Post Category: Church Life

We at Westgate are excited for the season of Lent which begins on Wednesday, February 17. It is a time of preparation as we approach Good Friday and Easter, similar to our observation of Advent in December....

We trust that God is meeting each of you in in these unique circumstances. We miss each other and look forward to the day when we can safely gather together again. Meanwhile, we are encouraged by your engagement in worship, either in person or online. Our goal is to provide a meaningful and safe worship time....

We’re sure no one needs to be reminded that the last nine months have been a considerable disruption to our lives. However, we are thankful for the ways we’ve been able to continue to worship our Savior together here at Westgate....

We hope that each of you has been thriving in your relationship with the Lord during these tumultuous times. Though it has been difficult to be apart, worship, whether virtual or in person, keeps us united....

We look forward to welcoming those of you who are ready to attend! ...

Westgate is partnering with the Saturday morning breakfast program at Congregation Lion of Judah (where Northstar is located) for an outreach opportunity with people experiencing homelessness....

For those who are able and wish to continue giving, we wanted to clarify the best ways to do this while we are not able to meet together on Sundays....

We are excited to announce that Westgate has officially hired Eric Campos to serve as Assistant Pastor....

Please know that only emails from the @westgate-church.org domain are official communications from Westgate Church....

Our reopening target date is June 21. For those who choose to meet in the building, the worship experience will be different, and because of the differences, we may feel as though we are being controlled. ...

Many of you may have questions regarding Westgate’s response to what is currently happening across our nation. ...

Westgate Church will take every possible precaution to keep our congregation and our visitors safe and healthy. To ensure complete well-being upon our return, we will continue our current form of worship for the next few weeks....

During this crisis, God has opened a number of doors for ministry to Metrowest, opportunities the Outreach team is coordinating. Please prayerfully consider your role in God’s kingdom plan and if any of these opportunities might fit your desires and/or gifts....

We wish to demonstrate our gratitude and show the love of Christ by purchasing meals from a local restaurant to feed our local healthcare heroes while they are on shift. ...

We wanted to reach out to encourage each of you to pursue time worshipping the Lord in your home by reading scripture, praying, and singing....

We encourage you to spend time in scripture to commemorate this most holy time of year. ...

We are very happy to announce that Seth Budahl will be serving as the new Bookkeeper at Westgate Church....

Thank you for joining with us in our first ever digital worship service last Sunday, March 15....

Join us Sunday morning, March 15 @10:30am....

We have decided to shift Sunday morning worship online....

We want to be mindful of the physical well-being of our church community....

We are excited to announce that Travis Vaclavik has accepted our unanimous call to become an Interim Associate Pastor at Westgate Church....

We are happy to announce that Heidi Hart will be serving as the Interim Kids Journey Director beginning today!...

Two new Sunday School classes for adults ...

Please join us for Holy Week Services...

We are excited to introduce you to Austin Baten, who will be serving for the next few months as a pastoral intern at Westgate Church....

We are happy to announce that Heidi Hart will be serving as the Interim Children's Ministry Director this summer....

Looking for something to do this weekend? Check out upcoming events at www.westgate-church.org/events (Friday night Youth and Sunday will have 3 NEW classes @9:30am as well as a luncheon after worship service). Hope you will join us!...

Starting this Sunday April 8th we have three new Sunday School classes for adults from 9:30 - 10:20 am. Click here to learn more. If you have any questions, contact the church office (email: office@westgate-church.org, phone: 781-237-2633). Hope to see you there!...

On Wednesday March 14th, snow has been cleared and church office is open....

As of this morning, Friday March 9th the power has not returned to the church but there are individuals checking the building. ...

Our Daily Bread ~ Copies Delivered...

Join us this Sunday at 6:30pm in Fellowship Hall for the next Pray For The Mission....

To give everyone more time to dig out of the beautiful snow this morning, we are cancelling 8:30 am and 9:30 am activities (e.g. Choir rehearsal, Sunday School, Prayer in the Parlor), but we will have our worship service at our regularly scheduled time of 10:30 am. Please use caution while traveling. Thank you!...

Due to the inclement weather conditions forecasted and poor driving conditions, the 2018 Annual Meeting will be postponed from tonight - Wednesday February 7, 2018 at 7:00pm. - to Sunday February 11, 2018 immediately following the service....

Postponed 2018 Annual Meeting key details...

We are pleased to announce that Julie VanWagenen will be serving as our new Communications and Administrative Assistant at Westgate....

The news from Sutherland Springs, Texas, today is devastating. More than two dozen dead in a shooting at First Baptist Church, nearly half the congregation in a small town outside of San Antonio. In this spirit of grief and brotherhood in Christ we offer our prayers for the victims and their families. And we lament this tragedy and the brokenness of this world, while at th...

