Project #1 This year, the Outreach Committee will be taking 20 large gift bags to ladies living in permanent inner-city housing. The houses are Our Place (1) and Inner City Way (10) group homes. Would you or your group like to fill up one or more of the bags? Financial contributions for both projects are appreciated! […]
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What a tremendous success!! Our Annual Cookie Walk was held on Saturday, November 24th. For $20.00 people could fill a large container with a selection of tasty, dainty Christmas cookies – all their baking done in minutes! We were able to raise over $3,000.00 from the sale – thank you to Irene Meglis & Marie MacLean
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Joel Fleck and Alex Rasmussen, the Youth Ministry Co-Coordinators, have a full year of activities and events planned. The next Youth event is the Christmas sleepover on December 15th. Be sure to touch base with Joel or Alex if you are interested or check out the RUC Events calendar: Events where all upcoming Youth Events are posted.
Members of Riverbend United Church and others from the community enjoyed a wonderful turkey dinner with all the fixings and a pie buffet on Sunday, October 28th. Thank you to the “Turkey Team” and everyone else who contributed to the success of this annual event!
Our annual garage sale occurred Friday & Saturday, September 7th & 8th and once again it was a tremendous success! Bev Sawyer and her crew of volunteers raised more than $10,000!!! Congratulations and thank you to everyone who donated, helped pick-up and deliver, set-up tables & displays and came to shop at the Church. The crew of
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Riverbend United Church is grateful to have received a Government of Canada “Canada Summer Jobs” grant to hire two students in the summer of 2018. Marguerite Alimbe was the Church’s Office Assistant. Griffin Power assisted David Galbraith & Jim Schetzsle with outdoor yardwork & maintenance in July and Aidan Leicht worked with David & Jim
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Riverbend United Church is pleased to announce that Joel Fleck and Alex Rasmussen will be sharing the Youth Ministry Coordinator role this year. They have a full year of activities and events planned. Their first event, a classic “games and ice cream” night on Saturday, September 15th was a great success, and the next event is
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Does the Bible have wisdom for us in our conversations about becoming an Affirming congregation? Let’s take a look at this and other topics. Please join us for: Affirming Conversations Session 2: Sunday, April 22, at 9:00 a.m., repeated on Wednesday, April 25 at 7:00 p.m. Affirming Focus Sunday, April 29th at 10:30 a.m. Join
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Riverbend United Church’s young families gathered on Earth Day, Sunday, April 22nd following the 10:30 Church Service for a potluck luncheon. We continue to add new people to our “young families list” so let Valerie or the office know if you wish to be added. We hope you’ll come to events and get to know each other
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Passover is the great Jewish feast of redemption and liberation, the memorial of the Israelites’ deliverance from their bondage in Egypt. The word Passover means “deliverance,” since in the story of the Exodus Yahweh “passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt” (Ex. 12:27). Passover is a festival of great rejoicing, which
