| West Side contributes to the support of
16 missionaries in 14 foreign countries and
7
missionaries in the United States, serving a total of 18 mission boards,
and gives to 8 other organizations.
Ministries include:
- Bible Translation and Distribution
- Radio Broadcasting
- Church Planting
- Evangelism
- Discipling
- Teaching
- Medical
- Camps
Approximately 24% of all monies given to West Side go to Missions. This is done through your weekly offerings to the Lord.
Our Missions Funding Guide apportions support on the basis of:
- a survey of actual needs of our missionaries
- our written policy (available at the church office for your information)
Missionary E-mail Letters - Are you interested in
receiving letters from our West Side missionaries by e-mail? If you
would like to be added to the distribution list, please contact the
church office
at office@wspc.org or (206)
935-4477.
| 2007 CHRISTMAS MISSIONS
PROJECT OFFERING -
Christmas is a time for giving from the heart. Again this year
we have the opportunity to partner with some of our missionaries
as we gift them with funds to cover the cost of specific
project/program needs which are not included in their monthly
support. The Missions Committee has selected the following
ministry projects to be recipients of this year’s Christmas Eve
special missionary projects’ offering. It is expected that your
gift will be over and above your normal tithes and offerings. This
year’s projects/programs are:
- Funds to purchase cement, wood and metal roofing for a small
church to be constructed in Barlo, Chad. Cost: $6,000. Larry and
Dianne Burke with Wycliffe in Chad, Africa.
- Funds to enable a fledgling Pame (Mexico) church in
finishing a medical clinic. The floors need to be tiled and the
walls covered with stucco inside and out. Cost: $1,500. Scott
and Tonia Berthiaume with Wycliffe in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
- Funds to purchase needed playground equipment including
teeter-totters and a climbing gym set for the New Tribes Mission
base school in Papua, New Guinea. Cost: $3,000. Marcus and Carla
Snedecker with New Tribes Mission in Papua, New Guinea.
- Funds toward the purchase of a newer used vehicle for
Professor Danny McCain in Nigeria. Cost: $5,000. Danny and Mary
McCain with International Institute for Christian Studies in
Nigeria, Africa.
The article in the December West Side newsletter, The Good
News, provides more information about these projects. Please
prayerfully consider your part in giving. Special envelopes will
be available throughout December.
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Interested in a short-term mission?
Current mission opportunities to be posted soon.
Recent trips:
YouthCompass Project Compassion, April 6-15, 2007,
Romania.
We need about 20 adult site leaders, work team leaders, medical
staff and others. If you have experience with construction and
building projects we need you to help ensure that what the teens
build is well built. What are the qualifications? Love God and
love kids. Past
YouthCompass trips...
 1/20/07
Update - Are you looking for an opportunity to show compassion
to those in need? Do your like to travel? Here's a great
opportunity to do both!
Youth Compass Project Compassion 2007 is just a few months
away. This year they are working with
Habitat for Humanity on a
site about 2-3 hours outside Bucharest, Romania. The project will
be to help renovate some former barracks originally built to house
soldiers who were used as field labor on collective farms during
the harvests. The building will become 11 apartments about 35-40
square meters each. Some of the work we'll be doing is plastering,
sanding, painting, hanging doors, demo work, and pouring concrete.
What's a service project without pouring concrete?
How can you help? Youth Compass needs site leaders to help
the kids get the work done. No experience is required, just a
desire to serve and a love of kids. Our team will need to be in
Bucharest to meet the Habitat crew on the 7th of April and will
work Tuesday to Saturday the 15th instead of Monday to Friday
because of Easter. Individual or group travel before or after the
work week is an option for you. We will have an
informational meeting this Sunday
evening (1/21) at 6:30pm in Boppell Parlor. Hope to see you there!
Need more information? Call or email Craig Chamberlain (932-7223 or
craigchamberlain@comcast.net).
Hurricane Relief 2007 - We are looking for volunteers to send a
team to southwest Louisiana for Hurricane Relief.
The recovery of
Vinton (our location last year) is about 90-95% complete. South of
Vinton, however, Cameron/Holly Beach are still less than 25-35%
recovered and have a long way to go. There is a request for anyone
interested in another trip to these areas to participate in
rebuilding of the Cameron/Holly Beach area (top priorities are
partitioning in churches that need room for education and a sports
gym). With the help of Vinton First Baptist Church in arrangements
for a base of operations (like our
2006 relief work team)
and their offering of love and fellowship, we have a good start.
Please pray for this much needed outreach request that we may get a
team together again. For more information call or email Jerry
Williams (932-0090 or
jersuew@comcast.net).
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