CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF GOD’S FAITHFULNESS 1995–2015 Continuing the journey with impact here, near and far
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF GOD’S FAITHFULNESS 1995–2015
WE WILL TELL
THE NEXT GENERATION THE PRAISEWORTHY
DEEDS OF THE LORD
HIS POWER, AND THE WONDERS
HE HAS DONE. Psalm 78:4 2
A MIRACULOUS BEGINNING
Pastor Joel, welcoming guests at first service
Westwood Community Church has been a bright light shining God’s love in the southwestern suburbs of Minneapolis since Easter of 1995. Pastor Joel Johnson, who was the outreach pastor at Wooddale Church in Eden Prairie, had twice turned down the invitation to pastor their third church plant, an effort to reach into the nearby community of Chanhassen. As he and his wife Keri explored the rapidly growing community, they noted the fast growing population but saw few churches. Ultimately it was the desire of his heart to reach people with the love of Jesus Christ that motivated Joel to embark on the adventure of starting a new church in an area that had historically proven challenging for church plants. A core group of 90 was supported by “The Mighty 12,” a dozen men and women who prayed faithfully and even daily for the new church. Services were held at the Chanhassen Dinner Theater, a friendly location for those who didn’t attend church. With tremendous passion and commitment, the core group organized into ministry teams to ensure that guests were
First rented office
Teaching kids at Chanhassen Dinner Theater
greeted warmly, children were spiritually nurtured, and worshipers would experience God. With a guest center set up by the bar and banquet rooms converted to children’s areas, nearly 900 people attended that first Easter Sunday. The unique vision of Westwood Community Church came from the Abrahamic Covenant—God’s promise to bless Abraham and his descendants and, through them, to bless the world. People were encouraged to receive the blessings that God wants to give us and, in turn, to give those blessings away to others. Word spread about the new church and visitors came, many revitalizing their faith or beginning new relationships with God. By late in 1997, additional space was needed. With large facilities hard to come by, the new Chaska High School was literally a God-send, providing plenty of room for children, for worshipers, and areas for connection.
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YEARS OF GROWTH AND CHANGE
Worship at “Imagine a Place” banquet
Bill Hybels at “A Time to Build” gathering
From the beginning, Westwood reached beyond our doors, supporting missionaries and outreach projects. When Hurricane Mitch devastated Honduras in 1998, Westwood rallied to provide emergency relief, beginning a decade-long ministry to the people of the mountain village of Santa Cruz. Hearts in both communities were blessed as together we rebuilt lives and a village. Westwood also spear-headed a collaborative effort to pipe clean water from the mountains into Santa Cruz. The church began to “imagine a place” where we could have a home campus in order that ministry could take place seven days a week. Five parcels of land were considered for Westwood’s home, but none met the desired criteria. An inquiry was made about expansive property just north of Highway 5 and west of Highway 41. “Not available” was the answer as the owner planned to build executive homes on the 57-acre site. Sometime later he agreed to meet with Pastor Joel and Westwood leaders again to at least hear the vision for the young church. Over lunch at “Antiquity Rose” in Excelsior, Joel shared Westwood’s vision for a church that reaches people and serves the local
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Praying on new property
communities as well as blessing people around the world with the good news of Jesus Christ. The man leaned back in his chair and said, “Joel, if you promise to build that church on my property I will sell it to you, and at a below-market price.” Several years of dreaming, planning, raising money, and praying followed. In the fall of 1999, hundreds of congregation members gathered on the undeveloped property for a prayer service, asking God to bless the ministry that would occur on their new home campus. A facility was envisioned that blended with the natural surroundings, architecture that was “welcoming and good for the soul,” a reflection of God’s creativity and beauty, that would testify to the permanence of His church.
AT LONG LAST A HOME!
Construction site tour, prior to baptism service
Honduras water project
The first phase building, with a 1,000-seat worship center, education space, kitchen and offices, opened in July of 2003, first with a prayer service, then Sunday services. Excited to now have our own space, we opened it to the community by offering a preschool and hosting funerals that were too large for other churches. Rapid growth followed the opening of the home campus and soon it was time to pause to give glory to God for 10 years of faithfulness and provision. Westwood celebrated by launching Emmaus Road Church to reach into the Hopkins area with the love of Christ. A core group of 75 joined Pastor Craig Case as Emmaus opened for services on Easter Sunday, 2005. Bursting at the seams with limited space for students, the congregation, in 2008, elected to build a second building. Due to the downturn in the economy, two floors were built but only the lower level student space was completed. With the larger space opening in the fall of 2010, student ministry immediately grew by 30%.
