Help for Haiti All of us have been devastated over the recent days with the images that have come across our screens. The chaos present in Haiti is overwhelming. As the church, we are called to meet those needs. There are many great organizations for you to give to in order to help, and we have been contacted by some …
You need to make plans to come out to North Side’s Chapel tonight @ 6pm. Cornel and Duncan, friends of North Side mission teams, will be joining us all the way from Nairobi, Kenya to share a special message. Cornel Onyango and Duncan Kimani, African Co-Directors of CARE for AIDS, have traveled from Nairobi Kenya to share the vision of …
Today, we concluded the worship portion of the “Legacy” series. Wow, God has done so much among us during this month of May. I have heard so much positive words about what is going on in homes as a result of this series – praise God! I think my favorite portion of each week was going into the homes and …
Here’s a snippet from Chapter 14: The World: I normally have answers for people when asked a question. At that moment, I was speechless. How do you begin to describe the one who has flipped your life upside down? How do you express the type of love displayed at the cross to someone who has never even heard the story? …
Here’s a snippet from Chapter 8: The Outreach: That episode in college made me realize something: casual Christianity causes casualties. When we are casual about our Christianity, when we are apathetic about others’ spiritual stages, that indifference causes casualties. If you are going to believe the Bible and hold that there is no way to a relationship with God outside …
While Katrina has been gone for many months from New Orleans, the Big Easy is still in need. Thousands of homes and other buildings still lie in ruins as the city continues to try to rebuild. While the news doesn’t reveal the devestation as much as it did before, it still is a reality. That’s why North Side still continues …
This week is busy. Its busy with good stuff though, but alas it is still busy. Here’s just a rundown of the stuff that’s keeping me alert this morning: CD Duplication – The company mastering our CD and duplicating them is deep in the process of it now. North Side Worship “The Time is Now” album is in mass production …
Most Southern Baptist churches give a percentage of their offerings to the Cooperative Program. Established in 1924, Southern Baptist churches decided to collaborate their financial resources in order to bring about more Kingdom impact. This financial program funds missionary salaries, church plants, seminary training, gospel publications, Bible translations, and so much more. As our passion increases to see the Kingdom …
In selecting a partnership for a church’s mission’s strategy, on what priorities do you focus? The first three were finding the greatest need, the greatest match, and the greatest impact. But what is the fourth? Greatest Team What is the greatest team your church can assemble to evangelize with this particular partnership? The goal for a mission trip is not …
When a church is looking at developing a partnership with a mission organization, what’s the priority? The third priority should be: Greatest Impact What is the greatest impact your church can have working with your strategic partnership? As we prioritize mission endeavors, we must also be intentional to select opportunities that have the greatest possible impact. By working with the …
When a church is establishing a strategic partnership in the area of mission or ministry, how do you pick ’em? With all the needs, how do you know which ones to get involved in? The second priority is: Greatest Match What is the greatest match with our church’s giftedness? When ascertaining the greatest need, we must also determine what mission …
Continuing our discussion on our North Side mission strategy, I now want to indulge a little deeper. Our mission strategy focuses on three things: personal evangelism, strategic partnerships, and cooperative program. For the next few days, I want to explain how we prioritize our strategic partnerships: In addition to the task of personal evangelism, North Side will also impact the …
This book of the week is none other than John Mark Terry’s Evangelism: A Concise History. This book hits some of the greatest evangelists and the greatest evangelistic efforts since the beginning of the church. It’s one of those books that gets you excited about what God has done and what we can anticipate him doing again! Top 5 Thoughts: …
Third personal evangelism point: Invite that person to experience life with Christ. If all we do is pray for someone’s conversion and invest in them spiritually without sharing the gospel, we have missed the entire reasoning for the first two emphases. Evangelism does not take place without an adequate presentation of the gospel of Jesus Christ in order to reconcile …
Second point for a personal evangelism strategy: Invest spiritually in that person. One misconception of personal evangelism comes in the form of our role in the task. We are called to do more than transfer information. We are called to do more than leave a gospel tract. The biblical mandate calls all believers to invest spiritually into the lives of …
North Side’s entire mission strategy is only as strong as how active its members are in the area of personal evangelism. Since we know that everyone will not come to the doors of North Side to pursue Christ, North Side must go to the people of this community and beyond. Christ’s command was to go and tell, not come and …
Sunday is the last NSU for the summer. We have one more Impact Teams Wednesday (unless you are doing a yardwork site at another time). This has been an incredible summer of going deeper and serving more! I thought last Wednesday of how gracious God has been to our congregation. You know, oftentimes, when a church parking lot is empty …
Look at the picture below. Do you see how beautiful this image is? No, I’m not talking about my incredible photo taking abilities on my phone. I’m also not talking about the pretty sky scenery or nice architecture. Look a little bit harder. See the church buses. They are South Main Street Baptist Church’s buses in North Side Baptist Church’s …
Here’s the remaining jobs for our impact teams: Wednesday, July 30 Ashley House – meet at Ashely House @ 6:30 for Bingo, activities, and just befriending the clients there Piedmont Agency for the Aging -meet at the agency @ 6:30 to help paint and clean up their facilities McCormick Children’s Home – meet at the home for recreational events for …
