Our next challenge was determining leadership.  Our campus pastor is Jason Seales and it was determined that he and I would work together alot to pull this thing together.  Jason is a great leader with lots of creativity and a passion to reach lost people.  I have also known Jason forever (my husband taught one of his high school Sunday School classes...

It was probably about a year ago that our staff began talking in earnest about beginning a new site.  Our primary reason was to reach more people.  We chose Calera, which is the next city south of our Alabaster campus.  It is only about 10-15 minutes away.  However, we realized that every week we were getting more and more first time guests from...

Last Sunday was our first day of our public launch at our first multi-site campus.  We have been preparing and playing and planning for months.  Seeing the fruit of it was some of the most fun I’ve had in a long time in kidmin.  God is so good and I can’t wait to see what He’s going to do. Here’s what happened: –  235+...

So tomorrow is the public launch of Westwood‘s first multi-site campus in Calera.  After months of planning and thinking and re-thinking and re-planning, it is finally here.  Wow. Here’s a very short summary of what we are doing: –  We are portable and meeting in the elementary school. –  We have divided a large hallway into...