Who We Are

The Northway Story

Northway is part of a fellowship of congregations known as the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Born in America shortly after the Revolution, the Disciples hoped to unite the splintered factors of Protestantism by developing the church solely upon the teachings of the New Testament. Membership in a Disciples church requires no acceptance of particular creeds or doctrines. Certain beliefs are generally understood and accepted by Disciples:

1. The Lordship of Jesus Christ over both the church and its individual members;
2. responsibility to minister to believers and the secular world;
3. believers baptism by immersion (although other forms are recognized);
4. the final authority of the Bible when studied in its historical setting;
5. and celebration of the Lord's Supper each Sunday.

The Disciples have chosen a red chalice marked with the St. Andrew's cross as their symbol, depicting both the centrality of the Lord's Supper in worship and the Disciple's Scottish Presbyterian roots.

The Northway congregation began as a Sunday School meeting in June 1906 above a butcher shop at the corner of McKinney and Hall in Dallas. In 1949 the church moved to its current location at Airline Drive and Northwest Highway and built a sanctuary on a 12.7 acre tract. In 1974 the congregation built a new sanctuary northeast of the original one to accommodate a growing church membership. That building proved not big enough.

On Sunday, October 11, 1987, members of Northway Christian Church, with hymnals in hand and joyful voices, marched to the new, current, 700 seat sanctuary to dedicate another chapter in their history. Today, Northway has a participating membership of 825 with four full-time ministers and seven full and part-time staff members. The church also sponsors a Mother's Day Out/Preschool Program and serves 9 major Ministry areas.

Northway Christian Church is a people church - a place where people care about each other, the city and the world around them. From the century's first decade to its last, from butcher shop to modern campus, Northway remains a congregation of people where God's love is practiced.

Northway Christian Church is congregationally governed and is organized by way of a Board of Directors, an Executive Committee and an Operations Committee. It also consists of a Board of Elders, a Board of Deacons and has nine ministry areas that it serves. Members of the congregation are encouraged to serve in one of the nine ministry areas.

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