North Side

Behind the Curtain

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The City has officially launched at North Side today! This is your way to stay in the know about all things North Side. This two-way communication street for North Side. You stay updated and you can also contribute your thoughts, prayers, needs, etc. Sign up today!

Thanks so much to all the help today signing people up.  Our volunteers were awesome getting people connected, and the host team does a fantastic job at connecting people to the life of the church.

I want to say an extra special word of thanks to Jamie Strutton and Jessica Wolfe who worked relentlessly to get the City up by today – you guys are amazing and this has already helped out so many people!

We had a fantastic service today!

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The City is Coming to North Side

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North Side is growing.  Praise the Lord.  While we are excited about numerical growth, we also are burdened to always grow closer as we grow larger.  As we continually get busier and busier, how in the world can we truly connect people to each other in the church?

As we prayed, we believed that God led us to an answer.

The City…It’s a new communication tool at North Side Baptist Church. The City has been implemented to allow the members of North Side to connect with each other. This tool provides a unique way for members to keep up to date with each other…as well as events, happenings, prayer requests and needs of the North Side family.

It really focuses on 3 key things:

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One Family

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Over the years, we have been blessed to see numerical and spiritual growth in our congregation.  We are at a place where we are not experiencing disharmony, but we are experiencing detachment.  So how can we turn this many people into one functional family? It was a great day all around as we focused on One Family during our One

A Church’s Barriers to Growth

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I was told it was a bad idea.

Honestly, I was told it would never work. Young men in the ministry normally don’t find success going back and working at the church at which they were raised. Regardless of those people telling me it was a bad idea, I couldn’t shake that I felt God’s Spirit leading me back to North Side to serve as a minister when I graduated college in 2003.

As a young minister, I was eternally grateful to this church for what they had done to help me grow in Christ over the years. I wanted to give back as much as I could. At the same time, I began my seminary training through extension work.

In one of my classes, the required reading was a book called The Everychurch Guide to Growth by Elmer Towns, C. Peter Wagner, and Thom Rainer. With a large reading load that semester, I intended to rush through this reading but it didn’t happen that way. As I read the pages, I felt like someone had been watching my beloved North Side during the years that I had grown up here and chronicled some of the challenges we had experienced and had overcome.

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Why North Side Changed to a Clover Site

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Last week we launched a whole new site for northsidebc.org.  We have heard some rave reviews of it for a few different reasons: Sermons on video SIMPLE navigation (compared to our previous) Mobile phone viewing Removal of clutter Changing/temporary content being moved to northsideblog.org You can get your Compass devotionals in your inbox early in the morning by subscribing And

Simple: the new northsidebc.org

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The new website is finally up. With sermons on video, daily devotionals from the blog, simple navigation, mobile phone site, and so much more, you are going to be amazed and equipped! Check it out here:

New northsidebc.org (Coming Soon)

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Our staff and interns have been feverishly working on the new North Side website and we are almost finished!  We stepped back and evaluated our website a while back, and realized a few things.  It was too busy, it wasn’t easily navigated, and it was missing some key components. So we went back to the drawing board, developed a new

Pray for Your Church Staff

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The prince of preachers, Charles Spurgeon, was once asked about the secret of his success and he stated, “My people pray for me.” In this month’s worship team training focus, availability – leading with presence, I want to focus on being available to one another through prayer.  Today, I want to challenge you to pray for your church staff. North

The Internet Doesn’t Have to Be the Devil’s Playground

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Ah, Monday.  The day full of tackling projects and trying to make a difference in the world. Today’s partial agenda: help North Side impact the world when our building’s doors are closed. Many people see the internet as the Devil’s playground.  In many ways, it is.  While you can waste a lot of time on here and get into all

2009 North Side’s Series Summary

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Wow!  What a year 2009 has been at North Side.  This week, we are reflecting back and looking forward.  One of those areas is looking back over what God taught us this year through the series at North Side.  As I have been developing sermon series with Jeff since the summer of 2006, I have never experienced such a powerful

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