God is Patient with Us! Throughout February we have seen God continue to pursue His people even in the midst of their unfaithfulness and the dividing of the kingdom. In March we will finish learning about Elijah and Elisha and look at some of the other prophets God sent throughout Read more…
Sunday Worship Consider the First Service! As you may have noticed, we conducted an attendance survey in early February as part of a project to try to ease some of the crowding in the second service (which is a good problem to have!). At present, our 2nd service is often Read more…
Oaks of Righteousness The leadership of ROC is excited to announce that our men’s ministry, after a bit of a hiatus, is back! We have re-tooled it to bring a sharper focus on cultivating leaders, growing in knowledge, and making a generational impact in our church. It officially kicks off Read more…
Sunday Worship Child Protection Follow-up On Sunday, February 16, we completed a 3-week special Sunday school series on child abuse awareness and safety. Many thanks to everyone who attended to learn more about this important and difficult topic. If you missed any of the sessions and would like to catch Read more…
Interested in Joining ROC? Have you been attending River Oaks Church for some time? We would love to invite you to experience the joy of belonging to your local church through church membership. Our new members class is an opportunity to find out more about who we are and what Read more…
Sunday Worship The Romans: The Obedience of Faith sermon series will continue with Rom 2:12-29. Preparation questions: What is the point of Paul’s indictment of religiosity in verses 17ff? What is “true” circumcision, and why? The children’s ministry will be studying Elijah at Mt Carmel (1 Kgs 18-19) The MinistrySafe Read more…
Sunday Worship Coming Up in Church Life All church ‣ Interested in joining ROC? Find out details about our Spring membership class ‣ The next church-wide Board Game Day will be on February 22 Student ministry ‣ Middle School winter retreat is Feb 28 – Mar 1‣ Guys’ and gals’ Read more…
Viewing of “Overcomer” Ladies of River Oaks! Please join us Friday, February 21st, for a movie night together! The evening will begin at 6:30pm and wrap up by 9:15pm. We’ll be watching the movie Overcomer, which came out in 2019. Here’s a brief description: High school basketball coach John Harrison and his team face an Read more…
Sunday Worship Our Romans: The Obedience of Faith series will continue with Rom 1:18-32. Preparation questions: What does the “downward spiral of sin” in this passage teach us about ourselves and God? What does Paul mean by the “wrath of God”? Preview of bulletin and song lyrics The children’s ministry Read more…
Seeing Ourselves Clearly in 2020 We hope that the 20’s have gotten off to a great start for you so far. They sure have in the student ministry here at ROC! We’ve started a new series for the semester in the book of Ephesians — Chosen: Life in the Family Read more…
Sunday Worship Coming Up in Church Life All church ‣ We will host a 3-week child protection awareness training (MinistrySafe) in Sunday school the first three weeks of February Children’s ministry ‣ The next quarterly teacher training (agenda) will be on Feb 2 (12:30pm)‣ Lunch and childcare will be provided. Read more…
Winter Sunday School Series “I want to talk about Jesus with my non-Christian coworker, but I don’t feel like I know the answers to all their questions.” Many of us have expressed a sentiment like this. Life is complicated. Ideas, philosophies, religions, arguments, counterarguments, hot-takes, and viral memes that go Read more…
Going Deeper Two exciting women’s Bible studies in 2020 will provide an opportunity for members, visitors, and friends of River Oaks to grow in their love for the Lord through the study of his Word together. Women of all ages are invited to join in. Find out more below about Read more…
Sunday Worship Coming Up in Church Life All church ‣ We will host a 3-week child protection awareness training (MinistrySafe) in Sunday school the first three weeks of February Children’s ministry ‣ ROCK Blocks season two begins, working towards an H₂0 Party! ‣ Save the date: quarterly teacher meeting/training on Read more…
Protecting the Vulnerable Unfortunately, any glance at the news on any given day is a reminder that sexual abuse and predation, particularly of children, is and has been on the rise for years. And even more unfortunate is that the church is not immune from it. We at River Oaks Read more…
Sunday Worship Our new Romans: The Obedience of Faith series will begin with Rom 1:1-7. Preparation questions: What does Paul say this letter is about? To whom is Paul writing? Why does this matter? Preview of bulletin and song lyrics The children’s ministry will be looking at God’s wisdom for Read more…
God is the Source of Wisdom! After taking a break to look at the wonder of Advent in the month of December, we are jumping back into our journey through the timeline of the Bible with Solomon. Previously we looked at great King David and heard God’s promise that a Read more…
Sunday Worship Coming Up in Church Life All church ‣ We will be holding a Christmas Eve worship service at 6pm on 12/24 Missions ‣ Mark your calendars: 2020 Bahamas mission trip interest meeting, Jan 19 Women’s ministry ‣ The winter/spring women’s Bible studies (Wed/Thur) will kick off in January Read more…
Making Progress! At our annual congregational meeting on December 8, the Building Committee (chaired by Steve O’Dowd, who represented the team) gave a progress report on the building expansion. We will provide audio of the meeting and the full presentation in a separate post soon, but we wanted to go Read more…
Sunday Worship Congregational Meeting Recap Coming Up in Church Life All church ‣ We will be holding a Christmas Eve worship service at 6pm on 12/24. Communion will be served Youth ministry ‣ Final meeting of the year on Wednesday night: Christmas party! Mercy ‣ We will be “ringing the Read more…