Northside College Ministry

I encourage you guys to follow along with this series even if you can’t be at church every Sunday!

New series starting tomorrow! Join us for Sunday school after the service!

Happy Easter weekend! Hope you’re enjoying time with your family but more importantly time to reflect on the sacrifice Jesus made for us. Reminder there will be a normal Sunday schedule with 9:30 thrive service (and baptisms!) and 10:45 sanctuary service. No college Sunday school this week, enjoy time with your family and friends! #easterweekend

We hope you’ll join us this Sunday! Service at 9:30 Sunday followed by college Sunday school. Then Sunday night we’re having a Palm Sunday worship service with Soundside, the youth band, and @gc_bcm band leading us in worship! #palmsunday @nbcmilledgeville

We hope you will be able to join us at Northside for our Easter events! Palm Sunday at the 12:00 hour families with children are invited to a picnic and Easter egg hunt on the grounds. More details to come!

Don’t forget we have some schedule changes for the holidays while a lot of you are out of town. No 11:15 service and college Sunday School will be at 10:45 (following the 9:30 service). If you’re back in town for the holidays we would love to have you join us. We meet in the fellowship hall! #holisayschedule

We’re so pumped to be starting college Sunday school back this Sunday, October 4th at 10 am in the fellowship hall. If you’re not sure where the fellowship hall is, we’ll post a video to show you guys this weekend! We will finish Sunday school and then can head to the 11:15am service. We will be checking temps, encouraging masks, and social distancing as in services but man are we glad to get back to some sense of normal. Hope to see you guys Sunday!

BCM has invited us to join them on a community prayer walk tomorrow night at 7. We would love to have you guys join! Northsides location to meet is at the intramural fields at west campus. Masks will be required for and social distancing will be practiced.

Here is the bulletin and sermon notes for this Sunday. Sanctuary Worship resumes in person tomorrow. Don’t forget to register for a service @nbcmville.com

Don’t forget to register for in person services if you’ll be in town this weekend. Enjoy your long weekend and stay safe!

Don’t forget to register for in person services if you plan to attend. If you do not feel comfortable worshipping in person or are quarantined or sick, we invite you to worship online at 9:30. If you have been quarantined or are sick, please reach out to Leslie, Tyler, or Jodi so we can know specifically how to pray for you or if we can do anything to help. You guys are loved and prayed for!

Hi Northside Family! There will be no livestream tonight at 6:30 p.m. due to the fact that we will be using the Sanctuary at that time to pre-record this comin...g Sunday's 10:45 a.m. service. We have been very blessed to have our Wednesday night service livecasts for months without interruption while many other churches are not having any Wednesday services or activites. We will be back next Wednesday night. We wil publish an update prayer list tomorrow morning by email. If you have a request, please call it in to Lisa at our church office, or email Bro. Billy at [email protected]. I'll be sending out an email update with other related information today or tomorrow. Blesings, Pastor Owen

Please register on the website if you are planning to attend in person services this weekend. Some reminders: -We are asking college students to come to the 11:15 service if possible for space purposes. -Register with your roommates or those you are coming with so we can set out socially distanced chairs appropriately. -We strongly recommend wearing a mask.... -If you have any covid like symptoms, have come into contact with someone who has covid, or are awaiting test results for covid please worship online rather than in person. Thank you for your help!

Come drive by to pick up a biscuit tomorrow morning! We can’t wait to see you!

Don’t forget to register @ NBCMVILLE.COM to attend in person services this Sunday. *Reminder, we are encouraging college students to register for the 11:15 service as there is plenty of room to add new attendees and still allow for social distancing in that service.* 9:30 Thrive (in person & online) 10:45 Sanctuary Worship (online only) 11:15 Thrive (in person only)

Check out what we have going on this week at Northside College Ministry!

So much nervousness and anxiety can surround us right now. Especially with the start of a new school year. Thankful for the reminder this morning that God has given us the opportunity to experience true peace, peace that will be beyond understanding for the world. Praying chapter 3 of Colossians over our college students this morning, knowing that as you start school today, this week, or sometime later this month, the Lord will be right there alongside you helping you navigate this season of life. #nbccollege #colossians3 #backtoschool

Hey guys! There is plenty of room on the 11:15 service so we’re asking college students to try to register for and attend the 11:15 service! Here’s some details about what to expect when you arrive.

