West Side Presbyterian Church
Seattle, Washington

Sunday, June 22 - Matt and Brenda Carr - Come and hear the plans of the Carrs, former West Siders, who are preparing to return to Liberia with SIM in August. They served in Liberia from 1988-1990 but were forced to leave at the beginning of the brutal civil war, and then served in Cote d’Ivoire until 1997.

Sunday, June 29 - What Can We Do About Homeless Families? - The Bible is very clear about our Christian responsibility to help the needy. West Side is involved in several efforts to help the homeless, including CityTeam, Family Promise, Union Gospel Mission, and several who represent West Side on Seattle Presbytery’s Network to End Homelessness. Inez Allen, chair of the Presbytery Network, will brief us on what various local churches are doing and what can be done. Then leaders of Family Promise, including our two West Side board members, Cory Custer and Brian Smith, will update us on the exciting final plans to launch Family Promise here in West Seattle in July. Up to three Seattle-area families, recently forced onto the streets because of job loss or other issues, will be housed overnight in various area churches and will come to the day center (being prepared in West Side’s four-plex) for help in finding employment and housing.

Sunday, July 6 - Andrew and Rabya Prout - This is a rare and special treat to hear from Andrew, our missionary to Jordan with Christar, and to meet his Jordanian bride Rabya and new baby Yamima on their first visit to the U.S. The Prouts are only in the U.S. a few weeks so we are very privileged to be able to hear from them.

Sunday, July 13 - Dan and Judy Norman are two of our newest missionaries, serving with SIM in Ethiopia. This will be the first time the congregation will have the opportunity to hear from them. Dan received a seminary degree while working at Boeing and took early retirement, and Judy resigned from her senior nursing position in obstetrics and neo-natal intensive care and they went as second-career missionaries to Ethiopia in 2006. They have finished their intensive language training, and now Dan is teaching at the Evangelical Theological College and Judy is nursing and teaching at the Myungsung Christian Medical Center, a new mission hospital, developed by the Myungsung Presbyterian Church of Seoul.

Sunday, July 20 - Dominican Republic Mission Team  - Don’t miss this report from our high school mission team, just back from the Dominican Republic

Sunday, July 27 - Ron Homenuke is a former professional hockey player from Canada who is serving in the Philippines with Action International. He is developing an orphanage for street kids

Sunday, August 3 - Vic and Leslie Trautwein, our missionaries to the Dominican Republic, will bring us an update on their amazing work with Kids Alive. They now have over 1,000 children in their group homes and day programs.

Sunday, August 10 - Dr. Tim Teusink

Sunday, August 17 -Tom and Bernice Speckhardt

Sunday, August 24 - Loren and Åsa Gill