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  • Clay Crafting Spirituality Group

    Clay Crafting Spirituality Group

    Monday April 9th, 6:30pm

  • More Love Cabaret and Bake Sale

    More Love Cabaret and Bake Sale

    2040 W. Henderson Rd, Columbus 43220 Saturday April 28th, 7pm Proceeds benefit the music ministry and South Side Food Pantry

  • Lenten Testimony

    How has my faith informed my resilience? You know how sometimes you have to start with what something is not to get at what it is? In order for me to tell you about my faith, I need to start by talking about my doubt. The Rev. Martin Copenhaver once wrote: “Some of us live…

  • Easter at North Church

    Easter at North Church

    Here’s the schedule for our annual Easter celebrations, please join us! Sunday, March 25 10:30am: Palm Sunday Family Service Thursday March 29 6:30pm: Maundy Thursday Service Friday March 30: Good Friday Service Sunday April 1: Easter Sunday Worship Services at 7:00 / 8:15 / 10:30 a m – 9:00amEaster Breakfast – 10:00am Easter Egg Hunt

  • Family Board Games and Parents’ Night Out — Friday March 23rd 6:30pm

    Family Board Games and Parents’ Night Out — Friday March 23rd 6:30pm

    Join us Friday at 6:30 to exercise your brain, or just come for the fun of it! Light snacks will be served, and we’d love to learn your favorite board game, so bring it along! If you’d prefer to have your kids play games instead, they will love being entertained by members of our highly…

  • BREAD Nehemiah Action May 7

    BREAD Nehemiah Action May 7

    Nehemiah Action Monday, May 7th, at 7:00 p.m. Celeste Center on the Ohio State Fairgrounds 717 E. 17th Ave., Columbus, OH 43211 Registration begins at 6:15 p.m. Join thousands of community members as we fight for solutions to serious community problems that our members voted on.

  • BREAD Rally April 9

    BREAD Rally April 9

    Join us at the Rally on Monday, April 9th, at 7:00 p.m. at Congregation Tifereth Israel 1354 E. Broad St. Columbus, OH 43205 Meet at North Church at 6p for carpool. We’ll go over our game plan for the Nehemiah Action, hear updates from our research committees, hear testimonies from BREAD leaders, and you’ll get…

  • “Here Comes the Sun: Women of Jesus’s Ministry Maundy Thursday Service March 29

    “Here Comes the Sun: Women of Jesus’s Ministry Maundy Thursday Service March 29

    “Here Comes the Sun: Women of Jesus’s Ministry” Maundy Thursday Service Sunday, March 29 6:30 PM Women played an important role in the earliest days of Christianity. The Jesus of the Bible spoke directly to women and refused to treat them differently from men. The gospels portray them as disciples during Jesus’ ministry, and the…

  • Lenten Fasting

    This lenten season, some at North are fasting. It is not too late for you to join with us to explore this ancient spiritual disciple that offers endless possibilities to connect with God. Below is a fast fact sheet for your consideration. Fasting Fast Facts This fasting is not: A way to begin a new…

  • B.R.E.A.D. Potluck  and Kitchen Dedication

    B.R.E.A.D. Potluck and Kitchen Dedication

    Sunday, March 4, following the 10:30 worship service, the congregation gathered briefly in our new North Church kitchen to dedicate it to the service of God and community. Laura Gaines, our moderator, shared few comments, and then, Linda Lee Kennedy taught us a song that she had written for this occasion. Next, we moved into…

  • B.R.E.A.D. Sunday Potluck and Meeting

    B.R.E.A.D. Sunday Potluck and Meeting

    Sunday, March 4, 12:00 pm Fellowship Hall First, we will briefly gather in our new kitchen to celebrate and to dedicate it to the service of God and community. I understand that we may even learn a new song being written for this occasion! Next, we will move into Fellowship Hall for North’s “third sacrament”…

  • Adult Ed Class A Different Way: Living Simply in a Complex World

    Adult Ed Class A Different Way: Living Simply in a Complex World

    Begins March 18th 9:00 am Signup sheet for A Different Way: Living Simply in a Complex World will be out starting this Sunday. Please sign up by March 4 if possible, so Ellen can order the books, and hand them out on March 11. That way you can read the first chapter before the first…

  • Forks Over Knives Vegetarian Lunch and Movie

    Forks Over Knives Vegetarian Lunch and Movie

    Sunday March 11th 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm Fellowship Hall We have a special program planned for you! Meeting in Fellowship Hall where we will eat a vegetarian lunch, we’ll be showing a documentary, “Forks Over Knives” which shares the results of The China Study. It compares the health of people living in China, eating…

