Anticipating Christmas

Anticipating Christmas

Anticipating Christmas Advent as a season interrupts the typical Christmas rush of buying and wrapping gifts, attending parties, and wearing ugly sweaters. In fact, it asks us, at least in worship, to slow down and spend the weeks leading to Christmas in holy waiting....
Fall Missions at RRCB

Fall Missions at RRCB

River Road Church is a congregation of people who are passionate in striving to follow Jesus’ example to care for the least of these among us. The fall kicked off with a busy season of giving to the Alma Hunt and disaster relief offerings; hosting, serving, and...
Springtime for the Soul

Springtime for the Soul

As you read this, we are knee-deep in the midst of the season of Lent. Lent is a period of forty days (not including Sundays) leading to Easter. For those of us who give ourselves fully to this season, Lent is a time of soul-searching and repentance. As a pre-Easter...
Celebrate 50 & 50 More – Winter 2017

Celebrate 50 & 50 More – Winter 2017

My Church Family My association with River Road Church began when I was a student at Westhampton College. Mr. Cary, a member of the church, drove over in a bus to pick us up. Mr. Hasty was pastor then and we met in what is now the Fellowship Hall. I remember one...