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You are here: Home / Pastor's Blog / A Reason To Celebrate Palm Sunday – Home Series Finale 03.29.15

A Reason To Celebrate Palm Sunday – Home Series Finale 03.29.15

March 28, 2015 by Pastor David Rathel

Dear RiverTown Family, 

This Sunday we bring to a close the HOME series and our journey in the steps of the biblical character Nehemiah.  He rebuilt the heart and soul of his nation when he rebuilt the wall around Jerusalem.  In the book of Nehemiah chapters 9 and 12 we’ll see just how powerful a biblical celebration can be!  

Here are some points from this Sunday’s upcoming message:

  • Days Of Spiritual Celebration Raise Us To Higher Highs And Carry Us Through Lower Lows.
  • Real Worship Celebrations Help End Depression, Worry, Overworking, Stressing, Obsessing And Sickness.

This powerful message comes on the day churches all over the world have relived Luke chapter 19 and celebrated Palm Sunday since the first Easter Resurrection morning.  The celebration at the finished wall in Jerusalem fits in perfectly with the Palm Sunday Triumphal Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem just one week before his crucifixion for our sins and Final Victorious Resurrection!

Our Easter financial offering goal is a big challenge.  We have been challenged as a church to give $10,000 in our offering on Easter Sunday morning towards building a new cross and prayer garden.  Jesus bore his cross for us.  His Cross has been the one symbol uniting all true Christians over every generation since His resurrection.  The new 30 foot wooden cross on the front of our building will be a permanent witness to the entire community.  It will rise up above the horizon to inspire people to enter into a new way of living and attract them to the place where they can find it.  Every dollar counts.  Please pray and ask God what part He wants you to play in this great opportunity to become part of the legacy of the cross of Jesus Christ at RiverTown Church! 

Speaking of EASTER… Next Sunday, April 5th, will be our biggest and best Resurrection Celebration ever!

  • 2 Outdoor Resurrection Worship Services On Our Beautiful New Back Lawn.
  • Grand Re-Opening Of RiverTown’s Building Makeover.
  • CROSS and Prayer Garden Offering!  – $10,000 Goal!   Every Dollar Of Your Financial Offering Goes Toward Building Our New 30 ft. Cross and Prayer Garden.
  • 7 AM Sunrise Service!
  • 8 AM – Beautiful Buffet Breakfast!
  • 9 AM – Helicopter Egg Drop For Kids & Human Easter Egg Coloring For Teens!   Instead of hiding eggs, A helicopter will actually fly overhead and blow thousands of brightly colored festival eggs all over our front lawn from above.  The teens will all have a Color Me Rad style Color Me Easter color war and party!
  • 10 AM Resurrection Finale Worship Service Celebration!

 I’m praying for you and I can’t wait to see you.  Your life will be forever changed by celebrating the power of our risen Messiah, Jesus Christ!

Yours for Jesus Sake,

Pastor David Rathel

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About Pastor David Rathel

My wife, Melanie, and I moved back to Columbus with our two week old little girl, Hannah, after finishing Graduate School in Fort Worth, Texas in 2001. RiverTown Church was born in a movie theater on September 9th that same year with a vision to be “a church for people who don’t go to church” here in our hometown. God has blessed us since then with a great location on Schomburg Rd. near my old neighborhood and High School. New people are coming to RiverTown all the time and discovering that God can “transform their lives into the likeness of Jesus Christ” through a church family where you can Believe, Belong, and Become!

From our first prayer meetings in a living room in nearby Phenix City, to our preview services and grand opening the Hollywood Connection movie theater, and finally to our current property and buildings on Schomburg Rd. God has led us all the way.

My wife and I both grew up here, so we know the people and love it here. Melanie keeps me going! We’ve been through all the good, the bad, and the ugly of life and have found that everything is sweeter together. You’ll never find us at a church event on a Friday night. We’ve had date night on Fridays since my first day as a Pastor. We met while working together in a Franklin Graham evangelistic crusade here in Columbus in 1996. Our second child is named Graham for that very reason! Our first child, Hannah, was born in Forth Worth just before we finished Seminary in 2001. Two weeks after she was born in Fort Worth, we were on the road back to Columbus to knock on doors and start RiverTown. She and the church will always be the same age!

On this blog, you'll be the first to know what God is teaching me and teaching through me to our church family. We'll laugh together and sometimes cry together. Most of all, you'll be challenged to take your next step in following Jesus Christ.

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