Church members surprised Ren staff with thank you gifts and an all-church celebration! Thank you Pastor Scott, Tiffany, RenKids Director Alli, Art Director Katherine, and general contractor Rich for your ceaseless efforts to make the 10 Tripps renovation happen.
For a unique 25 hours from Feb 28 - March 1, the global Church gathered through a simulcast called Gather25 to share how Jesus is transforming the Church in many parts of the planet. One of the several broadcast groups in Rhode Island was hosted at Renaissance Church from 8 pm - 2 am, and GenZ women and men led the worship and prayer onsite for the evening. God’s Spirit filled the place with His presence, and many of those who came spent time in confession, prayer, and whole-hearted worship.
Setting up a prayer station about praying for Rhode Island.
11 pm snack break!
A new group for teens and young adults has launched at Ren! In hopes to be a space to go deep with our faith in Jesus, we’ve named it The Well. After eating a lunch provided by one of the small groups, students and young adults gathered round for testimony-sharing time.
Here we are finishing the final touches of the renovation at 10 Tripps Lane—and finally moving from Providence to Riverside! Thank you to all the volunteers and contractors for all the hard work to get us across the finish line.
Read MoreSince May 2024 we have been renovating our next church space at 10 Tripps Lane, East Providence. Check out the progress over the past few months that a handful of contractors and many church volunteers have put into!
That time when Sam was a seed that grew up to be a Sam Tree. Interactive service with kids and grown-ups and skit shenanigans!
Celebrating Palm Sunday! The Potter’s House made us delicious street tacos again. We’re enjoying one of the final times final times of eating together in the 184 Broad St, Providence space.
The first big gathering of Core 2024 ate together and prayed together, starting the year strong with a renewed vision of what it means to be a healthy church.
Read More
Men in the Ren community connected over homemade breakfast.
Read More
To continue what we learned from last year’s intergenerational small communities, we started interactive all-church Sunday gatherings. Near the stage we had instruments and drawing materials to engage a variety of worship expressions. Council leader Vicky shared the parable of the prodigal son using pipe cleaner people and paper hearts. Then the congregation got in little groups to discuss themes found in the Bible passage. We still are finding joy in gathering all the generations to seek Jesus together.
During the 2024 season of Lent kids and grown-ups got together for a series about what it means to care for God’s creation in light of climate change and how to respond to environmental issues with a biblical framework. Sprinkled among deep discussions were fun activities to help us enjoy God’s creation, such as a diverse fruits taste test or painting our favorite things in nature.
Our council got together for great conversation and prayer for our church community.
The CityLove street outreach had a fun time handing out Christmas boxes on Christmas Eve, giving to people in the homeless community around Broad Street in Providence.
We wanted to deliver something at Christmas time—the team had been walking on a monthly basis to pray with people up and down Broad St—but we had no budget for this initiative. Recently, we’ve been learning to be open to whatever God provides. We pray and ask God for direction and provision, and then we explore. A couple of us walked around the Renaissance Church (Ren) building and found shelves and shelves of special items in our inventory: Vera Bradley bags, shampoo bottles, granola bars, etc. We gave a donation call out to the Ren community, and many people brought what “stocking stuffers” they could. A Ren friend who works at Burlingtons collected all the shoeboxes while she was working. Even Burger King donated meal certificates. It was amazing to see how God provided enough for 50 Christmas boxes!
Painting trees, stringing lights, and writing Christmas cards to the homeless community for our Christmas decorating party.
Read More
Thankful for another banquet at the Salvation Army! Lots of fun decorating and eating together.
Read More
