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  • An Updated Look at the Climate Crisis: Where We Are, What Can We Do? Who Is Impacted?

    An Updated Look at the Climate Crisis: Where We Are, What Can We Do? Who Is Impacted?

    Please join us on Sunday, August 25, 2019, immediately following the 10:30 service when Just North member Mary DeLamatre will present what she learned through the Climate Reality Project Leadership Training. Childcare will be available and lunch will be provided. We do request that you RSVP to Susan Kinzer at 614-451-1835 by Wednesday August 21.…

  • CONCERT FOR A CAUSE: Refugee Road

    CONCERT FOR A CAUSE: Refugee Road

    REFUGEE ROAD: A Concert that Crosses Every Divide Starring Shaun Booker Featuring Starlit Ways, the Ghanaian Youth Choir and Sojourners Quintet Saturday, August 24, 7 pm (Picnic on lawn, 5 pm) Just North United Church of Christ and Temple Israel invite you to an interfaith celebration in support of the Mauritanian community. Proceeds for the…

  • Save the Date!

    Save the Date!

    A Summer Concert For A Cause That Crosses Every Divide! by Joyce Phelps and Leslie Kern Please be sure to SAVE THE DATE for our next Concert For A Cause: SATURDAY, AUGUST 24th. Picnic: 5-7:00 pm Concert: 7:00 pm. We are living in a time of unprecedented division and this concert will be a music-filled,…

  • Honduran Family Lives At Just North UCC Awaiting Asylum

    Honduran Family Lives At Just North UCC Awaiting Asylum

    Click Here to Donate to Help Support the Family Update: The Nov 9 Concert for a Cause featuring Sally Fingerett and Sirens will raise funds to support the family. Get your tickets today! Just North has taken in a family of four from Honduras: Mom, Dad, toddler and brand-new baby seeking to make Columbus their…

  • Mary Magdalene Celebration

    Mary Magdalene Celebration

    Mary Magdalene Celebration Saturday, July 277:00 pmFellowship Hall2040 Henderson Rd, Columbus 43220 This year Dances of Universal Peace are joining us, with opportunities for us to sing and dance to beautiful music. Associate Pastor Joanna Samuelson is our worship leader. The service honoring Mary Magdalene includes We’ll have music, dance, and song interspersed. A tribute…

  • Pride 2019

    Pride 2019

    JustNorth will celebrate the 2019 Pride Festival downtown on Saturday! Join North Church members and continue the tradition! We love to CELEBRATE our diversity and extravagant welcome. Join us this Saturday, June 15 on High Street in Short North. Step off is at 10:30. I have pulled some pictures from over the last 10 years…

  • Wednesday Evening Book Study:  Grounded

    Wednesday Evening Book Study: Grounded

    Grounded: Finding God in the World. A Spiritual Revolution The headlines are clear: religion is on the decline in America as many people leave behind traditional religious practices. Diana Butler Bass, leading commentator on religion, politics, and culture, follows up her acclaimed book Christianity After Religion by arguing that what appears to be a decline…

  • Climate Crisis: Where We Are, What Can We Do?

    Climate Crisis: Where We Are, What Can We Do?

    Mary DeLamatre is back from the Climate Reality Project Leadership Training she attended in Atlanta and will be sharing what she learned on Sunday, May 19, 2019, immediately following the 10:30 service in Fellowship Hall. The Climate Reality Project was started in 2006 by Al Gore just after he released his movie “An Inconvenient Truth,”…

  • Family Board Games Night May 17

    Family Board Games Night May 17

    Games night is a week early this month (moved for Memorial Day weekend.) Join us at 6:30pm to play family board games. All ages and all kinds of games. Bring a game to share, we’ll have light snacks available.

