Worship
We invite you to join us for our Celebration of Worship each Sunday at 11 am -- 10 am in the summertime!
"Community" is a word often used to describe Worship at Northside Presbyterian Church. We devote a significant amount of time to sharing our faith stories with one another. The most notable of these times are the Passing of the Peace, Welcome & Announcements, Moment for Mission and, most especially, the Prayers of the People: the sharing of our joys and concerns. Scripture and Witness [Sermon] ground our stories in those of our spiritual mothers and fathers, allowing us the place and space to discern how their life narratives meet and greet, comfort and challenge, our own.
Schedule
Event | Time | Summer Time |
Nursery Care | 8:30 - 12:30 | 8:30 - 11:30 |
Children & Adult Education (Northside with St. Aidan's) | 9:45 - 10:45 | -- |
Choir Practice | 9:30 - 10:45 | -- |
Regular Worship | 11:00 - 12:00 | 10:00 - 11:00 |
Coffee Hour | 12:15 - 1:15 | 11:15 - 12:15 |
Our worship combines comfortable informality within a traditional Presbyterian liturgy, emphasizing strong participation by lay leaders. Our Sanctuary is located in "The Upper Room" (2nd floor) of our church building -- enter the door at the end of the building and come upstairs, or use the ground-level elevator at the front end and cross over. With ceiling-to-floor windows, the Sanctuary provides a panoramic view of the wooded splendor surrounding us on any given Sunday morning. Rest assured: God's Creation takes a back seat to nobody during the course of our worship!
Ecumenical Worship
The ecumenical spirit is alive in our Worship as well as in our programs! Eight Sundays a year, our two churches (Northside Presbyterian and St. Aidan Episcopal Church) worship together -- most notably through the sharing of the Communion meal. We also celebrate many church holy days together (e.g: Christmas, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday) in ways as new as our collective imagination and as old as the Scriptures.
Our joint worship format currently uses a liturgy in the spirit of Churches Uniting in Christ (CUIC). Northside's pastor and St. Aidan's rector alternate in providing the Witness, yet they generally preside together at the Communion table.
Sermons
In case you missed one of our Worship celebrations, an online archive of Sermons is available on this web site, with links to weekly Scripture readings.
