Events
ASL I Class
Thursdays, March 6-May 1
You can be a welcoming, friendly, and safe face to Westside's Deaf culture. Beginning March 7, participate in ASL I with Jennifer Soemer. This class is your key to American Sign Language, during which you'll learn about Deaf culture, community, and their beautiful language. Learn the basics, or allow this to be your introduction to becoming an interpreter!
Materials needed: ASLdeafined (https://www.asldeafined.com/login/)
subscription (cost 12.00/yr.)
Spring Break: No class on March 20th (Spring Break week)
Resume Date: Thursday, March 27th
Community Blood Center Blood Drive • WFC Speedway
Donating blood is a selfless act by one person to help save the lives of others. Blood cannot be manufactured. Whether you’re a regular or first-time donor, visiting one of CBC’s donor centers or community blood drives is a powerful way to make a difference. Your donation will help cancer patients, mothers with pregnancy complications, accident and trauma victims, and more. If you are healthy and able to donate blood, please consider participating in this upcoming blood drive.
Community Blood Center Blood Drive
Donating blood is a selfless act by one person to help save the lives of others. Blood cannot be manufactured. Whether you’re a regular or first-time donor, visiting one of CBC’s donor centers or community blood drives is a powerful way to make a difference. Your donation will help cancer patients, mothers with pregnancy complications, accident and trauma victims, and more. If you are healthy and able to donate blood, please consider participating in this upcoming blood drive.
Explore Impact Sunday • SPW
From our partnerships in inner-city Kansas City to our A2 Groups serving in our neighborhoods, Westside is making a real difference in people’s lives. Westsiders fight human trafficking, tutor at-risk students, support foster and adoptive families, and help families out of homelessness, all to spread Jesus’ Love in our city every day.
There are so many opportunities to serve our community at Westside, sometimes we need more information before taking the leap!
Join us for lunch to find out some simple ways you can make an impact here in Kansas City and/or around the world!
Explore Impact Lunch
From our partnerships in inner-city Kansas City to our A2 Groups serving in our neighborhoods, Westside is making a real difference in people’s lives. Westsiders fight human trafficking, tutor at-risk students, support foster and adoptive families, and help families out of homelessness, all to spread Jesus’ Love in our city every day.
There are so many opportunities to serve our community at Westside, sometimes we need more information before taking the leap!
Join us for lunch to find out some simple ways you can make an impact here in Kansas City and/or around the world!
Blood Drive
Donating blood is a selfless act by one person to help save the lives of others. Blood cannot be manufactured. Whether you’re a regular or first-time donor, visiting one of CBC’s donor centers or community blood drives is a powerful way to make a difference. Your donation will help cancer patients, mothers with pregnancy complications, accident and trauma victims, and more. If you are healthy and able to donate blood, please consider participating in this upcoming blood drive.
Blood Drive
You can make an extraordinary impact on someone's life! The American Red Cross faces a critical shortage of blood donations. Your donation will help cancer patients, mothers with pregnancy complications, accident and trauma victims, and more. If you are healthy and able to donate blood, please consider participating in this upcoming blood drive.
Surviving the Holidays
Surving the Holidays GriefShare & DivorceCare
The holiday season is filled with joy, but can also be a difficult season for some. Adjusting to a divorce or grieving the loss of a loved one can impact you in ways you don't anticipate. Join us for resources and encouragement as you prepare to navigate the holiday season.
This is a one-day class that costs $10. The cost includes a book and brunch.
*Children's programming is during the event so people have a place for their children if needed.
Blood Drive
You can make an extraordinary impact on someone's life! The American Red Cross faces a critical shortage of blood donations. Your donation will help cancer patients, mothers with pregnancy complications, accident and trauma victims, and more. If you are healthy and able to donate blood, please consider participating in this upcoming blood drive.
Joy Meadows Serve Day
On October 12, Westside has the unique privilege to serve and encourage foster and adoptive families. Every 2nd Saturday of the month (May-Dec) Joy Meadows invites adoptive and foster families to come to the property to enjoy fun activities, healing, and regulating activities in an outdoor setting. While they are there, caregivers receive support, connection, and understanding.
Join your Westside family as we slip in to prepare and provide lunch for these amazing families and engage in various activities around the property.
Apple Gleaning • Kids Ministry
Serve as a family at Cider Hill Family Orchard this fall! You and your family will gather apples off the ground, and the good ones will be donated to a local charity.
Fall 2024 ASL II Class
Thursdays, September 12 - November 7
Interested in taking your ASL I skills to the next level? Yes? Mark your calendar for the ASL II course! Jennifer Soemer kicks off this 8-week course on September 12, 2024.
