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Worship Service Times
9:00 AM - Chapel
10:00 AM - Sunday School
11:00 AM - Sanctuary & Livestream
Baby & Toddler Nursery is available during both services
Podcast April Raleigh Court Herald 2024 RCPC Year in Review
Church Office Hours
Monday-Thursday 8:30 AM-4:30 PM
Friday 8:30 AM-1:00 PM
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Today's devotional is a part of our Lenten Devotional booklet and can be found online at rcpres.org/blog.
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Fellowship Dinners - Wednesday April 2 at 6:15 PM
No April Fool – that was yesterday! This week’s Fellowship Dinner, we’ll enjoy a delicious meal of Apple Cider Pork Loin accompanied by Cheesy Potatoes and Hasselback Squash. Vegetarian option will be a Veggie Medley. Heather’s wonderful Homemade Bread and Blueberry Cake round out the menu. A donation of $8/person or $25 per family is requested, and you can sign up in the Gathering Area at church or online at rcpres.org/dinner. If you can’t stay to eat with your RCPC family, please bring your own take-home container.
Menu 4/2 - Apple Cider Pork Loin, Cheesy Potatoes, Veggie Medley, Homemade Bread, Blueberry Cake, Hasselback Squash
Takeout Meals: In our efforts to become an Earth Care Church, the Fellowship Committee asks you to please bring your own container if you would like a takeout meal on Wednesday nights. We thank you for your help with this.
Volunteers are always needed to help with various tasks including set-up, clean-up, serving, check-in,
and transporting leftovers to RAM House. Details and dates at the link below.
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Building Supervisor
We celebrate the news of our building supervisor Linda Marshall’s announced retirement, but we will sorely miss her. We need to start looking for her replacement. The building supervisor is responsible for all physical upkeep of the church, including but not limited to the cleaning, HVAC, plumbing, painting, electrical, carpentry, event set up, church grounds and general maintenance. It is a full-time position with a competitive salary and comes with individual health care benefits.
If you know of someone who will lovingly care for our building as Linda has, please refer them to our hiring team of Matt Arnold, Brad Kennedy, Linda, Andrew, Henry Schaefer or pass the name to Julie Satterwhite.
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Easter Flowers
If you would like to dedicate Easter Flowers in honor or memory of someone special, please fill out the envelope in the pew rack with name(s) for dedication along with a check, with "Easter Flowers” noted in the memo. Place the envelope in the offering plate. The deadline to order is April 13. A list will be included in the bulletin on Easter Day, April 20. Cost per dedication is $13. You can also complete the form online below.
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Palm Sunday Luncheon & Easter Egg Hunt
On Palm Sunday, April 13, stay after the 11:00 AM service for a luncheon full of favorite Easter fixings. Following the luncheon, we will have our annual Easter Egg Hunt on the grounds of the church for ages birth through 5th grade. Please bring your Easter Egg basket!
It is with love and honor for their daughter, mom, granddaughter, sister, aunt, and friend, that the Davis family dedicates the Easter eggs in memory of Lauren Davis. May our Lord’s joy be known in the laughter of Easter Egg gathering and may Lauren’s love be felt on this morning as children play and seek around her resting place in the Columbarium.
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Wednesday Morning Communion in Lent (March 12-AprilL 9)
Join us in the Chapel during the Lenten season each Wednesday morning at 7:00 AM for a time of reflection, scripture, music, and eucharist. As we walk with Jesus to Jerusalem and his cross, we prepare ourselves by coming to him to receive life in the bread and in the cup. You are then invited to stay after the thirty-minute service for a time of fellowship and shared breakfast and coffee. Eucharist, Word, Community. This week, Rev. Donna Hopkins Britt will lead our Wednesday morning communion service. Donna is ordained as a Baptist minister and is a Ruling Elder at RCPC. Currently, Donna is the Commissioned Pastor at Buchanan Presbyterian Church.
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Sermon Series: The Original Tortured Poets
Lent is a time to evaluate our faithfulness, our love, and our commitment to the God who saves. The Prophets of Israel and Judah show us a dogged loyalty to God in the midst of political, social, and religious unrest and disunity. They speak God’s judgment when all is well. They declare God’s hope when all is lost. Their hearts are uniquely tuned to the eternal song of God, which is the power poets possess in every time. They speak, and we do well to listen. So long before Taylor Swift’s, “The Tortured Poets Department,” there were Amos, Isaiah, Micah, Jeremiah and others living out their identity as the tortured poets speaking for God.
April 6—Holy Ground—Psalm 126 & Jeremiah 30:7-14
April 13—Palm Sunday—Love Story—Lamentations & Luke 19:28-40
April 20—Easter—Wildest Dreams—Ezekiel & Luke 24:1-12
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New Adult Sunday School Classes – Start March 9
•The Seekers—Room 201
Lenten and Easter Study – Meeting Jesus at the Table by Cynthia M. Campbell & Christine Coy Fohr (March 9-May 4)
•Parents as a Verb—Room 102
Good Inside by Dr. Becky Kennedy (March 9-May 4)
•Tortured Poets Lenten Poetry Study—Room 101—Led by Leigh Sackett
Class descriptions available online at rcpres.org/adult-education
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The Bible in Black & White
Updated Schedule
March 5, 12, 18, 25* with April 1 Luncheon
Please note some date changes from Wednesdays to Tuesdays and the location change to St. John’s Episcopal Church on March 25th
The group meets weekly at 12:00 PM in the Fellowship Hall of Second Presbyterian Church. Some books in the Bible are about a specific person. What makes these stories so compelling is that they often center on individuals who live on the margins—people whose lives seem insignificant in the eyes of the powerful, yet matter deeply to God. These are the stories of God’s powerful work among the powerless. During the noon hour on March Wednesdays, The Bible in Black & White class will explore four of these narratives, seeking to understand what God sees in these individuals—and in all of us. Drs. Bill Lee and George Anderson, along with ministers from other sponsoring churches, will guide the discussion.
