Calendar
Sep 8 ... New Schedule begins
Sep 9 ... Men's Shepherd Group
Sep 10 ... Youth Secret Trip
Sep 11 ... Teacher Training
Sep 12 ... 9 & 10:30 Worship
Sep 12 ... Grandparents Day
Sep 12 ... Bluegrass Registration
Sep 12 ... Ensemble Auditions
Sep 12 ... Deacons Meeting
Sep 12 ... 5 p.m. Worship
Sep 12 ... New Member Welcome
Sep 12 ... Lord's Supper
Sep 12 ... AfterGlow
Sep 13 ... Conservatory begins
Sep 14 ... Spiritual Mothering #1
Sep 16 ... New Member BBQ
Sep 18 ... Young Married Party
Sep 19 ... RBI Session #1
Sep 23 ... Hospice Seminar
Sep 26 ... Ensembles begin
Sep 28 ... Spiritual Mothering #2
Oct 6 ... Board of Directors
Oct 7 ... Men's Shepherd Group
Oct 8 ... Bluegrass Festival
Oct 10 ... Pig Roast Tickets
Oct 10 ... Deacons Meeting
Oct 10 ... 5 p.m. Worship
Oct 10 ... New Member Welcome
Oct 10 ... Lord's Supper
Oct 12 ... Spiritual Mothering #3
Oct 14 ... Men's Breakfast
Oct 17 ... RBI Session #2
Oct 22 ... Academy Uniform Sale
Oct 22 ... Discipleship Weekend 
Oct 24 ... Pig Roast for 55-up
Oct 26 ... Spiritual Mothering #4
Oct 31 ... HarvestFest
Nov 3 ... Board of Directors
Nov 4 ... Men's Shepherd Group
Nov 7 ... Daylight Time ends
Nov 7 ... Peterson Concert
Nov 7 ... Basket Blessings
Nov 11 ... Men's Breakfast
Nov 13 ... Auto Safety Clinic
Nov 14 ... 5 p.m. Worship
Nov 14 ... Deacons Meeting
Nov 14 ... New Member Welcome
Nov 21 ... RBI Session #3
Nov 23 ... All Wednesday Events
Nov 24 ... No Wednesday Events
Nov 25 ... Thanksgiving holiday
Nov 25-26 ... Office closed
Nov 29 ... Conservatory recital
Dec 1 ... Board of Directors

Live Worship
• Watch Sunday’s (10:30 a.m.) and Wednesday’s (6:30 p.m.) services “live” through GraceWorx Ministries’ Livestream by clicking here.
• Listen “live” via radio to Riverbend’s Sunday services at 10:30 a.m. on FM: 89.7, 90.3, 97.3, 102.7. If you are out of town, listen “live” on the Cornerstone Radio website.

Which Riverbend pastor?
For correct answers to the trivia questions about Riverbend's pastors, click here.

Check out the new GraceTrax blog, which has been designed for easy interaction by you.  To see it, click here.

Kingdom Corner and TAG teachers and volunteers have a mandatory training session scheduled: Saturday, Sept. 11, at 9 a.m.-noon. Contact Summer Harsch for details by clicking here.

For details on changes in the GraceWorx television schedule, click here.

All Riverbenders who have not done so should enroll in a Bible Fellowship Group. Register in the office lobby at church.

Ladies enrolled in the Women of Grace "Spiritual Mothering" seminar are reminded that the first session (of four) is Sept. 14 at 7 p.m. at the church.

Men's Breakfast on Sept. 9 has been cancelled. The next one: Oct. 14 at 6 a.m.

All members of the original Men's Shepherding Group meet Thursday, Sept. 9, at 6:30 p.m.

The church's Military Support Group needs the names of all Riverbenders and family members mobilized or deployed overseas. Submit names to Ken Edwards by clicking here.
Which Riverbend pastor? .....


Here are the correct answers for the trivia quiz that was given out at the "Discovering Riverbend" exhibit at the Ministry Expo on July 18.  Please let us know how many you got correct by e-mailing here.


