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Rio Rancho Presbyterian Church

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

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Our Virus Response

Weekly Witness (will replace all regular church publications)
         (also click here to see our Palm Sunday presence)

May 2, 2020

PRESBYTERIAN WOMEN’S ANNUAL THANK OFFERING

“Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me”.– Matthew 25:40b TNIV

On Sunday, May 17, the annual Presbyterian Women Birthday offering was to be celebrated in church. This year during the month of May you can send your offering to the church or directly to PW Treasurer June DeFore. Her address is in the church directory. Please make your check out to ‘RRPC PW’ and note Birthday Offering in the memo line.

There are four PW projects being funded in 2020: Community Presbyterian Child Learning Center in Payson, AZ; Northside Healing Space Expansion in Minneapolis (part of Liberty Community Church); GAP Ministries of Augusta, GA; and the Center for Social Assistance to the Disabled, Family, and Children in Davydovo, Russia.

The annual Birthday Thank Offering is a tangible way to celebrate the blessings in our lives. Thank you again for your support.


Worship and Devotions
Online

Each week, please click here or go to https://rioranchopresbyterianchurch.org/ Sunday or later to view this week’s Sunday worship. We have two weeks posted each week – both the current week’s and a link to last week’s.

Daily Devotional Available

Click the image above/right, or click here to download These Days, a daily devotion offered free from the PC(USA) for the month of May.


Mission Continues!! Thank You!

Storehouse West has seen an increase in overall clients and first-time clients. Through your generous gifts, RRPC has given over $1,400 to Storehouse West in the last couple of weeks. (Money is still coming in, so the final total isn’t known.) Your financial support will enable them to purchase more items as needed and available.

Relay for Life 2020

For safety, this year’s Relay will most likely be a virtual event (or a series of them).

We will have more information in the coming weeks.


Pentecost is May 31

As many know, Pentecost is an important day in the life of RRPC. We not only celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit and the beginnings of the Christian Church, but the chartering of RRPC as a congregation. This is a time when we truly celebrate how God has blessed us with this church family.

So, let’s put together a slideshow of our church family. We’d like to have you send Pastor Kathy pictures of yourselves. They can be doing stay-at-home activities, selfies, or pictures from a recent (before-physical-separation) gathering or event. You can include other family, pets, and people who are special to you – just remember they will be viewed on our website. Please choose or take the photos in landscape (horizontal/’the long way’) rather than portrait (vertical) orientation if at all possible.

The more who participate, the better! So many enjoyed seeing the “Palm Sunday Procession” and loved seeing our church family. Deadline for photos is May 23!


How Do I Continue Making My Offering to RRPC During This Time of Online Worship?

There are several ways you can make your gift to the church while when we are not worshiping in person. 1) Mail it to the church. We have a locked mailbox and our office manager is the only one who picks up the mail. 2) Use our website https://rioranchopresbyterianchurch.org/ and click on the donate button on the upper right. You can use PayPal or a credit/debit card. 3) Check with your financial institution to find out various ways of making your offering.

Thanks for remaining faithful in your tithes and pledges.


Card Shower For Our 2020 Graduates!

As many of you know, graduation ceremonies have been cancelled/postponed for most of our graduates. And since the seniors would like to give their sermons in person, our Youth Sunday service has been postponed until we can see how long it is until we are in worship together.

As their church family, we celebrate this important achievement in their lives; and Faith Formation would like to have a card shower for each of our graduates! We only have high school graduates this spring. They are Adam, Anwi, Ariel, and Amber.


Join Us Online for VBS This Summer!

Planning is underway to bring VBS to you this year!

Always a vital part of the VBS ministry, a new model will enable “Jesus to Come to Visit” this summer. Online VBS will be available weekly between June 22 and July 20. Traditionally it is for preschool through grade 5.

A Bible story, craft, science project, and music will enable children (and their families) to listen, learn, and create each week.  Youth and adult members of RRPC are creating our very own, unique five-segment VBS experience. A VBS mission opportunity will be to collect needed goods for Storehouse West.

As in prior years, there is no cost. Stay tuned for registration and other information for this visit from Jesus!

 

April 24, 2020

RRPC Online Worship

Click here or go to https://rioranchopresbyterianchurch.org/ anytime to view this week’s Sunday worship. We have the current service posted each week – and a link to prior week’s.