With having my own children, I often see how God loves me and wants to have that relationship with me. There are times that I will correct my children with a certain behavior, and then God responds to me about my own behavior. Recently I was driving with my youngest son, we were discussing him going back to college and I said how I would like for him to call a few times a week to let me know how he is doing. I explained that I would like for him to call and talk other than be...ing called only for a crisis or money. I said these things to him because I desire to have a relationship with my child and not only be called when I need to do something for him. I'm thankful he reaches out to me when he is in need, but I desire something more. I desire for us to have a relationship. And that's when it hit me...as God said "Yeah me too!" The way I desire to have a relationship with my children and not being called only when there is a problem is what God desires for us. He wants to have a relationship with us and not only turn to Him so He can get us out of something. It's about having that time with Him every day and spending precious time in studying the Word and in prayer. Like most, I am guilty of not having a consistent time but the time with Him is time I never regret. "Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him". Psalm 34:8 In order for us to "taste" our food, one must slow down and savor each bite. Most of us quickly eat a snack or meal so we can to go onto the next thing. Some of our relationships with God might be the same way. We give Him a quick word and prayer and off to the next thing. But "taste and see" requires us to slow down and savor our time with God. A real relationship is where both parties want to spend the time with each other and enjoy the fellowship with one another. Just as I long to have a relationship with my college aged son, God longs for a relationship with me. It's about quality time together and not only calling when I need something. Time with God is never a waste of time. I pray that you will have a desire to spend time with God; to savor his Word and spend time in prayer. I pray that you will desire to have a relationship with God this week. -Jodi See more

Reminder, there will be no in person worship this week at Northside. Service will be streamed online.

We’ve been having some discussions and putting together some plans for Northside college ministry this year but in this season of coronavirus, it feels as if we can’t plan much more than a week or so in advance because things change so rapidly. That is hard for me because I am such a planner at nature. As I was dwelling on that this morning the Lord reminded me of this verse. I hope you can allow your heart to be comforted by this verse as I was, that no matter what plans we put in place, the Lord will always be there to direct and determine our steps...and to be honest his direction is way better than any plans I can make on my own. Know you guys are loved and prayed for and we are working our hardest to rest in the Lords direction for the ministry. -Leslie

An encouraging read for this new week! The absolute certainty we have is the Truth of Jesus and He welcomes us all into the outreach of humble and gracious servant-hearted Faith. Faith that says we are all just people who are trying, people who are both His good and our bad, and He’s the only One good. Faith that requires His patient love and His merciful understanding and His servant actions and His willingness to suffer with and for the wounded.

Thank you for joining us live! We hope you are having a great morning. For more information about our church, check out www.nbcmville.com To give online, head to www.nbcmville.com/donate

Online only for the next two Sundays! Check out the bulletin for the dates of two upcoming drive by baby showers, for the Cliffords and the Kirkland’s.

Church Family: On top of other issues, we have lost our internet and cannot Livestream at 9:30 today. We will videotape it and post it on this page as soon as... possible. In addition, the 11:15 am service has been cancelled. Love in Christ, Pastor Owen

This weeks bulletin and sermon notes. Printable versions are at Nbcmville.com

Happy Independence Day! Here is your bulletin and sermon notes for Sunday, July 5TH. For printable versions you may go to Nbcmville.com

Come hangout *virtually* with us tonight at 7 on Zoom! Same link as in the past, but if you need it send us a message. Hope to see you guys soon!

Join us this morning!

Thank you for joining us live! We are having in person services again if you feel led to join us. To find out more information about our services, check out nbcmville.com

Take a look and spread the word! See you Sunday!

Zoom Sunday school tonight at 7! Jodi is continuing the series Beauty from Ashes and would love for you to join.

Schedule for the next two weeks! Don’t forget to visit the website and register to attend a service next Sunday. NOTICE TIME CHANGES. Nbcmville.com

An exciting church announcement! Link to register for in person Sunday worship June 14th below. https://www.fellowshiponegiving.com//029304a9-7196-4e42-b1

Thank you for joining us as we worship the Lord together in song and in word! For more information about our church check out nbcmville.com

Guess what’s back?! Join us tomorrow night at 7 for Zoom Sunday school. If you don’t have the link, message us! #nbccollege #zoomsundayschool

Hey guys! I hope everyone is enjoying that the Spring semester 2020 is done! Wanted to let you know that there will be no Sunday school on Sunday, May 10th but... will resume on the 17th. Let us know if you need the Zoom invite as we continue our study... Beauty from Ashes. Miss seeing everyone!!!

