June 18-22 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM
This year’s theme is AMPED - Living Fully Alive. Get ready for your KiDS to get supercharged for Christ in the best week EVER! Pre-register NOW for KiDS 4 years through 5th grade. Please register by April 29 if you want to purchase a KiDSGiG t-shirt for $8.
Last year, Westsiders brought over 1 ton of food. This year, we want to bring 2 tons of food to fill local food banks in Leavenworth & Lansing.
Bring as many of the following items when you join us on Easter:
March 31: 5:00 & 6:30pm
April 1: 8:15, 9:30, & 11:00am
KiDS services for ages 6 weeks to 5th grade.
Visiting us on Easter? Register your child for check-in here.
Join us on our FIRST Global Impact Trip at WFCLV! Our mission on this trip will be to serve orphans and at-risk children and partner with Jeremiah's Hope in Kolentsi, Ukraine.
This trip will cost around 1500 dollars total. Exact prices will be determined once the team is established. A non-refundable $500 deposit is required with this application and will apply to the total trip cost.
Please fill out the form below and submit by March 21st, 2018. Your $500 deposit, as well as all other payments, can be made online, by cash or by check. Please make sure that you select one of the payment options at the end of the form. Once selected you can choose to pay online or later by cash or check.
If you have additional questions before you register contact Caleb Klinger @ cklinger@westsideleavenworth.com or 9135650704
I am excited to introduce you to our new KiDS Grade School Director, Trina Knight! Trina will be leading our KiDS ministry to your KiDS in 1st through 5th Grades.
First, and foremost, Trina would want you to know that she unashamedly LOVES JESUS! She, and her amazing husband, Nick, have five super cool kiddos: Abram, Jonah, Bo, Zec, and Josephine. As you can see, family is a big deal for her.
She has been leading in children's ministries since 2002. Her passion is to glorify God by teaching KiDS how to discover Jesus through scripture and encouraging them to trust in and follow Him. She has a background in Early Childhood Education with many experiences in administration, coaching girl’s sports, and she has lead a Bible Study Fellowship since 2013.
Trina's favorite things are hearts, pearls, popped collars and grace. She aspires to be the Proverbs 31 woman. She has run two half marathons—and she adds "at a moderate pace." She loves people, Jesus, and laughing! In her free time, she'll clean their house, read, play in the backyard and attend bible studies.
If you would like to join us in building strong families by serving twice a month, or more, in our KiDS ministry, please let us know here.
We are excited to introduce you to our new Early Childhood Director, Rebecca Ruble! She will be overseeing our KiDS ministry to KiDS in Kindergarten and under. Her passion for building strong families led her to get her bachelor’s degree in Social Work from Park University. She is also a Registered Behavior Technician. Her educational background and her passion for Jesus will be influential in equipping and inspiring parents to lead in a KiDS classroom.
Rebecca and her husband, Milt, have been members of Westside Family Church since 2011. Before joining our efforts to launch Westside Leavenworth in January 2016, her family attended the Westside Family Church Speedway Campus.
Rebecca and Milt have two adult children, Emily and Isaac, and in June 2016 they adopted Jacob—who had been in their home since May 2014.
Rebecca enjoys reading, working out, and eating healthy.
I know you will enjoy getting to know her more and that you will be greatly encouraged and blessed as she leads us in building stronger families.
Please feel free to contact Rebecca at rruble@westsideleavenworth.com.
This plan takes you on a journey through all four Gospels in ninety days. Each book includes videos specifically designed to enhance your understanding and engagement with God's Word.
Join many Westsiders in reading the Bible through each year. This plan has a wonderful devotion written by Nicky Gumbel (the founder of Alpha).
Let your daily dose of Scripture impact your life!
We begin a new series next week called, "Not A Storybook Christmas." We'd like for you and your family to celebrate the coming of Jesus by joining us in a Bible Devotional plan hosted by Youversion, the makers of the Bible App and bible.com.
The reading plan includes questions to engage young children, too.
