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Riversgate Church

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RIVERSGATE CHURCH DESCRIPTION

Riversgate Church is a Foursquare Church that has invested itself in the Multnomah Village community of Southwest Portland for the last 12 years. We have a congregation of 300 members, of which we will typically see 220 on a given Sunday. Our youth program has been largely grounded on the value of building relationships with students in their space so we can earn the right to share our understanding of Christ as the relationships merit. We have incredibly deep roots in the local High School that currently has 1200 students. Over the last three years, we have partnered with Young Life whereby our volunteers have become certified Young Life leaders to provide the outreach that Young Life offers students that might otherwise hesitate to engage a “church”. Through this partnership, we have seen over 35 students accept Christ over the last three years, and perhaps as importantly, come to experience some level of involvement, acceptance and connection to the body of Christ. Our members and volunteers have poured out countless hours to nurture students in their faith and personal struggles after they have engaged Christ through the Young Life experiences. We have found this to be an amazing match that reaches “the least of these” and also allows them to find a connection to the body of Christ that has been God’s ordained vehicle for growth, the releasing of gifts and the expanding of His Kingdom on earth.
People often come into our church looking for more meaningful community or because they have had someone tell them about us. Over half of our congregation is families with younger children (K-8). We currently have over 70 children/students that attend our nursery to junior high offerings on Sunday morning. We also have roughly 30 high school students that call our church home and attend midweek worship or outreach (Young Life) events.
We are often described as a very warm and welcoming church. We are working to become a church that is increasingly transparent with each other, one that prays fervently and frequently together, and one that seeks to honor God’s design for the body of Christ in how we serve each other. Our DNA is very “missional” as we have a number of leaders that have started or now lead substantial ministries both in the greater Portland area and abroad. For the last 9 years, we have developed relationships with two small, impoverished villages in Mexico and continue to send teams and meet the needs of these villages as a part of our honoring the Great Commission.
Riversgate Church currently rents 2500 square feet of office/youth space for our weekly needs. We also rent an old elementary school that has been converted to a community arts center for our Sunday morning worship. Our church philosophy has always been more focused on community relationship than on the facilities that we use for worship. Two years ago, an old 1918 light industrial building became available in the heart of Multnomah Village. Our congregation raised $550,000 in thirty days to secure the purchase of this 10,000 square foot facility. Over the last two years we have raised additional funds necessary to bring the facility up to code. We are now beginning these renovations and hope to move into the facility sometime later in 2014. This will allow us to take our two meeting spaces and condense them to one, as well as provide a space we can use to offer even more consistent and meaningful services to the community the Lord has led us to serve.

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