RH ­  —   Dr. Roy Hargrave
AS   —   Alden Stephens
RC­   —   Rick Cobb
MH  —   Michael Harsch
JK    —   Jason Karr
KP    —   Kent Pletcher
JS     —   Jerry Schaeffer
KS    —   Kenny St.John
BM ­  —   Bob Merrifield



1 ..... considered starting a business called “The Birds & the Bees”?    AS  (owned five beehives and also bred and raised parakeets ... once, as a college student, had 150 birds in a walk-in cage in his home).

2 ..... worked with O.J. Simpson on a special project?    JS  (he was assisting ABC-TV with the broadcast of the 1976 Olympic Trials, and Simpson was one of the on-the-field announcers he was detailed to help).

3 ..... as a teenager, managed to receive only one haircut per year?    RC  (he customarily had shoulder-length hair).

4 ..... was the aspiring young drummer for a rock band named “The Mob?”    RH  (was such an efficient drummer as a youth that his services were in demand by several bands).

5 ..... has an uncle who is also a pastor?    KP  (at a church in Chipley, Fla.).

6 ..... lived in the same house that Dr. R.A. Hargrave lived in (at a different time)?    RC  (it was a little yellow-colored house owned by Trinity Baptist Church of Memphis, where both served).

7 ..... authored a mission booklet for the Southern Baptist Convention?    JS  (wrote a youth mission book in 1983 entitled "Churches Don't Grow on Trees").

8 ..... thought he had killed an opposing baseball player by “beaning” him with a fastball?    RC (knocked a batter unconscious for a couple of hours while pitching in American Legion ball).

9 ..... only took $13 on his honeymoon?    RH  (he actually had his brother's credit card but was leery of using it in the big city of Memphis ... he and Marki used the $13 to "pig out" on Krystal hamburgers).

10 ..... sang in a quartet named “The Uncalled For”?    JK  (during his younger years).

11 ..... served as a foreign missionary?    BM  (served with wife Sarah for 22 years in Italy)

12 ..... can do a pretty good impression of Droopy Dog?    KP  (an animated cartoon character known for his droopy cheeks).

13 ..... pastored the largest youth group in the Southern Baptist Convention?    KS  (at First Baptist Church of Jacksonville).

14 ..... served canned octopus as a meal at a youth camp?    AS  (it was a girls camp ... he didn't disclose what they had eaten until the meal was done).

15 ..... served on the staff of the Baptist Brotherhood Commission?    JS  (was a magazine editor there during 1970-71).

16 ..... was matched to his future wife by their two mothers?    RC  (before he and Claudia ever met, their mothers schemed together how to introduce them and encourage marriage).

17 ..... ate 12 pork chops—at one meal?    RH  (not uncommon ... notorious in younger days for out-eating about anyone his size).

18 ..... has made more than a half-dozen recent trips to Washington, D.C.?    JK  (many of them have been chaperoning 8th-grade graduates on Riverbend Academy trips).

19 ..... was wounded by a shot from a rifle?    KP  (shot in the abdomen at age 19 by a friend with a .308 rifle at a distance of 30-50 feet .... friend mistook him for an adversary).

20 ..... got the hiccups while singing in a trio?    JS  (as a teenager and member of The Gospel Tones, a male trio, the hiccups started about half-way through their special music in church one Sunday).

21 ..... wore three pairs of “tights” at once—in public?    AS  (he was playing Lancelot in a college production of "Camelot" and had to wear the extras because of the quick time needed to change costumes).

22 ..... served as a lifeguard in two different cities?    KP  (Gainesville and Winter Haven).

23 ..... was a tap dancer as a child?    KS  (but doesn't want too many people to know it).

24 ..... asked a young lady for a date to attend a chicken slaughter party?    AS  (Nancy refused that date but did go on some more conventional ones before becoming his wife).

25 ..... worked as the operator of a printing press?    BM  (was a pressman at Partridge Printing in Daytona Beach).

26 ..... parented children in three different decades?    RH  (the Hargraves gave birth in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s).

27 ..... climbed to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa?    BM  (while serving as a missionary in Florence, Italy).

28 ..... was introduced by Bill Clinton at a meeting?    JS  (was introduced by the then-Arkansas Governor, who wanted him to describe the background of an Arkansan who had just won an Olympic Gold Medal).

29 ..... wrote a song to his fiance and sang it to her at their wedding?    MH  ("There's No Summer Without You" was first heard by Summer on her 20th birthday, then again at the wedding).

