The Richmond Institute for Christian Study Mission
The Richmond Institute for Christian Study Mission is a consortium of churches in Richmond, Virginia which promotes biblical, theological, and cultural study and discussion by and among scholars, ministers and lay people in central Virginia. RICS develops and provides learning to bridge the gap between Sunday School and Seminary, as well as introduces a Christian worldview to a skeptical and uncertain world.
RICS Vision
RICS will in all of its activities promote the Gospel to the lost and the hopeless, and educate and encourage believers in the Faith.
"And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping
of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the
knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children,
tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but,
speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head--Christ-- from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by
what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love."
- Eph 4:11-16