Community Outreach
Storehouse West Donations

Have you seen images of miles of cars lined up for food pantries in Florida, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts? (The picture to the right is Pittsburgh.) Due to sudden unemployment, many Americans have found themselves with a novel and unfortunate experience — food insecurity and hunger.

Storehouse West is continuing to serve a large number of our neighbors by parking lot drive-thru. However, they been experiencing some of the same shortages in the grocery stores that we all have. Canned/non-perishable donations require necessary precautions to inventory. Thus, the best way you can help right now is with monetary donations. You can do this a number of ways: 1) mail a check to Storehouse West, 1030-F Veranda Dr. SE, Rio Rancho 87124; 2) online — go to their website; or 3) write a check to RRPC, mark it for Storehouse West, and mail it to the church, 1004 24th Street, SE, 87124.


How Do I Continue Making My Offering to RRPC During This Time of Online Worship?

There are several ways you can make your gift to the church while when we are not worshiping in person. 1) Mail it to the church. We have a locked mailbox and our office manager is the only one who picks up the mail. 2) Use our website https://rioranchopresbyterianchurch.org/, and click on the donate button on the upper right. You can use PayPal or a credit/debit card. 3) check with your financial institution to find out various ways of making your offering.

Thanks for remaining faithful in your tithes and pledges.


Stories of Kindness and Connection

Things folks are sharing: checking in on each other, beyond what our faithful deacons are doing; door step flower deliveries; running errands for folks; sharing the Sunday morning service with someone who doesn’t have Internet access (maintaining proper distancing of course!).

As folks are being in touch more, common connections are being made – one member when her deacon called found a connection between the deacon and a long-time friend of the member. This was a delight to both of them!

A reminder: if someone comes to your mind, see it as a sign that the Holy Spirit wants you to reach out! So make a call or send a note. We are blessed to be a blessing! Keep sharing your kindnesses with Pastor Kathy.


For Our 2020 Graduates!

As many of you know, graduation ceremonies have been cancelled/postponed for most of our graduates. And our Youth Sunday service has been postponed until we can see how long it is until we are in worship together, as the seniors would like to give their sermons in person.

As their church family, we do celebrate this important achievement in their lives. So, Faith Formation would like to have a card shower for each of our graduates! We only have high school graduates this spring. They are Adam P., Anwi F., and Ariel W. Addresses are in our church directory.


Prayer Concerns of our Church Family

“The reality is, my prayers don’t change God. But, I am convinced prayer changes me. Praying boldly boots me out of that stale place of religious habit into authentic connection with God Himself.” – Lysa TerKeurst

Please continue to pray for our those on our prayer concerns list.

April 18, 2020

RRPC Online Worship

Click here or go to https://rioranchopresbyterianchurch.org/ anytime to view this week’s Sunday worship. We are leaving the current week’s on the home page and prior week’s via a link.


For Families with Young Children

We are now sending out a Family Sunday School series to you each week. It ties in with the gospel lesson Pastor Kathy preaches online that Sunday. It will contain a video, a story, activity sheet and coloring pages. Hopefully this will provide some conversation for your family on the gospel story of the week. Pastor Kathy will be sending this out on Fridays. Let her know (email or 513.324.0446) if you did not receive it or would like to.


How Do I Continue Making My Offering to RRPC?

There are several ways you can make your gift to the church during this time when we are not worshiping in person. 1) Mail it to the church. The church USPS mailbox is locked and our office manager is the only one getting the mail when she is in the office. 2) Through our website. Go to https://rioranchopresbyterianchurch.org/,and click on the donate button on the upper right. You can use PayPal or a credit/debit card. 3) Contact your financial institution to find out various ways of making your offering.

Thanks for remaining faithful in your tithes and pledges.


A Random Kindness Story from Bill Cox

One of my neighbors is a volunteer chaplain for the ABQ Police Department. One of the officers made her aware of a family whose parents had lost their jobs and their apartment as a result of the corona virus and had to move in with the grandmother.

The grandmother took the couple and their 3 children into her one bedroom apartment but was unable to feed them all. The chaplain sent an e-mail to our neighborhood and asked for donations of food to help the family.

The response from our neighbors was so great that the chaplain has now provided over 450 meals for that family as well as for two elders who live in the same apartment complex. Neighbors have helped to sort the food in the chaplain’s garage. It has been an amazing outpouring of help.

Share with Pastor Kathy (email her privately) your random acts of kindness stories Tell us one you have done or one you have received. (It’s not bragging because I bet you also benefited from it.)