Connections
We are so grateful there are ways to get and stay connected at WestArk!
Below are wonderful opportunities to invite friends both new and old to join us as we fellowship and study
together! If you have a group that is meeting and not listed here, please let us know if you’d like to share your group. If you would like help to get your group online or get a new group started, we’d be happy to help! Contact dena@westark.org. God made us to be creative and resourceful, so it’s a beautiful thing to see how you are doing just that to get and stay connected as a family!
KidMin Groups
NURSERY
Sunday Mornings - 9:30AM (Downstairs - Preschool Wing)
Also available during worship (10:30AM)
Contact Melody Priester at mprieste@fortsmithschools.org
2 YEAR OLD CLASS
Sunday Mornings - 9:30AM (Downstairs - Preschool Wing)
Contact Melody Priester at mprieste@fortsmithschools.org
FLOCK (3yrs - 1st grade)
Sunday Mornings - 9:30AM (Downstairs - Preschool Wing)
Wednesday Night - 6:30PM (Upstairs)
Contact Melody Priester at mprieste@fortsmithschools.org
LOFT (2nd - 4th Grade)
Sunday Mornings - 9:30AM (Upstairs - Loft Room)
Wednesday Night - 6:30PM (Upstairs)
Contact Alyssa Benjamin at alyssa@westark.org
B56 (5th - 6th Grade)
Sunday Mornings - 9:30AM (Upstairs - B56 Room)
Wednesday Night - 6:30PM (Upstairs - B56 Room)
Contact Karen Benjamin at kkbenjamin68@gmail.com
WAYG (West-Ark Youth Group)
Contact Rick Odell at rick@westark.org
Sunday Morning - 9:30AM - Upstairs in the WAYG Room
Wednesday Night - 6:30PM - Upstairs in the WAYG Room
Sunday Morning Adult ClassES - 9:30AM
THRIVE - VARIOUS TEACHERS
Room 100 just off the Foyer
Thrive is a good group for anyone college-aged to middle-aged (wherever you think that is) who enjoys more discussion-based classes, and sharing life experiences.
Contact Robert Benjamin at roberteugenebenjamin@gmail.com or Taylor Wehunt at stwehunt@outlook.com.
AUDITORIUM CLASS - VARIOUS TEACHERS
Beginning September 4
Kevin Roberts will lead a class entitled People of Faith. We will be looking at the individuals in Hebrews that make up the great cloud of witnesses and why God called them faithful. It will be designed to see how we can also be called faithful people of God.
Onsite in the auditorium and Online at westark.org/audclass
Contact Chris Benjamin at chris@westark.org
MOCS (MOTHERS OF COLLEGE STUDENTS) - Resumes in August
Annex
This class is designed to support our college students with encouragement and to let them know their church family is praying for them. We also support each other as parents learning to parent adult children with God’s help. If your child’s address has changed at school, or if they are starting college, please let Carol Evans know at candb3@yahoo.com
JOHN & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE CLASS - JOHN PRIESTER & TED KNIGHT
ROOM 211
Come join us upstairs across from the WAYG (youth group) room as we explore the letter Paul wrote to the church in Rome. (Based on the Book If God Is For Us)
Contact John at johnpriester76@yahoo.com or Ted at hontak@hotmail.com
BEING A LIGHT AFTER A DARK YEAR - DAVID BURNS
Annex Conference Room
Join us as we discover together how to reflect the light of our Savior after what has been a really tough year for many.
Contact David Burns at burns396@cox.net
Wednesday Night Adult ClassES
RIGHTEOUSNESS, JUSTICE, STEADFAST LOVE AND MERCY - Jim Wilson
6:30PM - ROOM 211 (upstairs)
A textual study of "righteousness, justice, steadfast love and mercy" beginning in the Old Testament and carrying it into the New Testament. We will use an "Inductive Bible Study" approach utilizing "Observation, Investigation and Application."
Contact Jim Wilson at jimwilson@outlook.com
LADIES' BIBLE STUDY
6:30PM - Annex
This study will be based on the book A Light in the Darkness by Cassandra Martin.
Contact Meg Canfield at mcanfield001@gmail.com
ONLINE STUDY - Andy Stanley - RightNow Media (Study Facilitated by Scott James)
As children, many of us received a leather-bound book full of long words and difficult names we couldn’t pronounce. We were told everything in it was true and we should do our best to abide by its teachings. Then we grew up. What was oh-so-simple then is . . . well, it’s not simple. Perhaps that’s because we were taught Bible stories but not the story of the Bible. Big difference. In this 4-part series, Andy Stanley gives us a way to approach the Bible that begins with something other than “in the beginning . . .”
6PM (Online - Zoom info shared in WestArk's Facebook Group each week)
Contact Dena Jenkins at dena@westark.org
Celebrate Recovery
Monday Evenings - 6PM
Onsite - Contact Larry at goatroper3950@yahoo.com, Donna Roper at jolleygamma@yahoo.com or
Chris Benjamin at chris@westark.org
monthly Care group
Every second Friday at noon
Annex
Contact Sedalia Douglas at Sedalia.douglas@yahoo.com
WoW (Widows or Widowers) Monthly Meal
First Saturday of the month (date can vary)
Location and time of day varies
Contact Robin Webber at laurarobin1963@yahoo.com
monthly Men's Breakfast
Every first Saturday - 8:30AM
Calico County - Fort Smith
Contact Paul Shirley at pdshirley@sbcglobal.net
PageTurners Ladies Book Club
Every First Thursday Evening at 6PM
Contact Melody Priester at mprieste@fortsmithschools.org
monthly ladies' night out
Every last Thursday - 6PM
Location Varies
Contact Dena Jenkins at dena@westark.org