Welcome to the family!
Below, you’ll find some helpful information and answers to common questions:
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Sunday’s Schedule:
9:00 am Small Groups
10:30 am Worship Service
5:00 pm Worship Service
Wednesday Evening Schedule:
6:00 pm Children’s Choir and Children’s Bible Drill
7:00 pm Adult Worship Service, Adult Choir Rehearsal, Student Worship, and Children’s classes
8:15 pm College and Young Professionals (bi-weekly)
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Childcare for ages 3 and under is provided for all services.
For the safety of your children and your peace of mind, Morningside Children’s ministry operates under a strict Child Protection Policy. Here are a few highlights of that policy:
Every adult who works with minor children has undergone a criminal background check and completed a sexual abuse awareness course.
We practice the “two adult” rule, which means no adult is ever alone with a child or group of children.
After services begin, we keep outside doors locked until it is time for parents to pick up their children.
Our safety team is on duty, monitoring the outside doors and parking areas, during all services.
We have a paging system to notify parents of nursery-age children in case they are needed.
Children are our greatest gifts, and the future of our church. We take these extra precautions to ensure their safety.
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Small Groups are classes of similarly aged people who study God’s word together. It’s a wonderful place to grow lasting friendships!
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You may enter our parking areas from Connell Road, Bemiss Road, or Northside Drive.
Don’t forget, you’re our special guest! When you arrive look for our designated guest parking areas!
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We have a team of friendly greeters ready to welcome you. If it is raining or you need assistance getting you and/or your kids inside, please pull up to a door and let one of our friendly greeters know. We’ll be glad to help park your vehicle!
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Our trained safety team is always on duty to ensure your well-being while you attend Bible study or worship. Exterior doors are locked after services begin.
Safety personnel patrol the parking lots and building entrances throughout service times. Your safety is important to us.
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At Morningside you will find people dressed in everything from coats and ties, dresses, slacks, open-collared shirts, khakis, and even jeans. We want you to feel comfortable and at ease. Modesty is our main guideline.
What We Believe
Bible: We believe that the Bible is the Word of God, supernaturally inspired, so that it is inerrant in the original manuscripts and preserved by God in its verbal, plenary inspiration, so that it is a divinely authoritative standard for every age and every life.
Trinity: We believe that the Godhead exists eternally in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit – and that these three are one God.
God the Father: We believe in God as absolute and sole creator of the universe, and that creation was by divine fiat, not through evolutionary process.
Jesus: We believe that Jesus Christ in the flesh was both God and man, and He was born of a virgin and that He lived a sinless life, in which He taught and wrought mighty works, and wonders and signs exactly as revealed in the four Gospels, that He was crucified, died as a penalty for our sins and was raised from the dead bodily on the third day. Later He ascended to the Father’s right hand where He is head of the church and intercedes for believers, and from whence He is coming again personally, bodily, visibly to this earth to set up His millennial kingdom.
We believe that since in His death, by His shed blood, the Lord Jesus Christ made a perfect atonement for sin, redeeming us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us – men are saved and justified on the simple and single ground of the shed blood.
Holy Spirit: We believe that the Holy Spirit is a person, is God and possesses all the divine attributes. He indwells all believers, baptizes and seals all believers at the moment of their salvation, and fills them in response to confession of sin and yieldedness.
Salvation: We believe that God, by His sovereign choice and out of love for men, sent Christ into the world to save sinners. We believe that such salvation with its forgiveness of sins, its impartation of a new nature and its hope of eternal life, is entirely apart from good works, baptism, church membership – or man’s effort – and is of pure grace.
Christian Life: We believe that a true believer is eternally secure, that he cannot lose His salvation, but that sin may interrupt the joy of his fellowship with God and bring the loving discipline of the Heavenly Father.
We believe that all who receive Christ become joint-heirs with Christ; at death, their spirits depart to be with Christ in conscious, blessedness; and at the rapture their bodies will be raised to the likeness of the body of His glory and dwell forever in divine presence.
We believe that it is the goal of every Christian to grow in spiritual maturity through obedience to the Word of God and the indwelling Spirit.