There is a request  from The Welcome Table All-Community Meal on August 24, 11:30am-1pm, seeking donations of hot casseroles, salads, desserts, etc. for this meal.In addition they need volunteers to serve food and handout donations. You can also being donations of rate food pantry: non-perishable as well as fresh produce, cereal, tortillas, canned goods, snacks pasta, rice etc.If you are able to p...  Read More

WIN is having an event on Tuesday, August 20 - “Faithfully Setting the Table to celebrate generosity of the community." Join fellow food security advocates for an evening of song and story at Admiral congregational UCC. Guest will be Carmen Smith executive Director of the White Center Food Bank....  Read More

Hi, we are the Kuskes! It is so nice to “meet” you in this way and we pray that we can meet face to face someday. We moved to Cambodia in August 2020 where we work to see churches planted and disciples made. Our sending organization, Beyond, focuses specifically on starting and supporting movements of house church plants that are multiplying disciples around the world.Ashlee works administratively...  Read More

OMF International missionaries Keith and Celia Olson serve in Hokkaido, Japan in church support, arts (Celia), theological education (Keith), and hospitality. We love living in Hokkaido; we enjoy hiking, tea ceremony, and meals with friends. We are excited when we see collaboration among the five small churches we are currently serving, and we mourn with the rural communities whose churches are re...  Read More

The Full Gospel Pentecostal Federated Church on Delridge caught fire Monday afternoon. (Read about it HERE on the West Seattle Blog.) We visited them on Tuesday to see if West Side could offer any assistance. No help is currently needed, and we received an invitation from their pastor to attend a fellowship event on their front lawn this Sunday, August 18 at 3:00 pm. The location is 5071 Delridge ...  Read More

Marlon: The Language Software Development (LSDev) designs and produces computer programs for scripture translation, dictionary and grammar building, literacy, and more, including orally. I write how-to-use Helps for a number of these programs and I help test them.Denise: First, I edit Translator’s Notes. TN’s help mother tongue translators (MTTs) translate Scripture verses accurately. Our current ...  Read More

Andrew and Rabya Prout serve at the International Graduate School of Leadership in southeast Asia. Andrew teaches Bible and Theology courses to Master's Level students, who are training to be pastors, evangelists, and university campus ministers in many countries throughout the 10/40 Window (Muslim, Buddhist, and Hindu countries).Thank-you for your prayers and support.Andrew Prout...  Read More

Bruce: I work with a group of Indian leaders each week, both in north and south India, who are focused on major unreached populations. Many of these guys are mid-life leaders looking for fresh restoration of foundations for their second half of life ministry. We call it the 2HC collaborative within Frontier Ventures. We’re grounding them in the whole Biblical Story and Spiritual formation discipli...  Read More

Thomas began attending West Side at age 15 where he was active in the youth and then young adult programs. He married Bernice (who started attending at 18) at West Side 38 years ago. In 1992, after praying with the elders, they were sent as West Side missionaries to Germany to work with international teens.The work in Germany grew across Europe for the next nine years, and eventually Thomas founde...  Read More

Carla continues in the mission headquarters finance office in Sanford, Fl processing donations for Ethnos360 mission, its entities, and around 2,600 missionaries worldwide. Ethnos360 purpose statement "Motivated by the love of Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit, Ethnos360 exists to assist the ministry of the local church through the mobilizing, equipping, and coordinating of believers to evan...  Read More

Larry and Andrea Ciccarelli have worked in the Mediterranean region for over thirty years on Bible translation projects in Bedouin Arabic, Standard Arabic, Lebanese Arabic, and a number of other dialects and languages. They particularly enjoy working with local and international colleagues on new media and arts projects (chanting, calligraphy, and music, among other genres). Since 2005, Larry and ...  Read More

Have you ever considered helping at a Young Life camp? Or ever wanted to see what it was all about? This is your opportunity!We, as West Seattle Young Life, have an opportunity to help serve at Washington Family Ranch Canyon from July 14th-21st through what we're calling mini-sessions. These mini-sessions are made up of people just like you and me and they help our Summer Staff (college) and Work ...  Read More