Youth Mission Tour – Day Three

by Michael Whitty This week has been my first mission tour and it has been quite a bonding experience! From paint fumes to electrical work, we have done it all, and all while having a great time! We visited MCV Hospitality House and heard Rev. Andrew Terry remind us...

Youth Mission Tour – Day Two

by Deanna Gulick As Chester will tell you, Mission Tour is about the experience.  Tour is a time of taking ourselves out of our usual comfort zones so that we can become closer and strive towards a common goal.  Tour is about using these new experiences to feel a...

Youth Mission Tour – Day One

The theme of Mission Tour this year is “Do not be afraid of the light that shines within you!” The mission team this summer is made up a few young adults who traveled with Chester Phelps in the past, some who traveled with Rachel Hoffman, and most who are experiencing...

2012 Mission Tour

In 1985, River Road Church began conducting outreach mission projects, both in the community, throughout the eastern United States and overseas. Twenty-seven years later, youth and adults of our church will conduct their 38th project. This year the team will do a...

The Youth Light Up Our Worship

During our fiftieth anniversary year, in 1996, Mr. Ransone Hartz suggested the church consider re-establishing Youth Week. It seemed appropriate to recognize the younger generation of River Road members as the church began its “second” fifty years of history. Mr....