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NORTHMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
MISSION & VISION STUDY 2024
Congregants and REACH guests will encounter and be invited to be part of many faith
experiences at Northminster, including for example:
Worship, Praise and Prayer.
Three distinctive worship services greet each Sunday morning: a contemporary service with
praise team and band; a traditional service with pipe organ and choir; and an ARISE service
in the heart language of Kirundi with praise team, band and dancing. These services are
livestreamed with real-time volunteer chat hosts, available on demand on Northminster’s
website and YouTube Channel, and rebroadcasted on Northminster’s radio program (True
North) on Sunday evening as well as Monday through Friday mornings. A prayer minister is
present in the Prayer Garden after services to offer support and prayer for those so desiring.
A Zoom prayer circle also is available each week. Three to five-minute online Daily
Devotions by the pastors are posted Monday through Friday and an ARISE Prayer and
Praise Service is held on Friday evenings. The Middle Eastern Presbyterian Fellowship
(MEPF) has been a blessed part of the worship fabric at Northminster Church since 2008.
The Reverend Eshak (Isaac) Estafanos pastors the fellowship, with services in Arabic every
Sunday morning.
Engagement in Mission.
Northminster Church fosters a mindset for participatory mission
by providing local, national and global mission trips and
engagement, conferences, classes and prayer teams. Global
mission partnerships are maintained in Estonia, Mexico, Panama
and Central America, Nigeria and Ghana, Malawi, and Ethiopia.
For over twenty-five years, intercultural and intergenerational
mission trips have annually constructed homes and churches and
held children’s outreach for Mayan Presbyterians in the Yucatan
as well as in the neighborhoods of Puerto Peñasco (Rocky Point),
Sonora, Mexico. Mission trips, in association with Presbyterian
Disaster Assistance and Praying Pelican Missions, have provided
relief and reconstruction in Louisiana, Kentucky and Oklahoma.
Local mission bonds and volunteer commitment are especially
strong with the Gospel Rescue Mission (men’s and women’s
shelter), Cragin Elementary School, and Interfaith Community
Services.
Northminster Christian School.
Our preschool has since 1998 provided a Christ-centered environment where each child
learns and grows emotionally, physically, intellectually, socially and spiritually. Children are
nurtured in the love of Jesus Christ and provided positive learning experiences in a play-
based setting open to children of all races, nationalities and faiths. Alongside weekly chapel
services, God’s word is integrated into every area of the preschool ministry. The expanded
and completely reconstructed children’s courtyard, commissioned In June 2024, provides a
vibrant new play area for the preschool and Northminster’s children's ministry.
While MEPF is a mission ministry of the Presbytery de Cristo, Northminster Church provides a chapel and technology for
worship, a manse on the Northminster campus for the pastor and his family, office and fellowship space as well as financial
support.