Worship Service Times

9:00 AM - Chapel

10:00 AM - Sunday School

11:00 AM - Sanctuary & Livestream

Baby & Toddler Nursery is available during both services

Podcast March Raleigh Court Herald 2024 RCPC Year in Review

Church Office Hours

Monday-Thursday 8:30 AM-4:30 PM

Friday 8:30 AM-1:00 PM

Today's devotional is a part of our Lenten Devotional booklet and can be found online at rcpres.org/blog.

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Fellowship Dinners - Wednesday at 6:15 PM

Who doesn’t love BBQ? Sign up in the gathering area or online at rcpres.org/dinner and make the choice of drumsticks or veggies! All can eat the sides of mac & cheese, collard greens, and homemade bread. Cupcakes for dessert always feel celebratory. Suggested dinner donations are $25 for an entire family or just $8 for individuals. If you MUST take yours “to go,” please bring your own containers.

Menu 3/19 - BBQ Drumsticks, Mac & Cheese, Collard Greens, Homemade Bread, Cupcakes, BBQ Veggie Entree

Takeout Meals: In our efforts to become an Earth Care Church, the Fellowship Committee asks you to please bring your own container if you would like a takeout meal on Wednesday nights. We thank you for your help with this.

Volunteers are always needed to help with various tasks including set-up, clean-up, serving, check-in,

and transporting leftovers to RAM House. Details and dates at the link below.

Building Supervisor

We celebrate the news of our building supervisor Linda Marshall’s announced retirement, but we will sorely miss her. We need to start looking for her replacement. The building supervisor is responsible for all physical upkeep of the church, including but not limited to the cleaning, HVAC, plumbing, painting, electrical, carpentry, event set up, church grounds and general maintenance. It is a full-time position with a competitive salary and comes with individual health care benefits.

If you know of someone who will lovingly care for our building as Linda has, please refer them to our hiring team of Matt Arnold, Brad Kennedy, Linda, Andrew, Henry Schaefer or pass the name to Julie Satterwhite. 

Love Thy Neighbor Walk

Saturday, April 5, 2025

10:00AM - Noon (Registration at 9:30 AM)

Host Church: Raleigh Court Presbyterian

Are you looking for opportunities to foster peace and love in our world? The 4th annual Love Thy Neighbor Walk will be a walk of unity to spread the message of God’s love for all people and to encourage the personal expression of love in our community and world. The walk is all-inclusive; therefore, friends, neighbors, young/old/ in-between, and strangers, are invited!

The walk is sponsored by Church Women United, a diverse group of women representing 35 congregations, nine denominations, and four racial/ethnic groups in the Roanoke Valley. You will learn the mission of four churches along Grandin Rd. and their specific outreach to our community. 

Men are encouraged to join the march! Please mark your calendars and spread the message of God’s love. Become the warm welcome as Raleigh Court Presbyterian Church opens its doors to people throughout the Roanoke Valley to form a Beloved Community.

Questions: Maureen Guelzow, 540-529-5347

March Madness Brackets

It's that time of year again, to fill out your brackets for March Madness! Join the RCPC Pool to see whose clairvoyance will pay off in 2025. No money on the line, no trophies, just fun. Sign up today

Men's Tournament Bracket

Women's Tournament Bracket

Junior League of the Roanoke Valley - Blood Drive

Saturday, March 22

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM at RCPC

Roll your sleeves up Roanoke and get ready to spring into action! The Junior League of Roanoke Valley is hosting our annual blood drive with the American Red Cross on Saturday, March 22. To donate, visit redcrossblood.org and enter the code JLRV under "Find a Drive".

Wednesday Morning Communion in Lent (March 12-AprilL 9)

Join us in the Chapel during the Lenten season each Wednesday morning at 7:00 AM for a time of reflection, scripture, music, and eucharist. As we walk with Jesus to Jerusalem and his cross, we prepare ourselves by coming to him to receive life in the bread and in the cup. You are then invited to stay after the thirty-minute service for a time of fellowship and shared breakfast and coffee. Eucharist, Word, Community.

Sermon Series: The Original Tortured Poets

Lent is a time to evaluate our faithfulness, our love, and our commitment to the God who saves. The Prophets of Israel and Judah show us a dogged loyalty to God in the midst of political, social, and religious unrest and disunity. They speak God’s judgment when all is well. They declare God’s hope when all is lost. Their hearts are uniquely tuned to the eternal song of God, which is the power poets possess in every time. They speak, and we do well to listen. So long before Taylor Swift’s, “The Tortured Poets Department,” there were Amos, Isaiah, Micah, Jeremiah and others living out their identity as the tortured poets speaking for God.