Here’s a post from our mission team: Hello All!As I type we are all settling into a hotel way, way, way, out in downtown Seattle taking showers and resting. Storms caused the flight out of Atlanta to be delayed for four hours which caused us to miss our connecting flight to Taiwan. The guy who broke the oh so bad …
Our Southeast Asia team left around lunchtime today. They will have a long plane ride to pray and prepare before they touch down for two weeks or changing an entire nation with the gospel. Please pray for them by name over the next few weeks. Pray that they spread the gospel. Pray that a nation is changed. Here are the …
For those that went, prayed, gave, or who just want a great video, here is our recap video for our Shake-n-Shine camp made by our ever-so-talented, Dave Wright:
We have been having a lot of conversations around the office about our missions strategy as a church. Our church focuses on three environments: worship, community, and missions. Worship is how we live pleasing to God. Community is how we love other believers and build each other up. Mission is to seek and to save those that don’t have a …
I led an eager Impact Team over to Erskine tonight to lead the Mega Relay for Shake-n-Shine. We had a blast! Mega Relay is this crazy, intense team game of team challenges that come right after each other. Leading the kids and the counselors was a blast! I will say that God is answering your prayers – keep it up. …
Just a reminder to pray for your Shake-n-Shine camper that you go this week. If you were at North Side on Sunday, you got one camper’s name to lift up – hope you placed that card somewhere where you could remember it and pray for him or her and his or her counselor! All the crew got on the buses …
As you probably have heard, Erskine‘s cafeteria caught fire Thursday night. For those of you heading out to Shake-n-Shine on Monday, don’t fret, you will get some food. They have set it up to where the camp will be eating over at Dixie High School. All the rest of camp will still be in the scheduled places. Get ready to …
We had another great night with Impact Teams last night. I haven’t heard all the stories yet, but I know that my team had a great time. We had a bunch of new help last night (thanks so much), and I imagine that if you are like me, you feel more blessed by serving than you think the people you …
Alrighty! We had a great first week at Impact Teams, and we have new assignments for tonight (Wednesday). Many of you have been asking what the needs are, well here is the list for tonight: Yard Work Team – Mowing, weed-eating, raking, cutting, and everything in between (for a bunch of houses) Epworth Camp – We need some people to …
We had a great first night at NSU. A lot of people showed up for all of the six classes. I had a blast in our Hermeneutics class. Your attendance showed that all of you really want to understand the Bible better. That’s fantastic! You guys listened so great through the beginning foundational stuff and it was just a good …
The time spent Wednesday and Thursday in class was unforgettable. My cohort was taught by Dr. Robert Coleman. If you don’t know that name, you should. Dr. Coleman has been a mentor of mine from afar since 2000. This week, I got to thank him for that face to face. Dr. Coleman wrote a book in 1963 entitled, The Master …
We got to celebrate fathers today at North Side in a fun way. At the 11:15 Obie, Cory, Cory’s son, Nate, and me started the festivities with some Father’s Day Superlatives. We couldn’t select any winners for the “Loudest Snoring Dad” award because there were too many people pointing fingers at the fathers in the house. After our time of …
Continuing on in our series, Waiting on the World to Change, our church studied what it meant to do in the area of “Practical Service” today. When it comes to mission work, I think the church (universal) has always fallen on one of two ends of the spectrum (this is the case in almost everything Christian it seems). One one …
Shake-n-Shine is coming around the corner! Below is a message from our Project Love guru, Rick Hendricks. Read to see how you can help out: Hello: Shake N Shine, our camp for children in Greenwood, will take place July 14-18, again this year at Erskine College, and we need your help. We’re asking C-groups, Sunday School classes to assist us …
Our world needs some changing, and God intends to change it through the family. The most critical spiritual environment is the one in which you live. As we look at these up and coming generations, we must realize that trained church professionals are not the answer to our children’s spiritual needs. Our children need their parents to live for Christ …
What a great Sunday. As our church continues to heal, it was great to come together today and sing words like, “You are my shield, my strength, my portion, deliverer, my shelter, strong tower, my very present help in times of need.” In times of need like we are going through, it is comforting to know that he is presently …
Here’s a quick rundown of what’s going on in life and in ministry: Pancake Breakfast – all you have to do is eat pancakes to support our summer missionaries. O’Charley’s on Saturday from 7-9 at $5/plate. I think what I am so excited about is that we have non-rush North Side time. We can eat a plate and just have …
A couple of weeks ago, I conducted a theological survey of our adults at North Side. This is for a requirement for my next degree, but I tailored the questions to help our staff discern teaching and directional needs for our church in the area of evangelism and missions. Concerning conducting this survey, I was hesitant. A number of our …
This morning was incredible. Members from North Side joined together at 6:30 (that’s in the AM, people) to pray for our city. I was amazed for many different reasons – so I shall share with you faithful readers: The fact that you got up to pray at 6:30am. No preaching, no songs, just prayer – and God moved (imagine that?!). …
The people of America are becoming more and more spiritual. On one side, it is more acceptable to believe in a higher being and to adhere to certain spiritual practices. The other side of the spectrum is the backlash against anything remotely absolute. They don’t want anyone to tell them they have to believe a certain way or that only …
Today’s entry is number 3 on the New Testament images of the church: Branches on a Vine Nearing his imminent sacrifice upon the cross, Jesus emphasized that the church’s function was to be viewed as branches on a vine. In the Old Testament, Isaiah depicted the nation of Israel as the vine, but in the New Testament, Jesus assumed this …
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