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Meet your 2026 Westside Family Ministry Summer Interns! 🎉Say hello to Emily (Westside Kids) and Ana (Westside Students),...
06/02/2026

Meet your 2026 Westside Family Ministry Summer Interns! 🎉

Say hello to Emily (Westside Kids) and Ana (Westside Students), two incredible women who love kids/students, love Jesus, and are spending their summer pouring into our families. We asked them a few questions so you could get to know them. The results did not disappoint.

☕ Go-to coffee order?
Emily: Black coffee. Sometimes an almond milk latte if she's feeling fancy.
Ana: Cold brew or matcha. She's keeping her options open.

🍽️ One meal for the rest of your life?
Emily: Falafel wrap. Every single day.
Ana: Poke bowls. No notes.

🎭 A random talent or skill?
Emily: She's been doing ballet for 17 years.
Ana: She crochets. Her words: "I'm working on earning my granny hobbies."

🌍 Most adventurous thing you've ever done?
Emily: Traveled to 43 out of 50 US states. (She's coming for you, Alaska.)
Ana: Hiked and rock climbed a mountain in the Panamanian jungle to swim in waterfalls.

✨If you could meet any fictional character, who would it be?
Emily: Hermione Granger
Ana: Lilo from Lilo & Stitch

🙏 What do you hope kids/students experience this summer?
Emily: That they are deeply loved by God, and that they make some great memories along the way.
Ana: That Christian community is a genuinely fun, joyful place to be.

Drop an emoji below to help WELCOME them! 👋

Summer has a way of shaking things up.☀️New city. New season. New start.If you're finding your footing in Atlanta, we'd ...
06/01/2026

Summer has a way of shaking things up.☀️

New city. New season. New start.

If you're finding your footing in Atlanta, we'd love to be part of your story.

At Westside, we worship together weekly and love our neighbors from Bankhead to Buckhead.

Join us this Sunday at 8:30 or 11:00 AM.

You belong here!

I'm currently a stay-at-home mom to 3 young children. In this season, I feel like God is inviting me to live deeply by p...
05/28/2026

I'm currently a stay-at-home mom to 3 young children. In this season, I feel like God is inviting me to live deeply by pressing in with intention, even though much of my work feels mundane, repetitive, and ordinary. I love to create rhythms and routines that help my family grow and thrive, both in body and soul; but at the end of the day, the return can feel so little and the fight against apathy is a very real part of my daily struggle. What difference does it all really make anyway?

I think I'll always be fighting some sort of battle against "all-or-nothingness" while sharing so much of myself and my days with little people. Sometimes this looks like choosing to engage in the messy, complex task of discipling my children while knowing I lack the true power to change their hearts; or bringing order to a space, knowing the value lies in the warmth and functionality it brings, not in the absence of it always needing to be picked back up.

In many ways, I feel like life right now is one big Pilates class: little tiny movements that, at the moment, feel small and insignificant but later I'm often given the gift of seeing the toil and intention was not all for naught.

On the days when I'm embracing God's invitation to live deeply, I am given a renewed perspective and sense of wonder. My small, consistent acts of faithfulness find their true, lasting meaning in the grand, overarching purpose and work of the Lord. Certainly not my salvation, nor the source of my hope, but it's actually really very wonderful to realize: cleaning spills up off the floor and conversations at my kitchen table are, in fact, an exciting invitation from God to participate in His making all things new!

-Beth Norman

05/27/2026

What if unity was never about sameness?

In Acts 2, the Holy Spirit doesn't erase every language to create one. He creates one new people who still speak many. That's not a small distinction. It's the whole point.

It means your faith connects you more deeply to a Christian in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan than to your next-door neighbor who doesn't share it. It means the community the Spirit is building crosses every line we draw: race, class, culture, background.

After his sermon this past Sunday in our Holy Spirit series, Joe Parker left us with two questions we're sitting with: Does that kind of community ring true to your experience? And if not, who might the Spirit be asking you to step toward?

