The River Kentucky was kicked off on November 1st, 2020 with a backyard bonfire at the Eberhart’s home in Nicholasville, KY. Andrew had reached out to Pastor Paul Bishop and expressed his desire to start preaching again, and Pastor Paul responded that The River is ready to start a church plant in Kentucky, and that they’d heard from the Lord on that when they met Andrew several years before.
April had attended the River Valley Life Center in Lancaster, Ohio (her hometown) for over 7 years and been involved in her own healing journey and then ministry at The River before she met and married Andrew and moved to Kentucky.
Andrew & April have both felt called to ministry as a lifestyle and knew this was the direction that they were supposed to be moving in. After the pandemic lifted and they opened their coffee shop, Monos Coffee Crafters, in 2021; they felt led to start up a Sunday worship service April of 2022 and are currently meeting as a small group in the coffee shop space.
Our heart and vision for the River Kentucky is to be a place of healing, learning and growing in the Lord, focusing on our people and community here in Nicholasville, Ky. We long to be a place of authentic worship where people can come as they are. All are welcome here! At The River Kentucky Church we are imperfect people on a faith journey, we love Jesus, and we don’t try to be religious (or expect you to be!) We are a small hope-filled, love-filled, Jesus celebrating group of people and we’d love to have you join us.
Andrew and April Eberhart are the Pastors here at The River Kentucky. They are also the owners of Monos Coffee Crafters, and live here in Nicholasville with their three children: Emma, Noah and Aidan.
Andrew currently holds a Masters of Divinity from Asbury Theological Seminary (2016). His journey with Jesus began in 2005 when the Lord radically changed his life from being a meth dealer in Atlanta. He was on the trajectory of either prison or death when the Lord found Andrew. He has been walking his faith out with “awe and wonder” ever since and has been blessed to work in several ministry capacities over the years from worship leading, youth pastoring, senior pastoring and case management at a drug rehab program. He is beyond thrilled to follow the Lord’s leading to preach and teach at the River Kentucky alongside his best friend and wife, April.
April has been involved in missions and ministry since she was a teenager, serving both in the local church and internationally in India, Australia, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia working with youth, young adults and health care teams. After a season of burnout and trauma, she encountered the Jesus of grace (and not religion) in her late 20’s at The River Valley Life Center (our parent church) in her hometown in Ohio, and this radically changed her perspective on life and ministry. She is passionate about seeing people live a life of freedom, healing and living into their identity in Christ and is proud to be a mom/step-mom of three great kids who are constantly teaching her new things.
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The River Kentucky is a central Kentucky church plant of the River Valley Life Center in Lancaster, Ohio. You can learn more about the parent church at www.rivervalleylifecenter.com