WESTGATE CHURCH
2023 YEAR-End REVIEW

Dear WestGate Church,

As the New Year approaches, I’d like to invite you to reflect on some of the incredible work God has done in and through our church this past year and consider giving a year-end gift so that more men, women and children might learn and live the way of Jesus together.

I am so grateful for your partnership and faithfulness. Many of you have contributed your time, energy, and resources to help our church family faithfully play our part in God’s big unfolding story, both here at home and abroad. Because of your participation, alongside all we saw God do right here at Westgate, we were also able to give away more than $1.8 million dollars to further kingdom work in our city and around the world.

Thank you for faithfulness this past year. As we head into 2024, may we press forward in our mission to learn and live the way of Jesus together.

Grace, Peace, Love,

Jay Kim

THE CHALLENGE

1.87 million people live in Santa Clara County

ONLY 8% identify as HAVING A Protestant or Evangelical FAITH

The Bay Area ranks 1st among all major US metro areas in the number of
unchurched or de-churched residents

FROM DEATH TO LIFE

FROM ATTENDING TO BELONGING

FROM BELIEVING TO FOLLOWING

Gatherings

EQUIPPED AS FOLLOWERS OF JESUS

  • 241 people who attended our annual Marriage Conference:

  • 330 people who attended the Sexuality and Gender Conference:

  • 199 people who attended our Easter Walk with Jesus Experience

  • 670 people who attended the four Bible Lab Seminars:

EASTER 2023

Number of People Attended

  • 3,445 at all campuses

Christmas Eve 2023

Number of People Attended

  • 3,862 at all campuses

NEW PEOPLE DISCOVERING US ONLINE

GIVE HERE

This matters to us because people find us. The vast majority of people who come to attend WestGate say that they found us online first. This ‘digital front door’ is a key way to introduce ourselves to people.

  • 128,000 total visits to our website this year

  • 82,000 total unique visitors to our website this year

  • 124,388 total views on our YouTube channel

  • 3,848 followers on Instagram pages

  • 411 weekly podcast listeners (Weekly Sermon + AfterWord)

PARTNERSHIPS

PARTNERSHIPS

PARTNERSHIP WITH
WESTERN SEMINARY

This past year, WestGate Church entered into a partnership with Western Seminary, which moved its San Jose site to our South Hills Campus this past Fall. Western’s Counseling and Bay Area Cohort classes began meeting at the new location in September. This new partnership with Westgate Church allows Western to continue providing much-needed theological training for not only WestGate staff and lay leaders, but also ministry leaders across the Bay Area.

CHURCHES PLANTED + SUPPORTED

support and care

  • 15 engaged couples who received pre-marital counseling and mentoring

  • 30 people who participate weekly in support small groups for addiction, grief and trauma

  • 43 people who received counseling through our partnership with Christian Counseling Services

  • 21 mentors trained this year

  • 62 people who have gone through WestGate Church’s mentorship program

  • $45,000 given in benevolence assistance to individuals and families for immediate housing and food relief

  • $20,000 given to provide access to health care for 28 families who couldn’t afford it on their own

Next Generation

  • Children

    Nursery - 5th Grade

  • Teenagers

    Middle School - High School

local and global compassion

LOVING OUR NEIGHBORS IN OUR CITY

  • 20 Beautiful Day Projects in 2023 

  • 1300 Beautiful Day Volunteers

  • 6400 hours volunteers spent serving during Beautiful Day

LOVING OUR NEIGHBORS AROUND THE WORLD 

  • $56,549 given for Disaster Relief
    (Florida Hurricane Ian Relief, Turkey Earthquake Relief, Maui Fire Relief, Israel Conflict Relief)

  • $47,985 given for international and domestic Biblical Training(Pakistan, Honduras, Peru, Turkey, India and Local Prison Ministries) 

NATIONS SERVED BY OUR MISSIONARIES AND MINISTRY PARTNERS

by the numbers

Total Ministry Fund For 2023

Total Given outside of our walls in 2023

More Numbers to celebrate from 2023

Thank you for partnering with us in 2023

We continue to pray that God will use WestGate Church to impact even more people in 2024 for His kingdom. We invite you to partner with us by making an End-Of-Year donation that will go towards our WestGate ministries going forward.