Westbrook core group, 2011
In 2011, Westwood launched Westbrook Community Church in Chaska with Pastor Kevin Sharpe as senior pastor, with the aim of reaching people in the rapidly growing Highway 212 corridor to the southwest. In 2014, needing to expand our Sunday morning capacity by completing the remainder of the shelled-in building, the congregation was challenged to a generosity surge that would allow us to complete the building by Easter without incurring additional debt. The response was unlike anything Westwood has experienced in our 20-year history and the new space opened for Palm Sunday. The new Woodside Room is used for weddings, funerals, classes, student ministry on Wednesday nights and, on Sundays, serves as an additional worship venue, a prototype for our first multisite which is planned for February of 2016. With God’s blessing, Westwood Community Church will continue to have a Kingdom impact in the lives of people here, near and far!
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Staff Reflection “In my 15 years here at Westwood, I have seen God take ordinary people and do supernaturally extraordinary things for His Kingdom; some with little or no understanding of what it means to be a fully-developed follower of Jesus, many with wounded hearts and souls, seeking to fill up that God-shaped hole and belong to something greater than themselves. I have watched God take those ordinary people and give them a glimpse into what He sees; that they are precious and able, with His Divine direction, to do immeasurably more than they could ever dream or imagine; to see that all things are possible to those who believe. He takes our broken and splintered fragments and turns them into a shining masterpiece for His glory. He has inspired us to serve one another with extravagant love, grace, mercy, forgiveness and generosity that belies our own human tendencies. God has empowered us as a faith community to build places to worship and grow, to teach everyone in and beyond our ever-expanding territory of His life-changing power, and to reach out with open hands to those around the corner and around the world with all that He has placed in them. He has healed His people of every known ailment– dependency, disease, hunger, loneliness, anger, even apathy; He has taken broken families and relationships and made them whole again, using nothing but His humble and willing people who just long to love as He loves. He has chosen to anoint His church called Westwood, and the people who inhabit her, and we are forever grateful for His provision, forever humbled by His goodness, and forever changed by His redeeming love.“ Danise McMillen Director of Children’s Ministry
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The following excerpt is taken from Wooddale Senior Pastor Leith Anderson’s message at our new campus dedication service on October 26, 2003.
“The prayers for Westwood Community Church began long before this congregation was born—prayers for a church that would have great impact in this community, in the metropolitan area, across Minnesota, and around the world. Prayers that here would be a church that would hold hands open to readily receive the blessings of God, but not to be greedy and selfish, but with those open hands to share those blessings of God with others. And God answered that prayer. Ask God that this be the congregation that He would use to transform lives, to reconcile marriages, to take children to adult maturity in Christian faith, to send missionaries from your own families to distant parts of the world to communicate the grace and love of Jesus Christ, to be a people who stand for justice and that which is good, to bless others with these open hands. God is able to do immeasurably more than we ask or imagine. What’s next for the dream for Westwood? What are God’s dreams for Westwood?... May this be a congregation where God’s name is spoken in a way that turns people to Jesus Christ. May this be a congregation that so loves one another that people say, ‘That’s the way that Christians are supposed to be.’ May you be a place where hurting people can come, that might not be tolerated or accepted anywhere else but here will be welcomed and loved and transformed. May you be a people who, because of your commitment to peace and justice and the Gospel of Jesus Christ, truly bring God’s reputation in line with the greatness of who He is.” Pastor Leith Anderson
Personal Reflection