"The birth of Christ, His advent, marks God's ultimate plan for our redemption. In Christ, we see the fullest picture of God's hope, peace, joy and love. God's Word is the truth by which we know and walk with Him daily. It is our hope that this guide will encourage and facilitate personal time spent in the Word and provide a resource for families with children to do that together." (Plan Description created by 121 Church)
Another tradition to celebrate the coming of Jesus (advent) is to light a candle on each Sunday, beginning Dec 3. You can do this with your family or by yourself.
5 Candles are needed.
Week 1 - Hope
Week 2 - Peace
Week 3 - Joy
Week 4 - Love
Christmas Day - Jesus
Each week, the Bible Devotional Plan will look at each aspect Jesus brings when He came to be with us and be one of us.
We are grateful for all who model generosity with their time and finances. We believe generosity flows out of our gratitude.
Every Thanksgiving weekend, we want to bring the best gift, above our regular giving, as a response of gratitude for Jesus' gift of salvation and provision for us.
For some, this year has been a season of abundance. We ask you to prayerfully consider what is your gift of gratitude.
For others, this year has been a season of scarcity. We ask you to prayerfully consider what is your gift of gratitude for God continuing to meet your daily needs.
6 Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. 7 Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. 2 Corinthians 9:6–8 (NIV)
This year we will take everything given, whether online or in the service, on November 26 and give it away to our community.
We can't wait to see how God makes an impact through our obedient and grateful generosity.
In order to keep safety a priority, we want to reduce some of the congestion in our main hallway during our service transitions. Please feel free to use two exits after picking up your child.
The first exit is located directly across the bathrooms in the hallway. This will give you access to the East and North parking.
The second exit is located on the North part of The Landing (where our grade schoolers meet).
Please give your Secure Pick Up tag to your child's leader and you can take your children out the best exit for you.
Thank you for making WFC a fun and safe place for families!
We are grateful God is using our church community to impact more families. This means our in KiDS areas are growing!
We will be changing rooms in our Early Childhood Ministry to accommodate the influx of children. These changes will occur this Sunday, October 29.
When you check-in your child, the tags will reflect these new changes.
Our Justice Awareness Meeting is tonight, Oct 16, at 6:00pm in the Loft.
Our Sunday digital signage has posted the incorrect time of 6:30pm and we wanted to correct that mistake by informing you!
This is open to any with interest.
WSM invites all the parents of our students to join us for a Sunday service in the Loft Sept 24th
We want to give you a chance to see what WSM is all about!
Join us in worship with our student worship band, meet the volunteers who are leading small groups and discussions, who are investing in students and equipping them for the future.
Get signed up for email updates and connect with our various social media platforms to ensure you know EXACTLY what WSM is up to this year!
“The decisions we make today determine the stories we tell about our lives tomorrow.”
Students in 6th-12th grade, come join us as we discover how the decisions we make today impact our futures and how even the small decisions can have a lasting impact.
We will have children’s classes for Kindergarten and younger during all three services on September 3. Our grade school aged kids (1st grade through 12th grade) will be joining us in the Community Room.
Please come by Westside Family Church on Saturday, July 8th to give blood! All blood stays in our Kansas City area to save lives here. The blood drive will be in "The Landing" from 10 AM until 2 PM. Walk-ins and first time donors are welcome!
We are taking hygiene packs over to our One Life sponsored children in Wells Estate, South Africa on our WFC trip in July. You can make a meaningful impact by purchasing as many of the following and bringing them with you when you attend our services on June 18 & June 25.
Our One Life kids are underprivileged children who are orphaned or practically orphaned because their parents cannot care for their basic needs. One Life is a non-profit organization who Westside has supported since it's inception. We are grateful for their heart and vision for the children in South Africa, Thailand, Laos, & India. You can read more about them here.
Join us this Saturday in the west parking lot @ Westside Family Church in Leavenworth!
Open to all MS and HS students!
More info -
@caleb klinger 913-683-0274 cklinger@westsideleavenworth.com
@jennifer miller 785-221-7689
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