  • One Great Hour of Sharing  2018

    One Great Hour of Sharing 2018

    Sunday March 11 special offering OGHS is one of four Special Mission Offerings that we give to each year. As part of Our Churches Wider Mission, OGHS is the offering of the United Church of Christ denomination that carries God’s message of love and hope to people in crisis. The UCC works with international partners…

  • March Faith and Film Night: Shadowlands

    March Faith and Film Night: Shadowlands

    Rainbow Room Friday, March 9, at 7:00 pm C.S. Lewis was a well-known author of children’s stories, most famously The Chronicles of Narnia; and Christian apologetics, most famously Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters. But he also wrote The Problem of Pain, an earnest, intelligent, but somewhat pat effort to explain the age-old question of…

  • Fasting Discussion

    On Sunday, February 25 after worship there will be a gathering in the Chapel to talk about fasting at North. We hope to begin a community fast the next weekend, March 3 – 4 and then gather on Monday evening March 5 to break the fast in community with a meal. Fasting, the abstention from…

  • GEN SILENT Conference Giving Voice to LGBTQ Older Adults

    GEN SILENT Conference Giving Voice to LGBTQ Older Adults

    Giving Voice to LGBTQ Older Adults One-Day Symposium Saturday, April 14th 9 am – 4 pm   Remember CALLED TO BE? Many blessings came from that outreach event. Our faith values, once again, call us to do justice, this time in support of our GLTBQ senior brothers and sisters. LGBTQ seniors are dying prematurely and…

  • Ash Wednesday Service

    Ash Wednesday Service

        Ash Wednesday Worship Service     February 14, 2018, 7:00-8:00 p.m. Our Lenten “Journey with Jesus” – and with one another – begins this coming week.  We will gather together as a worshiping community for a simple service of Scripture, song, silence and prayer.  Our Ash Wednesday service will include the imposition of ashes as well as Holy Communion.  Child…

  • Adult Education: Rage at God

    Adult Education: Rage at God

    Sunday Mornings, February 4 – March 11, 9:15 – 10:00 am in the Sunshine Classroom The Bible presents a personal God who intervenes in human lives and invites a human response.  Next to being loved, God seems to like being hated.  Any number of stories and psalms in Scripture attest to this.  Job laments, “Why is life given…

  • Adult Education Class on Godly Play

    What is GodlyPlay? The Godly Play approach helps children to explore their faith through story, to gain religious language, and to enhance their spiritual experience through wonder and play. Based on Montessori principles serves children of all ages. Dee shared her storytelling skills with us at the All Church Family Reunion – adults, youth, and…

  • 7th Annual SSCM Food Pantry “Feed the People Concert”

    7th Annual SSCM Food Pantry “Feed the People Concert”

    On December 2 from 7:00 to 9:30 pm, please join us for the 7th Annual SSCM Food Pantry “Feed the People Concert” here at North Church. This is a ‘pass the hat’ event and every $1.00 donated will purchase $10.00 worth of food to help feed the hungry.

  • Wednesday Evening Book Study

    Wednesday Evening Book Study

    Convictions: How I Learned What Matters Most by Marcus Borg     Wednesdays at 7pm.    

  • 2016 Easter Egg Hunt!

    2016 Easter Egg Hunt!

    Join us Sunday, March 27 for Family Fun: 9:15am Easter Breakfast Congregation members are asked to bring breakfast casseroles, pastries, or breads. The Christian Education Board will furnish fruit, juice, coffee and tea. 10:00am Easter Egg Hunt For preschoolers through 5th graders. Children should bring baskets or bags to hold their eggs. 10:30am Easter Sunday Worship

  • Feed the People Concert Benefits SSCM Pantry

    Feed the People Concert Benefits SSCM Pantry

    November 14, 7 p.m. at St. Paul UCC, 225 E. Gates St, Columbus, 43206 with overflow parking at St. Leo’s church, just 1 block south at 221 Hanford. We have a new sponsor this year, WCBE 90.5 FM. They will be doing promotional spots for the concert. The concert features Donna Mogavero, the Klatt Brothers…

  • Throat Culture in Concert for the Southside Food Pantry

    Throat Culture in Concert for the Southside Food Pantry

    Saturday, November 15, 2014, from 7:00pm – 9:00 pm. Throat Culture, the a capella group who has been singing at the Food Pantry’s benefit concert, headlined this year’s event at St. Paul UCC in Merion Village.  There was one other group performing, Toering.  They are an up & coming duo of two young women on acoustic guitars.