Westminster United Methodist Church

09/08/2026

Tomorrow Night. 🌊

Bring your own dinner and join us for a Dinner & Discussion night around Kay Kotan and Kelly Collins' book, Becoming the Church People Choose.

We'll watch short clips from a recorded webinar with Kay Kotan, then open it up for real conversation about what it means to be a church people don't just attend, but choose — relationships, discipleship, and leadership.

Haven't read the book? You don't need to. Just bring your appetite and your questions.

📍 Westminster UMC | 🕠 5:30 PM | Wednesday, September 9

This one's for everyone — however you found your way here.

(Quick note: dinner is bring-your-own — no potluck spread waiting on you, so pack what'll get you through the evening!)

09/06/2026

Today’s worship is up: Extraordinary Grace

We sat with the night before Israel walked free — a meal eaten standing up, ready to move, a whole household marked and carried out together. And we sat with Jesus’ answer to Peter’s question about limits on forgiveness: not seven times, but seventy-seven — because grace was never meant to have a finish line.

We came to the table not because everything’s resolved, but because coming is how the resolving keeps happening.

Watch today’s service here:

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09/04/2026

🍞 This Sunday: Extraordinary Grace
Before Israel walked free from Egypt, God gave them a meal — eaten standing, ready to move, a whole household marked and carried out together.
This Sunday we bring that meal to this one. We come to the Lord's Table remembering grace that doesn't run out — not after seven times, not after seventy-seven, not ever.
Come as you are. Come needing to forgive, or needing to be forgiven. There's room, and there's bread enough.
📍 Westminster UMC, Kinston
🕐 Sunday, September 6 at 10:00 AM — Holy Communion
💻 Or worship online anytime at WestminsterKinston.com

09/03/2026

The Westminster Weekly - September 3, 2026
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Email from Westminster United Methodist Church There's a meal in Exodus that changes everything — not because of what's on the table, but because of what it means to eat it. On the night before Israel

08/30/2026

🔥 Missed us this morning? Come stand on holy ground anytime. 🔥

This morning we sat with Moses — an ordinary man, on an ordinary Tuesday, tending sheep on ground he’d walked a hundred times before. And right there, in the middle of nothing special, God stopped him in his tracks: “The place on which you are standing is holy ground.”

Here’s what we’re still sitting with tonight: if that ground was holy, so is yours.

The desk you sat at this week. The dishes in your sink. The moon you almost didn’t stop to look at. God isn’t only found in sanctuaries and Sunday mornings — God is showing up in the whole ordinary shape of our lives, if we’re paying attention enough to notice.

Wherever you are tonight, we’d love for you to join us. Worship is online anytime — no need to wait for next Sunday.

▶️ Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/live/1snYZm0O91A?si=ewOnwq6X4fH3T0X0

Come as you are, right where you are. It might be holier than you think. 🌿

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08/29/2026

Westminster on Wednesday Returns This Fall!

Come to the table. Pull up a chair, break bread with your church family, and let's talk about the things that matter most.

Westminster on Wednesday is back for three evenings this fall! September 16, October 21, and December 2. Dinner starts at 5:30, with our program running 6:00–7:00. It's a gathering for all ages, because the questions we're wrestling with this year touch every generation in the family.

This fall we're continuing our year-long work of preparing our families for the care and decisions that come at the end of life - probate, estate planning, and the practical steps that can ease a hard season for the ones we love. It's holy, practical work. As Wesley reminded us, our faith isn't meant to stay in our heads, it's meant to shape how we watch over one another in love, right down to the paperwork nobody wants to think about until they have to.

Our first evening is Wednesday, September 16. Come hungry, come curious, and bring the people you love, this is work best done together, across generations, not alone.
We'll see you at the table.

Register here - https://onrealm.org/WestminsterUnit/PublicRegistrations/Event?linkString=ZDNlMTI4N2QtNGIyMi00YjJkLThkNTUtYjRiMzAxMDM3NjQ0

08/28/2026

🔥 This Sunday: the bush that wouldn't burn up 🔥
Moses was just doing his job — same sheep, same ground, same ordinary day — when a fire stopped him in his tracks. It didn't burn out. And when he turned aside to look, God called him by name.
"The place where you are standing is holy ground."
This week we're asking: what fire have we been walking past? What ordinary ground are we standing on right now that might be holier than we think?
We're trying something new in worship this Sunday — a hands-on responsive reading built on three simple words: show up, pay attention, release. No choreography, no moving from your seat — just a chance to actually practice paying attention, together.
Come turn aside with us. 👣
📍 Westminster UMC, Kinston
🕐 Sunday, August 30 at 10:00 AM
💻 Or online anytime at WestminsterKinston.com

08/27/2026

The Westminster Weekly - August 27, 2026

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Email from Westminster United Methodist Church Moses had walked that stretch of wilderness a hundred times before. Same sheep. Same ground. Same ordinary morning as the one before it, and the one befo

08/23/2026

That’s what a midwife does. Not create the life, but protect it, nurture it, and help it come out into the light.

Today we asked: who did that for you? A teacher, a coach, a choir director, a grandparent? And who are you doing that for — right now, this school year?

If you missed worship this morning, or want to watch again, it’s here:
👉 https://www.youtube.com/live/CdouNWqcCUs?si=KfFcbh2ATA8GxR1D

Grace and peace to every student, teacher, and family starting something new this week.

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08/23/2026

It’s back to school blessing time! Thanks to the creative and faithful Blair Hamilton for preparing the blessing table in the sanctuary. Students have blessing tags for their book bags and teachers have a gift as well. While today is a token of appreciation, prayers surround you all as Grace burst forth in your lives.