Parkside Church Westside Blog

Welcome to Church Community Builder, a web-based church management software that we are using at Parkside Church Westside.

Worship is just Singing...Right? At a recent Core Team Gathering Mike Yurkovich helped us to think through the nature of worship. We often associate the word "worship", within the church, as the singing of praise. In many ways this is understandable but the Bible teaches us that all of...

Eat, Mingle, Pray For the Core Team Gathering scheduled on June 28 we are going to swtich up the format for the evening and do things poluck style. We'll provide the hamburgers and hot dogs and you bring along a dish to share. We think this causal time together to eat, mingle and pray will...

Eat Together

Posted by Matt McAlvey on May 27, 2015

Eating seems so obvious and it is. But it is also significant because sharing in a meal it is one of the primary ways in which we slow down and do life together.

Thank You to the University of Akron Lakewood Beginning in June we're moving to a new location for our Core Team Gatherings. We've been thankful for our time at The University of Akron Lakewood. Unfortunately, they are experiencing a personnel shortage and are stretched too thin to be able...

One Minute Survey

Posted by Matt McAlvey on May 01, 2015

Will you share what you're thinking? With six Core Team Gatherings under our belt, we have reached the midway mark to our launch goal! Now that you may have had a chance to check us out, we wanted to take a few moments to check the pulse on your commitment level. Will you take this brief...

Eight Ways to Experience Life Change with Others

Posted by Matt McAlvey on Apr 19, 2015

At a recent Core Team Gathering, Jonathan Holmes, helped us to be better thinking about life change. By life change we mean that through God's Spirit and our grace-empowered effort, we can make progress in turning away from the brokenness of sin and be transformed into people who love God...

Our Story Began in 1968

Posted by Matt McAlvey on Apr 07, 2015

We are a non-denominational Bible teaching church plant in partnership with Parkside Church, Chagrin Falls. Parkside began in 1968 as a small group of businessmen, committed to the preaching and teaching of God’s Word, met weekly for prayer and Bible study on Cleveland’s East Side.

How People Change Seminar

Posted by Matt McAlvey on Mar 18, 2015

We mentioned on Sunday evening that there is a two day seminar being offered at Parkside Church in Bainbridge that may be something you want to check out. Here's a little more about it: "Life is hard!" This seems to be a common refrain for the vast majority of people. Life is hard, which...

Top 10 Reasons to Join a Church Plant

Posted by Matt McAlvey on Feb 23, 2015

One of the items that we interacted with last evening at our Core Team Gathering was this list of Top 10 Reasons to Join a Church Plant, that I picked up via Justin Buzzards blog. This was a follow-up from having previously looked at reasons not to join a church...