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Sparrow Diaper Drive
May 12
Sparrow Diaper Drive
Serve Saturday: Community Meal
May 25
Serve Saturday: Community Meal

Help Meet the Need

Help us wrap God’s family around those in need. Sign up to be notified of different needs as they are presented to our church family. You will receive an email when meals or other services are needed.

Four ways you can jump in and serve this holiday season:

Community Meal

Help serve a community meal on one Saturday night each month. .

Meet the Need

Get notified when someone is in need of a meal or help.

Interfaith Community of Hope

Serve a night shift at the Night Shelter.

Project Sonshine

Greet kids as they enter the Richard Warren Middle School.

We are generous because God is generous.

Living Generously

We don’t want to just be in our community, we want to make a meaningful impact in our community. We want to partner with organizations that are reaching the lost, caring for the least, or serving the last.

In 2023, we gave $50,000 to local community partners.
We have given over $250,000 away to community partners since 2017!

This year, we will continue to make a difference by living generously.
Thank you for making an impact with us on Jesus’ mission.

Leavenworth Interfaith Community of Hope

The Leavenworth Interfaith Community of Hope provides a safe, secure place to sleep for individuals and families in the Leavenworth community who are experiencing homelessness. Day and night serving opportunities are available. For more information, contact: Myranda Agnew at (913) 306-5264.

Leavenworth Community Mission Store

One of the largest food distribution centers in Leavenworth County. Many opportunities to serve are available. Donations welcome. For more information, contact Iris Arnold at (913) 651-8800

St. Vincent Clinic

Help support the medical needs of our community. Visit their website to see all the serve opportunities available.

Community Meals

We have many opportunities to serve our community every month by serving meals alongside other churches in our city. If you would like to receive monthly community meal flyers with opportunities to serve, email Linda Bardot at: lindabardot@gmail.com and ask to be added to her list.

Backpack Buddies

Leavenworth Backpack Buddies provides nutritional supplements to underprivileged students on Friday afternoons during the school year.

CASA

Serving as a Court Appointed Special Advocate helps give those children who are abused or neglected a voice. To serve, you must attend a 30 hour training and be at least 21 years old.

Serving in our Schools

Project Sonshine partners with Richard Warren Intermediate to greet kids as the come to school.

Talk with your local school to see what options are available for you or contact Ryan Agnew for more information.

Unity in the Community

Serving the community through mentoring youth, recreational events, feeding the homeless, and promoting peace by bridging the gap between law enforcement and our residents. For more information, contact Jermaine Wilson.

Featured
Sparrow Diaper Drive
May 12
Sparrow Diaper Drive
Serve Saturday: Community Meal
May 25
Serve Saturday: Community Meal

 Adopt-A-Child Christmas Tree

October 2023 | $6525 in Gift Cards

Westsiders made it clear to foster families in Leavenworth County and Atchison County that we are for them. Our church family gave $6525 in gift cards to empower foster parents to purchase Christmas gifts for their foster kids. Thank you, Westside!

Christmas Gift Cards for Foster Families

In October of each year, Westside generously gives $25.00 gift cards to foster families through the state appointed service in charge of the foster children. These gift cards empower the foster parents to buy the gift that is best for the foster child.

In 2022, we gave over 250 gift cards worth over $6,500.

In 2021, we gave 239 gift cads worth over $6,000.

In 2020, we gave 96 gift cards worth over $2,400.

Walking alongside you…

If you are a Foster or Adoptive family, we’d like to walk alongside you in your journey.

Learn more about our Foster Care Minsitry

We want to support Foster Care families and reach children who are impacted in the Foster systems. If you have a heart for families who provide care to children in the foster system or would like to learn how you can make an impact with us, contact us.

Christmas Gift Cards for Foster Families

In October of each year, Westside generously gives $25.00 gift cards to foster families through the state appointed service in charge of the foster children. These gift cards empower the foster parents to buy the gift that is best for the foster child.

In 2022, we gave over 250 gift cards worth over $6,500.

In 2021, we gave 239 gift cads worth over $6,000.

In 2020, we gave 96 gift cards worth over $2,400.

Foster Care Community

The church has the most experience as it has been caring for vulnerable children throughout history (until foster care was created in the 19th century). Foster Care Community is mobilizing a group of people to support a foster family.

Learn how to support foster care families in our community and join others in our church family to offer a ministry of care and support. To learn more, contact Ryan Agnew (ragnew@westsideleavenworth.com)

Help us re-stock
the Lansing and Leavenworth
Middle School Food Pantries

Thru September 3, 2023
Bring your food items to one of our Sunday Services

We are partnering with these local middle schools to supply their food pantry with items kids may take home to have dinner or weekend meals.

