Friendship-West Baptist Church Ministry/Communities 

 Family & The Village 

​ARJ (Annette Reid-Jordan Adult Community) 
Members 55 and older together to grow in the Word and the will of God, to strengthen our fellowship within The West and with other churches, and to serve Christ and our community. We do service projects, fellowships, special events, travel excursions, Bible studies, and more. We also visit nursing homes, personal homes, and hospitals. 

Email: arjseniors@friendshipwest.org 
Ministry Leader: Clyde Edwards 

​Meeting Days & Times: (see below) 
1st Tuesdays - Noon Bible Study 
2nd Tuesdays - 2:00 p.m. Nursing Homes Fellowship (Williamsburg Village) 
3rd Wednesdays – 10:30 a.m. Nursing Home Fellowship (Laurenwood) 
4th Tuesdays - Noon Birthday Fellowship  Ministry Leader: Clyde Edwards 
​OBLACC - (Operation Brothers Loving African Church and Community) 
Operation BLACC (Brothers Loving the African-American Church & Community), or OBLACC, develops and disciples men age 18 and older for leadership and ministry in the home, church, and community. 

Ministry Leader: Pastor James L. Fitzgerald 
Email: oblacc@friendshipwest.org 

​Meeting Days & Times: Mondays at 6:30 p.m. 
CHOSEN Generation Youth Ministry
The C.H.O.S.E.N. Generation Youth Ministry (CHOSEN) connects young people to Jesus Christ, equips them to fight for justice, and empowers them to build the beloved community. Youth Church is the 1st & 3rd Sundays of each month during both worship services.

​Ministry Leader: Juanita Allen
Email: CHOSEN@friendshipwest.org

Meeting Days & Times: 1st Saturdays at 12:00 noon
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Women of the West (WOW) 
The Women of the West (WOW) Ministry Community serves all the women of Friendship West and provides support for Ashanti, our girls mentoring ministry. We address relevant issues for women including gender justice. We study and apply God’s Word and we build the Beloved Community through friendship and service. 

Ministry Leaders: Karen Williams, Michelle Smith & Lauren Franklin 
Email: wow@friendshipwest.org 

​Meeting Day & Times: 1st & 3rd Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. 
​Covenant Keepers Marriage Community
We equip and empower people to live out marvellous marriages that glorify God, that deepen marital bonds, that strengthen families, and that develop beloved community. We provide dynamic discussions, engaging fellowships, exciting activities, and enriching Bible encounters. Nearl weds (people considering marriage), newlyweds, and persons married for decades are welcome and wanted.

Ministry Leader: Open

​Email: marriage@friendshipwest.org
Working Sessions: 1st Mondays at 6:30 p.m.
Discipleship Sessions: 1st & 3rd Mondays – Marvellous Marriage Mondays at 7:00 p.m.
DISCOVER Children's Community
DISCOVER helps children & parents to develop as Disciples who love & live for the Lord 24/7/365! We provide an environment that's safe, fun, Christ-centered, culturally relevant, and excellent!

Ministry Leaders: LaTonia Banks & Portia Ingram
Email: discover@friendshipwest.org

Orientation: 4th Sundays, 9:45 AM in room C105
Children’s Church (6 months – 5th grade): 1st, 2nd, & 3rd Sundays during each service. Check in Central is in room C106. Childcare is available in the ECC during Sunday service times when Children’s Church is not ministering.

Growth & Development

F.A.I.M.
FAIM is a liberation ministry that helps leads people to financial freedom through God's Word. Our objective is for you to gain freedom from debt, so you can have a better relationship with God, serve and work on God's call on your life, and be able to use your resources to further your community.

Ministry Leader: Donna Henry
Email: faim@friendshipwest.org ​
Generation NEXT
​The N.E.X.T. Generation College Ministry (Generation N.E.X.T.) enhances the spiritual life and collegiate experience of college students. We serve as a support system and resource to help maximize their academic achievements and preparation for life.

Ministry Leader: Pastor David Malcolm McGruder
Email: gennext@friendshipwest.org
DIOP Ministry Community
The Disciples in Ongoing Preparation (D.I.O.P.) Community embraces and mentor’s young men, ages 13-18. We train and mentor young men to be spiritually mature, emotionally stable, mentally excellent, culturally dignified, socially aware, physically fit, and financially free for the benefit of themselves, their DIOP brothers, their families, their church, and their community.

Ministry Leader: Benjamin Jackson
Email: diop@friendshipwest.org

​Meeting Days & Times: Mondays at 6:30 p.m.
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Singles Ministry Community
The Singles Ministry Community provides spiritual growth, fellowship opportunities, comfort in crisis, & support in connecting singles with their God-ordained purposes. We minster to persons 25 & older in our church or in the community who were never married or are not presently married.

