Shane Westphal

Hello, my name is Shane Westphal.  My wife Rebecca and I are both from Southeast Wisconsin.  We have 3 children, Titus, Sawyer and Virginia (Ginny) Mae.  I moved here in June of 2011 when I took a job with the Stevens Point Fire Department as a Firefighter/Paramedic. Rebecca moved up here after we were married in October of 2011.  I continue to work at SPFD. 

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My wife and I have a passion for Missions.  Before we met, we both participated in short term missions and she also spent a year in Bolivia as a missionary teacher.   I was able to participate in missions that took gently used emergency equipment to second and third world countries.  At the same time, I taught pastors and lay people in those countries’ emergency services chaplaincy.  We love to serve the “least of these” and teach about Jesus.  I went to Ecuador with Community Church in January of 2019 and Rebecca and I both participated in the City on a Hill Mission in Milwaukee with Community Church in 2017.  We host a Community Group (small group bible study) at our house weekly. Rebecca and I both volunteer and serve with the local InterVarsity campus ministry at UWSP and she also volunteers with the Northeast Wisconsin region of IV.

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Other than my passion for Jesus and serving him, I have a passion for agriculture, as that was my career prior to fire and EMS. I enjoy raising pigs, honeybees, tapping maple trees, gardening, hunting, trapping and cross country skiing.  As my kids get older, it’s fun to see them enjoy God’s creation with me. 

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I am honored and humbled to serve God, His kingdom, and shepherd the people of Community Church as an elder.  God has placed a great responsibility on us as elders (Acts 20:28, 1 Timothy 3: 1-16, Titus 3: 1-7 just to name a few), and I don’t take that lightly.