NEWS FROM YOUR SESSION
Highlights include:
- RPC/RPDS Joint Capital Campaign - Riverside Cornerstone campaign
- RPDS - Pre-Enrollment Season Means Looking Ahead
- Budget Process and Discernment for 2022
- Pastor's Report
- Pastor Search Process Reports
- St. Demiana Coptic Orthodox Church update
- In Other News
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NEW: RPC Connect
RPC Connect is a new initiative that encourages members and friends to connect and reconnect with each other.
You will see many opportunities to connect in the next few months, many of which are highlighted below via the "Connect In Person" and "Connect Online" buttons.
In addition, we will have three special RPC Connect opportunities:
1. Between now and the beginning of Lent, we will offer a weekly challenge to foster one-on-one connections.
2. Throughout Lent, we will encourage participation in Lenten small groups for study and prayer.
3. Finally, after Easter, weather and pandemic permitting, we will arrange church-wide fellowship opportunities to allow us to connect as a congregation.
We encourage you to connect at RPC because we all need human connection. Even if you think you don’t need it, someone else may need you.
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This Week’s Connection Challenge
I will send a card to ________________________________.
(name of the RPC member/visitor you will contact this week)
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Connect In Person
Join Riverside at Chautauqua this summer!
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We’re hoping to gather a small group of RPC members to visit Chautauqua Institution this summer. Our own Josh Stafford serves as Director of Sacred Music at Chautauqua each summer, where there are seven worship services with choir each week. Elsewhere on the grounds you’ll find opera, theater, sailing, a golf course, and countless beautiful gingerbread cottages.
For this trip to Chautauqua, we’re looking at two sets of dates: "Week One" (June 25-July 2) or "Week Eight" (August 13-August 20).
Interested? Please contact Breanna Sooter by January 30 so we can secure group accommodation ASAP! Call (904) 274-3470 or email breanna.sooter@rpcjax.org
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Connect In Person and Online
Sunday, January 30, The Fourth Sunday After Epiphany
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8:30 am Worship, in-person in the Chancel
- 9:30 - 10: 15 am Sunday School
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10:30 am Worship, online and in-person
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COVID Prevention at RPC -
PLEASE WEAR A MASK
For the month of January, we’re asking everyone to wear a mask on the RPC campus when indoors. The spread of COVID, and, specifically, the omicron variant is at levels we’ve not seen previously. For example, last week the number of new cases identified per 100,000 people was 870, this week that number is 1500.
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Praying through COVID
As our local conditions change, we give thanks for God’s presence, protection and guidance. COVID and its variants continue to be in our headlines. In addition to praying for healing for those who are sick, let’s keep in our prayers our health care providers, first responders, teachers, nursing home and assisted living personnel, and child care workers. In all things, we rely on God’s steadfast love and on each other.
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Connect In Person
RPC Youth
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Connect Online
Feeling Disconnected From... Your Church Family / God / Yourself? Will you join us in prayer? 15 minutes of guided call + response prayer on Wednesday and Sunday evenings at 7:30 pm on Zoom
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Connect Online
Watch Past Sunday School Classes
No Vimeo account needed, just click on video below and then press play!
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Exodus Sunday School Class taught by Ed Pratt-Dannals and the Rev. John Ragsdale |
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Matthew 25 Sunday School Class taught by John Sapora with clips from Just Mercy movie |
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Connect In Person
Date Change:
Presbyterian Women Circle meetings have been rescheduled to Monday, January 31st at the usual times. Circles 3 and 4 will meet at 10:00 am and Circle 1 will meet at 1:00 pm. The Bible Study, led by Emily Heeg, will be at 11:00 am in Room 302. All women of the church are invited to attend.
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Stewardship Update
as of 1/25/22:
$1,003,088.95 with 189 pledges.
For 2021, our final numbers were 195 pledges for $1,039,000. This year, our goal is a 5% increase. We are aiming to raise a total of $1,090,950. We are ahead of where we were this time last year and are excited to see more pledges come in. Thank you!
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PRAYER AND CARE
Remember those needing our prayers:
Rebecca (Becky) Yerkes Rogers passed away on January 18, 2022. A memorial service will be held at Riverside in the Sanctuary on Monday, February 7 at 10:00 am with a reception to follow in Kissling Hall. All are welcome to attend. Please keep Jonathan (Debbie) and Steve Rogers, family and friends in your prayers.
Service Through Prayer
Kay Armstrong, Roberta Birch, Walt Brinkman, Bill and Evan Broyles, The Busch Family (RPDS), Jack Calhoun, Mary Cousar, Judy Davidson, Brenda Dohn, Mary Ellen Drushal, Robert Flynn, Maria & Charles Fuentes,Carol Gay, Madelyne Gillis (Ken Mixon’s mother-in-law), Hodges Blvd Presbyterian Church, Bill Howey, Jennifer Jones (Jennifer Branch’s mother), Robert Littell, Jack & Jane Lockwood, Joe & Kathy Lopez, Christine Rosenbloom Lyons, Joe Meux, Tanya Mezat & Robert Edwards Jr (Jelana Boree’s sister-in-law brother) Tony Morrow, John Ormand (Lisa Taylor’s brother), Blake Owens (Judy Wingate’s son in law), Janell Palmer, Michael Perry, Mersida Porcic, Earl & Liane Sickels, Bill Schilling, Renee & Dick Schwalbe, Art Small, Carolyn Smith, Sara Smith, Mildred Taylor, Suzanne Tomlinson, Don & Lois Ward, George Ward (Laura Crooks’ brother)
Rehab, Assisted, Nursing Homes and Long-Term Care (in a facility or at home)
Shirley Ballowe, Margie de Bauernfeind, Jack Hazard, Betsy Langston, Myra Pattishall, Dannette Robinson, Ruth Wrenshall
In the Armed Forces
Noah Althuis, Andy Berner, Brandon Campbell, Gray Creed, Carl Crumpler, Reid Hampton, Cole Heeg, Brittanie Llorens, Matt McCullough, Carson McKendree
(If you would like more information please call the church office (904) 355-4585 x 0)
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