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Rio Rancho Presbyterian Church

1004 24th Street SE, Rio Rancho, NM 87124   (505) 892-6664    

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Weekly Witness, Feb 20th

Weekly Worship Online, Feb 20th, 2020

Click either link below anytime to go to our website’s home page each week. The worship link on our website does not vary from week to week. For this week’s Sunday worship, please either click here to go to YouTube, or go to https://rioranchopresbyterianchurch.org where worship videos are posted for both this week’s and previous weeks’ worship services.

2-Ply Tie-Dye Masks for Sale

These bright colors are 100% cotton. A lighter, watercolor-looking one is a cotton/poly blend. There is a $5 minimum donation per mask to benefit scholarships.  Email mask-maker Nancy to purchase. Limited quantities, adult sizes only.

 Las Placitas Presbyterian Church’s (LPPC) Dignity Mission in Juarez

A group of over 100 Haitian asylum seekers were sent back across the border recently carrying little more than the clothes on their backs. They arrived in Ciudad Juarez without shoes, particularly important ID documents, or even diapers for the children. The El Paso person who is the contact for LLPC’s Dignity Mission in Juarez ran out and purchased 38 pairs of shoes to distribute to the men, women and children who were forced back to Mexico. So, there are a few different needs this month among the usual: infant formula, new underwear (all sizes for children; sizes small and medium for adults), new dark-colored socks, diapers, children’s games or group toys, men’s belts (used are fine), shoelaces, school supplies, backpacks, t-shirts, toys, and flipflops. These items can be found on Amazon, and Prime members of course can mail directly with no shipping cost to Dignity Mission, c/o Dr. Eva Moya, 708 Somerset Drive, El Paso 79912. Please consider giving money through the LLPC website. $20 will purchase the 12 toiletry items needed to fill five Dignity Kits, or buy 20 pairs of flipflops, or two pairs of sneakers, or 8 pairs of underwear. Please choose ‘mission/dignity kits’ as the fund in the dropdown list or mail a check with Dignity Mission noted in the memo line to Las Placitas Presbyterian Church, P.O. Box 768, Placitas, 87043.

Weekly Witness, Jan 30th

Online Sunday Worship

Click either link below anytime to go to our website’s home page each week. The worship link on our website does not vary from week to week. For this week’s Sunday worship, please either click here to go to YouTube, or go to https://rioranchopresbyterianchurch.org where worship videos are posted for both this week’s and previous weeks’ worship services.

Session Leadership Committee Assignments for 2021

Meredith: Membership and Fellowship
Bill B: Building and Grounds
Paige: Worship co-chair
Beth: Finance
Jack: Adult Ministry
Crystal: Mission co-chair
Karen: Clerk and Outreach co-chair
Pam: Administration, Outreach co-chair
Dave: Faith Formation (Children and Youth)
Arlene: Worship co-chair
Cyndie: Mission co-chair

The mission and ministry of the church continues!

Lent: A Season of Prayer

Lent begins February 17 with Ash Wednesday. We will not be doing the imposition of ashes. We are starting Lent with a Zoom prayer service at 7 p.m. on Feb. 17th. This will be an opportunity for us to begin our Lenten season, committing ourselves to the spiritual practices of self-examination, repentance, reflection and prayer.

Throughout this season, in coordination with the Lenten devotional our worship services will focus on the Bible’s prayer book: The Book of Psalms. You are encouraged to join us in this common journey as another way we are remaining connected in this time. If you would like to join us, please email or call Pastor Kathy at the number in the footer.

 Communion Sunday Feb. 7, 11am

Zoom Communion Service, Feb. 7 at 11:00 am

Time: Feb 7, 2021 11:00 AM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

Please have a bread-like food and a cup of something to drink (juice, water, tea). Join the Zoom Communion meeting with video and audio (your choice of one or both) on your computer:

If you would like to join us, please email or call Pastor Kathy at the number in the footer.

Register for the COVID Vaccine

If you have not already seen this in the news, click here for where you can register online for the Covid-19 vaccine.

Las Placitas Presbyterian Church’s (LPPC) Dignity Mission in Juarez

Last month 150 families and 110 single adults benefited from the LPCC donations taken to El Paso Jan 23, and the same or more will be reached again this month. Click here for a translated letter from the director of the Quien Amara a los Niños program. There are a few different needs this month among the usual: infant formula, new underwear (all sizes for children; sizes small and medium for adults), new socks, diapers, sizes 3 and up, children’s games or group toys, school supplies, backpacks, t-shirts, and flipflops.