The Story
The Story is an abridged, chronological Bible that reads like a novel. There are no verse references, and Scripture segments are seamlessly woven together with transition text into a single grand narrative. For those intimidated or overwhelmed by the unabridged Bible, The Story helps people understand God’s Word more fully and engage with it more easily.
Simple, accessible, and easy to use, churches are finding The Story a powerful way to engage their people in Bible reading like never before. As The Story brings the Bible to life, the broad scope of God’s message will penetrate hearts. People of all ages will be swept up in the story of God’s love and God’s plan for their lives.
Avenue of Life Serve Day
Westsiders will gather to bless our community partner, Avenue of Life. Avenue of Life is a lifeline for families and children who are determined to get out of homelessness and build a self-sufficient life. The ministry serves children in all Wyandotte County school districts (Kansas City, Kansas, Turner Unified, Bonner Springs, Edwardsville, and Piper), providing essential emergency services such as housing, food, and utilities.
Serve Saturday volunteers will perform a variety of helpful tasks that may include:
Prep/serve breakfast
Make food packs/hygiene packs (handed out to the community throughout the week)
Sort donations
Distribute clothing donations
Assist with facility cleanup tasks
Assist staff members with cleaning up trash around the neighborhood near Avenue of Life
This Serve Saturday is appropriate for the whole family.
Please sign up in advance so we can coordinate serve opportunity tasks with Avenue of Life.
Blood Drive
You can make an extraordinary impact on someone's life! The American Red Cross faces a critical shortage of blood donations. Your donation will help cancer patients, mothers with pregnancy complications, accident and trauma victims, and more. If you are healthy and able to donate blood, please consider participating in this upcoming blood drive.
Foster/Adopt Care Community Training
Monday August 5th | 6:30pm OR Thursday, August 15th | 10am | WFC Lenexa Room 201
At Westside Family Church, we are committed to caring for families amid challenges and struggles. We are specifically dedicated to supporting families who are parenting children who are in foster care or who have been adopted. A primary way to serve these families is through a Care Community comprised of Westside volunteers. This training is the first step to discovering best practices for serving a foster or adoptive family, and those who would like to take the next steps will be placed on a team and matched with a family to serve in their area.
Community Blood Center Blood Drive
Donating blood is a selfless act by one person to help save the lives of others. Blood cannot be manufactured. Whether you’re a regular or first-time donor, visiting one of CBC’s donor centers or community blood drives is a powerful way to make a difference. Your donation will help cancer patients, mothers with pregnancy complications, accident and trauma victims, and more. If you are healthy and able to donate blood, please consider participating in this upcoming blood drive.
Joy Meadows Outdoor Adventure Camp • Local Mission Trip
Outdoor Adventure Camp at Joy Meadows intentionally helps the children and the parents of our foster and adoptive community. They provide a week of camp experiences, relational connection in a trauma-informed setting, shared experiences with other children who can identify with each other, and time with adults who can share the love of Jesus through fun, nature-based activities. Children who have experienced trauma receive the message of the hope of Jesus best when it is through an intentional, relational connection over multiple interactions. Joy Meadows staff will lead the Westside Family Church mission team and work alongside them during the week of camp. The primary role of the missions team is to connect with kids, have fun, and build relationships.
American Red Cross Blood Drive
You can make an extraordinary impact on someone's life! The American Red Cross faces a critical shortage of blood donations. Your donation will help cancer patients, mothers with pregnancy complications, accident and trauma victims, and more. If you are healthy and able to donate blood, please consider participating in this upcoming blood drive.
Summer at the Movies
Jesus did not tell them anything without illustrating it with a story.” - Matthew 13:34
Welcome to Summer at the Movies! We have an amazing blockbuster lineup of modern-day parables as we take a page from scripture and illustrate Biblical truth through relatable stories. So, grab your popcorn and enjoy the show!
* Due to copyright restrictions, this series will only be available in-person and online LIVE at 8:15, 9:30, or 11a each Sunday and will not be available for later viewing.
Network 1.27 Family Picnic
*New This Year* Our family picnic is moving to a post-KidsGIG lunch! Pick up your kids from Westside and head over to Sar-Ko-Par Park, and we will provide lunch and fun for everyone.
Freedom Farm Workday
Freedom Farm is an equine ministry focused on the love of Christ and bringing healing, hope and
love to all they reach through... horses.
Freedom Farm is all about Jesus, people and horses.
Jobs include cleaning out stalls, cleaning tac, general farm chores. This will be a great A2 group, area communities or a Family serve opportunity. Parents are expected to supervise their children at all times.
