Sundays at Northminster begin with Sunday School at 9:15 a.m. Worship starts at 10:30 a.m. and lasts an hour. Sunday evening programming for children (preschool-sixth grade) and youth begins at 5:00 p.m., and Adult Studies meets at 5:30 p.m.
On Wednesday evenings, we gather in the Great Hall at 5:30 p.m. for a meal together followed by a brief vespers service around the tables.
For more information regarding available Sunday School classes for children and adults, please reach out to Lesley Ratcliff, Associate Pastor for Children and Adults, and questions about our youth group can be directed to Geoff Davidson, Associate Pastor for Students. You may also call the church office at 601-982-4703.
There is parking both in front of and behind the church, with on-street parking available on Ridgewood Road on Sunday mornings. The main parking lot is located behind the church and may be reached by both Ridgewood Road and Eastover Drive. Accessible parking can be found at all entrances, with a ramp available at the Sanctuary entrance on the front of the church building.
Visitors may also reach the Sanctuary from the back parking lot. The stairs to the Sanctuary are located just inside the double doors, and access via stairs or elevator is available through the covered entrance to the Children’s Foyer. We have ushers and greeters to assist you at each entrance.
The sanctuary is immediately accessible via a wheelchair ramp off the front parking lot. An elevator is located inside the Children’s Ministries entrance, the covered entrance at the south end of the church building, off the rear parking lot. From here, you can access any space in the main church building.
The Adult Education building on the north end of the campus is accessible via the side door off the rear parking lot.
The Children’s Ministry entrance is the covered entrance at the south end of the church building, off the rear parking lot. A greeter will be there to welcome you and your children and accompany them to a graded Sunday school class.
We invite you to wear whatever makes you comfortable. While there is no prescribed dress code and attire is widely varied across the congregation, you’ll find that most people choose a business-casual look.
At Northminster, we worship with reverence and joy. Our style is more traditional: we sing hymns from hymn books accompanied by our pipe organ; our choir and pastors wear robes; and we don’t have screens in the Sanctuary. This style of worship allows for a meditative experience that is also communal through the practices of common prayer and responsive readings. We are a lay-led church and include members of the congregation as lay readers each week. We follow the liturgical calendar and the Revised Common Lectionary, which adds structure to our worship services throughout the year as we observe the seasons of the Christian Year, such as Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, and Ordinary Time.
Yes, we celebrate the Lord’s Supper on the first Sunday of every month, and all are welcome at the table. Should anyone choose not to receive the bread, they are invited to come forward with the rest of the congregation and receive a blessing from one of our deacons. A gluten-free option is available in place of the common loaf for those who need or would like it.
Childcare is available every Sunday for children in kindergarten and younger. In first grade, children are presented with their Bibles during worship and formally join their families in the sanctuary. We understand that some children younger than first grade may prefer to attend worship with their families rather than join the children downstairs, and they are always welcome in the sanctuary. Families may choose what is best for them.
You may join Northminster by making a profession of faith and being baptized by immersion or by reaffirmation of a previous profession of faith and Christian baptism. If you’ve been baptized in another Christian tradition or by a method other than immersion, we honor and accept that. To initiate this process and learn more, please reach out to Scott Dickison, Senior Pastor, or any member of our pastoral staff.
Anyone who professes faith in Jesus Christ may be baptized at our church. Northminster believes that baptism is an outward expression of an inward decision to follow Christ and a public proclamation of one’s faith. Because we view baptism in this way, Northminster does not baptize infants or young children. Children are welcomed into our family of faith through dedication, which takes place during worship when the congregation affirms their commitment to nurture the child and support the family in their spiritual development.
Please reach out to any member of our staff. They can be reached through the church office at (601) 982-4703 or you can send an email to info@northminsterbaptist.org and your message will be directed to someone who will be happy to help.