We are sacred in our being born.         We are sacred in our living.  We are sacred in our dying.

I work with you to create a ceremony just right for you!

For each type of ceremony, I meet with you to discover the language, images, and music
that hold power and meaning to you, and
which best expresses your feelings. 
Then I craft a service which unites your memories and desires into a whole.

I have many sample services, and resources of music, poetry and prose to draw from to help us
create a ceremony that will fit your and your family's spiritual, religious, and emotional beliefs.
 
It is a privilege to do this work of love.


Rev. Robin Renteria, Ph.D.



Contact me now for a free consultation at 919-818-6362 or
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As a wedding minister, wedding officiant, minister for other rituals or counselor, I primarily serve the NC Triangle and Greensboro, NC:  Orange, Durham, Wake, Chatham, Alamance, Guilford, Person, and Johnston counties and the towns of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Durham, Raleigh, Hillsborough, Cary, Mebane, Holly Springs, Fuquay Varina, Apex, Bahama, Burlington, Efland, and Greensboro.  I welcome other requests and will honor them as time permits.
     Other Rites of Passage

    
It's my privilege to also help you honor
     your life and your loved ones in

     Memorial Services or Celebrations of Life
     Funerals or Internments
     Child Dedications, Baby Blessings, orBaptisms
     House Blessings
     Renewal of Vows
     Celebrations of Adoption
     Pet Memorials
Memorial Services and Celebrations of Life
There are many names for the ritual of honoring the lives of those we have loved who have passed on.  This is an important ritual of remembering.  In it we bring them 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 are mere mortals, and never perfect. 

Funeral or Internment
If there will be a grave side service, we offer an opportunity for the last time to be physically there with your loved one before we have to love through the veil of mystery that separated the living from the dead.

As a minister for 15 years, I've officiated at countless memorial services.  They are always a time that makes me feel humble and grateful.  I get to learn about people who have touched others' lives.  I get to be present when community comes together to honor this miracle of living and loving we share. 

There are many considerations that fall upon a family who is planning a memorial service for a loved one.  I meet with family and close friends to learn more about what would be meaningful for each of them in the ceremony to honor the particular love they shared with the person who has died.  I help the family paln for all the details that must be considered for the service, I work with the church, funeral home or cremation society to ensure that all the family's wishes are considered.  And I arrive a half hour before the service, officiate the service, and stay a half hour after the service to assist with final details. 

I've officiated services for people of all religions, those who have had military honor guards. I've officiated at services in homes and have met with families of loved ones in hospice to attend to the family through final goodbyes.  It is always a labor of love.

Child Dedications, Baby Blessings, or Baptisms
Children are a blessing in our lives and this ceremony acknowledges that.  We gather in homes, churches, parks with god parents, grand parents, friends and siblings to all acknoledge our privilege and our responsibility to help this child grow, with the help of God or Life, in body, mind and spirit all the years of their lives.  We dedicate ourserlves to this.  We draw upon the wonderful poetry, prose, music and arts to add texture to our words of the richness of the world awaiting the child and our hopes for him or her.  Participants offer words of blessing or love, and together, as a community, we create a matrix of love and intention that surrounds and embraces the child.

I have wonderful examples of many different types of services I've done which include samples for older children 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 also participate.  They are all rich in spirit and heart.