Northside Community Church of Ann Arbor

Mission Statement: to help our weakest, poorest, and most vulnerable neighbors with what they need most and to highlight the work of those organizations that provide help.

Northside Community Church is a gathering of believers in Jesus Christ who seek to share the Good News of God’s Kingdom in Ann Arbor and beyond.

Pastor Chris Grapentine

Concerts4aCause Mission Statement

To help our most vulnerable neighbors with what they need most and to highlight the work of those organizations that provide help.

-- Concerts4aCause

Artistic Director: Kathryn Goodson

Northside is blessed with a number of professional musicians among its members and many good friends who are professionals musicians.

We decided to tap into that pool of talent for the good of our community by creating a series of concerts of high quality that would raise money for and awareness of the many social service agencies in our area that work with the most vulnerable people.

Past concerts have benefited the Delonis Shelter, Safe House, American Red Cross of Washtenaw Co., Friends in Deed, Samaritan Counseling Services, Growing Hope, Ann Arbor Community Center, and Church World Service's Katrina Relief efforts.

Concerts are always free with donations accepted before and after the concert.

Our hope is that you will be moved to give by the beauty and spirit of the concert and by the need of those being benefited.

Concerts4aCause

  • October 16, 2011 at 7:00 pm
  • Benefiting the work of the Corner Health Center in downtown Ypsilanti The Corner Health Center's mission is to help young people, ages 12-21, make healthy choices now and in the future by providing high-quality primary health care, education and support for adolescents and their children without regard to income level.
    (www.cornerhealth.org).

    Performers for this concert include UM and EMU faculty and students, students from Skyline High School as well as Detroit Symphony Orchestra musicians. Bass- baritone and U of M faculty member Stephen West along with pianist Kathryn Goodson will perform Moussorgsky's "Songs and Dances of Death". The Donald Sinta Saxophone Quartet will also be performing as will clarinetist Shannon Orme, cellist Una Riordan, pianist Adrienne Clark and the NCC Bell Choir under the direction of Sheree Clark.

C4aC 2011-2012 Season

October 16, 2011 -
Corner Health Center

February 19, 2012 -
Alpha House/Interfaith Hospitality Network

May 13, 2011 -
St. Andrew's Breakfast for the Hungry

C4aC Planning Committee

Kathryn Goodson, Chair
Andy Block
Adrienne Clark
Chris Grapentine