Care, support, and healing
Looking for Help?
If you or someone you know is facing difficulties, our Care ministry is here to provide support. You don't have to face your challenges alone—let us know how we can care for you.
One-on-One Care
Care Advisors offer short-term, confidential care for many of life’s common issues by means of biblical perspective, practical direction, empathic listening, and prayer.
Prayer
Do you have a personal or confidential need you would like prayer for? Your prayer request will be received with compassion and prayed for by our dedicated prayer team.
Financial Assistance
Our benevolence ministry exists to live out the good news of Jesus by holistically and practically assisting and encouraging our members and connected neighbors.
Care, Support, and Healing
Atlanta Westside maintains an extensive, carefully vetted network of counselors and mental health professionals we can recommend to meet your specific needs. Whether you're seeing individual, couple, family, or specialized care—grief, trauma, addiction, or faith-integrated counseling—we will help connect you with trusted professionals for your needs.
If finances are keeping you from seeing a counselor, we would love to get you started. Apply for a Counseling Subsidy.
Care & Support Life Groups
Family Advocacy Ministry
Vulnerable children need strong families. Strong families that bring in a child from foster care or through adoption need help. As the church, we get to be a bigger, stronger family and support those who need it. The Family Advocacy Ministry (FAM) of Atlanta Westside exists to serve vulnerable children and their families by: Praying for foster and adoptive children and their families Raising awareness around the the topic of foster care and adoption Providing a caring community, resources, and support for families Ministering to families to help meet emotional and spiritual needs Whether you’re a foster or adoptive family and looking for support, or you have a heart for vulnerable children and would like to learn more, we’d love to connect. Sign up for our group!
Overeaters Anonymous
Overeaters Anonymous (OA) is a community of people who support each other to recover from compulsive eating and food behaviors. We welcome everyone who feels they have a problem with food (overeating, over-exercising, undereating, binging/purging, restricting, bulimia). No dues or fees. OA meets on Thursdays at 6:00p at Atlanta Westside Presbyterian Church contact Mary @ 678-596-5886 or oaatlwest@gmail.com More information https://oa.org/ or oaatlanta.org
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Meet the Care team
Get to know the dedicated individuals on the Care team.
Josh Kim
Pastor of Care
Anne Henegar
Director of Spiritual Formation
Rachel Zietlow
Discipleship and Care Coordinator
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Safe Church Policy and Abuse Prevention Guidelines
Atlanta Westside is committed to protecting the vulnerable, caring for survivors, and holding those who abuse power accountable for sexual, physical, emotional or spiritual misconduct; to educating our leadership, staff, and members relating to such matters; and to establishing reporting and response procedures relating to these issues.
Frequently asked questions
Find answers to common questions about our church services, beliefs, and membership.
We highly recommend you join a neighborhood Community Group. Check out our Next Steps page to explore different Community Groups.
Grace Groups offer just that! They are meant to draw you into life-on-life discipleship and mutually encouraging friendship. Ready to sign up?
Westside's Meals Ministry is a great way to serve behind the scenes. Our Meals Ministry Team is dedicated to providing care and support to those in our community who need it most.
Whether it's welcoming a new baby, helping during an illness, or offering comfort during a difficult time, we assist with meals to bring a bit of relief and love. Serving behind the scenes in this way is a simple yet powerful way to show Christ's love to others. For more information, whether you're interested in serving, need meals or know someone who could use some help, please please reach out to Valerie Palmer and she will help get you connected.
We recommend two options:
- Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: we offer it every fall starting in September and it's just a 9-week course that unpacks core Biblical principles that leads to lasting, beneath-the-surface transformation in your relationship with Christ.
- Bible study: we offer two Bible studies each year, starting in September and then again in February on Wednesday mornings and evenings.
We have several opportunities to get plugged in, ranging from discipleship groups, serving groups, missions groups and more! For a list of opportunities, head over the Groups page.