Weekly Bulletin

Our Empty Nesters group is having a Christmas party Saturday, December 13 starting at 4pm at Mark B's home in Lake Elmo, just south of the church.
Plan on bringing your favorite Holiday dish to share, and a $10 or less "white elephant" gift!  More details can be found at the Info Center.  Please RSVP by December 10 so they can know how many to plan for.  Contact the church office with questions.

Our Hospitality Ministry kitchen team is planning on serving Christmas cookies after service on Sunday, December 14.  If you are able to bring some to share with everyone that morning, please let them know in the kitchen, or contact the church office.

Our Christmas Eve Candlelight Service is at 4:30pm December 24th.  Bring friends and family to join us for this really nice time of devotion and worship for Christmas. 

We've got baptisms scheduled to wrap up the year on Sunday, December 28!  If you've not really understood the process and what it is all about, CLICK HERE for a teaching Pastor Jon did that explains it all.   Contact the church office if you know now that it's time for you to be baptized.

No better way to start a year than with worship!  Join us the first Wednesday of 2026 for our first First Wednesday Worship of the year, here at RVCC-Lake Elmo!

Susana S will be facilitating a Women's Seminar here at RVCC-Lake Elmo the weekend of January 16-17, starting at 6:30pm Friday evening, then 10am-5pm on Saturday.  (Lunch will be provided)
The seminar will be video-based, but discussion-heavy!  Here are the details:

EMPOWERED: A Video Bible Study For Women by Lee Grady (facilitated by Susana Shaklee)
"Does the Bible limit women in their spiritual gifts and callings? Does God empower His daughters to both preach and lead? Author and ministry leader Lee Grady (former editor of Charisma magazine) shares from Scripture and church history to show that women belong on the front lines of ministry. This Bible study will help you step into your destiny."
This is a seminar, not a lecture!  We will be watching Lee Grady's video teachings together and then discussing them as a group. We will complete the entire series during the Friday and Saturday sessions. Topics that will be covered include God's original plan for men & women, how Jesus empowered women, how the Holy Spirit liberates women, Biblical examples of women in leadership, and more.

It is best to plan to attend the full seminar, but please do not hesitate to sign up if you can only attend a session or two.  We will have sign-up links and physical sheets available starting NEXT Sunday.

Mark your calendars for our Week Devoted to God, at a new time this year, the first week of February.  There will be prayer meetings during the day, and services in the evenings each night.  We'll advertise the full schedule when we get closer to the actual event.

Download our RVCC church app from your app store today!  There's all sorts of features, and we're tweaking it to make it even more helpful as a way to stay connected.  Service video is streamed there as well as on our YouTube channel.  There are groups for communicating and chatting with others in the RVCC family, and much more!  Search for "RVCC Lake Elmo" or CLICK HERE.  

We are always accepting diaper and wipes donations for Options for Women-St. Croix Valley. As a church we're not anti-abortion but PRO-LIFE, and try to back that up by helping out mothers who choose life for their child. This is an easy way to do that. Organizationally we support Options with a monthly monetary donation, but diapers are one item they always need to help support the mothers relying on their services. Whenever you are shopping and pick some up, drop them off with Pastor Greg the next time you come to RVCC and he will make sure they get to OFW. According to their website, the most needed supplies right now are size 5 & 6 diapers, wipes, diaper ointment, and baby lotion and wash.

If you would like to connect with one of our Elders for any reason during the week, contact the church office and we'll get you in touch!

Podcast listeners can listen to audio from our Sunday morning services on several platforms. Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Audible. Search for, "River Valley Christian Church Lake Elmo MN" on your preferred podcast app, then subscribe and listen anywhere, any time, however you like to listen!
We also have an RVFM Podcast gathering messages from our affiliated churches in one spot. The feed for that one has recently changed!  CLICK HERE if you use Spotify, and CLICK HERE if you're an Apple Podcast person!  If you have trouble with any of these contact Pastor Greg in the church office and he'll try to help you sort it out.

One of our top goals as a church is always to help you keep up on (or get into) a daily Bible reading habit.  We are nearly finished with our current program, and we will start advertising a new one that will start THIS January 1.  We'll have it available on our app, so it will be seriously easy to follow along!  Watch for details in the next couple of weeks!
Get into the daily habit now, even if it's not our particular program! We want you to get the WORD in YOU! Contact the church office if you have questions.

Here is a summary of groups and classes we have going on currently during the week. Most of these are included on the Church Calendar.

Our CREW Young Adult group gets together on Mondays at the Molnar's at 6:30pm. Contact the church office or talk to Pastor Peter for more information.

Our Freedom Group meets on Monday evenings at 7pm. It is a Bible-based chemical dependency group coordinated by our Elders Wayne & Patrice B. Contact the church office for more information.

