Hey Rocky River Church. I need to ask you for your prayers for Donnie Icenhour, our Pastor of Community. He had an accident this morning while preparing for a community event for the YMCA. Below is an explanation from Courtney (Donnie's wife).

"Donnie hurt his eye this morning when the end of a piece of bungee cord hit him in and just below his left eye. (Not because I punched him!) He went to the ER, then the eye doctor and has been told that he has a Hyphema. Basically the blood cells in his eye have been traumatized and need time to heal. In the meantime they are floating around, impairing his vision. This means that he has to be extremely careful the next few weeks so those blood cells can settle and get back to what they should be. The doctor described it like a snowglobe that has been shook and the snow needs to settle back on the bottom.

He's sore and his eye is slowly starting to bruise. He's keeping up with his medicines but is still unable to see that well. He's resting and is doing his best to not move around much.

Thanks for loving him so much and we appreciate you."
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Please pray for Donnie! His eye site is the most important thing to our staff right now. I would like to also ask you to pray for our staff. As I am writing this I am preparing to leave for Israel on May 16. Donnie will be out of the office for a couple weeks so that means the staff will be working extra hard to get things done. Thank you for your prayers, love and support. And for sure, ask Teresa how you can pitch in to get things done!

You can email your prayers, thoughts and well-wishes to Donnie@RockyRiverChurch.

Thanks again church family!
Jimmy Britt, Lead Pastor

Hey Rocky River Church! Yesterday I challenged you guys to memorize our memory verse for our ONE series. Do you remember the verse? It's Acts 1:8. I also challenged you to pray that verse everyday throughout the series at 1:08PM. Get it? :) The prayer can be as long or short as you'd like it to be, but be sure to ask God to make this verse real in your life, your family and your church.

Be sure to put this on your calendar. It is on our Staff calendar. Lets grow together!

Thank you! I love you guys.
Jimmy

Hey guys. In less than a month I am heading with Nelson Searcy (www.ChurchLeaderInsights.com) and a group of pastors to the Holy Land (Israel). This trip is going to be absolutely AMAZING! This is an all-inclusive trip (really) that you will never forget. We have about three spots left open for the trip. It is NOT too late to sign up. The links below have all the details. You are welcome to email (Jimmy@RockyRiverChurch.com) me your phone number and we can talk directly. Also, the number to DuCar tours (our tour company) is 800-553-8227.

Guys, don't miss this trip! Email me even if you just think you're interested! But hurry!
Jimmy Britt

http://churchleaderinsights.com/holyland
http://www.ducartours.com/?p=1027

Hey Rocky River Church. I just wanted to thank you for a wonderful and historic weekend! We had our largest ever weekend attendance - 988! God is truly moving in our church and He is using ALL of us to reach people and make "life-change" happen. There is more to say but I'll save it for another time. For now, I want you to know that I love you - each of you - and I'm SO thankful for what you do and give. I know you make tremendous sacrifices of time and resources. Keep it up! I believe God is only getting started. You make up the greatest local church on the planet and I am blessed - SO BLESSED - to be your pastor.

Jimmy

Hey! My name is Jimmy Britt and I am the Lead Pastor at Rocky River Church and I just wanted to invite you to join us this weekend for Easter. We have FOUR identical Easter weekend services. Here's the schedule: Friday night at 7PM, Saturday evening at 5PM, and Sunday morning @ 9AM and 11AM.

Here's what you can expect:
+ A worship experience that has the potential to change your life.
+ Great music from our house band.
+ Fun and safe programs for your kids (Your kids will love RRC).
+ A practical and inspiring message that you can understand.
+ An awesome student ministry for Middle School and High School students.
+ Our services last about 65 minutes.
+ A "come as you are" environment. Seriously, I'll be wearing jeans too! But honestly, dress up or dress down - we don't really care. We just want you in church. It is not what's on the outside that counts anyway, right? :)

Above all else, what I think you'll enjoy most at Rocky River Church is the casual, comfortable environment. You will feel welcome from the time you arrive at our campus. And remember, Rocky River Church is a church for people "no matter who you are, or where you've been, or what you've done, and no matter what's been done to you." Believe me when I say, you are welcome at Rocky River Church!