It’s not the same, but we’ve been having a blast having Zoom Sunday school together on Sunday nights at 7. We would love to have you join us tonight! Link to join should be the same as last week. If you don’t have it, send us a message and we’ll send it to you! #zoom #sundayschool

Thank you for joining us live this morning!

Hope to see you guys online today! 9:45 am-church service live on Facebook or nbcmville.com/live 7:00 pm-Zoom Sunday School (same link as last week)

Thank you for joining us live! We are so glad you are joining us this rainy morning. Stay dry; stay safe!

Join us Wednesday nights @6:30 for an interactive prayer meeting and Bible study with Pastor Owen. Facebook.com/nbcmville

Happy Easter! If you’re able we would love for you to join us on Zoom tonight at 7! DM us or check your email for the link to join. #eastersunday #zoom #nbccollege

Join us for Easter Sunday service!

Praying each and every one of you have an amazing Easter tomorrow. Here are a couple ways to celebrate with Northside: 9:45 am-live Easter service streamed on Facebook live or nbcmville.com/live 7:00 pm-Zoom College Sunday school. We had so much fun doing this last week and catching up with you guys. We’ll do a short lesson and take some time to connect on Easter Sunday.

Thank you for joining us for our Good Friday service! We hope you had an awesome Holy Week and are ready for whatever Easter my look like for your family this week!

Don't forget about the Good Friday worship tonight at 7 pm! Other things to look forward to this Easter weekend...Easter Service Sunday morning at 9:45am on Facebook Live and Zoom College Sunday School at 7:00 pm Sunday night!

This is an event for the youth but anyone can join in. 7pm Friday. Facebook live or Nbcmville.com.

Don't forget to join us tonight for Sunday School at 7:00 pm! Message us if you don't have the link to join.

Hope you guys can join us for worship today!

We miss you guys and want to get together! So we’ll do the best that we can and get together on Zoom! We’re going to have a Zoom meeting Monday night at 7 for Sunday school. Check your email or message us for the zoom link to join! #nbccollege #virtualsundayschool

