Preparing for the Cross #1: Picking Up Our Cross
Do we settle for a comforting version of our faith, when really the message of the cross is unsettling - in hard but healthy ways? Lent helps us to become truly cross-focused. How ought the cross inform or shape our relationship with power, wealth, the marginalized,...
Introducing the Community Centre Collection
The Community Centre Collection is an opportunity for us to live out our vision to be a vibrant community of followers of Jesus which serves our neighbours by meeting needs and showing love by meeting some of the tangible needs of those in our neighbourhood. The...
FYI Fridays – February 26, 2021
Happy Friday Westheights, This week I want to introduce us to an initiative that we are calling the Community Centre Collection. The Community Centre Collection is an opportunity for us to live out our vision to be a vibrant community of followers of Jesus which...
An Update from the Church Board
Dear Westheights Community Church family, Our region recently moved out of the grey-lockdown zone and into the red-control zone. This change brings a lessening of restrictions and may cause some of us to wonder what our plan is for in-person Sunday services. At this...
Lessons from Zelophehad’s Daughters
There is a deeply held assumption about prayer that holds us back from engaging in a real, honest relationship with God. This assumption is that we need to be timid, shy, or skittish when we pray. How can we experience God when we put up a wall of fear or a barricade...
FYI Fridays – February 19, 2021
Happy Friday Westheights, This week begins the season of Lent. In some traditions, observing Lent is accompanied by the practice of fasting or giving up certain luxuries in order to follow along with Jesus’ journey to the cross that started with his fasting in the...
We’re Hiring!
It is hard to believe that we are rapidly approaching 1-year of doing church differently due to COVID-19. But despite the changes in how we do ministry, the work of our staff has not diminished. Rather, like many of you, we have had to pivot to learn how to do our...
Comforting Words for Difficult Times #5: Jesus, Our Advocate
When we're going through something difficult, it can be hard to feel like we are truly known. It can be difficult to feel that we have people truly with us. In our passage today, the author of Hebrews wants us to know and understand that Jesus gets what it is to be...
FYI Fridays – February 12, 2021
Happy Friday Westheights, We had 70+ sign-ups to send and receive expressions of care and kindness to people in our church family through the Westheights Kindness Initiative. This is AMAZING! To those of us who sign-up, consider this a gentle reminder to do something...
Comforting Words for Difficult Times #4: Calmer of the Storm
What aspects of pre-pandemic life would you not want to go back to? The reality is that an experience like this has the ability to shake us up, shake us out of our routines, and help us see how life can be different. Crisis forces us out of our comfort zones and helps...
FYI Fridays – February 5, 2021
Happy Friday Westheights, Last week we introduced you to something called The Westheights Kindness Initiative. In case you missed it, you can read about it here or watch Christina talk about it here. So far we have 40+ people signed up to both send and receive an...
Comforting Words for Difficult Times #3: Lord Over the Chaos
Even in the toughest times, God is here. He's not waiting to get involved but is with us through the things we are going through now. Listen in as Pastor Josh walks us through the comfort we can find in Psalm 46, and a contemplative Scripture reading practice that...
FYI Fridays – January 29, 2021
Happy Friday Westheights, Over the month of February, we want to do something special to help us express care for one another. We are calling it The Westheights Kindness Initiative. The big idea is that participants will sign up to both send and receive an expression...
The Westheights Kindness Initiative
This February, you are invited to join us to spread care within our church family! Over the month of February, we want to do something special to help us express care for one another. The big idea is that participants will sign up to both send and receive an...
Responsible Interpretation
Can we interpret the Bible any way we like it? If we can make the Bible say anything we want it to say, what's the value in it? Listen in as Terry Wiens talks us through some ways to understand the Bible and interpret it responsibly. Responsible Interpretation...