UPREACH INREACH OUTREACH

Pastor Todd Thomas, UPREACH Todd and his wife Sue live in Toledo, Ohio and call Westside Community Church their home. Todd is an ordained elder and serves as Worship Administrator and Worship Leader. Todd also pilots the prophetic voice of WCC through instruction and activation for the prophetic teams. Todd serves as an Apostlic Team leader for Apostolic Team Ministries and TriNet a regional network of Apostolic Team Ministries. In recent years Todd served Prophetic Christian Ministries in an administrative role as well as in gift ministries here at home and in other countries. Todd & Sue have a desire to see the Body of Christ encouraged and equipped to do His works and come to a greater knowledge of Jesus Christ.

Ministry of Upreach

UPREACH speaks of the direction to which we are stretching and extending ourselves. It focuses on our connecting with God. We are communicating on a vertical plane rather than a horizontal plane. We are pressing into the Lord himself. We are reaching up to the one we love. We are reaching up to the one who is the lover of our soul. Upreach is our first and foremost priority of purpose. Nothing else must be allowed to eclipse this priority. Jesus stated this very clearly in Luke 14:25-26.

(25)Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said:  (26)"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters-yes, even his own life-he cannot be my disciple."

Everything else in both the Christian’s life and the life of the church must serve this purpose. If we succeed at everything else yet fail at this then we are a complete failure.

The Ministry of Upreach has three major objectives:

1. The first objective is to focus the church on intimacy with the Lord. 1 Corinthians 6:17 says, "But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit." This produces a sense of security and significance.