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Music + Choir
The music ministry is the heartbeat of corporate worship at Northside. Music sets the tone for worship and our music staff and choir lead us in that responsibility. The chancel choir meets for practice on Wednesdays at 7pm.
Programs & Ministries
Interested in joining a program or serving in a ministry? Reach out to us and we will get you connected to the right people.
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Once a month, Northside gathers on a Wednesday night to share in food and fellowship. Whether it is a talent show, bingo or just sharing a meal together, our programing for the month will be on our main page.
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The Men’s Breakfast meets the first Tuesday of each month at 8am in the youth building for a meal, fellowship, and brief devotional.
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Previously called “The Senior Adult Luncheon,” members of the congregation along with others from the community meet for monthly luncheons with speakers, either for Bible Study, entertainment, or civic information. Meets at 11am on the third Tuesday of the month.
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A minitry of hospitality to the Clinton High School Football team on the Tuesday evenings during the football season. Members provide food and a safe space for the players to hang out. Contact James Stringer for more information.
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If you have a need that the church can meet please contact our coordinator Bart Mayfield by email, and she will connect the need with a helper who has the skills and availability to meet that need. Needs may include but are not limited to: meals, transportation, childcare, pet/house sitting, fix-it, technology, and lawncare.
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As a church body, we appreciate the beauty and value of all creatures. We are aware of the biodiversity declines both in our community and throughout the world. Losses of pollinators and the plants they depend on are alarming. Recognizing the value of intact ecological networks, we want to do our part to help by using our space in a way that is beneficial to biological communities. In January 2024, a 1.4-acre wildflower meadow was established with the goal of creating habitat for plants, insects, and birds. More here.
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Prayer is an essential part of life at Northside. Once every other week, our Prayer team meets to pray for our church, our community and the world as a whole. Contact Margaret Drummond for more information.
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Northside partners with many local non-profits as our primary missions connection. We encourage members to volunteer directly with them when we do not have an organized mission event. Northside also supports CBF field personnel here in the US and abroad.
Youth
Youth Group meets weekly in the Youth Building on Sunday Nights (5-7pm) where they learn about connecting their faith to our world. They also serve in missions, have a fall retreat, go to camp, participate in worship leadership, and have other fun events.
Children
Sunday School
Great things happen every Sunday in Sunday School. Children learn stories of faith, they sing and worship, they care for each other and their neighbor, and they learn that God loves them, all in a warm and caring environment. We have great teachers who are full of enthusiasm and willing to serve. They plan and prepare good lessons. Bring your children so they can enjoy the whole class time!
9:15 am: Gathering activities: crafts or service-oriented activity
9:30 am: Choir with Lida Stark, K-5th grade
9:45 am: Bible Story
10:15 am: Time to pick up your child
K - 5th grade meet in the Children's Building
6th - 12th meet in the Youth Building
9:15 may seem early for a Sunday morning, but there is always coffee and sometimes snacks in the kitchen as adults gather before their Sunday School classes begin. If you don't have a class, this is the perfect place to find one.
For more information about Children's or Youth Sunday School contact Elli Wilkinson.
Our Partners in Brazil
In 2011 Northside voted to join in a unique partnership with a church in Brazil in the northeast city of Olinda. The partnership “yokes” us together in the gospel as “members of the same Church.” We recognize one another as members when we travel, we pray for one another, communicate regularly, share resources, learn from one another, and best of all enjoy our time and work together.
Primeira Igreja Batista em Bultrins (First Baptist Church in Bultrins) was originally founded in a modest neighborhood between two favelas. Northside has learned much from Bultrins’ incarnational presence in the favelas and from their creative multi-generational ministries. We admire and respect their public witness and their ecumenical commitments.
The church in Bultrins has borrowed some of Northside’s traditions of worship, and they have been especially interested in our many mission partnerships in the region. We learn together about the challenges of living out the gospel in our own unique settings. We also learn about the vast beauty of God’s creation which can only be known from particular places. Here we can see the North Start at night. There we can see the Southern Cross.
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We, Primeira Igreja Batista em Bultrins and Northside Baptist Church, are yoked together as partners in the gospel. Through this partnership, we are sisters and brothers in Christ and members of the same Church.
We commit to pray for one another regularly and especially on the Sundays when we celebrate the Lord’s Supper (Ceia do Senhor).
We commit to communicate regularly - by post, email, telephone, Facebook, or by other available means - to share the celebrations and concerns of the church community.
We commit to visit each other as often as possible - to dialogue, to fellowship, to worship, and to share in the ministries of the church.
Finally, we commit to keep a spirit of cordiality and love, manifested in mutual care and demonstrated through practical actions, which reveal the love of God present among us.
We affirm this partnership in the presence of God, creator and sustainer of the Universe, of Jesus Christ, savior, and of the Holy Spirit, consoler. Amen.