As part of our current efforts to refocus our vision as a church, we recently shared a significantly revised draft of our updated vision. Here we want to tell you a little more about what our new core values....

We recently shared a revised draft of our updated vision, along with the mission that drives it, the core values that guide it, and the core commitments through which we will seek to advance it. Here we want to explain a little more about our new core commitments....

What is biblical exposition? And why is it so central to our gathered worship? These are the questions we’ll explore in this series of posts. We’ll start here with the first one: what is biblical exposition?...

Why is biblical exposition is necessary for the life and health of our congregation? Here is the first three reasons: it reflects a healthy doctrine of Scripture....

Part three of our series on what biblical exposition is and why it's necessary for the life and health of the church....

To take advantage of cooler mornings during the hot summer months, our Sunday worship service will begin at 9:30 am during the months of July and August. ...

Life Explored is an informal and relaxed seven-week course, designed for anyone who wants to find contentment and happiness in life. We will meet on Friday nights, 7:00-8:30 pm, beginning March 3....

The elders are inviting the congregation into a season of prayer, discernment, and planning in order to refocus our vision with greater clarity and specificity for the months and years ahead....

Join us for one of our two new adult Sunday School classes at 9:30 am: Parenting: Leadership from Love, and The Heart of the Reformation. Beginning Sunday, January 8....

God’s desire to dwell with his people is one of the most consistent themes of the entire biblical story. And the climax of that desire, what ultimately makes it possible for a holy God to dwell with sinful people, is the incarnation of Jesus Christ....

We need to see the world through a biblical lens--to affirm what is good and right, to reject what is false and wrong, and to show how the gospel tells a better story and answers the deepest longings of people in our time. This is what Trevin Wax will help us focus on during our 2017 Life on Mission Conference....

As the summer comes to a close, remember that our worship service will begin at 10:30 am starting this Sunday, Sept. 4, and will continue at that time through June....

Few truths are more celebrated in the church than the doctrine of substitutionary atonement. This is because few truths are more central to Christianity than the marvel that Jesus Christ died in our place (as a substitute) to pay the just penalty for our sin (atonement)....

Join us for Vacation Bible School and our Summer Celebration this July....

As we wrap our minds and hearts around this weekend’s tragedy in Orlando...

The goal of this meeting is to pray loyally, boldly, and expectantly for God open a door for the gospel here in the MetroWest....

As we recently said goodbye to our Student Minister, Lawrence Klingsheim, and commissioned him and Ashley for their new ministry in Minnesota, we wanted to update you on our student ministry leadership transition heading into 2016....

This week we say goodbye to our Student Minister, Lawrence Klingsheim, and his wife Ashley and daughter Ellie, as they move to Minnesota to pastor a church on the north shore of Lake Superior....

Wherever you are in your journey, the letters of John invite us to come home to God. Abide with him...

During our recent 40th anniversary celebration, we introduced a ministry strategy our elders have been working on to help us put our vision into practice more effectively in the years ahead...

The theme for our 2015 Missions Conference is “Unreached People Groups” ...

Membership in a local church is a healthy and important part of living out our faith and serving Christ together....

This prayer was offered by Mark Bauer, one of our elders, during our 40th anniversary celebration on Sept. 20, 2015....

Greetings from Sam and Esther Hollo...

This prayer was offered by David Brown, one of our elders, during our 40th anniversary celebration on September 20....

Join us Sunday, Sept. 20, as we celebrate 40 years of God's work in and through us....

Join us on Sundays at 9:30 for our Christian Education classes....

A lot of the common ideas people have today about heaven are not only rather dull and unexciting, but actually fall far short of being biblical....

Sunday services start at 10:30 beginning this Sunday, Sept. 2....

What difference does the gospel of Jesus actually make for our work? We won’t claim to sort everything out, but we do hope to find some clarity and direction as we focus on this subject beginning in August in our series, “The Gospel at Work.”...

Summer offers just the kind of breathing room we need, between the weight of academic deadlines and the flurry of extracurricular activities, to let ourselves reflect on a few deeper questions about life and school....

Don't forget that Sunday services begin at 9:30 throughout July and August....

In a church culture that is dominated by professional clergy and polished programs, it’s easy to think that when Jesus gave his Great Commission, he wasn’t really talking to me. But when we look to the Scriptures and listen to our Lord, we realize that disciple-making is for everyone....

A year-end letter from the Westgate Elders, looking ahead to 2015 and our renewed passion for making disciples....

The main application of Matthew's entire Gospel is our participation in the mission Jesus gives his church--to go and make disciples of all nations. What does that mean? What does that entail? How might we be faithful to that call personally, and also as a congregation here at Westgate? ...

