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What Does it Mean to Live Out Peace? – May 26, 2024

May 29, 2024

Isaac Villegas preaches at RMC

Jeremiah 29: 1-9 Isaac Villegas guest preaches in our ongoing sermon series “I’m not so sure about that” on the topic of pacifism. Isaac explores the concept of peace through the lens of prisons. Using the above passage in Jeremiah, Isaac compares the exile of jews in Babylon to the exile that takes place within […]

What Does it Mean to Live Out Peace? – May 26, 2024

Tagged With: I'm not sure about that..., Isaac Villegas, Jeremiah, pacifism, prison, women's prison

Stitching Stories from Prison – May 8, 2022

May 12, 2022

Cindy Locklear shares at RMC with crocheted prison awareness quilt in the background.

Scripture: Matthew 25:31-45 We were honored to have Sarah Jobe and Cindy Locklear share in today’s service. Melissa introduced chaplain Sarah Jobe from the Interfaith Prison Ministry for Women who shared about the prison awareness quilt crocheted by women incarcerated at North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women as they survived COVID in prison. Cindy shared […]

Stitching Stories from Prison – May 8, 2022

Tagged With: Gospel of Matthew, prison, testimonies, women's prison

The house of slavery – Sept. 15, 2019

September 15, 2019

Isaac Villegas - Feb. 2018

Exodus 13:3-10 Isaac Villegas, pastor of Chapel Hill Mennonite Fellowship, brought the sermon this Sunday. The Exodus passage recalls the first Jewish Passover. The meal was a ritual, reminding them of the liberation from the house of slavery. “Love is contraband in Hell, Cause love is an acidthat eats away bars.”~Assata Shakur

The house of slavery – Sept. 15, 2019

Tagged With: Exodus, Isaac Villegas, passover, prison, table

Breaking down prison walls – May 19, 2019

May 19, 2019

Melissa preaching May 19, 2019

Acts 16:16-40 RMC has been part of an interfaith group that spends time at the NC women’s prison, celebrating birthdays and sharing times of worship. Prisons are created to get people out of the way. They did in the day of Paul and Silas, and they do so today. As Willy Jennings has said, prisons […]

Breaking down prison walls – May 19, 2019

Tagged With: Acts, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Paul, prison, Silas

Facing Imprisonment for our Beliefs – April 22, 2018

April 22, 2018

Claire Unruh preaching April 22, 2018 at RMC.

Claire Unruh provided the sermon this Sunday based on the story of Paul and Silas’s imprisonment recounted in Acts 16:16-34. They were jailed after casting out a demon in a slave girl. Claire used the story as a springboard to recount other stories of people who have been imprisoned because of their beliefs as conscientious […]

Facing Imprisonment for our Beliefs – April 22, 2018

Tagged With: Acts, Claire Unruh, conscientious objectors, Paul, peace, prison, Silas

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