Healing Hearts meets first and third Tuesdays at 6pm at our Elder Cathy D's home office in River Falls, WI. It is a confidential group for ladies 18+ who have been betrayed in a relationship. You are welcome at any time to jump in and join.
Know it's the enemy who would want to keep you isolated. This group is here to listen, love, pray, and stand with you.
If you have questions about the group please contact the church office, or Cathy directly!

Tuesdays at 6pm Linda B teaches a study on the Gospel of John. If you have questions about the group, please contact the church office.

If you've got time during the week you can always join us for prayer! We have a group that prays Wednesday mornings starting at 10am in room W2. It goes for about an hour.  Everyone is welcome to come in and pray!

We'll not be meeting for Wednesday night classes this week!  We'll be meeting in Bethel, MN at Foundation Church for First Wednesday Worship.  (Details are listed above)
Normally our classes all start at 6:30pm. and we've got some really good ones going!

Susana S is facilitating a study on the Book of Acts using the BibleProject animated videos and study guide.  It will run for just one more week, December 10.

From the BibleProject description.:  "The book of Acts is about Jesus leading his people through the Spirit to go out into the world and invite all nations to live under his reign. The story will begin with that message spreading in Jerusalem (chs. 2-7), into the neighboring regions of Judea and Samaria full of non-Jewish people (chs. 8-12), and from there out to the nations and the ends of the earth (chs. 13-28). The good news of the risen King Jesus leads to the formation of communities where individuals from various backgrounds live in unity and love for one another as they pledge their allegiance to Jesus and live according to his teachings."

Contents of the study include:

• Acts 1: Jesus Commissions His Disciples and Ascends to Heaven
• Acts 2-7: Pentecost in Jerusalem and the Birth of the Church
• Acts 8-12: The Jesus Community Becomes an International Movement
• Acts 13-20: Mission to Israel and Clashes with Roman Culture
• Acts 21-28: Paul Arrested in Jerusalem and Imprisoned in Rome

CLICK HERE for the study guide material and be prepared.

No need to buy any book or study guide. Participants will just need to bring their Bibles. Class format will be some teaching, but mostly small group discussion/questions. 

These kids are growing into something amazing!  If your child isn't a part of these groups yet, encourage them to give it a shot.  There's a lot of good going on Wednesday nights in the East Wing!

This group is very popular!  It is geared toward new(-er) attendees to RVCC, but long(-er) time attendees are invited to attend as well. We can tell you all sorts of things about us and our organization, but we'd like to know YOU, too. Less of a "teaching" class than a conversation!  

We also have a Photography and Videography class.  Taught by Ethan N, this is an in-depth look at the art of production for furthering the Kingdom!

Our White Bear Lake/Mahtomedi area small group meets on Thursday evenings from 6:30-8pm. Please contact the church office to get connected for more information!

The Bridge small group is taking the "holiday season" off.  There's plenty of things going on for everyone this time of year.  They're planning on resuming following the Week Devoted to God in February.  Watch for details after the first of the year.

"Walking in Your Authority" meets from 6-8pm on the second Fridays of each month at our elders Dennis and Cathy D's home in River Falls, WI. Knowing your authority allows you to fulfill the call God has on your life to do great exploits! Talk to Dennis, Cathy, or the church office for directions and details.

We have some dedicated young people who are committed to heading up this pre-service prayer time and cover our Sunday mornings with prayer.  Join them Sundays at 9am in classroom W1!

All sorts of ministries around the church are looking for volunteers. Our Hospitality Ministry, which includes the Greeter, Usher, Info Table, and Cookie Ministries is looking to include more volunteers. If you are interested, talk to Pastor Peter, or contact the church office.

Our Children's Ministry is looking for some volunteers, too. What an incredible opportunity to advance the Kingdom by helping bring them up in the "nurture and admonition of the Lord." Talk to Pastor Shiloh or contact the church office about this, too! A background check is required to work with our Children's Ministry.

If you would like to donate to RVCC and it's ministries, etc. you can mail or drop off a check at the church office, or give online now from right here on this page:

OBLIGATORY LEGAL NOTICE OF RELEASE OF RVCC, ITS SUCCESSORS, ASSIGNS AND LICENSEES FROM ANY LIABILITY WHATSOEVER OF ANY NATURE! We live-stream and record our service, so your presence here constitutes your consent to be photographed, filmed, and/or otherwise recorded, and for RVCC to use the recording without compensation in any and all media for as long as it exists. No, we're not anticipating making a boatload of money off of an image of the back of your head, or you worshipping with your hands in the air...but we figured it would be a good idea to let you know you could end up on our livestream, social media, etc.
IF you would rather opt out of having your image posted online, please contact the church office and let us know.