Specialties
Westwinds is here to shadow God, build the church, and heal the world.
Shadowing God reminds us that we must stay in step with God's plan for us as individuals. We are never fully formed; we are always works-in-progress. That work progresses only by staying in step with the Spirit and being constantly malleable and edited by God.
Building the church means we recognize that Christian spirituality is not an individual sport. Church is plural, and God's purposes for reconciliation involve us sorting out our relationships with the people around us.
Healing the world connotes the fact that our salvation is neither privatized or communized, but expressed most faithfully in mission. We invite the Spirit to change us and to create a holy community of similarly simultaneously changing people, so that together we can effect change in the world.
Meet the Business Owner: David McDonald-John Voelz M.
David drinks coffee, studies, makes meetings fun, preaches the hell out of Jackson...
David's job at Westwinds is to teach, preach and cast vision...or, as some of our folks like to say, "he brings the heavy." David is a writer, an artist, a traveler, a photographer, a thinker, a dreamer, and an iconoclast.
John, besides the overall leadership of the church and staff with David, oversees everything you see, touch, taste, hear and smell in the building. Most people know John as the music guy, or the music and art guy, or the guy who does music and sometimes preaches, or the bald guy with the changing facial hair.
