2024 Giving Goal

Your Gifts Matter

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Greetings from the Westwood United Methodist Church!
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We are a community on a mission! Following Jesus, we’re called to thrive and to help our neighbors thrive, creating a beautiful, delightful, abundant life for all. Over the next 3 weeks, we’ll explore what this “abundant life” looks like. In our weekly Pastoral Notes, in worship, and in our conversations, we’ll celebrate some of the ways we participate in God’s graceful love for the world.
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Let’s start with community. For 94 years, Westwood UMC has been a beacon of community in Los Angeles: a gathering place, a refuge, a house of joy and welcome, and a wellspring of service for neighbors down the street and around the world.
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Through Westwood UMC, we build community by gathering and connecting. Through contributions to and collaborating with our partners like the Echo Park Immigration Center and PATH, we build community by serving. Our choir and band build community through the arts. And our children’s ministries, Grapple, and adult programs build community through learning (and after all, the root of the word “disciple” is the Latin word for “learner”!).
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Moreover, the heart of Westwood UMC community is worship. Every time we gather, pray, listen to God’s good news, support, sing, and celebrate, we build up the Beloved Community with joy and beauty. And God knows the world needs more joy and beauty!
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On the other side of this letter, you’ll find a brief summary of highlights from this year in our community. We hope you’ll read their thoughts on God, community, and the abundant life we’re building together.
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Enclosed you’ll also find a pledge card. Put it somewhere you’ll see it every day – and when you do, try praying the prayer printed on it. When you’re ready, on our before Giving Sunday on November 19, bring or send it to us. Or, fill it out in the form below. On Giving Sunday, we’ll joyfully, beautifully celebrate our mission of creating life-changing community in an often lonely, disheartened, fragmented world.
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The world needs more community, more compassion, more justice and love – and that’s exactly what Westwood UMC sets out to provide each and every day. Thank you in advance for being a part of this important, delightful work!
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With joy in abundance,
Rev. Molly Vetter
Rev. Dr. Christopher Carter
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