We are sacred in our being born. We are sacred in our living. 
We are sacred in our dying.
We are sacred in our dying.Rev. Robin Renteria works with you to create a ceremony just right for you!
For each type of ceremony, Rev. Robin Renteria meets with you to discover the language, images, and music that hold power and meaning to you, and which best expresses your feelings. Then she crafts a service which unites your memories and desires into a loving whole.
She has many sample services and resources of music, poetry and prose to draw from to help
create a ceremony that will fit your and your family's spiritual, religious, and emotional beliefs.
It's a privilege to her to do this work of love.
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Contact Rev. Robin Renteria now for a free consultation at 919-818-6362 or click here for her easy contact form.
She'll reply within 24 hours of receiving it.
As a wedding minister, wedding officiant, a non-denominational minister for other rituals, or as a counselor, Reverend Robin Renteria primarily serves the NC Triangle: Orange, Durham, Wake, Chatham, and Alamance counties and the towns of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Durham, Raleigh, Hillsborough, Cary, Mebane, Holly Springs, Fuquay Varina, Apex, Bahama, Burlington, and Efland.
Memorial Services and Celebrations of Life
There are many names for the ritual of honoring the life of one we have loved who has passed on. This is an important ritual of remembering. We bring our loved one into the room in spirit with stories told by their family and friends, music they liked, poetry, hymns, telling all those gathered of their accomplishments, their joys, and their passions, and recognizing with compasion that all of us have only a short time to live our love in life.
Funeral or Internment Services
A grave side service is the last time to be physically with your loved one. It has a special reverence that we honor before we must learn to love through the veil that separates us.
As a minister in hospitals and congregations for 16 years, Rev. Robin Renteria has officiated at countless memorial services. She always feels humble and grateful to be witness to these times of great love. She feels honored to learn about people who have touched others' lives. She gets to be present when community comes together to celebrate a life and honor this miracle of living and loving we share.
There are many considerations that fall upon a family planning a memorial service for a loved one. Rev. Renteria meets with family and close friends to learn more about what would be meaningful for each of them to honor the particular love they shared with their loved one. She helps the family plan for all the details that must be considered for the service, and she works with the church, funeral home or cremation society to ensure the family's wishes are honored. She arrives a half hour before the service, officiates the service, and stays a half hour after the service to assist with final details.
Rev. Robin Renteria has officiated services for people of all faiths in churches, homes, and in nature. She has also met with families of loved ones in hospice to help the family through final goodbyes. It is always a labor of love.
Baby Blessings, Baptisms, or Adoption Celebrations
Children are a blessing in our lives to which we have a responsibility as
parents, family and communities. This ceremony celebrates the life of
the child. Rev. Renteria gathers with loved ones in homes, churches,
parks with godparents, grandparents, friends and siblings to express
our commitment to help this child grow in body, mind and spirit all the
years of their lives. She creates a ceremony that draws upon poetry,
prose, music and art to add texture to the words of the richness of
the world awaiting the child and our hopes for them. Together
Rev. Renteria and the family create a matrix of love and intention
that surrounds and embraces the child.
She has wonderful examples of services she's done which include
samples for older children of all types of blended families, adopted
children, ceremonies in which we call upon the four directions for love
and support of this child, and those in which brothers and
sisters participate. They're all rich in spirit and heart.
House Blessings
I follow your lead in what will feel like blessing for your home and
homestead. There are wonderful symbols and small rituals
(like shining a light into each corner) to symbolically clear the house
of other energies and prepare it to as a sanctuary for your life and
love. This ritual can be done for a single individual or as a preface
to a larger celebration. It's great for honoring the importance of our hearth and home to our happiness.
Her fees for these celebrations of life and love vary depending on the time she spends creating them and what the family needs her to do. For a Celebration of Life, if she write the eulogy for the loved one, if there is a graveside service in addition to the church or home service, if there are many people to interview or coordinate with, or if there is significant travel for any type of service, then she adds an incremental cost to cover the additional time required. Her base fee for all types of Other Rites is $300.00.
Rev. Robin Renteria also helps you honor your life
and your loved ones with
Memorial Services and Celebrations of Life
Funeral or Internment Services
Baby Blessings, Baptisms or Adoption Celebrations
House Blessings
Reverend Robin Renteria, Ph.D.
Wedding Minister
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Reverend Robin Renteria, (919) 818-6362, Hillsborough, NC
Robin@RobinRenteria.com, uuweddingminister.com
Other Rites of Passage
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Robin@RobinRenteria.com (919) 818-6362
Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and surrounding areas
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