About the Music:
The 2026 Bach festival begins with an organ concert featuring a variety of organists playing the music of Bach and his contemporaries on Westminster’s 1989 tracker-action Visser-Roland organ. The organ was designed by Pieter Visser, a native of Holland, who learned the art of organ building in his homeland before settling in the United States.

“As a newcomer to Westminster, I’ve found it to be a most welcoming fellowship. I look forward to going to services and events and find the warmth of the congregation to be most helpful to a newcomer to the entire area. I find sermons challenging … music beautiful and well prepared … and a dignity in the worship that is all too lacking in most Protestant congregations. Mix this with an open atmosphere where it is OK to question and still be seen as a good Christian, and I know I’ve found one important ‘home’ in Central Illinois.”