Ways to Serve
Outreach / Ways to Serve
Riverside Presbyterian offers opportunities to serve our own church community, neighborhood, city and our world.
Serve in Our Congregation
RPC Deacon Ministries
Loaves and Fishes
Email JaneThis volunteer-based ministry team cooks and delivers provides meals to members with various needs, from new parents to those recovering from surgery or grieving a loss. Volunteer-based meal ministry to provide for new parents and those who are ill. A group cooks meals for freezing.
Meals for Parents
Have you heard? Our church’s numbers have been growing with brand new baby members!! Help us to support these families as they adjust to life after the birth of their babies by signing up for a slot to provide them with a meal. Meals can be self-made and delivered or ordered online for delivery.
Currently there are not any meal sign ups but please check back at a later date. Thank you.
Prayer Ministry
Email NormaThis ministry team prayers through both a public and private prayer list on a weekly basis.
Love Callers
Email ClareThis ministry team reaches out to our church’s homebound and nursing home members, through phone calls, cards etc. They also coordinate other groups within the church (for example, the Youth, Sunday School Classes, Small Groups etc.) to be in touch with this important population in our church.
Flower Delivery Team
Sign UpVolunteer to deliver flowers to our church friends. Flowers have the power to brighten one’s day and say “we care." Flowers are often delivered to those who have been ill, undergone surgery, lost a loved one, or welcomed a new child into their home. Choosing just one or two days a quarter is helpful and appreciated.
First Friends
Email MatthewThis ministry team builds relationships with and orientates new members during their first year of membership.
Congregational Care
Email FrankThis ministry team reaches out to members and visitors who have not been seen at church in a while, to make sure that they are receiving the support and care that they need.
Congregational Service Opportunities
Call to Worship Liturgist
Sign upServe as a liturgist for the Call to Worship at the beginning of the worship service.
Usher for Worship
Sign UpHelp welcome people to our sanctuary, offer them a bulletin, answer questions etc. All ages are welcome to usher.
Become a Secret Pal
Email usSecret Pals keep in touch with college students during the school year by letters, cards or care packages.
Serve in Our Community
Our goal is to provide volunteers and financial aid to ministries, missions and organizations in our surrounding community; and to support those ministries and programs we feel provide the best and largest impact for the areas in which they serve.
Special Service Opportunity - March 7 and 13
Volunteer at Field Days at West Riverside and Central Riverside Elementary Schools!
Join us to cheer on the students as they enjoy a field day on the playground.
Community Service Opportunities
Trash Pick Up
Please help us Keep Five Points Clean!
Third Sunday of the month, 7:45 - 8:30 am
Meet in the upper parking lot. We’ll provide gloves, grabbers, and buckets. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Cook or Serve Dinner at Sulzbacher Center
Sign upThe 2nd Thursday of each month is RPC's day to cook and serve over 400 meals to people experiencing homelessness in Jacksonville. Each month 3 helpers are needed for cooking and up to 8 volunteers are needed to serve dinner.
2025 Dates: February 13, March 13, April 10, May 8, June 12, July 10, August 14, September 11, October 9, and November 13.
Neighboring Collaborative - Eat Lunch in 5 Points
Third Sunday of the month
Enjoy lunch after church in Five Points with family and/or friends. Head to any of the Five Points restaurants that are open on Sunday's. If you're looking for a lunch group, venture outside the sanctuary to Lemonade and Cookies to find someone who's also looking for a lunch group.
Riverside Presbyterian Church Basketball League
The Board is especially excited about the first season with a true home for RPC Basketball: the Family Life Center! Thank you to all who brought about this transformative space to the RPC community. The league is open to boys ages 6-16 and girls ages 7-12. The season runs from November to early February. Registration opens on September 1.
Volunteer coaches, gym monitors and referees are always needed!
ICARE
Learn moreInterfaith Coalition for Action, Reconciliation and Empowerment
Give voice and vote to your concern and hope for Jacksonville. Help set the agenda for ICARE as we work to improve our city.
Meals on Wheels
Email NancyThe Meals on Wheels (MOW) program has been a part of Riverside for many years and this spring we partnered with Aging True, a local nonprofit that administers federally funded nutritional services, which allows us to serve more of the over 2,000 seniors on a waitlist. With more drivers more seniors can receive help! Contact Nancy Carlton at 388-8187 to learn more or to volunteer.
Earth Care Congregation
Learn moreEach year our church takes an "Earth Care Pledge" and works toward finding new and creative ways to care for our earth as individuals and as a community.
Partners in Ministry
Serve in Our World
Presbyterian Mission Co-Workers
Mission Co-Workers are supported with monthly financial contributions as well as letters and prayers from our congregation. We currently support:
Haiti: Mark Hare and Jenny Bent
Niger: Jim and Jodi McGill
Uganda: Shelvis and Nancy Smith-Mather
Partnerships in Haiti
We are a congregational partner of Fonkoze, an amazing micro-finance cooperative to help provide education, literacy and small loans to women in Haiti. Our goal is to be a catalyst for local congregations to join forces to provide greater impact on the poverty and lives of women in Haiti. We do this by providing education, travel and fundraising opportunities throughout the year.
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Staff Contact
The Rev. Dana Riley
Associate Pastor of Community Outreach
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