Memorials

Our Ministry’s helps you during this difficult time and guides you through remembering your loved one who has passed. The enclosed information is intended to list for you what we do and give you ideas of what can be done while creating the memorial service and or/reception.

The Memorial Service Includes:

• A Pastor to officiate the service
• A Memorial Coordinator to help plan the service, welcome and assist the family and guests
• Provide with memorial program
• Provide guest book
• Set up memory tables and /or easels with photos and other memorabilia.

Memorial Service Facilities:

• Chapel: seats 80
• Sanctuary: seats 800

The Reception Includes:

• Set-up, service at the reception and clean-up after the reception
• Cookies/punch/coffee served for $2.50 per person ($100.00 minimum)
• Memorial volunteers will serve the family and guests
• Additional food may be provided for an additional fee

Costs incurred by the family:

• Chapel for non-members: $125.00
• Sanctuary for non-members: $300.00
• Memorial Coordinator: $125.00
• Pianist/Organist: $175.00
• Soloist: $175.00
• Technical Services: $75.00 per hour
• Honorarium for officiating Pastor

Congregational Care Coordinator: Laura McDermott, , (858) 487-0811 ext. 221.

Memorial Graden

The Memorial Garden at RBCPC is a walled and gated place of beauty, tranquility and privacy, with walkways and benches amidst tasteful landscaping.

Inset in the inner walls of the Garden are 720 niches, each designed to accommodate up to two polished sheet bronze urns, each containing an individual's cremated remains. The niches are faced with polished red granite. Each niche is engraved with the deceased's full name, and dates of birth and death.

Members of RBCPC, their immediate family members, and friends of the church who regularly attend and support its ministries, are eligible to acquire inurnment privileges in the Memorial Garden.

Niche Fee Schedule

The fee includes:

• Right of inurnment, in perpetuity.
• One or two polished sheet bronze urns.
• Opening and closing the niche at time of inurnment.
• Continuing care of the Garden's facilities.

The fee does not include:

• Engraving costs
• Cremation costs

"In Remembrance" Plaque

Located in the Memorial Garden is a plaque designed to commemorate loved ones who are buried or inurned elsewhere. Members of RBCPC, their immediate family members, and friends of the church who regularly attend and support its ministries are eligible to purchase a wall-mounted remembrance plaque for $245 (one name) or $340 (two names).

A Memorial Garden brochure is available upon request. To view and purchase a niche in the Memorial Garden, please make an appointment with Frances Lin, , (858) 487-0811 ext. 203.