All items listed above also can be found on Amazon, and Prime members can mail directly with no shipping costs to Dignity Mission, c/o Dr. Eva Moya, 708 Somerset Drive, El Paso 79912. If you prefer, go to the LLPC website to give money (choose ‘mission/dignity kits’ as the fund in the dropdown), or mail a check with Dignity Mission noted in the memo line to Las Placitas Presbyterian Church, P.O. Box 768, Placitas, 87043. Thank you for your support. You’re in good company–in addition to from all over NM, donors come from CA, CO, WI, ND, WA, UT, PA, and NC!

Weekly Witness, Jan 23rd

Session Notes

At its monthly meeting this past Tuesday evening, we approved the 2021 budget.  We also welcomed new committee chairs, new clerk Karen Payne, and approved this year’s standing committee assignments.

A Word from the Finance Committee

We appreciate your continued support of RRPC via your pledges and monetary contributions. Our budget this year is based only on pledges since we currently are not meeting in person and are not receiving offering plate monies each week. Our pledge goal is $198,000 and our current pledges total $161,260. We are close and ask those who have not had the opportunity to submit their pledge do so by the end of January.  Pledge amounts can be sent to the church office, called in to the office, or emailed to our Office Manager, and all are kept confidential.

“Regarding Recent Events…”

A letter from our partners in Christ in (not-NM’s) Cuba

Please click here for a letter from the General Secretary at our sister church in Caibarién.

Weekly Witness, Jan. 16th

Online Sunday Worship 

Click either link below anytime to go to our website’s home page each week. The worship link on our website does not vary from week to week. For this week’s Sunday worship, please either click here to go to YouTube, or go to https://rioranchopresbyterianchurch.org and scroll down a little to find the videos for both this week’s and previous weeks’ worship services.

New Easter Banner

New Easter banner Congreg news

Sharon Hovey, Banner-Maker Extraordinaire, has created yet another beautiful piece that was going to be up in the sanctuary this year. Thanks be to Sharon!

Storehouse West Needs Your Help

Storehouse West needs toilet paper and bar soap! Over the next few weeks, we will be collecting toilet paper and individually wrapped bar soap for Storehouse West. You can bring your donations to church and place them in the blue box. Thank you for your support of our neighbors!

Asylee Donations on Hold

Donations for the asylum-seekers are not needed as they are not coming through Rio Rancho and Albuquerque now. Please check back later.

Missions Committee Update

We, as a church, have been very busy for the past four months! From the Missions Committee, here is an update of all of our activities and donations that have been held from January through April of this year:
In March, we came together and sang hymns while we ate together in fellowship and voted for our favorite animal for the Heifer Fund. The end results in the voting were as follows: chicks = 5, Pigs = 3, Sheep = 8, Rabbits = 3, Bees = 9, Llama = 6, Water Buffalo = 7, and our winner is Goats = 11 votes!!
 
Likewise, we came together to show our support for our scholars. After our Scholars Potluck, we collected $2,646.00 total. Of that amount, $1,182 went to our Scholarships of GRACE, $907 went to the Mexican scholars, and $557 went to the Cuban scholars. Thank you again to everyone who donated and brought food!
 
At the end of March, we collected our first two-cents-a-meal offering for a total of $614.36 that went to Independence High School and their snack pantry.
 
Finally, on Easter Sunday, we collected a special offering called, “One Great Hour of Sharing”. The total was $1,154.00.
 
Thank you to everyone who has participated in these missions: the scholars, the local students, the Heifer vote, and One Great Hour of Sharing.
Your Missions Committee is so grateful for your generous giving and perpetual support.
 

Helping Independence High School students

The two-cents-a-meal collected on March 31 totaled more than $600 and was donated to Independence High school where many of the students are food-insecure. Read about these students and how their counselors developed a backpack program enabling them to have food on the weekends.

Birthday Bags

On February 24, the congregation brought 56 Birthday Bags to donate to Storehouse West. These are gift bags filled with items for a child’s birthday party – cake mix and icing, candles, paper plates, cups, napkins, and forks. There are families who cannot afford to give their children a birthday party. The Birthday Bags make it possible for these children to enjoy what all children like to do – celebrate with their friends on their birthday.