March 23—Hoax—Micah 1:1-5 & Micah 6:6-16

March 30—Exile—1 Kings 2:26-27 & Jeremiah 20:7-13

April 6—Holy Ground—Psalm 126 & Jeremiah 30:7-14

April 13—Palm Sunday—Love Story—Lamentations & Luke 19:28-40

April 20—Easter—Wildest Dreams—Ezekiel & Luke 24:1-12

New Adult Sunday School Classes – Start March 9

•The Seekers—Room 201

Lenten and Easter Study – Meeting Jesus at the Table by Cynthia M. Campbell & Christine Coy Fohr (March 9-May 4)

•Parents as a Verb—Room 102

Good Inside by Dr. Becky Kennedy (March 9-May 4)

•Tortured Poets Lenten Poetry Study—Room 101—Led by Leigh Sackett

Class descriptions available online at rcpres.org/adult-education

The Bible in Black & White

 Updated Schedule

March 5, 12, 18, 25* with April 1 Luncheon

Please note some date changes from Wednesdays to Tuesdays and the location change to St. John’s Episcopal Church on March 25^th

The group meets weekly at 12:00 PM in the Fellowship Hall of Second Presbyterian Church. Some books in the Bible are about a specific person. What makes these stories so compelling is that they often center on individuals who live on the margins—people whose lives seem insignificant in the eyes of the powerful, yet matter deeply to God. These are the stories of God’s powerful work among the powerless. During the noon hour on March Wednesdays, The Bible in Black & White class will explore four of these narratives, seeking to understand what God sees in these individuals—and in all of us. Drs. Bill Lee and George Anderson, along with ministers from other sponsoring churches, will guide the discussion.

Mission Partner Support 

Each month, we designate all cash and coin to one of our local mission partners. For the month of March, we are supporting the Rescue Mission. You can place your money in the offering plate or make an online gift using the QR code, noting that it is for Mission and making a note for the Rescue Mission in the text box. As of March 9, we have collected $889.03 for the Rescue Mission.

Sudanese/South Sudanese Mission Group

Mohammed and Tarteel are so grateful for the donations give to them for their apartment! We were not able to deliver a donated sofa for lack of man/woman power. Another sofa with volunteers is needed. They would also like a juicer or blender and a small freezer.

Thank you! Sudanese/South Sudanese Mission Support Group,

Camilla Cabaniss, Kathleen Carroll, Fred Hoffman, Janet Miller, Marty Saviers, Sandra Whitt (sandrarcpc@yahoo.com, 540-330-3451)

Prayer Requests

Susan Ard, Ginger Barbour (friend of Elise Hansard), Marvin & Roena Barbre, Dawn Blakeman, Jackie Blakeman, Mayuen Chice, Beverly Day and family (friend of Camilla and Johnsey Cabaniss), Cameron & Susie Hutto, Susan Lindstrom, Megan Mallare (friend of Kathy Grove), Melissa Martin (friend of Lisa Boylan), Rusty McCown, Louise Morris, Travis Nesmith, Steve Pottinger (Bob & India Atkinson’s son-in-law), Mary Lou Prillaman, Cameron Stanley (Grandson of Betty Nance), and all caregivers.

(Prayers request as of Friday, March 7. Names in bold indicate an addition to the prayer list this week.)

WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR GROUPS

• Preschool: Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
• Centering Prayer at St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church: Monday, 10:00 AM
• Cub Scouts: Monday, 6:30 PM
• BSA Troop 2: Monday, 7:00 PM
• Roanoke Valley Choral Society, Monday, 7:00 PM
• AA-Primary Purpose: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:30 AM
• AA-Seeds of Hope: Tuesday, 5:30 PM
• Tai Chi: Tuesday & Thursday, 5:30 PM
• Hip Sober Chicks: Thursday, 6:30 PM
• Al-Anon: Friday, 11:45 AM

The Herald - Deadline for Articles: 10th of each month

This Week @ RCPC - Deadline for Articles: Wednesday of each week

Send submissions for The Herald and This Week @ RCPC to Julie Satterwhite 

Video Board in the Gathering Area - Send Information to Carole Banks