The Newman Catholic Student Center offers Mass, religious study programs, music ministries and more. The center offers programs based on the Catholic faith, yet geared toward college-age Catholics and their needs. Through its ministries, the Newman Catholic Student Center tries to help guide students and adults toward happy, healthy and fulfilling lives.
In addition to its prayer services, this temple also runs a religious preschool during the day. Study groups and classes for older children and adults are offered in the evenings.
Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church opened in 1965. Its current sanctuary has 1,500 seats. Chapel Hill also offers athletic and music programs. In the future, the church plans to expand its property with a youth center, a meeting room and a cafe. Reverend Dr. Mark James Toone is the senior pastor at Chapel Hill.
Nassau Christian Center is a historic building located on the corner of Nassau Street and Chambers Street. It is a congregation dedicated to women's, men's and couples ministry as well as children and youth.
A private religious educational institution, GVCA is organized for kindergarten through ninth grade. The Academy provides, stated a spokesperson, "high academic standards in a safe and disciplined atmosphere." There are many electives available as well, including Spanish, choir and drama. Students may participate in a variety of sports. The Academy fields teams that compete in the Sacramento-based Parochial Athletic League (PAL).
It is a very structured educational environment, with a lot of rules, designed to encourage students to always honor authority, to be polite, productive, prompt and prepared," said the spokesman.
The First Presbyterian Church of Dearborn has been serving the community since its founding in 1834. The congregation moved to its present location on North Brady in 1965. The modern, triangular design repeated throughout the building emphasizes the Trinity, a basic Christian belief, while the open, airy feel and green carpeting of the main sanctuary are designed to remind worshippers that they are “part of God’s world, not apart from it.” The church supports numerous mission and outreach programs locally and around the world.
Ferndale Free Methodist Church is located on the eastern border of Ferndale, on Woodward Heights Boulevard, between Chester and Huron Avenues. The church offers a number of family programs, including music groups, basketball and cheerleading groups, field trips, Bible studies and other events. Ferndale Free Methodist Church is a very family-oriented church.
Christ The King Church offers weekday masses, confession and reconciliation, and a Sunday Vigil Mass. It provides baptism and religious education for small children, as well as a liturgy committee and vacation Bible camp.
The church also has many of its homilies and sermons available on audio tape and compact disc. In addition, Christ The King Church offers communal penance service for the congregation in the days between Advent and Lent.
North Bay Community Church defines the word community church as "an inclusive, ecumenical congregation that grows out of the hopes, needs and aspirations of the community." The basic beliefs of the church and more informational brochures can be picked up outside the church in the information center.
North Bay Church Christian Academy provides classes for ages two to five either full-time or part-time. Special events during the Christmas season are often scheduled. The North Bay Community Church Youth Group is helping to recycle within the community.
The beautiful rock walls combine with the creme orange colored walls to accent the many, many stained glass windows. A happy garden thrives out front of the property and if you come at the right time of the year, a single yellow rose plant can be seen in full bloom sitting in the center of it all, which seems to illuminate the front of the church.
Warner Memorial Presbyterian Church is a friendly community that offers much more than worship services. From friendship club, to a learning center for young children, to a club for seniors, this church has something for everyone.
When you walk in the entrance, there is a barrel that reads, "For I was hungry," where members can donate canned goods. The church also accepts eye glasses for donation and ink and toner for recycling.
Warner Memorial Presbyterian Church participates in the Meals on Wheels program. Members can also submit "news from the pews" and "prayer requests" to be used during mass and in the bulletin.
St. Elizabeth Seton Church, which first celebrated Mass in the summer of 1977, is approaching its 35th anniversary. In addition to weekend Mass, St. Elizabeth Seton offers a wide range of activities includig parish picnics, mom's morning out events, and scripture studies. The bronze bells adorning the main church entrance are from 1913 and formerly hung in Baltimore churches.
The First United Methodist Church of Royal Oak offers worship services, networking events, Bible studies, a library and prayer groups for people of all ages.
The church is part of the Reformed Episcopal Church that mixes both traditional and contemporary worship. The church has ongoing Bible studies for adults, a men's breakfast, women's groups, youth group activities and a comfortable youth suite in the basement of the church.
Calvin Christian's mission is to work in partnership with parents and the church to equip students as disciples of Christ. Its education is integrated with a biblical worldview in all subject areas. The school is located at Grace Free Evangelical Church.
Founded in 1998, the Islamic Center hosts five daily prayers, Islamic school during the school year (Monday - Thursday from 5pm to 7pm), a Muslim Children's Summer Day Camp and many other celebrations, classes, social and educational events for community members of all ages.
Its proper name is Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church, but those who know it well just call it "Faith." Located on Park Avenue just north of Roosevelt Road, Faith seeks to encourage people to become "stewards of God's abundance" and to live "in relationship with God through Christ and each other." A cross shoots above Faith's building, forming its highest point. The exterior, which bears cornerstones dated 1949 and 1959, also displays wall relief sculptures depicting key Christian beliefs: a sacrificial lamb representing Jesus, God creating the universe and the Bible as the Word of God. Toward the back of the building, a play area marks the location of the church's Rainbow Place Preschool. Led by Senior Pastor James Honig and Associate Pastor Heidi Johns, Faith offers three Sunday morning worship services in its sanctuary, where a palette of colored light streams through tall, skinny windows of glass.
The East Hills Moravian Church offers two Sunday worship services, a preschool for children ages 2 to 4, a large gym, study groups, choir programs, and a Sunday school.
Associated with the Evangelical Free Church of America, The Compass Church is made up of followers of Jesus who are on their paths to transformation. The congregation began holding services in the Bank of Naperville in the 1950s with just 17 worshippers. It has since grown to about 1,900 adults and 600 children.