Keller Church Opens Downtown Fort Worth Campus

September 27,2013

Photo: Joyce Marshall

From the Star-Telegram
Sep 27, 2013

By Terry Evans

tevans@star-telegram.com

FORT WORTH — Wherever there is pain and suffering, there should be people of God, said Bob Roberts, senior pastor of NorthWood Church.

With that in mind, the progressive Keller church recently established a campus in downtown Fort Worth.

“It’s great that churches grow,” Roberts said. “Ours has grown in the Keller area. But those of us who God has especially blessed, he holds us accountable to those around us who need help.”

The 3,000-member church has long been active in Northeast Tarrant County and around downtown Fort Worth, according to people such as U.S. Rep. Kay Granger, R-Fort Worth, Mayor Betsy Price and Charles E. Nash Elementary School Principal Nakita Brewer.

As the new principal at Nash, just a few blocks northeast of downtown, Brewer was introduced to the church Sept. 8, the day NorthWood launched 5 p.m. Sunday services at Norris Conference Centers on Houston Street, a couple of doors down from Reata restaurant.

Church members have made themselves indispensable at Nash Elementary, bringing homework help, enrichment activities and mentors to its after-school program. They have also pitched in with labor and materials to help create an outdoor learning center, Brewer said.

All that work proves that the church “wants to move ministry from inside four walls to outside, and that’s what I see them doing,” Brewer said. “Not just hit people over the head with a Bible but help wherever they can.”

NorthWood’s official welcome from the mayor took place during its service this past Sunday, which Price and Granger attended.

“NorthWood Church is one of so many faith-based organizations that work in our community to make Fort Worth a better place to live and work,” Price said. “I am very glad to have them open a downtown campus.”