Compassion and Justice

Events

Monthly

P.A.C.T Beloved Community Team Meeting 

3rd Tuesday, 5:45pm

Join P.A.C.T. San Jose Beloved Community Team 

Weekly 

Volunteer at Reaching Out Center Food Pantry

Thurs, 9am

2nd & 4th Tuesdays

Grocery Deliveries to families part of Shalom Iglesia and The River Church signup to receive groceries, or help with deliveries!

Tuesdays, 8:30-10 am.

Monthly

Grocery Deliveries to families living at Willows Apartments, 4th Wednesday, 6:45 -7:30 pm.

More information about other upcoming events can be found on our flowpage

Flowpage

Ministry Spotlights 

Summer Book Group: Beloved  

Beloved by Toni Morrison is a Pulitzer Prize Winner, and a complex nuanced book that wrestles with topics of slavery, fetal life, family, history, faith and humanity. It is a fitting book for the moment we are in as a nation, with supreme court decisions and implications to consider. This book group offers space to process the recent roe v wade decision as well as engage this preeminent work of American literature. 

1619 RoundTable - Coming this fall

Join us for a discussion of the 1619 Project, a journalistic and historial effort that “aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative”, and how the history of black Americans connects us all. The 1619 Project was founded by journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, along with other journalists of the New York Times and encompasses both written articles as well as a podcast. Our discussion will follow the six-episode podcast and will take place across 10 weeks on Sundays, this fall!

Critical Race Theory Roundtable - Coming this fall

Critical Race Theory or CRT, has been talked about with great fervor in politics, faith communities, education, and other interconnected spaces. But what exactly is critical race theory, what ideas are part of CRT, why has CRT become such a contentious topic, and why should it matter to followers of Jesus? Join us in a roundtable conversation to explore these questions, guided by a podcast series featuring Dr. Nathan Cartagena, Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College.  

Coming Soon

Middle Talk

Middle Talk fulfills the compassion & justice objective to equip the community to engage thoughtfully and gracefully the conversations of our day with theological depth and understanding. Middle talk is a facilitated sharing dialogue for small to medium/large groups of people on one of the following topics: Race & Ethnicity, politics, life in silicon valley, wealth, gender and sexuality, housing. We are currently looking for two facilitators to be able to offer each small group at the River the opportunity to have at least 1 facilitated conversation a year. Talk with Iheoma for more information.

Sustainability Cohort

A majority of Compassion & Justice initiatives are outward focused, this one is inward focused, helping the River practice creation care and increased ecological sustainability. Members of the cohort will ideate and implement ways that the River Church and its programs can be ecologically sustainable. Talk with Iheoma for more information.