Hi everyone. What’s up with the Wests..?
- Recent travel and ministry
- Molly rocks 50
- Summer ministry trip
- and… Being new grandparents!
Hello!
What a year so far! How did we get to June already? 2025 has already been full of work afar, work locally, and fun surprises. In the last three months we have been to Texas to teach classes in a church’s Leadership College, then to Oklahoma to meet our the newest “West”. In May, Molly turned 50 in style, followed by Jeremy taking trips to Mexico and Hawaii to teach leaders, staff, and students. We also graduated another Discipleship school here in Montana after their outreaches to Thailand and Papua New Guinea.
I (Jer) love teaching; not simply on passing knowledge, but helping to establish long term development in individuals. When some good friends who pastor a large church in Dallas invited me to teach in their leadership college, I was honored and eager to accept (https://churcheleven32.com). Molly and I both went and had a very fruitful 3 days with them. The work that this church, their interns, and leadership students are doing in the city among the low income, poor, and residential communities is inspiring. And for me, working with both existing and emerging leaders is at the center of my wheelhouse. But, what could be more important than that? Perhaps meeting our new grandson!
From Dallas we drove up to Oklahoma City to meet little Wilder David West. What a treat! He is a bundle of communicating and engaging joy. After Wilder’s rough start – 9 days in the NICU with a collapsed lung, being fed via a tube, and unable to be held – he bounced back beautifully. He is a fat little bundle of happiness now😊. Mum and Dad are doing well too. They really rose to the challenge of a new baby, NICU schedules, sleep deprivation, and most importantly, loving each other and their new addition. For us, holding our son’s baby was both wonderful, and surreal to say the least (Thank the Lord for Facetime and videos!).
From there it was back to Montana and work as usual, including another graduating Discipleship school, reports from Thailand and ministry from the YWAM ship Liberty in PNG. In May I was again off for an intense week of leadership development training, teaching at a large YWAM campus in Tijuana Mexico. Two weeks later, I was in Kona Hawaii to teach a week at their Ships DTS.
Throughout this time, Molly and I have been attending Zoom meetings with the staff and students of the upcoming Leadership Training School (LTS) in Kona, Hawaii. As many of you will already know Molly and I part of the staff team for that school; a true privilege and milestone for the Mission as Darlene Cunningham, co-founder of the Mission, will be leading that with two other leaders. We head out from Montana for a two-month commitment early July, followed by two months remote staffing/school after we return to Montana. So many of you out there have been so generous and supportive in helping us to make this event a reality for us. Thank you! This school will literally have impact in regions across the globe, with almost 300 younger campus and ministry leaders within YWAM coming from locations across 6 continents.
Here in Montana, Summer has “officially/unofficially” arrived. We are (finally!) having some fantastic weather. While many of our far-off-friends seem to mock us for the difficult task of working in Hawaii soon, those in Montana are strangely silent; for they understand what it means to leave Montana in the Summer and go to the hot and humid pacific instead! We wait all year for our precious Montana summer here!
As always, thank you for following along in our mission-journey, and partnering with everything we are doing. We are a team: we do what we can do where we are, and you all do what you can do where you are. Together a difference is happening.
Love and blessings, Jeremy and Molly
GoWests! 