do. You can see in the bottom of the photograph the many trees that were there across the street in what would eventually be our second parking lot.

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