Author: admin

20 Jul

Posted at 16:08h in Pastoral Notes

Greetings Westwood Community, Last week, I visited my parents' home in Colorado, and then drove from there to the farm my dad grew up on in central Nebraska. I visited to help host our annual Field Day for the non-proft Grain Place Foundation we started to...

18 Jul

Posted at 15:26h in Westwood Kids

Sunshine yellow and ocean blue surrounded one of our beloved families on last Sunday before their move to England. We will miss all three of you! You each have offered our church so much good will and encouragement and leadership. Go with God, dear friends. This...

13 Jul

Posted at 09:40h in Pastoral Notes

Dear Westwood Church family, Every summer in The Loft - well, every summer since I have been here! - we spend a few months reflecting on one of the four value-pillars that inform the life of our worship community. Those values are Compassion, Conversation, Belonging, and Decolonization, and...

13 Jul

Posted at 09:39h in Westwood Kids

Puppet ministry, quill writing like St. Paul, and lovely new friends. This is only one day in the life of our Sunday morning faith formation for children. Thank you, Stephanie Lange, for volunteering, and to Deanna Edwards for guiding the team and the children to...

07 Jul

Posted at 08:09h in Pastoral Notes

Dear Westwood Church family, While hanging out with my family yesterday, I ended up laying back on a grassy lawn, grateful for the shade from a tree that covered me, and for the breeze blowing by. Plus, the leaves of the tree were lovely as they...

05 Jul

Posted at 10:08h in Westwood Kids

Last Sunday was AMAZING! We had guests speaking other languages as we told the Tower of Babel & the story of Pentecost, a puppet show-in-the-making of the Good Samaritan, 6 drummers drumming, a rolicking game of compassion charades, and our beautiful, tiny City of God...