(Cassie) “Westwood has always played an integral part in my walk with Christ. Being a part of the first 40 families of Westwood, having Pastor Joel dedicate me as a baby, leading worship on Sunday mornings, participating in children and youth programming, and being married to my husband by Pastor Joel in 2013 have all been significant highlights and blessings from growing up at Westwood. Throughout the numerous years and countless memories, I still consider Westwood Community Church to be home as it laid a deep foundation for my growth as a follower of Jesus Christ. Through community, worship, and being stretched in leadership opportunities, I was able to experience the presence of God in life-changing ways. I love this church and it is a great joy to be celebrating 20 years of Westwood’s faithful ministry.” (Zac) “I didn’t grow up at Westwood, but I was incredibly fortunate to spend my college years at Westwood serving in student ministry. As I began to discern my call into ministry, I was privileged and blessed to have this church as my first ministry experience. The mentorship, leadership development and overall friendships and community at Westwood are unprecedented. I am truly grateful for the people who make up the body of Westwood Community Church as they helped me to learn and grow, both as a Christ-follower and a leader. Through God’s providence, the church that was so instrumental in my wife’s Christian growth was able to come alongside me for spiritual development and ministerial training. I take great delight in telling people the first church in which I served was the same church that not only married my wife and me, but dedicated and baptized her as a child.” “God has used Westwood as a major part in each of our testimonies. Pursuing a seminary degree in Texas would seem to disconnect us from the church, however, we are consistently overjoyed by the reports we hear of what the Lord is doing in and through Westwood. If Westwood’s strong past is any indication of its future, then we are excited to see how God continues to use Westwood to reach and impact the world.” Zac and Cassie Bush
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WE ARE A COMMUNITY
WITH OPEN HANDS, RECEIVING FROM GOD ALL HE WANTS TO GIVE, BELIEVING HE WANTS TO
GIVE US A LOT. AND WITH OPEN HANDS WE GIVE IT AWAY,
BELIEVING WE
CANNOT OUT-GIVE GOD. 2 8
MINISTRY IMPACT visitors in 2014
highest attended non-holiday sunday
3,528
1,429 weekly online viewership
highest attended christmas eve 2014
400-500
9,167
number of people in bible studies, classes and small groups
countless! inmates baptized at shakopee prison
130
since 2012
number of middle schools & high schools represented in our student ministry
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SINCE WESTWOOD
funerals we've hosted
BEGAN
1,874
104
weddings conducted
284 2 10
people baptized
children dedicated
827
babies born
783
MINISTRY IMPACT number of different
Zip Codes
for westwood attenders
170
kids that have attended vbs more than
student camp experiences
2,175
10,000! churches planted emmaus road, hopkins, 2005 westbrook, chaska, 2011 number of people that have taken
kids that have graduated preschool
lifekeys
1,345
average longevity of westwood pastors and directors
11 years
1,460
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Twenty years ago I worked and reworked what would become Westwood’s vision statement based on God’s promise to bless us and use us as a blessing to all people (Genesis 12:3, Galatians 3:7-14).
Born at that time was the phrase “With open hands we receive from God all that He wants to give, believing He wants to give us a lot. And with open hands we give it away, believing we cannot out-give God.” There is a two-fold emphasis in God’s way of life, and in Westwood’s mission– receiving and giving. But the first emphasis is on receiving. Jesus says to His disciples, “Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons; freely you received, freely give” (Matthew 10:8). He positioned them to give in great and even miraculous ways, but it was never out of their own resources. As they freely received from Him they could freely give for Him.
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We’ve been living in that rhythm for 20 years. Our membership is growing, our ministries are thriving, and our impact is increasing. It would be so easy to close the book and be satisfied with where we are–not in a prideful way, but with gratitude for all the ways God has met us, and blessed us, and given us ways to serve Him and make His name known. However, that is not who we are because that is not who God is. Our ministry is a response to Him–a worshipful expression of our love and gratitude. We are placing our confidence in the hands of a generous God, willing and ready to open our hands and receive what He has for us as we turn the page to the next 20 years.
One Mission
Out of God’s promise to give us His power, we’ll tell His story and influence the world here, near and far with new high-impact ministry initiatives that will transform individuals, families and communities.
stewardship
In our twentieth birthday season I invite you to participate in ONE 8, the boldest generosity initiative in our history. It’s a call to One Mission, One Church, and One Fund.
“Will you join me, and open your hands to receive from God all that He wants to give you, and with open hands to give it away, believing we cannot out-give God?”
discipleship
It all begins with God’s generosity that flows through open hands receiving. John 3:16 reads, “For God so loved the world that He GAVE His only son that whoever would RECEIVE him, should not perish but have eternal life.” Now that’s generosity. When we receive His Son, everything changes. The quality of what we give is determined by what we have received. And when we receive the best, we’re filled with the best, and we’ll give the best.
