WEST SIDE YOUTH MINISTRY
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What We're About

Our Mission

We exist to love and engage students, share in Christ-centered community, and come alongside families to help cultivate in teens lives of authentic discipleship to Jesus. Simply put we...

Love. Share. Disciple.

Our Values

We are a student ministry that Focuses on Jesus...
  • The number one goal in youth ministry is not huge numbers, event attendance, cool activities, powerful worship experiences, crazy games, or building a large stockpile of t-shirts. It is helping students develop a life of discipleship to Jesus. Further, to claim to be a disciple of Jesus without knowing about Jesus makes no sense. Therefore, it is our priority to help students learn about, embrace, and enjoy God though faithful obedience to Jesus. 
We are a student ministry that Nurtures a Mature Faith...
  • Spiritual maturity involves growing into the likeness of Jesus. Two marks of spiritual maturity are putting away childish concepts about God and putting away childish thinking in the way choices are made. As a student ministry, we strive to see students grow in those ways by digging deep into the Word and by challenging students to live out and cultivate a maturing faith.
We are a student ministry that Encourages Meaningful Relationships...
  • One of the awesome things about a community of believers is that God uses it — all of it — to nurture the separate parts of it. We can’t really understand Christian growth and maturity if we do not understand that dynamic. The Christian life is lived within the context of relationships — between parents and their children, between older and younger generations, between peers, etc. As a church it is one of our purposes to help each student — and really everyone — become mature in Christ. We do that by encouraging and nurturing meaningful relationships. 
We are a student ministry that Calls Students to Service...
  • God has called all Christians to faithful service and to a life of ministry. All of God’s people are missional people. This is true for teenage students as well as older adults. We also believe a ministry that equips students to become missionaries in their school, families, friends, and the world is a ministry that multiplies — making it a more fruitful ministry than one that merely seeks to add numbers. Therefore, it is our priority to cultivate in students the knowledge and instincts that lead them to reach out to a hurting world. Building in students a faith that lasts will always involve building in students a faith that serves.
We are a student ministry that Partners with Parents...
  • We believe we have been called to Youth Ministry…and parents, so have you! Experts agree that no other factor influences the spiritual development of a teenager more than parents. So, you may never hear us say anything more often than this - "The most important youth minister in your teen's life is YOU." Therefore, it is our priority to partner with parents and strive to equip them in discipling their teens.
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2300 West C St. (Office)
Russellville, AR 72801
(479) 968-1121
West Side Youth Ministry is a ministry of the 
West Side Church of Christ.
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