Big Step

Our Vision

A Bold Vision for Northminster's Future

Northminster takes a Big Step to ensure that we will grow into a vital, engaged, and faithful outpost for Christ and our community for the next 50 years!

Next Vision Night

October 2022

We celebrated what's been happening over the past year at Northminster and shared what's NEXT.

Big Step Presentation

October 2021

Every New Adventure Begins with a First Step, and Ours is Going to be a Big Step!

Learn More about the Big Step

What is the Big Step?

26 Years in the Making

Big Step

Next Steps

Leave a Legacy

Dive Deeper

Check Out the Big Step Rationale - It answers A LOT of Questions!

The Big Step is...

One Vision:

Northminster takes a Big Step to ensure that we will grow into a vital, engaged, and faithful outpost for Christ and our community for the next 50 years!

In Three Steps:

Step Out

Step Together

Step Up

Step Out

Stepping Out

Northminster Online and...

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you;

and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria,

and to the ends of the earth." - Acts 1:8

The Primary Step Out Initiative:

Elevate Northminster Online to major ministry status, and in particular, adding a live streaming product that evidences high quality and a personal feel. By high quality we want the video and audio to feel as if you were here. By personal, we mean you can see the face of a musician, liturgist, or preacher. If a person can’t be at church, our goal is that that person feels like the church is with them. We will be livestreaming both services.

Supporting initiatives are:

Extending our Front Porch through outreach, with a particular focus on local schools and local community

Improving our communications and technology, with a particular focus on outward directed communications.

Dive Deeper into the Step Out

Step Together

Stepping Together

Children’s Ministry and…

Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.” - Matthew 19:14

The Primary Step Together Initiative:

See our Children’s Ministry become a Northminster area of excellence.

Possibly, other than worship, there is no other focus area that is strategically more essential to our future then children’s ministry. By area of excellence, we are thinking that Children’s Ministry would be on a level with Good Friday efforts by the choir, Connect Day, or the Fine Arts Fair.

Supporting Initiatives are Focused On:

Student Ministry

Small Groups

Dive Deeper into the Step Together

Step Up

Stepping Up

Faith and Leadership Development and…

The gifts he gave were … to equip the saints for the work of ministry

and for building up the body of Christ.

- Ephesians 4:11-12

The Primary Step Up Initiative:

Create a Growth Trail that encourages faith and leadership development. A truly healthy church is always evidenced by strong and growing lay leaders.

Supporting Initiatives:

We will attend to infrastructure issues that are likely to sabotage or limit the realization of the vision’s goals.

In a nutshell, we need to simplify and streamline the decision-making process/governance so we don’t require a third to half of our average attendance in the ministry of governance. We need to be structured for action and for ministry. We need to encourage and evidence a culture of trust and health. We consider this a step-up initiative because it frees people up for ministry instead of governance.

Dive Deeper into the Step Up

Check Out the

Big Step Rationale

A 38-Page Document that Explains the Big Step Vision

Read the Big Step Rationale

Watch the Big Step Presentation