American Red Cross Blood Drive
You can make an extraordinary impact on someone's life! The American Red Cross faces a critical shortage of blood donations. Your donation will help cancer patients, mothers with pregnancy complications, accident and trauma victims, and more. If you are healthy and able to donate blood, please consider participating in this upcoming blood drive.
A Day with Mission Adelante • Serve Day
Serving as a group can be a very rewarding experience, and the impact on our store is huge! Adelante Thrift has volunteer opportunities six days of the week that are perfect for groups of various sizes and ages. Many groups make serving at Adelante Thrift a regular activity. Partnership and collaboration are the ingredients to sustainable community development. Adelante Thrift offers service opportunities for individuals, groups, churches, schools and businesses six days of the week. From sorting to cleaning or helping our customers, there's a spot for everyone!
Many refugees come to the country with little more than papers. Thrift’s low costs allow people, no matter where they come from, to have the dignity of providing for themselves and their families and knowing that they are part of a community. There was also a need for a thrift store as resettlement was booming and there was only one other thrift store in the area. Finally, thrift stores bring others together by functioning through donations, volunteers, and shoppers. And so, our mission drove us to choose thrift as a space where community could be uplifted, supported, and dignified by every person.
KCK Tour: Visit Our Partners
Please take a tour with us visiting through Kansas City to discover the why behind volunteering for the organizations we partner with.
Our vans will leave the Westside Family Parking lot at 8:45 am and make our first stop at Avenue of Life: A goal as big as ending homelessness for kids in Kansas City cannot be accomplished alone. You will have a 30-minute tour and guide to learn why they utilize a Collective Impact approach to helping Wyandotte County. There you will have a 45-minute volunteering opportunity alongside their ministry.
11:30 am we will stop by a local restaurant for lunch.
12:30 pm We will be on our way to Mission Adelante for a quick tour and video on their mission focus: We envision a growing multicultural community of disciples making disciples, where people from all places are thriving and using our gifts together to transform our neighborhood and the world for the glory of Jesus Christ. Followed by an hour of volunteering at their local thrift shop which we will also drive you to!
Our final stop will bring you back to the church by 3:00 pm after a full day of learning and serving!
Families are welcome. It is a longer day, so please be advised of that when registering children under the age of 10 years old.
ASL I Class
You can be a welcoming, friendly, and safe face to Westside's Deaf culture. Beginning March 7, participate in ASL I with Jennifer Soemer. This class is your key to American Sign Language, during which you'll learn about Deaf culture, community, and their beautiful language. Learn the basics, or allow this to be your introduction to becoming an interpreter!
Materials needed: ASLdeafined (https://www.asldeafined.com/login/)
subscription (cost 12.00/yr.)
American Red Cross Blood Drive
You can make an extraordinary impact on someone's life! The American Red Cross faces a critical shortage of blood donations. Your donation will help cancer patients, mothers with pregnancy complications, accident and trauma victims, and more. If you are healthy and able to donate blood, please consider participating in this upcoming blood drive.
Worship + Pray
Hey WFC Speedway! As a church, we’ve been on a journey toward deepening our relationship with the Father through worship and prayer. Bring your family and friends and join us with hearts ready to give glory, honor, and praise to our King of Kings. We're praying for God to show up in big ways at WFC Speedway.
The baptismal will also be ready for you if God is calling you to take this next step in your faith journey while worshiping with other Christ followers.
Explore Impact Lunch
From our partnerships in inner-city Kansas City to our A2 Groups serving in our neighborhoods, Westside is making a real difference in people’s lives. Westsiders fight human trafficking, tutor at-risk students, support foster and adoptive families, and help families out of homelessness, all to spread Jesus’ Love in our city every day.
There are so many opportunities to serve our community at Westside, sometimes we need more information before taking the leap!
Join us for lunch to find out some simple ways you can make an impact here in Kansas City and/or around the world!
Winter Avenue of Life Food Drive
Avenue of Life (AOL) is the backbone for an initiative to end homelessness serving all school districts in Wyandotte County (Kansas City Kansas, Turner Unified, Bonner Springs, Edwardsville, and Piper) providing essential emergency services such as housing, food, and utilities.
As a longtime community partner to Westside, we look for opportunities to come alongside AOL and join their efforts. After the holidays, their food pantry is depleted after assisting existing families as well as those emergencies that arise this time of year. You can help by providing some (or all!) of the items on the list provided.
Stop by the Impact nook in the Main Commons and pick up a bag along with provided list of needed items. Return filled bag to the South Commons on Sunday, February 11, 2024. Sign up using link below to help sort the food on February 11, 2024 during each of the the services.