Outreach at Northside
“The place where our deep gladness meets the world’s
deep need.”
Frederick Buechner [adap.]
Northside Presbyterian Church has always been a place where
outreach isn’t just a catchword – it’s a calling.
We donate well over 10% of our annual budget to various public
service organizations in Washtenaw County and ministries throughout
our denomination. Also, we consistently rank in the top 10% among
the churches in our regional judicatory, the Presbytery of Detroit,
in per capita denominational outreach giving.
Here are some of the area organizations we financially support:
Domestic Violence Project/SAFE House
Peace Neighborhood Center
HIV/AIDS Resource Center [HARC]
Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice [ICPJ]
Ozone House
Outreach at Northside is more than just giving money. We also
incarnate the gospel by actively working in the community to
make a change for the common good. Involved as we are in numerous
outreach activities, we focus on three primary social concerns:
aiding the hungry and homeless; promoting
peacemaking; and, striving
for justice with and for the lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender communities.
In short, Northside is a place where we seek to be faithful
to our weekly worship charge, the basis of Jesus’ first
homily: to “bring Good News to the poor … to proclaim
release to the captives, and receiving of sight to the blind;
to set at liberty those who are oppressed; and to proclaim the
year of the Jubilee.” [Luke 4:18-19]
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