Welcome to Roseville Covenant Church!

If you ask most of my freshman students at Bethel, names and places don’t always capture the attention they deserve when we read our Bibles. Whether the name of a mountain or a river, it can seem like inconsequential information. When it comes to the Jordan River, it seems to be running through the entire story of our Bibles. It features prominently in the wilderness years of the Israelites as they are preparing to cross into the Promised Land, but the story doesn’t stop there.

The river winds a long way (135 miles to be exact!) to connect this milestone moment in Israel’s history with the stories of other significant moments in scripture where the Jordan River is “the place”! In 2 Kings, we read of an army commander named Naaman who is given unusual instructions involving the Jordan River to cure his leprosy. And just pages into the New Testament, we find that Jesus himself is dunked in this river to be baptized. Perhaps like a scarlet rope dangling out a window, the Jordan River is stringing us along to see much more than just a single frame in the story of God’s people.

We hope you’ll join us as we continue our journey through Joshua – and finish with a baptism of one of our own RCC family members out on the patio!