30 ..... had the experience of losing his dad to death in the Vietnam War?    JK  (was a toddler when the news of his dad's death came).

31 ..... was almost arrested for attempting to start a riot?    KS  (at the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, he asked a guard for permission for his group to sing and place flags by the names of Floridians ... the guard refused vehemently ... an appeal to the guard's supervisor overtured the unhappy guard's decision).

32 ..... crammed 70 grapes into his mouth at one time?    MH  (as a college student).

33 ..... played Baby Bear in a school play: “Goldilocks & the Three Bears”?    JS  (as a first-grader).

34 ..... designed a sandwich called “The Heart Attack”?    KS  (fried bologna, grilled cheddar cheese, fried egg, onion slice, grilled buttered bread ... "I had to quit eating it; it was killing me").

35 ..... still has an 11-pound bass he caught?    AS  (over the fireplace at his home ... caught at Paradise Lakes in Deltona).

36 ..... played on the field where Little League baseball was born?    MH  (in Williamsport, Pa.).

37 ..... sat at ringside at a Muhammad Ali boxing exhibition?    AS  (at old Memorial Stadium in Daytona Beach in the mid-1970s).

38 ..... was the member of another church named “Riverbend”?    BM  (he and wife Sarah were members at Riverbend Bible Church in Grand Rapids, Mich., during 1962-65).

39 ..... took Taekwondo with his children?    KS  (wanted them to learn self-defense).

40 ..... played the role of Elephant Man in a kindergarten play?    KP  (about a severely deformed man in the 19th Century).

41 ..... won a national singing competition at the age of 13?    MH  (named the nation's Top Male Vocalist in his age-group at a New York event).

42 ..... helped pay his way through school as a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman?    RH  (was Kirby's top part-time salesman while a student at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Mo.).

43 ..... attended a Beatles concert?    RH  (as a sixth-grader ... concert was in Memphis, Tenn.).

44 ..... does not use his first name of Michael?    KP  (Michael Kent).

45 ..... was mistaken for his date’s father at a drive-in movie ticket booth?    AS  (the attendant looked in the car and asked: "One adult, one child?" ... this was about a week before their wedding).

46 ..... first met the girl who would become his wife while they were surfing?    KS  (both were on boards near Jacksonville Beach in 1968).

47 ..... preached a message in Hell?    BM  (at Hell Bible Church in Hell, Mich., in 1964 ... town is located near Devil's Lake).

48 ..... fell out of a pulpit chair during a worship service?    RH  (it was a slick and freshly polished old-fashioned wooden chair ... "I just started sliding and couldn't stop till I landed on my rear on the floor").

49 ..... has visited 47 states of the USA?    JS  (all but the two Dakotas and Minnesota).

50 ..... conducted a funeral in an embalming room?    BM  (woman was not Catholic, so the service could not be in the church ... service was conducted among several caskets).

51 ..... smuggled a copy of the Bible into the Soviet Union?    JK  (during a college mission trip).

52 ..... was named Alumnus of the Year at his university?    MH  (Liberty University, 2009).

53 ..... fell asleep on an ocean raft?    RC  (did so frequently on an anchored raft near the beach; the waves never knocked him off).

54 ..... has an ancestor who was involved in the famous Hatfield-McCoy feud?    JK  (his great-great grandfather was captured by the Hatfields, who mistakenly thought he was a McCoy).

55 ..... once had his toothbrush tied to the bathroom sink—to keep from losing it?    RH  (wife Marki was behind this, so he wouldn't keep leaving it all over the house).

56 ..... was on a radio broadcast team for college football and basketball games?    JS  (color analyst on 42-station network for Arkansas State University games).

57 ..... had a grandmother who was involved in the Salem Witch trials?    KP  (she was Mary Esty: "Aah, aah, I'll get you my pretty!").

58 ..... has visited ten different countries?    MH  (several of them on mission trips).

59 ..... was an All-Star baseball and basketball player in high school?    RH  (turned down an athletic scholarship to study for the ministry).

60 ..... had his future mother-in-law pray that he would marry her daughter—before the mother-in-law ever met him?     JK (Sylvia Boyett saw a photo of some ministerial students in the newspaper and pointed to him in the photo).
 
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