From the RPC Mission Committee: If you want to support education and emergency financial aid for migrant farm workers and their families, please take one minute each day between now and the end of June to vote online so farm workers can benefit from a $250, 000 grant competition sponsored by Pepsi Refresh. Since 1997, [...]
Thank you to everyone who volunteers in our church to help accomplish the mission and ministry God has called us to here at Riviera Presbyterian Church. We would like to share with you some of the names of people who do the work and ministry of this Church. This is only a portion of the [...]
If you are a counter or would like to be a counter, please attend the short workshop on Sunday, June 20th in the library after worship. We will have a presentation on the proper procedures for counting the Sunday offering. This is very important so that your contributions statements are credited properly and the donations [...]
I was having a conversation with one of the church’s young adults the other day, who told me sometimes she wished for high school days again—not because high school was all that great, but because the summers were. Now, summer vacations don’t stretch endlessly on in an alluring haze of warm days and long, relaxing [...]
The 30th Anniversary Celebration of the Child Care Center here at Riviera was a HUGE success. On Sunday, May 16, over 150 children, parents, alumni, and church members met in the Riviera sanctuary at 11 am to attend a special worship service, which featured a vocal performance by Gillian Kraus-Neale (graduate of The Child Care [...]
By Karen Picciano In follow-up to the “Just Eating” Lenten study series, we haven’t so far found a good date to make the trip to visit the ECHO demonstration farm in Ft. Myers (Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization, http://www.echonet.org/), and now it’s getting hot and about to start the rainy season. Therefore we would like [...]
As many of you already know, one of the key responsibilities of the Deacons and Care Team here at Riviera is to reach out to our members who are in need of assistance. The assistance that we provide generally comes in the form of transportation to or from church events or to a doctor’s appointment, [...]
By Pastor Laurie Ann Kraus For the past couple of months, it has been my privilege and a real joy to meet with five exceptional people who are in conversations about church membership with the community here at RPC. The conversations have been unusually rich, as the group’s participants have explored the wide diversity of [...]
And I was stunned, and all this week, as the oil has crept nearer and onto our own state’s shores, my carefully balanced compromise of prayer, anger, cynicism and hopeful dependence on BP, the MMS, Congress and Barak Obama to step up and fix everything has been crumbling under those ten words, the image of a Brown Pelican, a Christ, being crucified so that we might rise up and have life through him.
By Shannon Youngs As plans proceed for the 219th General Assembly (July 3-10), specific attention is being given to how to increase and strengthen the spiritual aspect of the meeting. Here are some examples: Bible study. Even before the commissioners and advisory delegates arrive in Minneapolis, they and everyone across the denomination will have available [...]