  • Can Soups,

  • Peanut Butter,

  • Jelly,

  • Pasta Sauces,

  • Instant Potatoes,

  • Rica/Pasta Sides,

  • Canned Chicken,

  • Canned Tuna

  • Breakfast Bars,

  • Pop Tarts,

  • Cereal,

  • Mac & Cheese,

  • Boxed Dinners,

  • Canned Fruit,

  • Canned Vegetables,

  • Canned Ravioli,

Please choose plastic jars as students must transport these items home in their back packs.

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Meeting the hunger crisis.

In 2018 we gave away over 3 tons of food through our Easter and Family Fun Fest food drives.

In 2019, we distributed close to 2 tons of food to local food banks.

In 2020, through your generosity, we were able to help feed over 500 families!

At Easter 2021, we were able to supply food for the Lansing Middle School food bank and the Leavenworth High School food bank.

Thank you for being a community who shares Jesus by doing good and caring for the hungry.

 

Bethel Christian Outreach Ministries

Serving Masaka, Uganda

 
 
Three teen girls receiving sewing instructions (October 2020)

Three teen girls receiving sewing instructions (October 2020)

Training pregnant teenage girls.

Following the socio-economic and political challenges that affected the area, there was increasing number of orphan hood, unaccompanied children, and marginalized groups of women that suffered greatly due to socio-economic and political inequalities.

This manifested through increased domestic violence, early pregnancies among young girls, high school dropout rate and youth delinquency.

Westside recently gave $14,000 to Bethel to fund a Sewing initiative to train 200 pregnant teenage girls how to sew so they can provide for their family.

Kids church at new building (April 2020)

Kids church at new building (April 2020)

Food aide for the poor

Masaka District is one of the districts in Uganda, which has suffered the terror of bad governance, epidemics and total collapse of the service delivery system. This bad situation resulted in bringing down Masaka to her knees both socially and economically between 1971 and 1986. The former local administration structures were all destroyed and a few which remained, were dilapidated.

Westside regularly gives to Bethel to help support the food crises among the orphans in Uganda.

Pastor Gerald Mblaire and his wife, Sylvia. They have 5 children and have adopted 3 orphaned teenaged girls.

Pastor Gerald Mblaire and his wife, Sylvia. They have 5 children and have adopted 3 orphaned teenaged girls.

Gerald Mblaire & family

Bethel is small and growing church in Masaka, a city of 74,000 in southern Uganda. The church is led by Gerald Mbalire and his wife Sylivia. Together they have five children and have adopted three orphaned teenage girls.

 

How God brought us together…

Gerald Mblaire met Mr. Sanford Sheaks, of Westside, while both were living in the United Arab Emirates.  Gerald and Sanford were in Bible study together and began a lasting friendship.  Gerald’s vision in the UAE was to earn money to return to Uganda and build up his ministry there.  God had other things in mind and instead Gerald returned penniless to Uganda because of a massive downturn in the UAE economy. 

Hope Renewed

God has since used his people and Westside to do even greater things with Bethel Christian Outreach Ministries. 

Through the faithful and wise stewardship of funds, Gerald and Sylivia purchased land, erected a sanctuary building and constructed a children’s church building, a pit latrine, and an above-ground cistern. 

All this has occurred since 2018 through wonderful circumstances brought about by the benevolent hand of God.  During the COVID-19 pandemic, Gerald and Sylivia were able to provide food aid to the poor and continue to disciple the church through small group meetings and house to house ministry. 

Kingdom Movement

Gerald and his friend Pastor Elly Muhumuza together train new pastors and this year graduated 35 pastors despite the restrictions of the pandemic.

 

Your faithful generosity
helps us continue our support

If you would like to support Bethel Christian Outreach Ministry to feed the poor and disciple them in the Christian faith, go here.

The next step in the skills project is to rescue the girls from their current difficult and often dangerous environment.  Bethel Christian Outreach Ministries is praying that God’s people would provide a Mercy House in Masaka that would house the girls and their babies to help better equip them for a sustainable life after training.  Give here.

 

South Africa Church Planting

Through the generosity of Westside, we help support church planting in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. In 2019, 20 pastors were trained and released to start churches and bible studies in the villages of the Transkaii.

In 2020, more pastors were equipped and with the restrictions of COVID, the Good News of Jesus is spreading from house to house as these pastors are trained to disciple people without having a building or a large gathering.

The church is growing in South Africa and more people are living an expression of loving Jesus, becoming like Jesus and sharing Jesus.

Thank you for your generosity.