Articles for tag: RiverTree Christian Church

June 1, 2008

By Brad Dupray Everyone”s heard the complaint: “All the church ever talks about is money.” That perception has gotten the best of many preachers. As a result they have shied away from talking about money because they don”t want to be guilty of overplaying the issue. How does a preacher face a congregation and encourage them to give money to the church without at least a little concern that it seems self-serving? Greg Nettle, senior pastor of RiverTree Christian Church in Massillon, Ohio, wrestled with that conflict. Nettle felt when he preached about “stewardship” there was too much focus on

August 12, 2007

Christian Standard

Church & Ministry Community Outreach

Ministering to the Least of These: RiverTree Christian Church, Massilon, OH

RiverTree Christian Church Lexington, Kentucky Five years ago, God began building a deep concern for at-risk children into the DNA of RiverTree Christian Church. We discovered that more than 33,000 children around the world die every day from poverty or preventable poverty-related diseases. That”s about 210,000 children per week, or 11 million per year. Did I mention the word preventable? More than 100 million children live on the streets around the world. If we were to say the name of every street child in the world, using one second per name, it would take us more than three years to