Save the date, Sunday, September 7, to Discover Westminster! We’ll go back to two services at 9:00 and 11:00 a.m. that day.
The education hour at 10:00 will be lots of fun. You’ll get a chance to see what the Sunday school options are for all ages, discover what ministry teams are and what they do, learn more about upcoming events, express your interest in participating in activities, and much more. There will be special activities for kids, too.
Each ministry team will have a table set up in the Schilling Gallery or Fellowship Hall that tells everything you need to know about the many things we do at Westminster and beyond our walls. Did you know, for instance, that there is a weekly art group, Ladies’ Lunch Bunch, Men’s Breakfast Fellowship, Bible Lunch Theology, a prayer shawl ministry, congregational retreats and trips, many choirs, and a Take Back the Woods project? Did you also know we are about to celebrate our fiftieth anniversary? There are more than 50 ways to get involved at Westminster, and we want to tell you about all of them.
Regular Sunday school classes will begin September 14, but please join us on September 7 to share some fellowship time and Discover Westminster and all we have to offer!
I love teaching 3rd and 4th grade Sunday school. I find it is an age where children are beginning to have the ability to discuss topics and form their own opinions. I love watching children discover what the world looks like through their eyes.
Hello, my name is Debbie Babelay. This year I have the wonderful opportunity of teaching the 2-3 year olds in our Sunday School program. They are all precious to me. We have fun learning about God’s love and how each of us is a special child of God. I look forward to their smiling faces each Sunday morning. This is my 3rd year teaching in the Sunday School program. I have also worked with vacation bible school.
I have known Westminster my entire life! I grew up in the church since birth. My faith is rooted in so many wonderful experiences at Westminster such as going on trips with Choristers, Montreat, and a Mission experience to Mexico. I went to college in Alabama at Birmingham-Southern. After college, I lived in Birmingham where I worked in sales. I met and married my husband Wiley there. Jim Carter (former Westminster minister) married us at Independent Presbyterian in Birmingham. Wiley’s career has taken us to New Mexico and Arkansas, and now back to Knoxville. We have been here since 2011. We have 3 children, Ella (11), Grant (7), and Walker (5). I work as the Assistant Director of the preschool at Central Baptist which allows me to have a similar schedule to my children. My favorite job is being their Mom!
Bio: Junior at the University of Tennessee 
I am a senior at UTK majoring in Global Studies with a focus in Economics. I am currently in the process of apply to graduate school for CSP. I love to be outdoors and travel. I also work as an Resident Assistant at Volunteer Hall on campus and enjoy babysitting and baking.
My name is Malena D’Alessandro and I’m a junior studying marketing at the University of Tennessee. I’m originally from south east Michigan where I attended high school at Oxford High School. I am currently part of Spring Sports Ambassadors, Volunteer Team and Best Buddies at UT.