​Ministry Leader: Minister Newtonia Hemphill
Email: singles@friendshipwest.org
ASHANTI Ministry Community
The Ashanti Ministry Community develops young ladies, ages 8 -18, into the strong women God has called them to be. These young ladies are assigned ladies as mentors for guidance and life lessons relevant to their everyday lives.

Ministry Leader: Monique Broadnax
Email: ashanti@friendshipwest.org

​Meeting Days & Times: 2nd & 4th Mondays at 6:30 p.m. Mentors Meeting: 3rd Mondays at 6:30 p.m.
Ministers-In-Training (M.I.T.)
The Ministers in Training (MIT) Community helps train FWBC ministers for full-time or bi-vocational ministry. We supplement their formal training by providing personal development, Afrocentric instruction, and practical experience in preparation.

Ministry Leader: Pastor James L. Fitzgerald
Email: adavis@friendshipwest.org (for initial meeting)

​Meeting Days & Times: 1st & 3rd Saturdays, 8:30 a.m. – 10 a.m.

Guest Services

Café West Breakfast
Café West serves delicious breakfasts and warm hospitality between services on Sundays. We provide a space in the Willie Wilson Banquet Hall for guests and members to meet, to greet, and to fellowship with the beloved community. Serving here may require some lifting and labor.

Ministry Leader: Angel Robinson
Email: cafewest@friendshipwest.org
Hospitality Ministry Community
The Hospitality Community creates an atmosphere of fantastic friendliness and helpful hospitality for each and every worshiper and guest. We are wonderful welcomers, eager escorts, and super sources of information. We serve on Sundays and special events.
Ministry Leader: Chiquitha Moore & Desmond Patterson

Email: hospitality@friendshipwest.org
Meeting Days & Times: 2nd Saturdays at 10:00 a.m.
Ushers Ministry Community
Ushers help guests and attendees find seating as they enter the auditorium. We help everyone to feel welcome, wanted, and comfortable. We also guide traffic flow when attendees have to move en masse during services and programs or in case of emergencies.

Ministry Leader: Melvin Peoples
Email: ushers@friendshipwest.org

Meetings: Adult Ushers meet 2nd Mondays at 7:00 p.m. Junior Ushers meet 2nd Saturdays at 9:00 a.m.
Service Times: Adult Ushers serve 1st, 2nd, 3rd, & 5th Sundays at both services Junior Ushers serve only the 11:00 a.m. service on 2nd Sundays
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Café West: Narthex
Café West serves delicious refreshments and warm hospitality for guests and members. We provide the space in the narthex to meet, to greet, and to fellowship with the beloved community on Sundays and for special events. Serving here may require lifting and labor.

Ministry Leader: Cornelious Caldwell
Email: cafewest@friendshipwest.org
The Park (Parking Lot Ministry Community)
We are the first to show friendship and love to guests and members. We eagerly direct traffic, excitedly assist or answer general questions, and enthusiastically lead and help first time visitors to visitor parking, to the building, and to their cars again.

Ministry Leader: Open
Email: parking@friendshipwest.org
Visitor Response Team
We help receive our visitors, answer their questions, and, introduce them more fully to our church family’s ministry and movement. We invite visitors not only to worship with us again but to also be a part of the family of faith called Friendship-West!

Ministry Leader: Dana Chambers
Email: wwhite@friendshipwest.org

Meeting Days & Times: Sundays at 8:00 a.m. & Wednesdays at 6:00 p.m.
Transportation Ministry Community
The Transportation Ministry Community provides transportation on Sundays as needed to and from our campus with persons who are safe and courteous drivers.

Ministry Leader: Cornell Towns
Email: ctowns@friendshipwest.org

Meeting Days & Times: Every 2nd Saturdays of the month 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Health & Wholeness

Comforters
The Comforters Ministry Community offers counseling and practical biblical application to help the congregation and community during a difficulty, after a loss, or through a crisis spiritually, emotionally and physically.

Ministry Leader: Larry Riggs
Email: comforters@friendshipwest.org

Meeting Days & Times: 4th Saturdays at 10:00 a.m.
Healthcare
The Healthcare Community provides healthcare services to bless our congregation and community. By the power of the Holy Spirit, we make a difference holistically and spiritually by sharing our gifts, our skills, and our education.

Ministry Leader: LaBaron Coleman
Email: healthcare@friendshipwest.org

Meeting Days & Times: 1st Saturday at 12:00 p.m.
Voices That Shout (VTS)
The Voices That Shout (VTS) Ministry Community supports women who have been traumatized by domestic violence and abuse. We provide crisis referrals, education, advocacy, and healing. It also serves men and family members who have been affected by domestic violence and abuse. Members and friends who seek gender justice, who want to build healthy relationships, or who want to break the cycle of abuse are welcome.

