East Asia Micah and Blair (and their family) serve as overseas church-planting missionaries in a prominent city in East Asia, where they have lived for nearly a decade. Micah serves as assistant pastor in a Presbyterian church that is led by an indigenous team. He assists with regular pastoral duties Read more…
Sunday Worship We will continue our Romans: The Obedience of Faith sermon series with Romans 13:8-14 (on fulfilling the law through love) We will be partaking of the Lord’s Supper together. Reminder: please prayerfully consider making a special gift to the Deacons’ Fund, which supports ROC members with material needs Read more…
Want to do some cleaning and yard work? ROC’s Mercy Team invites you to participate in a service project with one of the local ministries we support, Redeeming Life Outreach Ministries (RLOM). RLOM’s maternity home in Sanford offers a safe home for women undergoing crisis pregnancies. The home has a Read more…
Sunday Worship Coming Up in Church Life Women’s ministry ‣ It’s not too late to join the Wednesday night Bible study‣ Find out the details and sign up! Young adults ‣ “The Gathering” kicks off on Friday, January 29, 7:00pm‣ It’s a time of growing in faith through intentional fellowship‣ Read more…
Sunday Worship We will continue our Romans: The Obedience of Faith sermon series with Romans 12:9-21 A new adult Sunday school series, “Gospel Distortion,” will kick off We will be ordaining and installing two new deacons We continue asking worshipers to wear face masks, and attenders of the 9:00am service Read more…
Kicking off the New Year We are so thankful for our Children’s Ministry team that has made everything possible since relaunching, including stepping up during the busyness of the holidays to make our Advent series possible. We recently had a team meeting to reconnect and recharge as we move into Read more…
Sunday Worship Coming Up in Church Life Women’s ministry ‣ Our Jan-Apr Wednesday night Bible study begins Jan 20!‣ Find out the details and sign up! Student ministry ‣ Check out our January update for the ministry New Adult ed series ‣ A new Adult SS series is beginning on Read more…
New Sunday School Series Paul writes, “Whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction” (Rom 15:4). Contrary to some modern efforts to unhitch the church from the Old Testament, Paul says quite the opposite: the OT was for us. It’s hard to make it very far in Read more…
Sunday Worship Sunday Livestreaming As we turn to the new year, we have a new, more streamlined way for you to find our Sunday livestreamed service (at 11:00am). Simply go to… → riveroakschurch.com/live ← If there is a livestream coming up, you’ll see it listed (and can subscribe to our Read more…
Life Under the Sun River Oak’s Women’s Ministry invites you to our next Bible Study (January–April). After two great studies last year on 1 and 2 Peter, we will turn our attention to the OT with a study of the book of Ecclesiastes, often a puzzling book about the seeming Read more…
Sunday Worship Sunday Livestreaming As we turn to the new year, we have a new, more streamlined way for you to find our Sunday livestreamed service (at 11:00am). Simply go to… → riveroakschurch.com/live ← If there is a livestream coming up, you’ll see it listed (and can subscribe to our Read more…
New Year, New You(th Happenings) I hope you’re all still basking in the afterglow of a wonderful Christmas with family and friends and starting to get excited for a fresh start in 2021. Read on for a preview of some of what we have planned so you can even more Read more…
Want to Understand the Full Bible? With the start of a new year comes the opportunity to start afresh with reading Scripture. The pastors at River Oaks would like to offer you some suggested plans to help you read more Scripture in the new year! 1. Learn the Bible Storyline Read more…
Advent from the Epistles Though the Gospels according to Matthew and Luke are famous for their birth accounts of Jesus, some of the earliest discussions of the coming of Jesus in the flesh are in the epistles (or letters) of the NT, some of which pre-date the Gospels! In other Read more…
Sunday Worship Christmas Eve Replay We enjoyed a wonderful service of songs, readings, and the lighting of candles to celebrate the coming of our Lord. You can watch the livestream replay here. Coming Up in Church Life Women’s ministry ‣ Interested in our upcoming 2021 Bible study?‣ Fill out this Read more…
Sunday Worship Christmas Eve Service Mark your calendar! We will hold our traditional candlelight Christmas Eve service on December 24 at 6:00pm. We will apply our 11am service COVID protocols: no RSVPs are required; a livestream will be available; worshipers are asked to wear face coverings. While no child care Read more…
Sunday Worship Christmas Eve Service Mark your calendar! We will hold our traditional candlelight Christmas Eve service on December 24 at 6:00pm. We will apply our 11am service COVID protocols: no RSVPs are required; a livestream will be available; worshipers are asked to wear face coverings. While no child care Read more…
Sunday Worship We will continue our Advent 2020 sermon series with Phil 2:1-11 Communing members of ROC are invited to our annual congregational meeting (10:15am-10:45am). We will be electing new officers, reviewing the 2021 budget, and receiving a building project update. Please make it a priority to attend if you Read more…
Finishing 2020 As tough as this year has been, it has been great to be back together since September and start to rebuild momentum. We’ve learned a lot from the book of Proverbs about how to live wisely in the fear of the LORD. We’ve also had some great times Read more…
Sunday Worship Coming Up in Church Life All church ‣ Annual congregational meeting on Dec 6 (10:15am)‣ Session meeting, Dec 10 Mercy ‣ Participate in the Dove Tree and Ringing the Bell Community Groups ‣ A new Lake Mary group is getting started, hosted by the Shaws‣ Interest meeting on Read more…