To listen to the full sermon visit: atlantawestside.org/sermons

The Spirit sends us. This Sunday, we watched that happen in real time.We prayed over and commissioned Jordan Ocen as she...
05/26/2026

The Spirit sends us. This Sunday, we watched that happen in real time.

We prayed over and commissioned Jordan Ocen as she heads back to Uganda. Cal sent her out with the same text we'd dive deeper into that morning in Acts 2, a reminder that the Spirit doesn't just show up on Sunday. He sends us out. Jordan is living proof of that.

Joe picked up that thread and unraveled it piece by piece. Opening Acts 2:1-21, he walked us through what it looks like to be a Spirit-united people, pulling back every layer until what was left was simple and undeniable: the same Spirit that moved in that upper room is the same Spirit sending Jordan to Uganda, and the same Spirit knitting us together as the body of Christ.

Liz Griffith led us through Psalmody, anchoring us in Psalm 104. Between each passage, the whole congregation responded together: "Let all that I am praise the Lord. O Lord my God, how great You are!" Over and over. Every voice in the room. That kind of repetition doesn't just fill a sanctuary, it forms something in you.

Kids ministry is buzzing with excitement for VBS, and Westside Students is fired up to kick off the summer. Good things are coming!

And after all of it, the patio. Good weather. The best people. Conversations that didn't want to end.

This is what Sundays at Westside are made of.

Summer officially started the moment the Kono Ice truck pulled up! 🍧The End of Year Party is always one for the books, ...
05/21/2026

Summer officially started the moment the Kono Ice truck pulled up! 🍧

The End of Year Party is always one for the books, and this one did not disappoint. Scavenger hunt chaos, snowcones in the sun, and a room full of students who made this year everything it was.

Westside Students is growing and we are so here for it! New faces, new stories, and a community that keeps getting better. We can’t wait to see everything God has in store for us this summer. ☀️

The best is ahead! 🌊

05/20/2026

The Kingdom of God isn't playing defense.

Jesus came with authority. And when His Spirit lives in you, the darkness doesn't advance. It retreats.

"Resist the devil and he will flee." James 4:7

Listen to the full sermon: www.atlantawestside.org/sermons

I'm in an intense work season. Six months of waking up thinking, "Maybe I'll finish by 6pm and actually enjoy the evenin...
05/19/2026

I'm in an intense work season. Six months of waking up thinking, "Maybe I'll finish by 6pm and actually enjoy the evening," only to find myself still typing at 11pm, racing a midnight deadline that carries the weight of tens of thousands of dollars in fines.

The pressure is relentless. But louder than the deadlines is an inner voice telling me I'm not doing enough. That I should have wrapped up by 6pm to be present for my family. That I should keep grinding until 2am because that's what my coworkers are doing, and there are still parts of my job going untouched.

A few days ago, a Tim Ferriss podcast guest said something that stopped me. She was practicing two opposite truths at the same time.

First: her work is critically important. She serves a vital function. Without her, there would be real consequences.

Second: she is completely unneeded. If she weren't there, the team would adapt. The work would get solved. The world wouldn't change because of it.

God used that to remind me of something.

Both are true for me. My work matters. I work in payroll, which means my effort directly determines whether people get paid on time to cover their bills, buy groceries, and support their families. The hours I put in care for my coworkers and help our team win. The income I earn lets my family live close to our church community and enjoy the life God has given us.

And also: He is in control regardless of how hard I work. My success or failure exists inside a much bigger story, one where God is redeeming the world and drawing all of us into community with Him. I can rest in that.

That reminder, from an unlikely source, is what living deeply with God looks like for me right now.

-Adam Beasley

It's giving community. 🙌Swipe right to meet our newest members. 👉
05/18/2026

It's giving community. 🙌

Swipe right to meet our newest members. 👉

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