I hope to get to meet you this Sunday. For more information about RRC, click here http://www.rockyriverchurch.com/home.

God bless you and your family!
Jimmy

Hey guys. I am SO EXCITED about this Sunday @ Rocky River Church. It is going to be awesome! I'm serious. You do NOT want to miss being at RRC this Sunday. During the message we we are going to look at the crucifixion of Jesus and what His death means to us. We will also have communion together, which will be very meaningful. The music is going to ROCK! BTW, our new Worship Pastor - Dillon Smith and his wife Emily will be leading us! That's right, our NEW WORSHIP PASTOR! Make sure you do EVERYTHING you can to make Dillon and Emily feel right at home. You are going to love these guys.

Oh yeah, the kids - Pre-school through 5th grade - will have an Easter Egg Hunt during the kids worship time at both the 9AM and 11AM services. So make sure you have the kids here!

Anyway, come expecting God to do something awesome in your life. I believe He is has an experience waiting just for you.

See ya Sunday!
Jimmy

P.S. Don't forget that we are having FOUR IDENTICAL EASTER WEEKEND SERVICES! Friday night at 7PM, Saturday night at 5PM, and Sunday at 9AM and 11AM. And...we will have a baptism after each service.

Sounds like a catchy phrase for a t-shirt, huh?! Anyway, beginning at 9AM tomorrow morning Rocky River Church will give away $10 of free gas to the first 300 customers at the CITGO station in Harrisburg (they will be able to say, "Rocky River Church gave me gas"). The CITGO is located across the street from Taco Bell at the Town Center on Highway 49. We are especially encouraging single parents to stop by - but be early. It is going to be a great, God-honoring day!

Hey Rocky River Church. As you know, when we built our ministry campus at 887 Pitt School Road SW in Concord, we knew parking would be a problem for us. Basically, because of construction overruns with the city we just didn't have enough money to build more parking. For months now we've had a small team gathering bids to add gravel to the "center section" of our parking lot that will give us approximately 50 more spots - which would really help us out.

Our team has done a great job getting bids and checking through our resources. The lowest, best bid for what we need is $17,000. We currently have $13,000 set aside for this project so we are $4,000 short. We are really trying to make this happen before Easter Sunday when we will be desperate for the extra parking. If we hurry we can get it done!

I know it is a BIG ASK, but Rocky River Church always responds BIG whenever there is an "ask." If you could help us with this, would you respond ASAP? Anything and everything you could give will help. But again, we need the help quickly. If you can help, will you send a check to our church today for ANY amount to Rocky River Church, PO Box 68, Harrisburg, NC 28075. You can also safely make a donation online by clicking on this link http://www.rockyriverchurch.com/give.

Thank you so much! I mean it more than you know. God is doing so much in the life of our church and each one of you are part of the miracle.

I love you.
Pastor Jimmy

Hey Rocky River Church. We have a NEW LOCATION for Saturday's "GAS BUY DOWN" project. The new location is the CITGO gas station in Harrisburg. It is located across from the Taco Bell at the Harrisburg Town Center.

Just in case you haven't heard, we are buying the first $10 of gas for the first 300 customers beginning at 9AM. Get the word out - especially to single moms and dads.

Oh, just in case you're wondering why a church would do this, I'll tell you. At Rocky River Church we believe in reaching out to our community with the love of Jesus in practical and meaningful ways. We are a church that wants to add "value" to people's lives. $10 to a lot of folks might not seem like that much (especially with the price of gas these days). But if you are a struggling single parent or a family "down on your luck," this $10 might be the difference between getting to work on Monday...or not. We just want to serve our community.

If you would to volunteer for this event, send an email to Donnie@RockyRiverChurch.com. For more information you can call our church office at 704-795-ROCK (7625).

THIS IS GOING TO BE A GREAT DAY - RAIN OR SHINE!

Thanks for your prayers! Also, I want to give a special thanks to Pete and the folks at CITGO AND Mack's Auto Repair for making this happen.

See ya'll Saturday!
Jimmy