Riverside Newsletters, Archived Here
Our weekly newsletter, The Riverside Current covers events in the week ahead at Riverside. The newsletter at the beginning of each month is an expanded news magazine, with a look at the month ahead, as well as profiles and reports from our treasurer and moderator.
If you would like to receive Riverside’s newsletter, plus any special announcements, please send an e-mail to newsletter editor Kathy Watson or call Kathryn in the church office at 541-386-1412.
Most Recent Weekly Newsletters:
May 9: Conflict, But Always With Love
April 25: It’s Celebration Sunday!
April 18: The Season of Letting Go Continues
April 11: Holding and Letting Go
April 4: A New Way is Possible
March 28: Beginning in the Dark
March 21: Picking Up Our Fir Branches
March 14: Easter is Almost Here
March 7: A Happy Unintended Consequence
February 29: Bold Faces for Holy Love
February 22: What Cross is Yours?
February 15: Following Jesus Into the Fray
February 8: The Dusty Truth of Our Lives
January 25: Through the Purple Doors
January 4: A Tender Heart, a Watchful Eye
December 29: The Musics in Our Hearts
December 21: No Time for a Child
December 7: As Vulnerable as Chickadees
November 30: Pause, Breathe, Listen
November 16: Blessing and Struggle
November 9: No Power, No Water, No Worries!
November 2: What I Can, With What I Have
October 26: The Distant Horizons
October 19: Hearts Cracked Open
Sept. 28: Encounter at Lyle Falls
September 21: The Sound of Grace
September 14: What’s the Limit of Forgiveness?
August 31: Golden Books Wisdom
August 18: A Whole Day of “Wow!”
August 10: Of Blueberries and Foursquare
August 3: An Audacious Instruction
July 20: A Bright Beacon of Love
July 6: Precious Little Things
June 29: Interconnected, One and All
June 8: A Bolt of Lightening, Perhaps?
May 25: The Birth of the Church
April 20: Fifty-three years later
March 30: Which Way Will you Choose?
March 16: The Voiceless and the Vanishing
February 22: Creatures of Holy Dust
February 16: Cracked Open Hearts
February 9: Lighting Up The World
January 12: Beloved? Yes You Are
December 29: Impossible? Not With God
December 22: A Subversive, High Stakes Drama
December 15: Love’s Birthplace
December 8: Shivering In Anticipation
December 1: Moving Towards the Manger
November 25, 2022: Wonder, Awe & Generosity
November 10: Venturing Into Wild Places
November 3: When Doors Open for Everyone
October 27: The Saints Who Light Fires In Us
October 13: Doing the Unthinkable
October 6: Our Wild Connection to Creation
Sept 29: No Place Like Home Indeed
Sept 15: Wrestling With the Hard Questions
Sept. 8 Reflections of Gratitude
August 25: A Holy Conversation
July 24: The Land That Raise You
July 21: The Words of My Mouth
June 23: Baby, I Was Born This Way
June 9:Jesus the Boundary Crosser
May 26: The Sound of a Breaking Heart
April 21: The Holy Uprising Has Begun
March 31: The Turning of Death Into Life
March 17: She Just Did What She Could
March 10: Getting to Know the Neighbors
March 3: From Ashes to Easter: Our Lenten Journey
February 17: Jesus, the Boundary Crosser
February 10: Challenging Our Comfort
February 3: And Then Jesus Showed Up
January 27: Dressing Mr. Potato Head
January 20: Preparing to Journey Home
December 23: The Awe and the Straw
December 2: Jesus, The Boundary Crosser
November 25: Wherever You Are: Thanks Be
November 18: The Subversive Power of Gratitude
November 4 Rejoice & Pray . . . Always
October 28 Hear New Music, Get Happy
September 23 A God of Second Chances
September 9 Jesus, the Boundary Crosser
August 19 Lessons at the Table
August 5 Of Peaches and Revelations
July 29 Reaching for Summer’s Bounty
July 8 What We Need for This Day
July 1 Interdependence Day
June 23 Following Jesus
June 17 Peace in The Storm
June 10 Running the Race
June 3 Prepare for a Wild Time
May 26 The Mysterious Winds of the Spirit
April 20 I am someone…I can do something
April 8 Breathtaking News: Christ is Risen
Mar 25: The Button Pushers in our Lives
Mar 18 A Sweet and Joyful Return
Mar 3: Inclining Toward The Light
Feb 24: Somewhere Under The Rainbow
Feb 16: Our Dusty Destiny
Jan 13: Beautifully Made: All of Us
Jan 1 Nothing is Impossible with God
Dec 24 Christmas Eve Services Like No Other
Dec 23 Let Us Meet At The Manger
November 19: The Power of An Egg
November 11: The Marshmallow Question
November 4: The Real Purpose of the Church
October 28: The Lights that Lead Us
October 7: All God’s Earthworms
October 1: A Place for You at the Table
Sept. 24: The Sacred Season of Fall
Sept. 16: Right Now at This Precise Place
Sept 3, 2020: A Very Different Back to School
August 13, 2020: Soaring on Eagle’s Wings
August, 2020: A World Bigger than our Fears
July 23, 2020: Yet Again, You Show Up
July 9: The Healing Power of Poetry
July 2020, “Hard Conversations, Gracious God”
June 25, 2020: A Fond Farewell
June, 2020 “Uprising of Spirit and Community”
May, 2020 “Are We There Yet?”
April, 2020“Empty Hands, Tender Hearts”
March, 2020 “Two Dates and a Dash”
February, 2020 “Lessons from the Flock”
January, 2020 “The Coming of the Wise Ones”