A LETTER FROM PASTOR OWEN Dear Northside Family: I hope this letter finds you all healthy and safe and filled with faith. I am writing to update you about our... church during this on-going COVID-19 crisis. First of all, I want to say how much I miss seeing you! I was just beginning to know you and put names with faces. I look forward to seeing you again as soon as it is possible. For now, we will have to depend on telephone and electronic media to stay in touch. I am still coming to Milledgeville at least three days a week, livestreaming on Sunday and working out of the office on Tuesday and Wednesday. I am studying at home and staying in touch with our excellent staff and leadership. Our staff is meeting every Tuesday afternoon, planning for weekly services, trying to think outside the box on how we can minister effectively under these circumstances. In addition to the livestream worship on Sunday mornings, I am currently posting a mid-week video on our Facebook page with some updates and devotional thoughts for these times. I am a work in process on these videos and am deeply grateful to Taylor Tom for his editing skills. Of course, we are all thankful for our ministers and musicians for coming up to the church to do our livestreams. We are especially grateful to Austin Brown for his tech skills in making our livestream broadcasts possible. Speaking of broadcasts, this coming Sunday, April 5, is Palm Sunday. We will be live and online at 9:45 a.m. We will be sharing the Lord’s Supper. Many of you will be using juice and crackers at your home. Others have ordered and we are delivering prepackaged cups for your use. If for some reason, you don’t have access to livestream or have technical problems, we will be sharing the Lord’s Supper around 10:45 a.m. At the end of this letter, I have attached instructions for taking the Lord’s Supper on your own at the same time. Of course, April 12 is Easter Sunday and, sadly, we will not be able to meet in person on campus. A number of people have asked why we could not have a drive-in service. Several factors will make this impossible for us, including limited and divided parking and a lack of an FM transmitter. But most important for now is that local and state public leaders are discouraging these kind of church gatherings, asking churches to put the health and safety of our members and citizens first. So we will be livestreaming on Easter Sunday morning at 9:45 a.m. We are getting very strong viewing results on Facebook and on our website. Please pray that God will use these broadcasts to save souls and strengthen believers. Meanwhile, one great idea is that on our first Sunday back, we have a big celebration and call it Resurrection Sunday. I like that idea and look forward to making it happen! I appreciate your efforts at getting your tithes and offerings to the church. Although our first two Sundays were predictably down in offerings, many of you are learning to give online or are mailing in your tithes and offerings. We will soon have a secure drop slot in place at our office so that you can drive through and leave your tithes, offerings and other special gifts if you so desire. Please remember that, on Easter Sunday, we are receiving the annual Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions. Our church-wide goal is $8,000. Please pray about what you can give. Our missionaries depend on these gifts. Despite the fact that we are not able to meet together, there is ministry going on. I know that a group of our women have been sewing facemasks for our medical community. This week, we are feeding lunch to the residents of the Boddie housing community on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. (There is also a plan to feed hospital workers in the near future. If you would like to donate toward this effort, please indicate this on your online or mailed gift.) I know that our deacons have made an effort to call every member of our church and check on them. Many of our Sunday School and Discipleship Training classes are reaching out to their members and some of them are using Zoom and other technology to meet together online. Praise the Lord - the church is being the church. We have a long way to go in this crisis and we have a great need to grow in our ministry approaches. Please pray that God will show us the way and that we will be obedient to him. A church leadership team will be meeting again by conference call on Wednesday, April 8 to continue to monitor the overall situation and make decisions about a continued way forward. Please pray for us. Prayer is so important for us all. I know that an email went out this week with the names of all of our church members who are employed in healthcare, law enforcement and other related areas of public service. Please especially keep these front-line servants in your prayers, as well as all those who are working in essential businesses and services. Why not choose one of them and be a prayer partner with them through this difficult season? So this letter has gotten long and it’s time to wrap it up. Thank you for taking the time to read it. If you need to reach me, you can call the church office and leave a message. Or, you can email me at [email protected] and leave your number and I will call you. This is a difficult season and it may get worse. But we have our faith and our church family. Together, we can face anything. Blessings, Pastor Owen Bozeman Lord’s Supper Instructions Thank you for participating in the Lord’s Supper at home on Palm Sunday, April 5. As a reminder, the taking of the Lord’s Supper is meant for those who have professed Christ as Savior and been baptized. Toward the end of the online worship service on April 5 (right after the sermon) the pastor will direct the ordinance of the Lord’s Supper. We will first eat the bread and then drink the cup. Please listen for the pastor’s instructions and prompting. Many are providing your own crackers and juice at home. Others are using prepackaged cups that have been delivered to your home with directions for use. If for some reason you lose or don’t get the livestream broadcast, you may take the Lord’s Supper at home @ 10:45 a.m. following these directions: The Bread Reflect on the Bread representing the body of Christ. - Pray (or have someone pray) a special prayer of thanks for Jesus’ body sacrificed for us on the cross. - Read 1 Corinthians 11:23-24 - Eat the Bread. The Cup Reflect on the Cup representing the blood of Christ. - Pray (or have someone pray) a special prayer of thanks for Jesus’ blood shed for us, that we might have forgiveness of sin. Ask for his forgiveness of your sins. - Read 1 Corinthians 11:25-26 - Drink the Cup Though we are separated during this time of world and national healthcare crisis, we pray that taking the Lord’s Supper will draw us closer together.

Join us for church this morning!

Here’s an opportunity to be the hands and feet of Jesus in our community next week. You can volunteer or donate (or both), whichever you are able to do.

Since we aren’t able to be together on Wednesday nights right now, we’re posting a short version of our Habitudes lesson each week! Here’s the first one: Raise your hand if you feel like you’re already close to (or have reached) your breaking point with the current situation going on in the world. The Fish and Bread Habitude is the idea that the Lord often allows us to be broken as part of getting us ready to serve him in a greater way. When Jesus received the food in the fee...ding of the five thousand he Received it, Blessed it, Broke it, and Gave it Away. If we think about what Jesus does for us it can often follow this pattern. He receives us exactly as we are, blesses us and makes us his own, allows us to go through trials and sufferings that feel like they will Break us, and asks that we give of ourselves to others in order to glorify the kingdom of God. So today if you feel like you are at your breaking point, spend some time alone with the Lord to ask him, God, how do you want to allow this to change my heart. What can I learn from this season of life? How can I give of myself to serve others during this time? And most importantly allow the Lord comfort you. He doesn’t want you to go through the breaking of life alone. He is there for you to run to. See more

Check out the midweek message from Pastor Owen. Spread faith not fear.

Now more than ever.

Info on the next two Sundays. Look in the comments for instructions on how to get the church app. Let’s make social distancing create a huge social media gathering! See you on Sunday!