​Ministry Leader: Diane Searcy
Email: shout@friendshipwest.org

Meeting Days: 2nd Saturdays at 11:00 a.m.

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GAAP
The GAAP (God Adores & Answers Prayer) Prayer Community encourages enables, and inspires a lifestyle of effective prayer. We facilitate prayer experiences and by educate about prayer.

Ministry Leader: Minister Teresa Alexander
Email: gaap@friendshipwest.org

Meeting Days & Times: 1st Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m.

Prayer time: Monday - Friday at 5:30 a.m. (Prayer Line: 712-432-3900, access code 122330#)
Bereavement Ministry Community
The Bereavement Ministry Community helps families after death to lay their loved ones to rest. We provide comfort, care, support, and services to those who have experienced loss through death. For services, please call our Pastoral Care Hotline at
972-228-7241.

Ministry Leader: Una Howard
Email: bereavement@friendshipwest.org

Meeting Days & Times: 2nd Mondays at 6:30 p.m.
Be Made Whole (BMW) Counseling Ministry
The Be Made Whole (BMW) Counseling Ministry supports mental health in our families, ministries, church, and community through training and appropriate intervention opportunities. This ministry is open to counselors and those interested in training to offer support to people who have experienced trauma.

Ministry Leader: Shun Colter
Email: bmwcc@friendshipwest.org

Meeting Days: 4th Thursdays at 7:00 p.m.
Sports & Recreation Ministry Community
Sports & Recreation shares training, activities, and opportunities to encourage a holistic, healthy lifestyle as well as to inspire vibrant community relationships for people of all ages.

Ministry Leader: Pastor David Malcolm McGruder
Email: sports@friendshipwest.org

​Meeting Days & Times: Exercise Class Mondays & Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m. Swing Out Dance Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. Yoga at the West Saturdays at 10:00 a.m.

Linking Up

Baptism Ministry Community
The Baptism Community conducts baptism classes and oversees baptism ceremonies.

Ministry Leader: Jackie Frugie
Email: baptism@friendshipwest.org

Meeting Days: 2nd Mondays at 6:30 p.m.
First Friends Ministry Community
First Friends call & contact New Members to connect them to the life and culture of Friendship-West. First Friends connect with people from the time that they join FWBC to the time that they actively connect to our beloved community.

Ministry Leader: Terrence Ray
Email: firstfriends@friendshipwest.org

Meeting Days: 2nd Sundays at 1:15 p.m.
Connection Center Community
The Connection Center Community (C3) provides training, interviews, and coaching to help connect people to their purpose through the ministries and the movement of FWBC. We also staff the information center where people connect to the events, activities, values, ministries, procedures, resources, and life of Friendship-West.

Ministry Leader: Cecelia Criner & Portia Ingram
Email: ConnectMe@friendshipwest.org
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Decision Counselors Ministry Community
Decision Counselors help people to make a genuine spiritual decision leading to authentic discipleship relationships with God thru Jesus Christ. We pray with people and help them take their first steps to discipleship.

Ministry Leader: Minister A. D. Brown
Email: decision@friendshipwest.org

Meeting Days: 2nd Saturdays at 9:00 a.m.
New Members Education Ministry Community
New Members Education teaches orientation and onboarding classes for new members. These sessions help New Members to take the next steps for discipleship, to comprehend our culture, and to begin to connect authentically to the beloved community.

Ministry Leader: Monica Dearion
Email: orientation@friendshipwest.org

​Orientation Classes: 9:30 a.m. on 1st & 3rd Saturdays and 10:30 a.m. on 1st & 3rd Sundays
Data Entry Team
The Data Entry Team helps enter and maintain information for the Friendship-West database.

Ministry Leader: Desiree Robinson
Email: ConnectMe@friendshipwest.org
eMember Community
The eMember community is an opportunity for those who connect with us online to become more fully integrated into the life of Friendship West. From officially joining Friendship West, to participating in in our online orientation and church projects, this community is designed to support each eMember as they join us in creating the Beloved Community.

Ministry Leaders: Anthony Cobb & Jenna Cobb
Email: emember@friendshipwest.org

Merch/Sales & Audio Visual

Media Sales
Media Sales Ministry sells FWBC media and merchandise onsite locally and online worldwide. We also provide ministry resources to those who are homebound, incarcerated, and unable to attend services physically.

Ministry Leader: Stella Allen
Email: sallen@friendshipwest.org

Meeting Days & Times: Sundays at 8:00 a.m. & Wednesdays at 6:00 p.m.
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III Pyramids Bookstore
III Pyramids bookstore sells products and merchandise that helps develop disciples and helps cultivate beloved community. Our products support our Christian growth, personal development, and social awareness.