One Church
A multisite church is one church that meets at multiple locations. It’s the most effective method for reaching people with the love of Jesus Christ today (see page 18). We’ll invite 400 current Westwood attenders and kids to launch our first multisite location, likely in the northeast quadrant of Westwood’s reach, in February of 2016.
One Fund
This generosity initiative funds the entire ministry vision of the church for two years in one fund. ONE 8 is a generosity initiative that funds the great ministries that we are already doing and we will imagine together exciting new ministries as we all take a step up in generosity out of that which we have already received from God. Discipleship and stewardship are intertwined. As we grow in discipleship we grow in our stewardship, and as we grow in our stewardship we will grow in our discipleship. They work hand-in-hand. It is going to be a thrill to hear how God works through you to make new and greater impact at home and around the world. Will you join me, and open your hands to receive from God all that He wants to give you, and with open hands to give it away, believing we cannot out-give God? Oh, this is going to be so fun to honor God in this way, and to help others live a better life here and find eternal life through Jesus. Let’s do this together! With Open Hands,
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ACTS 1:8
BUT YOU WILL
RECEIVE POWER WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT
HAS COME ON YOU,
AND YOU WILL BE
MY WITNESSES IN JERUSALEM, IN ALL JUDEA AND SAMARIA,
AND TO THE ENDS
OF THE EARTH. 14
ONE 8, based on Acts 1:8, is a two-year generosity and discipleship initiative, beginning in May of 2015, that will have impact‌
HEREHEREHERE NEAR NEARNEAR FAR FAR FAR ONE 8 will
support and grow our current ministries, allowing us to minister to thousands each week on our campus strengthen our home campus as we care for our facility and reduce debt to free up dollars for ministry
ONE 8 will
allow us to minister to people within our region through a multisite location, through regional ministry, and through church planting across the nation
ONE 8 supports
our current level of global outreach as well as greatly expanding our missional impact around the world; in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East
We stand in awe of what God has done and we ask Him to do it again‌ WESTWOOD COMMUNITY CHURCH
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HERE
Current Ministries
HERE
NEAR
Our outreach locally is as varied as our church family.
It’s our privilege to minister to our church family by supporting parents in the spiritual nurturing of their children and students, and by providing spiritual growth experiences and worship experiences for adults. Our care and support ministries provide opportunities for healing and connection within the church and community. Our ministry teams reach out to the needy and vulnerable in our community. We are also one of 25 partnering churches that together form Love in the Name of Christ to provide help and hope in the name of Christ to people in need.
HERE FAR
HERE
We’ll support our ongoing ministry to thousands of men, women, students and children. We’ll strengthen our home base in order to move boldly into the future.
HERE Ministry Plan May 2015 – May 2017 HERE ministries
Pages 16-17 highlight our current ministries as well as potential future initiatives to impact lives right here in our communities.
Ongoing Ministry Expense
Local Outreach Ministries • Alpha
• Love INC.
• Community Involvement
• Prison Outreach
• Evangelism and Service projects
• Service Projects
• Hope House • Immigrant/International Ministry
• Summerwood and Waybury Senior Outreaches • Urban Ministries • Westwood Wheelers
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A major portion of your generous gifts support our staff, ministry expenses, mortgage payment, and operating expenses.
One-Time Maintenance
A significant investment is needed at this time to maintain the roof and terrace areas of our beautiful phase one facility.
$600,000
$13,500,000
$500,000
Debt Reduction
As we all take a step forward in generosity we can pay off one of two mortgages, allowing hundreds of thousands of dollars now going to interest payments to be invested in ministry.