  • Columbus Gay Men’s Chorus Illuminati Choir Sunday May 19th

    Columbus Gay Men’s Chorus Illuminati Choir Sunday May 19th

    Referring to the Latin phrase meaning “the Enlightened Ones,” Illuminati was created to respond to the community’s expressed desire for musical performances of a sacred or spiritual nature. Its mission is to increase the Chorus’ outreach performances, particularly to religious organizations, while respecting our members’ spiritual beliefs. Illuminati performs monthly at various religious institutions and…

  • Holy Week

    Holy Week

    April 14 Palm Sunday 8:15/10:30am in the Sanctuary April 18 Maundy Thursday 7:00pm in the Fellowship Hall April 19 Good Friday 7:00pm in the Sanctuary April 21 Easter 7:00/8:15/10:30am in the Sanctuary April 21 Easter Breakfast and Easter Egg Hunt 9:00am in the Fellowship Hall

  • Concert for a Cause Featuring RJ Cowdery and Cantor Bat-Ami Moses, Hosted by Eric Gnezda

    Concert for a Cause Featuring RJ Cowdery and Cantor Bat-Ami Moses, Hosted by Eric Gnezda

    Saturday April 27, 8:00 pm Just North United Church of Christ is proud to present our third Concert for a Cause, headlined by national touring singer-songwriter RJ Cowdery. In partnership with Temple Israel, this concert will benefit The Women’s Center, a local residential treatment program providing addiction recovery for women and their children, with priority…

  • Family Board Games Night Friday March 22

    Family Board Games Night Friday March 22

    6:30pm Friday February 22nd Family Board Games Night Join us to play family board games. All ages and all kinds of games. Bring a game to share, we’ll have light snacks available.

  • The Faces and Faiths of Sanctuary

    The Faces and Faiths of Sanctuary

    On March 10 we hosted a public forum to share our experiences  in providing Sanctuary to undocumented persons who are under threat of deportation and family separation due to our broken and unjust immigration system. We partnered with three other faith communities: Columbus Mennonite Church (hosting Edith Espinal in Sanctuary) First English Lutheran Church (housing…

  • BlueSwing Benefit Concert for SSCM Food Pantry April 5

    BlueSwing Benefit Concert for SSCM Food Pantry April 5

    Friday, April 5, 2019 7pm Just North UCC 2040 Henderson Rd 43220 BluesSwing will offer a concert to Benefit the SSCM food pantry. BluesSwing, as the name implies, plays blues and swing tunes from the 1930’s to the present. Each dollar raised will allow the pantry to buy $10 worth of food for families.

  • Family Board Games and Parents’ Night Out

    Family Board Games and Parents’ Night Out

    So hard to choose! Do you stay and play, or drop the kids for a couple hours to have adult conversation over dinner? 6:30p Friday February 22nd Family Board Game Night Join us to play family board games. All ages and all kinds of games. Bring a game to share, we’ll have light snacks available.…

  • Faith and Film Night “A Better Life” on Feb 8th, 2019                         7:00pm

    Faith and Film Night “A Better Life” on Feb 8th, 2019 7:00pm

    February’s Faith and Film offering is “A Better Life” (2011), directed by Chris Weitz, who also directed the critically acclaimed film “About a Boy.”  Its main character, Carlos (played by Demian Bichir) is an undocumented Mexican immigrant who works as a gardener tending the lawns of Los Angeles residents who are rich, especially from his point of…

  • Photos from Saturday’s Benefit Concert

  • Media Coverage of Angelica’s Return Home after Sanctuary at Just North

    Media Coverage of Angelica’s Return Home after Sanctuary at Just North

    Woman becomes first person in Ohio sanctuary church history to win legal relief from ICE ABC channel 6 Church celebrates first woman in Ohio to leave sanctuary as a legal resident NBC channel 4 Columbus church celebrates after mother claiming sanctuary there allowed to stay in US CBS channel 10 For the first time in…

  • Mother in Sanctuary at Northwest Columbus Church Returns Home to Her Family With a Pathway to Security in the United States

    Mother in Sanctuary at Northwest Columbus Church Returns Home to Her Family With a Pathway to Security in the United States