Update on church worship services at Northside Baptist. We will not have any worship services or other activities on our church campus through Sunday, March 29.

Dear Northside Church Family: I sent out an email late Thursday which was also posted on our website on Friday concerning the COVID-19 coronavirus and how we ...are preparing. If you haven’t read it, please take the time to do so. Many are wondering if anything has changed. Well, things are changing by the hour! But what has not changed is that, as of now, there are no active cases of the virus in the 13 counties that make up Middle Georgia - including Baldwin County. I have now heard that a few churches in the area have cancelled their services and activities. At this time, my truest feeling is that it will be safe to attend our church this weekend. So, we will plan to have worship services and other scheduled activities tomorrow. However, we will have a leadership meeting at 5 p.m. tomorrow afternoon to determine our schedule for the rest of the week and also the rest of the month of March. I am fairly certain there will be changes. We will announce the results of that meeting at the 6:30 p.m. worship services and will get the word out through email and the website afterwards. I am aware that Governor Brian Kemp has encouraged school closings and specifically advised senior adults to avoid large gatherings. That is only prudent. Nevertheless, each person must do what is best for themselves and their family, given their personal health and concerns. At the church, we are making adjustments which will limit touches on doorways, the giving of offerings and check-in for preschoolers and children. If you have any form of hand sanitizer, please bring it with you to use. We are asking that we forego the usual greetings of handshakes and hugs, and instead greet one another with a wave and smile. These are certainly confusing and trying times in truly uncharted waters. But our God is in control. I have changed my message tomorrow morning to speak on what to do when a crisis comes. I will be giving spiritual guidance with practical solutions. Please pray for me, for one another and for our nation and world as we all go through this crisis together. In Christ’s Love, Dr. Owen Bozeman Transitional Pastor Northside Baptist Church

Students: Don't forget, tomorrow we're having lunch during Sunday School with the Faithbuilder's Sunday School class! Come to Sunday school after Thrive then we will head over to the fellowship hall for lunch and fellowship. It's going to be such a great time of community!

Today is Collegiate Day of Prayer! Join us today in praying for students that our church is impacting and has the potential to impact. Here are some specific prayer points you can pray today. 1. Pray for students that are a part of our congregation. Pray that we as a church would love and support them and that they would grow and find a place to invest and serve. 2. Pray for students from our church who are away at school. Pray that as they are away from home, they would fin...d a church, community of believers, and would be a light of Christ on the campus where they attend. 3. Pray for the campuses in our town: Georgia College, GMC, and CGTC. Pray that the Lord would do a mighty work on the campuses and bring more students to know him. 4. Pray for campus ministries who are pouring into students on campuses. Pray specifically for Georgia College Baptist Collegiate Ministries that meets on Tuesday nights and their bible study for GMC students that meets on Thursday afternoons.

See you guys at church this morning! Shout out to all the college students who helped with DNOW this weekend. You guys are the mvps!

Come meet the Transitional Pastor candidate!

Welcome back GC students! Hope you’re having a great first week back. Wednesday night suppers start back tonight and it’s fried chicken night! Only $1 for college students. There will not be an official college class tonight but we are going to leave after we eat dinner to go visit Jodi Isley and take her and Shawn some food and spend time with her to encourage her as she continues to recover from her surgery. Dinner at 6 and we’ll head to Jodi’s by 6:45. Hope you can come!

Don’t forget about our special Christmas Sunday school tomorrow! We are packing stockings for kids, writing Christmas cards, and doing a short Christmas lesson. If you’re able, bring a snack or candy to put in stockings. If you’d like to help bring stuff for the stockings but don’t have time to go to the store, you can Venmo @Northsidebapt a donation and Leslie is picking up stuff for them in the morning.

Christmas party tonight to end the semester for the Wednesday night college class! All are welcome, even if you couldn’t come to the class this semester. Dinner at 6 (free for students in December) and Christmas party after. Hope to see you there! #nbccollege #merrychristmas #trivia #games #prizes

Check out what’s coming up the next couple weeks in college ministry at Northside! First up, Christmas party this Wednesday. Come ready for some Christmas trivia and games (with prizes). Also, dinners are free for students in December. Merry Christmas! #christmastime #nbccollege

College students, don’t forget we are eating lunch after Sunday school tomorrow! Join us in the fellowship hall for some yummy soup and sandwiches. Perfect food for a cold weekend!

Schedule for the next few weeks for the Wednesday night college class! 6:00-$1 dinner for students 6:45-college class