Start Out So That You Can Hold Out

Dear Members & Friends of West Raleigh,

My father is a retired physician. He retired in the fall of 2018 after practicing internal medicine for 35 years. He also served as the Medical Director of Hospice of West Alabama for 36 years. He has decades of experience talking to patients and their families about matters of life and death, talking them through necessary lifestyle changes and sitting with them faithfully when grief overwhelms.

Critical Care

Dear Members & Friends of West Raleigh,

Since last Thursday we pivoted from being a church that depends on gathering, in-person and as a Body to a virtual reality for worship, Sunday School, gatherings and meetings. Instead of being full of people, the Sanctuary is full of cameras and chords. Instead of the monthly Deacons meeting, the Session and Diaconate held a joint meeting by Zoom on Tuesday night. The only people in the church this week have been staff and 2-3 volunteers keeping the feeding ministry going. It has been a strange and surreal kind of week as we find our way forward, but we are doing it.