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 25, 2019 MEDIA CONTACT Michelle Nealy, mnealy@faithinpubliclife.org, (202)735-7123 Dan Clark, dclark@faithinpubliclife.org, (614)648-3663 Columbus, OH — On Sunday, January 27th at 1 p.m.,the pastor and congregation of Just North United Church of Christ will be joined by community leaders and the legal team for Angelica who earlier this week received a stay…

  • Event: The Faces and Faiths of Sanctuary

    Event: The Faces and Faiths of Sanctuary

    March 10th, 2019 3-5 PMJust North United Church of ChristAddress: 2040 West Henderson Road 43221 This will be a conversation of the heart. It will begin with the generous sharing by “Jennie and Choco” of their 15 year journey toward documented status for Choco. It is an astonishing narrative of human resilience, faith, determination and…

  • Family Games and Parents’ Night Out This Friday

    Family Games and Parents’ Night Out This Friday

    Join the fun! Bring your games, your euchre cards, and a smile because Game Night is back after a 2-month hiatus! And the Board of Evangelism is once again offering child care from 6:30 to 8:30 for parents who want to have a quiet dinner alone. Light snacks will be provided or bring your own…

  • Dispatch: Columbus Sanctuary Churches

    Dispatch: Columbus Sanctuary Churches

    An article in the Columbus Dispatch today quoted local sanctuary churches (including Just North) as having a long history of social justice.

  • Just North UCC is Open Today

    Please decide for yourself if it is safe for you to travel. Our warmest regards to everyone who needs to stay home on this cold day.

  • January Family Game Night / Parents’ Night Out

    January Family Game Night / Parents’ Night Out

    So hard to choose! Do you stay and play, or drop the kids for a couple hours to have adult conversation over dinner? 6:30p Friday January 25th Family Board Game Night Join us to play family board games. All ages and all kinds of games. Bring a game to share, we’ll have light snacks available.…

  • Just North Sanctuary Ministry

    Just North Sanctuary Ministry

    “North Congregational United Church of Christ stands solidly within a long-established tradition that regards commitment to social justice as a core element of the Christian’s call to think, speak and act in this world.  Our decision to offer sanctuary flows from our church’s fidelity to this commitment, and its priority within our faith tradition has…

  • January Faith and Film Night: Won’t You be my Neighbor?

    January Faith and Film Night: Won’t You be my Neighbor?

    Fri Jan 11, 7p-10p Starting out Faith and Film Night for 2019, we will be showing the critically acclaimed documentary about the life and work of Presbyterian minister Fred Rogers, who as “Mister Rogers” pioneered the use of a mass media as a tool for the spiritual development of children. Please join us on Friday,…

  • First Adult Education of 2019: God in Cyberspace: The Spiritual World of Social Media

    First Adult Education of 2019: God in Cyberspace: The Spiritual World of Social Media

    In 2019 the Evangelism Board will be making a major effort to improve and expand the church’s presence on social media. “God in Cyberspace” is a four-week course intended to support this effort through an exploration of the impact—both positive and negative—of social media in contemporary society. Web sites, blogs, and platforms such as Facebook,…

  • January Wednesday Evening Book Study

    January Wednesday Evening Book Study

    “Having Nothing, Possessing Everything”Starting January 16th  7-8:30 PM Pastor Mike Mather arrived in Indianapolis thinking that he wasgoing to serve the poor. But after his church’s community lost nineyoung men to violence in a few short months, Mather came to seethat the poor didn’t need his help—he needed theirs.This is the story of how one church…

  • Blue Christmas at North Church

    Blue Christmas at North Church

    December 25, 2018 11 am Worship12 pm Potluck Luncheon YOU ARE INVITED TO COME FOR WORSHIP OR LUNCH OR BOTH. Email questions and participation to: Pastor Eric Williams – ncpastor@midohio.twcbc.com 2040 West Henderson Road, Columbus, OH 43220 Blue Christmas at North Church provides an opportunity for people to hear not just about the baby in…