Riverside’s monthly prayer calendar is intended to spur on adults and children alike in their prayer lives.  Each day’s requests are biblically based and are for all sorts of people—those who need to know Jesus as well as the “saints.”  There are prayer requests for personal spiritual growth, our families, our own church, community, and nation, to around the world.  So use the attached calendar as a tool to grow yourself, train your children and bless many people.

Use Riverside’s monthly prayer calendar as a jumping off point in communication with our Lord.  We know God wants us to pray to Him, and we know we should pray more, so let the prayer calendar help you.  From prayers for personal spiritual growth to praying to others in our church, community, nation and around the world, the calendar will be a good start in communicating with God.  It’s also a great tool to facilitate prayer with your children.  We even have 2 year olds who use it!  Just print it out and get started yourself.

Soar with us into SKY Vacation Bible School where everything is possible with God!  We’re shooting for the stars for 100 kids at our very own VBS!!  We are so excited for our kids and for you all to help us!!  We need all sorts of help!  Most of all Crew Leaders!  What is a crew leader?  A crew leader is in charge of 5-7 kids and leads them from station to station with no direct teaching responsibility.  The groups will be a mix of ages which will be more fun for everyone excepts for our little tots they will stick together.  Sign up at the back of the church on Sunday to help or contact the office (office@rcovenant.org or 765.463.4600).  Stay Tuned for a big VBS promotion Sunday to register in person on Sunday, June 24th! Or register right now at https://www.rcovenant.org/VBS2012Registration.  See you in the SKY July 9-13, 6-8:30 pm!!!

Finally. . .an adult Sunday School class during second service!!!  Power To Change will be here for 6 weeks beginning April 15th.  This video & discussion led class will take your prayer life from ordinary to extraordinary if you let it!  Sign-up by emailing office@rcovenant.org so we can have a book ready for you. 

Basic info again:  6 wk. class beginning 4/15 at 10:45AM in white house living room; discussion facilitated by Diane Kelley.  Come and be transformed!

What is God’s problem?  Some claim that the Christian can easily deflect criticism by appealing to Jesus’ life.  But we cannot evade the Old Testament.  Consider this allegation:“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”  And what about Hell and God not being so obvious to so many people?  Could the Islamic God be the same God as the Bible?  How is the Christian to respond to homosexuality or about the relationship between science and Scripture?  These “problems” and more will be addressed at our annual multi-church, multi-campus ministry, Symposium: The Problem of God, Feb.17-18, held at Purdue and Covenant Church.