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Mission Partner Support
Each month, we designate all cash and coin to one of our local mission partners. For the month of March, we are supporting the Rescue Mission. You can place your money in the offering plate or make an online gift using the QR code, noting that it is for Mission and making a note for the Rescue Mission in the text box.
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Sudanese/South Sudanese Mission Group
Mohammed and Tarteel are so grateful for the donations give to them for their apartment! We were not able to deliver a donated sofa for lack of man/woman power. Another sofa with volunteers is needed. They would also like a juicer or blender and a small freezer.
Thank you! Sudanese/South Sudanese Mission Support Group,
Camilla Cabaniss, Kathleen Carroll, Fred Hoffman, Janet Miller, Marty Saviers, Sandra Whitt (sandrarcpc@yahoo.com, 540-330-3451)
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April Mission Partner: Habitat for Humanity Apostles Build
This Spring RCPC, along with a number of other churches and organizations, will partner with Habitat for Humanity to participate in the 2025 Apostles Build. This home will be built for Dina Aristilde and her children, Lashauna, Kyliyah, King, and Princephilip at 625 Church Avenue SE, Roanoke 24013. Property owners donated several lots in this area to Habitat and one house has already been built.
To qualify for a no-interest 30-year loan from Habitat, Dina is required to complete over a year of homeownership classes and sweat equity hours on other properties as well as her own. Mortgage payments are used to build future Habitat houses.
In lieu of a Wall-Raising Ceremony, an 8 ½ ft. 2x4 was provided for each participating church to decorate and/or place well wishes. The Youth Group decorated RCPC’s 2x4 in their distinctive fashion and added messages. Afterwards, it was placed in the Gathering Area for those who wished to leave their messages of blessing or encouragement. On March 7, the decorated board was taken to the construction site and nailed to a “Wall of Many Colors” as part of a permanent wall in the house. In addition to financial support, we will actively participate in the build by providing construction volunteers for work days on Thursday, April 24 and Saturday, May 3.
All work days will be 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM and daily groups must be 12 volunteers or less. No experience is necessary but all volunteers must be at least 16-years-old. Habitat will provide all required tools and safety equipment, water, coffee and snacks. Volunteers will need to provide their own lunch and a refillable water bottle; work gloves are strongly advised. Dress for the weather and wear sturdy closed-toed shoes like hiking boots.
Volunteers can sign up on line at: tinyurl.com/RCPCHabitat2025
We have a goal this year of a total of 20 different RCPC volunteers participating!
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Prayer Requests
Susan Ard, Ginger Barbour (friend of Elise Hansard), Marvin & Roena Barbre, Dawn Blakeman, Jackie Blakeman, Mayuen Chice, Beverly Day and family (friend of Camilla and Johnsey Cabaniss), Cameron & Susie Hutto, Susan Lindstrom, Megan Mallare (friend of Kathy Grove), Melissa Martin (friend of Lisa Boylan), Rusty McCown, Louise Morris, Travis Nesmith, Steve Pottinger (Bob & India Atkinson’s son-in-law), Mary Lou Prillaman, Cameron Stanley (Grandson of Betty Nance), and all caregivers.
(Prayers request as of Friday, March 28. Names in bold indicate an addition to the prayer list this week.)
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Birthdays: March 31-April 6
3/31 Charles Favor, Jeanne Fishwick, John Fishwick, Ellie Henriksen, Lena Joy Kessler, Dane McLamb, Lucy Naff
4/3 Kristyn Brogan, Joe Clark, Lillian Onyett, Robynn Onyett, Mary Lou Prillaman
4/4 Treva Carter, Judy Coombs, Kylie Ralston
4/6 Scott Flowers, Susan Marney, Alesha Stanley
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Monday, March 24
6:00 PM - Waking Up White Book Study
Tuesday, March 25
4:00 PM - Small Group: Dixon
5:30 PM - Officer Nominating Committee
Wednesday, March 26
7:00 AM - Lent Communion Service - Chapel
7:00 PM - Sanctuary Choir
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Thursday, March 27
10:30 AM - Small Group: Hansard
7:00 PM - Organ Concert
Friday, March 28
Saturday, March 29
PW Event: Walk, Talk, & Taste at Mill Mountain
Sunday, March 30
9:00 AM - Worship - Chapel
10:00 AM - Sunday School
11:00 AM - Worship - Sanctuary
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WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR GROUPS
- Preschool: Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
- Centering Prayer at St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church: Monday, 10:00 AM
- Cub Scouts: Monday, 6:30 PM
- BSA Troop 2: Monday, 7:00 PM
- Roanoke Valley Choral Society, Monday, 7:00 PM
- AA-Primary Purpose: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:30 AM
- AA-Seeds of Hope: Tuesday, 5:30 PM
- Tai Chi: Tuesday & Thursday, 5:30 PM
- Hip Sober Chicks: Thursday, 6:30 PM
- Al-Anon: Friday, 11:45 AM
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The Herald - Deadline for Articles: 10th of each month
This Week @ RCPC - Deadline for Articles: Wednesday of each week
Send submissions for The Herald and This Week @ RCPC to Julie Satterwhite
Video Board in the Gathering Area - Send Information to Carole Banks
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