$3,600,000
If we were all to take a step up in generosity, imagine what we could do! Here’s some dreams: We’ll provide shelter for Youth in Crisis Need: • Up to 45 youth per high school are homeless at some point in the school year • With no local shelter, youth are taken to Minneapolis or must ride in squad cars all night • Youth are at risk for drug use, exploitation and suicide
Plan: • We’ll partner with The Bridge for Youth • We’ll convert and maintain the Hope House, the home at the corner of our property and begin a 2-year pilot youth shelter program
We’ll launch a transformational leadership internship program • Develop leadership gifts of young adults through internships • Prepare leaders of tomorrow for the Church of Jesus Christ
We’ll reach out to the Hispanic Community • Partner with existing ministry in Chaska • Meet physical and spiritual needs
We’ll provide food by making land available for community gardens Make land on our property available for: • Low income families to grow food • Westwood families to donate crops to food shelves
We’ll help families get the most out of school • We’ll expand our “Invest in Kids” program to a second community to help families in need with school supplies and field trips
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NEAR
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Current Ministries
FAR
We partner with non-profits and para-church organizations to bless people throughout the region. We support men and women, a number from Westwood, who are dedicated to spreading the Gospel and helping people in Jesus’ name.
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Organization Support • Arrive Ministries
• Here’s Life Inner City
• City Vision
• Love INC Eastern Carver County
• Converge North Central District • District 112: Invest in Kids
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With your help, we’ll bring Westwood to a nearby community! Westwood will bring the love of Jesus Christ into one of the least-churched communities in the Twin Cities as we add a second location in early 2016. A multisite campus takes Westwood to where people live and allows them to attend church in their own community.
• Teen Challenge Minnesota • Transform Minnesota
Multisite is: Missionary Support • Don Bierle, FaithSearch • Jim Jackson, Connected Families • Kenny Kraft, Timber Bay, focused on teens in crisis, western suburbs • Mark McKeever, Timber Bay, focused on troubled youth in the western suburbs
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• Ann Nelson, Campus Outreach, focused on college students at St. Thomas • John Quam, Mission America • Curt Quiner, International Ministerial Fellowship
• about impacting communities with the hope found in Jesus • a leveraging of vision, leadership and planning across multiple locations • good stewardship, compared to building a larger worship center on this campus • a seasoned approach, with 8,000 churches across the United States already multisite • just like the Woodside Room with live worship, host pastor and sermon via video Learn more at www.westwoodcc.org/multisite
If we were all to take a step up in generosity, imagine what we could do. Here’s some dreams:
We’ll minister to immigrants
We’ll help plant churches across the nation
• A gateway area for immigration, the Lord is literally bringing the mission field to us
• New churches and multisites reach more people for Christ than existing churches
• We’ll partner with World Relief to help immigrants settle into their new communities as we extend the love of Christ to them
• We’ll partner with Converge Worldwide as they have effectively planted 500 churches in the past 20 years • They use established networks, a proven assessment process, practical training, and experienced coaching
We’ll combat sex trafficking
We’ll help shelter victims of domestic abuse
• The Twin Cities is the 13th heaviest trafficked metropolitan area in the nation
• Significant problem, even in the western suburbs
• We’ll partner with an existing coalition of churches in the Twin Cities to free young girls and women caught in sex trafficking, helping them with recovery and job training
• No domestic abuse shelters exist in our area • We’ll partner with other churches and ministries
We’ll help inmates in and out of prison • Families of inmates have significant needs
NEAR ministry plan May 2015 – May 2017
• Upon release, inmates need help with mentoring, job readiness and help navigating society so they don’t reoffend
NEAR ministries
• We’ll build on our current team and relationships by partnering with a para-church ministry
With your generosity, we’ll grow our ministries and outreach to our region and nation with the largest investment going to launch a multisite in the least-churched area in the Twin Cities.
$3,700,000
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FAR
Current Ministries Your ongoing generosity is helping support individuals and organizations that are focused on needs and people in far away places like Malawi, Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East. Through them we are sharing the Gospel, planting churches, developing Christian leaders, meeting practical needs, combating injustice, and bringing hope in Jesus Christ.
