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:

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.

Walking alongside you…

Foster Care Community

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)

 Adopt-A-Child Christmas Tree

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 2023, we gave gift cards worth over $6,500.

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.

Bethel Christian Outreach Ministries

Serving Masaka, Uganda

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.

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.

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

Bethel Christian Outreach trains new pastors every year to create disciple making movements that create churches.

Your faithful generosity
helps us continue our support

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.

Church Planting

We have a vision to influence 10,000 people to be living an expression of loving Jesus, becoming like Jesus, and sharing Jesus. We believe church planting is what God is calling us to invest into to expand His kingdom.

Westside has invested well over $200,000 into church planting. We continue to invest in expanding God’s Kingdom through planting churches who make disciples.

Interested in joining a mission trip?

Travel with Westside in 2025!
 
Broaden your worldview in 2025 and take a Global Impact trip with Westside. Together, let's explore this incredible planet God created while meeting some of the people He calls us to serve. Westside's Global Impact team has planned several trips for next year that are designed to deepen your relationship with Jesus, grow your compassion for others, and expand your understanding of the challenges facing our world.

Global Impact Trips

Applications are now open for our 2025 trips. Check out these upcoming Global Trips:

Images courtesy of Westside Family Church.