Riverside Baptist Church is a community of people seeking to be more human knowing that we are created in the image of God. Our community welcomes all: the certain and the doubtful; the excluded and the included; rich, poor and in between; divorced, partnered, single and widowed; atheist, agnostic, Buddhist, Catholic, Protestant, Islamic, Hindu, Jewish or Nothing; straight, LGBTQI; African-American, Asian, Latino, White; citizens and guests.
All are welcome and all means ALL.
Riverside’s mission is to embody the promise of God’s extravagant love. Loving God and loving our neighbors is at the heart of our mission. We seek to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. We stand for the poor, oppressed, marginalized, and those who have been disenfranchised by the church, the community, and the world.
With you, we are watching as more individuals and communities are impacted by the spread of COVID-19 (the "novel coronavirus"). Our thoughts are especially with those for whom this global public health issue is immediate and personal.
At Riverside Church, we’re choosing to be proactive to protect our community and the communities beyond. As much as we cherish our Sunday worship and other gatherings, we are making the sacrifice to limit our time together for the sake of public health. We are adhering closely to guidelines from The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as well as from state and local government officials here in Florida. In a spirit of love and care for our neighbors and the larger city, here’s what’s happening here at Riverside Baptist Church:
We feel the sadness and anxiety of this moment and this was not a decision we took lightly. We weighed many options, and we believe that this is a moment when we must continue to look beyond ourselves and take action to care for each other and the larger world. We hold in our hearts all those who have been touched by this disease. And more than ever in this time, we lean on each other to be a church of courage, responsibility, and hope.