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Global Outreach • Africa Ministry
• Central Asia Ministry
• Jordan Ministry
• Justice Initiatives
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• Shine in the World Ministries
Missionary Support • Virgil Anderson, CRU • Matt Burton, CRU, focused on leveraging Christian leaders • Dan and Jenny Higgins, CRU focused on Asia • John Quam, Mission America • Laura Watkins, Campus Outreach, focused on Thailand Unnamed for security reasons • Pioneers, focused on Asia • Pioneers, focused on the Uyghurs • Operation Mobilization, Central Asia • New Horizons, focused on the Middle East • Evangelical Free Church of America, focused on Asia
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In Africa
FAR
We’ll help the people of Malawi, Africa
• We’ll continue developing a micro-business enterprise in Malawi, helping farmers
Organization Support • Converge Global Missions • Jews for Jesus
FAR • We’ll partner with World Relief to expand AIDS prevention and ministry to a second district in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world
We’ll develop leaders and plant churches in Africa • We’ll partner with The International Leadership Foundation (ILF) to discover, develop, and empower leaders of integrity within a biblical framework. We’ll help expand this nation-impacting program to multiple countries within Africa • We’ll partner with Global Church Movements utilizing their extensive church planting process and strategy that has been effective despite widespread illiteracy and pagan practices
If we were all to take a step up in generosity, imagine what we could do. Here’s some dreams:
In the Middle East
In Asia
We’ll help bring relief to refugees
We’ll help complete the Bible for the Uyghurs
• There are more than 3,000,000 Syrian refugees in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq • We’ll join ministry partners to provide supplies, medical care and Christian love to both Muslim and Christian refugees in Jordanian camps where more than 600,000 of the world’s most vulnerable people struggle to survive
• We’ll partner with a Westwood-supported missionary in a strategic country in the Middle East to reach Muslims for Christ • Westwood will be instrumental in establishing a faith-based, fullyequipped medical facility in the heart of a large, displaced refugee population
FAR ministry plan May 2015 – May 2017 FAR ministries
Through One 8, we’ll continue our missionary and project support in countries around the world and fund bold new initiatives as well.
• We’ll bring the Gospel to Uyghurs now living outside of Central Asia, with more freedom to hear about and respond to the message of redemption in Christ
Confronting Injustice
We’ll reach Muslims with the Gospel
• The Uyghurs, our adopted people group of nearly 10 million people, with no indigenous church, are still in need of much of the Old Testament to be translated into their language
Justice Initiatives • We’ll partner with World Vision as they raise awareness and provide economic empowerment to prevent men, women and children being trafficked for forced labor and forced prostitution • With more resources, we’ll expand our work with International Justice Mission as they rescue children from slavery in Ghana, Africa. A Ghanian government survey estimates that 50,000 children work in Ghana’s fishing industry
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Imagine over the next two years the impact we can have:
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HERE
NEAR
FAR
$18,200,000
$3,700,000
$1,100,000
Increase of 44%
Launches first multisite
Increase of 73%
• Home for Youth in Crisis • Internship Program • Hispanic Outreach • Community Gardens • Invest in Kids • Central Support • Facility Maintenance • Pay Off a Mortgage Loan
• Launch Multisite • Church Planting • Domestic Abuse Shelter • Care for Prisoners • Minister to Immigrants • Reduce Sex Trafficking
• Expand Malawi Ministry • Plant Churches in Africa • Develop Leaders Globally • Complete Uyghur Bible • Start Middle East Ministry • Expand Justice Initiatives
Note: the Here, Near and Far ministry plans are subject to change as giving and circumstances warrant.
Your Response Through ONE 8 we will support the current ongoing ministry of our church for two years, strengthen our financial position and home campus, and greatly multiply our missional endeavors to people here, near and far. How do we accomplish this? If we each take a step up to the next rung on the generosity ladder, we will be able to accomplish ONE 8 and more.
A Place for Everyone There’s a place for everyone in ONE 8. Some will give for the very first time, some occasional givers will become more consistent, others who have given for decades will take another step in their discipleship, too.
A Next Step Will you pray, both about taking a step up in generosity and about expanding the ministry of Westwood over the next two years? Will you have the courage to ask God to take you to the next step in giving and involvement? We’re taking a step up for the joy of God, knowing that all we are, and all we have, has been given by His generosity. We are about His Kingdom work of blessing others with the love of Christ. Each of us can play a role, each of us be a part of the blessing, each of us impacting the world for God’s name.
Take a step up on The Generosity Ladder
extraordinary I give beyond a tithe to Westwood
tithing
I give 10% of my income to Westwood
intentional
I give consistently to Westwood, less than 10% of my income
occasional
I give to Westwood, though not consistently
first time
I have not yet given to Westwood
Where are you on the Generosity Ladder?
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