Our Traditions
Festival of Lessons and Carols
Northminster’s signature worship event is a lessons and carols service during Advent. Time honored musical selections alternate with Scriptural lessons that walk us through the Advent and Christmas story. A reception of seasonal food is enjoyed afterward in our Fellowship Hall. Click here for pictures of the event!
Making Apple Butter
Each autumn, the turning of the leaves and the beginning of the football season are joined by Northminster’s apple butter making. Jars of delicious homemade (churchmade!) apple butter are presold; the apples are peeled on a Thursday and then cooked and jarred on the following Saturday. Special care is taken to prepare and butter the apples—as well as make sure the given Saturday isn’t on a home game day! Proceeds from the sales are used to give honoraria to graduating seniors, pay for scholarships for kids to attend summer camp, and other worthy youth causes. In 2011, the apple butter was made on Saturday, October 15th.
Rally Day
The first Sunday in September is always Rally Day—the day our new Sunday School year begins. The day begins with breakfast at church, after which students tour their new Sunday School rooms and meet their teachers. After the worship service, a picnic is enjoyed by everyone in the cooling autumn air. Rally Day reminds us that Christian Education is about Christian doctrine, Christian theology, and Christian living—but it’s about Christian fellowship, too. . . .
Trunk-or-Treat
Christ promised that the gates of hell will not prevail against his Church, so we try to do our part each October by scaring off those pesky devils with some fun and fellowship. Each year, Northminster hosts a neighborhood party called Trunk-or-Treat. The party includes a DJ, moon bounces, hot dogs, and numerous cars decorated for Halloween with oodles of candy in the trunks. This year’s Trunk-or-Treat was moved indoors because of high winds. Despite this, we had an excellent crowd. Click here for pictures of the event!