WESTSIDE FOOD PANTRY
In partnership with Northern Illinois Food Bank and Greater Food for Elgin, Westside operates a food pantry out of the building, serving many families a month by providing canned foods, boxed dinners, meat, vegetables, and other pantry items. It is our goal that our food pantry helps families in the Elgin area and the surrounding communities. The pantry is open 10AM to Noon, the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month. No ID required.
SHULTS-LEWIS CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES
Westside supports Shults-Lewis and the great work they accomplish in the lives of teens and their families. Shults-Lewis Child and Family Services, in Valparaiso, Indiana, is a dynamic treatment program for struggling teens and their families. Shults-Lewis believes that families shouldn’t have to struggle alone and their residential environment, staffed by Christian houseparents and counselors, offers counseling, love, acceptance and, most of all, hope to teens and their families. Teens and their families are provided therapeutic services via a highly-trained and qualified group of counselors. Shults-Lewis combines more than 60 years of experience in providing for the needs of today’s families. If you have a troubled teen, your family doesn’t have to face its problems alone. Shults-Lewis can help. For more info: shultslewis.org
THE BROWN TRAIL SCHOOL OF PREACHING
Westside currently supports the the school and its students. Since its beginning in 1965, the Brown Trail School of Preaching in the Bedford suburb of Fort Worth, Texas has graduated more than 300 men who have gone into all parts of the world preaching the gospel. It is a two-year program of intensive Bible study designed to prepare students for the work of preaching the gospel, graduating with a Bachelor of Biblical Studies degree with an emphasis in Ministry as well as a Bible Class Teacher program that helps equip women interested in advanced studies of the Bible, to teach other women, etc. The classrooms and offices of the school are located in the Brown Trail church building in. Kevin Rhodes is the Director of the school. The faculty includes many faithful preachers from the DFW area. For more info: browntrailschoolofpreaching.com
WORLD BIBLE INSTITUTE
Westside currently supports Spencer Ross, the Director of Foreign Extension Schools at WBI, who oversees the development and organization of the extension school program.World Bible Institute is a mission effort out of McDonough, GA that sets up schools of ministry globally with the emphasis on developing preacher schools, churches and all evangelistic efforts with the goal to eventually become self-supporting, self-governing, and self-propagating. There are extension schools in Ghana, Togo, Cameroon, India, Kenya, Pakistan, Tanzania, Mexico, El Salvador, etc. For more info: Spencer Ross Missions, WBI or worldbibleinstitute.com