This Sunday is Family Sunday!

This Sunday is Family Sunday at River City! In every month that has 5 Sundays, the 5th Sunday will be Family Sunday. That means that our Youth and Elementary School Departments will be joining us in service for a special time of worship and the word, designed to speak to the whole family (We will still have classes for ages 6 months to 3 years old in our nursery). 

I'm really excited about the message for this weekend! I'm going to have a group of kids help me bring an amazing Bible story to life and then I'll share some powerful truths that The Lord has laid on my heart. Please pray that the kids and I are on the same page or this might be more entertaining than any of us imagine!

As you know, for this first Family Sunday, we are going to have an all church pot luck dinner and baptism on the grounds right after the 11:00 AM service! It's been a while since we've done one of these and it's going to be a blast! This will be a great way to have some fun, share a meal, and celebrate new life in Christ! Take a moment and go to: 

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 to hear everything you need to know.

This is going to be an awesome Sunday at River City. I look forward to seeing you there!

For the One Hope!

Cool weekend at River City and a word about Family Sunday!

Last Sunday, we had an awesome time of worship and saw new levels of engagement for many in our fellowship. Let's keep it up! Arrive on time with a heart prepared to offer the Lord your best in worship and celebration!

This Sunday, we'll have Dave McCall as our special guest. Dave is a former pastor and church planter who is now the Executive Director of the Pregnancy Care Center in San Antonio. He is a long-time friend and I invited him to simply come and share what the Lord has been laying on his heart. It's always good to hear what God is saying to others in the body of Christ, so you won’t want to miss this Sunday!

You may have heard some buzz about "Family Sunday!" In every month that has a 5th Sunday (4 times per year), that 5th Sunday will be Family Sunday at River City.  The elementary kids and youth will join us for a shared worship experience. We'll have different ages involved in leadership and I'll bring a message specifically designed to engage the whole family. (Some of you ADD folks are going to love this!) We're going to have special note sheets for the kids, which will even include a few "Dinnertime Devotions" to discuss the following week as a family. Each Family Sunday will also include a time of sharing the Lord's Supper together. We expect these Sundays to become something that the entire church looks forward to!

The first Family Sunday is June 30th, and to kick off this new tradition, after the 11:00 AM service we will have an all-church picnic at our park area near the Evans road entrance (Gate C). Lunch will be potluck style where everyone brings a main dish, side dish, or dessert that would be enough for their family plus a few others. It's going to be awesome! Put June 30th on your calendar...you don't want to miss this!

I'll see you around this Sunday, but I won't be leading the service, as I'll be serving in children's ministry! I'm pretty fired up about this...you adults are fine...but children's ministry is our best bet at seeing a radical change in the future of the church!

Game on!

Don't Conform!

In Matthew chapter 7, Jesus said there is a wide and broad road that leads to destruction, and that, sadly, many people take that route. He went on to described a narrow gate that leads to life and then made this startling statement, "only few find it."   

Our obsession with fitting in and gaining the approval of the masses or the "main stream" could be fatal! As followers of Jesus, if our journey looks very similar to everyone else's, we should probably stop and rethink where we're going and who we're following.  

Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. Rom. 12:2

 Don't Conform!