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Top Ten Questions:
1. When are your services?
Sundays
8:30 a.m. Traditional Worship Service with Sanctuary Choir
11:00 a.m. Contemporary Worship Service with NOBC Praise Team
6:00 p.m. Evening Worship Service
Wednesdays
6:00 p.m. Prayer Meeting/Adult Bible study classes (Ladies, Men & Co-Ed classes offered)
2. What do I do with my children?
Children of all ages are welcome and loved at North Oxford Baptist Church. During the worship services, a nursery is provided for children, birth through age 3. Children, age 4 through second grade, go to "big" church for the beginning of the service and then are dismissed for children's church.
3. Do you have any Sunday School classes?
There is a Sunday School class for every age, bedbabies through senior adults. Adults have the option of couples classes or all-men/all-women classes.
4. What should I wear?
Casual attire is fine!
5. What is the worship experience like?
The 8:30 morning worship service is the more traditional worship service with a blended music style. The contemporary service at 11:00 on Sunday mornings is a more casual service and involves a worship team and more contemporary style music.
6. Do you have anything for Senior Adults?
Senior Adults are very important in the ministry of North Oxford Baptist Church, and they enjoy a full program of ministries. The B.A.L.L. Team (Be Active, Live Longer) senior adult ministry program, the "Peculiar Heirs" Choir, and a nursing home ministry are just a few of the opportunities available to senior adults.
7. Do you have anything for a college students?
The College Ministry has become a major area of emphasis at NOBC. This ministry is called "10th Hour" and meets for Bible study at 10:00 on Sunday mornings at the Family Life Center. There's also a Sunday night Bible study at 7:00 p.m. at The Round Table (Located on the Oxford Square). Other areas of ministry include mission trips, assisting with the student ministry, and a tailgating experience in the Ole Miss Grove for all home football games.
8. Where are you located?
North Oxford Baptist Church is located two miles north of the Square on Lamar Avenue. The actual physical address is 304 CR 101 (North Lamar changes to CR 101 at the intersection of North Lamar and Hwy 30).
9. Can I volunteer?
YES!!! Almost all of the ministries of NOBC are dependent upon volunteers -- Sunday school teachers, missions workers, children's choir workers, student and college ministry helpers, ushers, greeters -- the list goes on and on! We believe that God places people with different interests and abilities in our congregation to fulfill the tasks He has appointed for us. We rejoice over volunteers!
10. How do I become a member?
At the conclusion of each worship service an invitation is extended to anyone who wishes to become a member of North Oxford Baptist Church to come forward and make their decision public. North Oxford Baptist Church accepts members by ...
...Baptism -- public profession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and coming as a candidate for baptism by immersion.
...Letter -- promise of a letter of recommendation from another Baptist church of like faith and order.
...Statement -- candidate's statement of prior conversion experience and baptism by immersion in a Baptist church of like faith and order when no letter is obtainable.
...Transfer of membership -- Candidate from a church other than Baptist of like faith and order, giving evidence of their Christian experience and asking to be baptized by immersion.
...Watchcare -- Persons who participate actively in the ministry of NOBC who for reasons of their own choosing do not wish to leave their membership of origin but want to be included in the fellowship of North Oxford Baptist Church. Watchcare members do not have voting privileges in church business meetings.
