Northside Presbyterian Church

An inclusive community growing in faith

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Welcome to Northside Presbyterian Church of Ann Arbor, Michigan
  • Who we are
    • About Northside Presbyterian Church of Ann Arbor
    • About Our Pastor
    • What is a More Light Congregation?
  • Worship
    • About Our Worship Service
    • Music
    • Sermons
    • Child Care
  • Programs
    • Stewardship of the Earth
    • Outreach and Social Justice
    • Book Group
    • AA Meetings
  • Contact
    • Office Directory
  • Faith & Food Garden
  • Online Giving

About Our Worship Service

We invite you to join us for worship each Sunday at 10:00 a.m. We are worshipping in a hybrid format, both in person at the church and by Zoom. For a link to our service send us an email.

Sunday Morning Worship

We come together each Sunday for worship as a foundational practice so that we might be grounded in who we are and whose we are.  A typical Sunday schedule looks like this:

  • Choir Practice from 9:00 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. (Choir typically sings during the school year only.)
  • Child Care available for ages 3-12 from 10:10 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
  • Families are invited to have children remain in worship, especially to join us for the start of worship until our “Growing with God” message with the Pastor (about 10 minutes into the service), and then go downstairs for child care.
  • Children of all ages are always welcome to stay in worship and parents with children under the age of 3 are welcome to go downstairs with their child and supervise them in the play area.
  • Worship service goes from 10:00 a.m. to 11ish a.m.
  • Coffee Hour following worship combined fellowship with St. Aidan’s
  • First Sundays of the month are Northside Presbyterian “Communion and Community Sundays,” where we have communion during worship and community-building time within the congregation during our own coffee hour immediately after worship in the upper sanctuary.

Our worship combines comfortable informality within a traditional Presbyterian liturgy, emphasizing the participation of members of the congregation. Through singing, praying, the discipline of confession, the offering—through Jesus Christ—of forgiveness, a vibrant passing of the peace, the hearing of the Word spoken and reflected upon, and the sharing of the Eucharist, we are nourished for the journey of living as Christ’s disciples in community at church and in the world.

Our sanctuary is located on the second floor of our church building—enter the door at the end of the building and come upstairs, or use the ground-level elevator at the front end and cross over. With ceiling-to-floor windows, the sanctuary provides a panoramic view of the wooded splendor surrounding us on any given Sunday morning.

Occassional Ecumenical Worship

The ecumenical spirit is alive in our worship as well as in our programs. Many times a year, our two churches, Northside Presbyterian Church and St. Aidan Episcopal Church, worship together—most notably through the sharing of the Eucharist.

Welcome to Worship!

Join us for worship each Sunday at 10:00 a.m.

We have the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper on the first Sunday of every month. We then have a time of Northside Presbyterian community building and refreshments after worship on the first Sunday every month.

Typically coffee hour is in the lounge after service and is shared with our sister congregation, St. Aidan’s Episcopal.

We are worshipping in a hybrid format, both in person at the church and by Zoom. For a link to our service, contact our Pastor Jenny at jsaperstein@northsidepres.org

2024 invitation to action on trans rights – from more light presbyterians

Dear friends and congregation members of More Light Presbyterians,

Our siblings from Northside Presbyterian Church, of Ann Arbor, Michigan reached out
to us with an advocacy opportunity. As reported in these articles by CNN and the Associated Press, South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace introduced a resolution to amend the rules of the US House of Representatives banning transgender women from women’s restrooms at the US Capitol weeks before Sarah McBride (Delaware) is sworn in.

McBride is the first transgender woman to be elected to the Congress, and also happens to be a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA). The rule singles out Ms. McBride for her medical history, denies her identity as a woman, and would bar her from using single-sex restrooms at her workplace.

Members of Northside are urging us to reach out to our representatives and speak out against this and similar rules that threaten the lives of our LGBTQIA+ siblings. If members of every congregation in our network reach out to their representatives, most state representatives would hear from us. So… how do we do this?

Step 1: Find your representative here: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative?blm_aid=55891

Step 2: Tell your representative who you are (specifying you are their constituent) and

why this is important to you (tell them about your faith!).

Step 3: Urge them to say no to this ruling.

Step 4: Encourage them to reject similar rulings. Tell them you’ll check in a few weeks

(and then do it).

Step 5: Thank them for their service.

There are some ways to do this and have a wide reach. For example, you can host a letter writing party after worship, during coffee hour, or during a special service (like Christmas Eve). Have envelopes ready, (and stamps, if your budget allows). Make sure you provide opportunities to include your youth— it’s never to early to become an advocate!

Forward this to neighbors, friends, and co-workers. You never know who might receive it and feel seen.

With much gratitude for your love and advocacy,

More Light Presbyterians

CNN article: https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/18/politics/nancy-mace-anti-transgender-bathroom-ban-capitol-sarah-mcbride/index.html?blm_aid=55891

AP article: https://apnews.com/article/sarah-mcbride-speaker-johnson-transgender-bathroom-f3943e1b3b2dc9c8d62d2ba6660aaf91?blm_aid=55891

1679 Broadway Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105

Need a Flag, Take a Flag– CBS News Detroit Coverage 6/12/23

2023 A Call to Action in Support of Transgender Youth

2023 NEED A FLAG, TAKE A FLAG – MLive Article Click Picture

Copyright © 2025 · Northside Presbyterian Church