Ministry Leader: Beverly Carter-Hawkins
Email: bookstore@friendshipwest.org
Media Ministry
The Media Ministry provides audio and video services for worship services and special events, both onsite and offsite, especially during Sunday Worship Services and Wednesday Night Bible Studies. We strive to serve our online worshipers so creatively and excellently that they feel like they are onsite with us. We welcome persons from age 13 and up to join our game-changing ministry!

AV Director: Vernon “Snoop” Robinson Email: vrobinson@friendshipwest.org
Ministry Leader: Edward Perry & Regina Foster
Email: Media@friendshipwest.org

Meeting Days & Times: Tuesdays & Thursdays at 7:00 p.m.

Social Action ​

On A Mission (OAM) Ministry Community The On A Mission (OAM) Community serves the homeless community in southern Dallas. We call them VIPS, or Victory in Progress of Souls. We provide food,
clothing, Christ-centered teaching, supportive personal connections, and related services. We give our VIPS the VIP treatment through inclusive gatherings and agape love, regardless of their physical, mental, or financial circumstances.

Ministry Leader: Quilmeka Creeks
Email: oamurban@friendshipwest.org

​Meeting Days & Times: 2nd Saturdays at 8:30 a.m.
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Social Justice
The Social Justice Ministry Community fights in the public square for an equitable society. We use social activism to help people who are impacted by injustice and we equip people who have a heart to exercise their faith in public life with the necessary resources to transform society.

Ministry Leader: Pastor Danielle Ayers
Email: justice@friendshipwest.org

​Meeting Days & Times: 1st Saturday at 9:00 a.m.
TL Bonds Safety Community
The TL Bonds Safety Community (TL Bonds or Safety) strives to maintain a safe environment. We provide training and safety services. We also strive to be a witness for Christ and to be model members of Friendship-West Baptist Church.
Ministry Leader: Rev. Jerry Smith
Email: safety@friendshipwest.org
Meeting Days: 1st Sundays before service

The Arts 

Music Ministry
We glorify God and heighten the worship experience through song. We use spirituals, anthems, traditional, and contemporary gospel to give the Word of God musical meaning. This ministry includes the AG Ensemble, Mass Choir, Sanctuary Choir, OMG Choir, J. C. Holmes Male Chorus, Women’s Chorus, Praise Team, along with the Selah Youth Choir & Youth Praise Team and the Children’s Choir & Children’s Praise Team.

Ministry Leader: Saul Gates
Email: sgates@friendshipwest.org

Meeting Days: Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:30 p.m.
Praise D.A.N.C.E.
Girls, youth, and women age 5 and older use artistic movement and dance to worship God and to share the good news about Lord Jesus Christ. We minister on during FWBC worship services and during special occasions at FWBC and elsewhere.

Ministry Leader: Krislynn Henderson
Email: praisedance@friendshipwest.org

​Meeting Days: The Adult Ministry meets on Mondays at 6:30 p.m.
*The Children/Preteens and Youth Ministry meets on Thursdays at 6:30 p.m.
Youth Drama Ministry
The Youth Drama Ministry provides an opportunity for youth to develop their dramatic talents, to express their creative gifts, and to enhance the Youth Church worship experience. We work with the Worship and Arts Committee minister through drama.

Ministry Leader: Willie Boswell
Email: CHOSEN@friendshipwest.org

Meeting Days & Times: 1st & 3rd Mondays at 7:00 p.m.
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Ephphatha~Deaf Action Ministry
We teach and use American Sign Language to help the deaf and hearing impaired worship God and understand the Word of God. We help to bridge the gap between deaf culture and hearing culture.

Ministry Leader: Chloe Dawson & Nakia Edwards
Email: ephphatha@friendshipwest.org
Meeting Days & Times: 2nd Saturdays at 9:00 a.m.
Drama Ministry
We glorify God and add to the worship experience through skits, narrations, and other dramatic expressions to help people experience the power and relevance of the Word of God.

Ministry Leader: Gloria Shellman
Email: drama@friendshipwest.org

​Meeting Days & Times: TBA
Selah Youth Choir
The Selah Youth Choir provides an opportunity for youth to develop their musical talents, to express their creative gifts, and to grow as leaders by ministering musically during worship services.

Ministry Leader: Dre Keeling
Email: selah@friendshipwest.org

Meeting Days & Times: Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m.
Youth Ministry Praise Team
The Youth Praise Team helps to set an atmosphere of worship. We provide an opportunity for youth to develop musical talents, express their creative gifts, and lead in praise and song in Youth Church worship.

Ministry Leader: Dre Keeling
Email: CHOSEN@friendshipwest.org

Meeting Days & Times: Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m.