Spotlight on Our Friends
Beneficent Church is gifted with significant physical resources in downtown Providence. With this location, we are grateful to be able to support the work of community partners whose missions are closely allied with our own.
Sometimes that takes the form of hosting one-time events for a traveling theater group or a visiting choir. Other times, we offer support by entering long-term residency agreements with an organization. Today, these are groups that call Beneficent Church “home”:
Alcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous is a free support group open to the public, meeting weekly to guide and assist anyone who is struggling with an alcohol addiction and wants to recover.
For more information, please visit the Rhode Island AA website.
Rock Voices (America’s Community Rock Chorus)
Rock Voices is a no-audition adult choir that sings only rock music. Their mission is “healing ourselves and others through song”. This group is for anyone 18 years or older.
For more information, you can reach out to Aidan Lamont at: RockVoicesProvidence@gmail.com.
RPM Voices
RPM Voices of Rhode Island is a non-profit 501(c) (3) arts organization, offering an experiential educational curriculum committed to the preservation of African American folk traditions and cultural expressions as preserved through choral music. Workshops are accessible to all people regardless of musical experience.
For more information, please visit the RPM Voices of Rhode Island website.
In August 2019, my daughter and I left everything we knew and moved to Rhode Island. We were sadly aware that we were now over an hour away from family and from our church community. Two Sundays passed in our new home before we ventured into the large building downtown with the big dome. We were greeted with a warm welcome. Joyous music lifted our hearts...then we heard the greeting. My daughter moved in close and whispered, "we found a church home."
Amy Santiago
Beneficent has been my spiritual family for many years, and I love that its members and friends accept and support me as I am, even as I make my, at times, clumsy-fumbling way along the path Jesus blazed.
Pat Falcon
Each Sunday I would submit prayer request for the trials and tribulations I was facing, and all my prayers have been answered this past year because of the dedicated group prayers held at Beneficent Church and our Higher Power answering them.
Jasmin Osorio