I’m excited to invite men, young and old, to our upcoming Men’s Conference, here at Westgate on Nov. 14-15. The conference is hosted by the Metro West Men’s Ministry that we are part of, along with First Baptist Church in Sudbury, and Trinitarian Congregational Church in Wayland....

We will be holding a prayer gathering on behalf of Dr. Rick Sacra Thursday night, Sept. 4, at 7pm in the church parlor....

If you've been a part of Westgate for a while, you may have recently noticed a subtle change in the name of our small group ministry: home fellowships are now called home groups....

The goal of our recent Life on Mission Conference was to seek God to deepen our awe for him and his gospel, along with our passion and skill in living as missionaries wherever we live and work. Here are four specific prayer points from the conference that we can be praying together....

For the next forty days we are inviting the congregation to join together in prayer for gospel growth in and through us at Westgate....

The purpose of this conference is to help equip each of us to live on mission each day for Christ. Come hear Jared Wilson and Bland Mason help us see how the gospel of Jesus shapes and fuels that kind of mission....

The Annual Meeting of members for 2014 has been rescheduled to Wednesday, March 5, 2014, and will begin at 7:00 pm....

Over the past few months Brandon, Drew, and I have been envisioning the goals we’d like to set for 2014 in the growth of our Sunday morning worship service. One idea that we are excited to begin executing this month is the hymn of the month....

We want take time at the beginning of 2014 to think freshly about what it means for us to be the church, and what that means for Westgate in moving forward with our vision....

As the New Year approaches, we want to take the time once again to praise God for what he has accomplished in the year behind us, as well as look with expectation for what we pray he will do in the year ahead....

Here’s a little more information on why we have pew Bibles, why it was time to update them, and why we replaced them with a different translation than what we had before....

Due to the current winter storm, the snow accumulation forecast, and poor road conditions, we have cancelled Sunday School and our worship service for Sunday, December 15. ...

Part four of our series on what biblical exposition is and why it's necessary for the life and health of the church....

The Westgate Prayer Shawl Ministry is group of ladies who wish to glorify God by using their needlework talents to love and support others....

Just a reminder that beginning Sept. 15, Christian Education classes will begin at 9:30am...

For a variety of reasons, a number of church-goers remain on the fringe for years, attending (even serving) but not joining a local church. For this reason, here are four invitations to those who remain on the fringe, in hopes of encouraging you to take the step of church membership....

Stop by the Cry Room (Rm. 201) after the worship service this Sunday, May 5, or Sunday, May 19, to get your picture taken for our new photo directory....

Special events in light of this week's tragic bombing in Boston....

Being a missionary requires intentionality. If you were going to serve in a faraway country, you’d spend months â€" maybe even years â€" planning, preparing, learning the language, and designing a long-term strategy. Why wouldn’t you live with that same sort of intentionality as a missionary in your own neighborhood?...

As we celebrate the hope that's found in Jesus Christ's life, death, and resurrection, please join us for any of our gatherings this Holy Week....

Whatever we do, if we are reflecting Jesus and bringing glory to His name, we are worshiping....

As we prepare our hearts to reflect freshly on the power of the cross and the hope of the resurrection at Easter, we want to commit the Lenten season to prayer as a congregation....

With our services cancelled this morning due to winter storm Nemo, I thought I would share a few thoughts on how we might serve God this Lord’s Day even though we’re unable to gather for corporate worship....

One of my prayers for Westgate during 2013 is that God would move us to finally make a pivot outward in the direction of our ministry efforts, in accordance with of our vision to be a gospel-centered community living each day on mission for Christ....

A summary of our January vision series and a call to prayer in the months ahead....

I don’t have all the answers to the questions that plague our current culture of worship in the Christian church, but I would love to share a bit of what God has revealed to me about worship through my experience as a music leader in the church....

Please join us at 9:30 am this Sunday (Jan. 20) as we talk and pray together about some of the practical implications of moving toward our vision as a church....

To start the new year, we’re going to take a short break from our Matthew series and focus on the vision we adopted as a congregation one year ago: to be a gospel-centered community living each day on mission for Christ....

If you missed one of the sermons from our Ecclesiastes series, you can find both audio and notes on our website....

Our annual missions conference at Westgate is just around the corner. ...

Our annual All-Church Retreat at Sandy Island is coming up Sept. 7-9. We hope you'll consider joining as we rest, have fun, get to know one another better as a church, and spend time in God's Word, that we might see, trust, and treasure Jesus as he has made himself known to us in the Old Testament Scriptures....

Ecclesiastes lends itself particularly well to engaging those interested in exploring the faith, and here are four reasons why....

Join us and bring your friends and neighbors to come wrestle with life through the honest yet hopeful lens of Ecclesiastes....

Whether you're visiting us for the first time, or a member checking out the new digs, we hope you'll find our new website fresh and even more useful than before....