Also, you will probably see a church-wide email go out talking about Harry Chanzu. Harry is an African man from Kenya who has been attending WestK for about 6 months now. To put a long story short, the eldership and I approached Harry to see what we can do to help his family (wife and 2 children) move to the USA from Kenya. They have been separated as a family for the past 2 and a half years and he has 3 more years on his PhD. to go. We want to bless him. Well, within the last month, God has leveled all the hurdles that would have kept his family from moving here to be together. Harry has already obtained the visas for his family and has everything in order and now the last thing is to buy plane tickets for his family. I priced them out to be roughly $3,000 total ($1000 per ticket). I brought Harry on stage yesterday and he and I had a conversation for about 15 minutes. Our people responded very well. Then I asked our people to get involved and then asked that we would be generous as a church family. So far we have collected a little over $1000 of the $3,000. I'm hoping to receive more the next 2 weeks. If you would like to participate with us in this, please send checks to WestK with "Helping Harry" in the memo. Later this week we will be sending out more information on how you can get involved in this process with West. If you have any questions please feel free to call me at the church office (269-375-2202).
Lastly, I want to let you all know we had 10 people go through our membership class last week. Well, this has sparked the eldership to wanting to communicate this material to the whole congregation and explaining what is the church and defining church membership. So starting in May I am planning on doing a sermon series called "Why Church." I'm very much looking forward to this!
