M U L T I P L Y

FAITH, SURRENDER, GENEROSITY

MAKE YOUR COMMITMENT

We believe God has called us to be a thriving church in the heart West Seattle that unapologetically proclaims the gospel and boldly makes disciples who are being transformed to love, think, and act like Jesus.

We also believe God is calling us into a new season as a church – a season of trusting that He can multiply our influence as we better disciple the hearts of our people and more boldly advance our mission as a church.

We long to see God do supernatural things in our lives and our city as He multiplies the number and quality of disciples in West Seattle and beyond, all for His glory!

This guidebook is meant to lead you on a journey with us in this season. In the following pages you will learn about the key milestones in the history of our church, our impact over the years, our vision to multiply, sermon notes, discussion questions, and a prayer guide.

Our desire is for you to grow in your relationship with God and in your discipleship as we also grow as a church into this next season!

PASTORS

Worth & Beth Wheeler

Cassie Marlatt

OUR MULTIPLY VISION

We believe God is calling us into a new season as a church – a season of trusting that He can multiply our influence as we better disciple the hearts of our people and more boldly advance our mission as a church. We have TWO MAIN GOALS for this season we are calling Multiply.

PRIMARY GOAL – 100% Engagement

Our primary goal is discipleship engagement in generosity. It is about our hearts. We invite everyone who calls West Seattle Christian Church home to engage in asking God how we can honor Him with 100% of what we have each been given.

We want to truly live out the truth that God is truly first in all things. We believe God is taking us to the next level of discipleship depth. We invite you to honestly and prayerfully reflect on these three questions in this season with us:

Next Level Faith: How can I joyfully and gratefully honor God with 100% of what He has given to me?

Next Level Surrender: What steps do I need to take to move away from the pursuit of my own comfort and to move toward deeper dependence upon Jesus?

Next Level Generosity: What new level of generosity can begin to express my gratitude for what He has done for each of us?

SECONDARY GOAL – Mission Advancement

$1.5 Million

Our secondary goal is MISSION ADVANCEMENT. We believe God has shown us three specific areas [see below] to pursue over the next two years. We want to enhance our mission and increase what God is already doing in our church through our effective impact and generosity. This will fuel our ongoing discipleship ministries including our worship gatherings, small groups, classes, and ministry teams which include kids and youth ministries, hospitality, prayer, counseling, and other areas God is asking us to move into in our community.

MULTIPLY OUR MISSION

We want to go deeper in the ministry we are already doing. We are including two years of our annual operating budget as part of Multiply. This will fuel our ongoing discipleship ministries including our worship gatherings, newcomers dinners, small groups, classes, ministry teams including kids and youth, hospitality, prayer, counseling, addiction recovery, worship arts, outreach, mission and others.

We are including and celebrating what is already given to West Seattle Christian Church in a normal year as part of Multiply.

MULTIPLY OUR IMPACT

We believe God is calling us to even more effective and impactful work in and through the ministries right here on our West Seattle Campus. We desire to have an even greater impact and we sense God calling us to allocate more resources towards hiring additional staff for worship, children, and administrative needs.

MULTIPLY OUR GENEROSITY

We believe God is calling us to greatly expand our generosity to others. We currently give tens of thousands a year to outreach causes – which includes our local partnerships with Bread of Life Mission, White Center Food Bank and West Seattle Food Bank, to church families and neighbors through our Compassion Fund, and also to all of our global partners and missionaries in Ethiopia, Russia and Southeast Asia.

We sense God is calling us to expand this dramatically, because we believe God is showing us that the need is so great. Over the next two years we are trusting God with the resources to be able to give away a record amount to the cause of Christ in order to:

MAKE DISCIPLES • PLANT CHURCHES • ALLEVIATE POVERTY • PURSUE JUSTICE IN THE NAME OF JESUS

We want to expand our giving to our existing local and global partners that are positioned to be able to effectively do more ministry with more resources. We also want to be able to take on new opportunities and strategic partnerships.