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!

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.

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.