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RPC Youthies announce three new hires.

April 13, 2021
Haley Wachdorf
Redeemer is pleased to announce three new hires in the RPC Youth Ministry. Catherine Clark will join Redeemer as Girls’ Discipleship Coordinator for the Youthies; James Boswell will be the full time Youth Intern; and Mercy Jackson will serve as Summer Intern. All three will join the RPC staff on June 1st. Julianne Atkinson, who has served on the Youth Staff since 2018, and her husband, Spencer, will move to New York this summer. Julianne’s last day on the staff will be May 31st. RPC Assistant Pastor of Youth and Children’s Ministries ...

Rev. Matthew Beham assumes new responsibilities; Oscar Palin to join RPC staff as Director of Youth

March 29, 2021
As we continue to prepare for the transition of our our senior pastor to a new role in ministry, Rev. Matthew Beham, RPC Pastor of Children’s and Youth Ministries, will assume new and expanded pastoral leadership duties at Redeemer. After preaching on Easter Sunday, RPC Senior Pastor Tom Gibbs will go on sabbatical in preparation for his transition to the presidency of Covenant Theological Seminary. He will return on May 24th, and his last Sunday in the pulpit at RPC will be June 20th. As Pastor Gibbs begins his sabbatical, Pastor Beham will ...

Jacob Tilton to join RPC as Director of Music Ministry

March 24, 2021
Haley Wachdorf
Redeemer is pleased to announce that Jacob Tilton will join the Redeemer staff in June as RPC Director of Music Ministry. Jacob has served as music director at Fort Worth Presbyterian Church since 2006. He is a native of Sulphur, Louisiana and met his wife of 23 years, Kerrie, also a Louisiana native, when they were both college students at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The Tiltons have three children: Emma, 20; Eli, 18; and Annalise, 16. Before moving to Texas, the family lived in Jackson, Mississippi, where Jacob ...

March 17 Update from The Pulpit Committee

March 17, 2021
Greetings Redeemer members and friends, As a Pulpit Committee, we have begun the work of finding our next Senior Pastor. We are still in the early stages of a more extensive process, but we have reached two important milestones that establish critical building blocks for the future success of the search process. First, we have engaged the services of a consulting firm to assist in the search process. McGowan and Associates has decades of experience helping PCA churches conduct successful searches for their next Senior Pastor. We and the ...

Children's Ministry Updates

March 10, 2021
Melanie Hsieh
Greetings from Redeemer Children’s Ministries! As I have said many times in the last year, we miss seeing the faces of our children and volunteers in our classrooms. So it is with great joy that I bring you updates about plans to reopen Training in the Pews this spring and hold Vacation Bible School this summer! Our goal is always to tell the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord (Psalm 78:4), so that our children grow in gospel freedom through the knowledge and truth of God’s written word. Training in the Pews resumes Sunday, ...

2020 Ministry Report

February 07, 2021
Rev. Dr. Tom Gibbs
Read the 2020 Ministry Report here. Dear Redeemer Members and Friends, Today Redeemer celebrates 18 years of worshipping together as a congregation! I think I can say with certainty that no year of ministry at Redeemer so far has brought more unexpected challenges than 2020. When the year started we had a full slate of events, conferences, and mission trips on our calendar. We had big plans – and almost all of those plans had to change. It has been a great comfort this year to rest in the certainty that while the COVID-19 pandemic took us ...

RPC Session Announces Pulpit Committee Slate

February 04, 2021
Greetings, Redeemer members and friends, The Session of Redeemer met last night (February 3) to review the nominations we received for the 2021 RPC Pulpit Committee. First, we want to extend our thanks to the congregation for your thoughtful, prayerful engagement in this process. We had many qualified nominees to choose from, and it was a joy to witness the willingness of Redeemer members to participate, both as nominators and nominees. The Session believes this committee should represent a thoughtful cross-section of Redeemer, with ...

Session Announces Senior Pastor Search Process

January 20, 2021
Greetings, Redeemer members and friends, In light of the upcoming transition of RPC Senior Pastor Tom Gibbs to serve as President of Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis this summer, the Session of Redeemer Presbyterian Church has initiated a transition process to begin the search for a candidate who could serve as our next Senior Pastor. In accordance with the Book of Church Order of the Presbyterian Church in America (BCO 20-2), the Session of Redeemer has called a congregational meeting on Sunday, February 7th immediately ...

Pablo Chavarria joins RPC staff as Latin American Pastor Fellow

January 08, 2021
Haley Wachdorf
Redeemer is pleased to announce the arrival of Pablo Chavarria, who joins the RPC staff as Latin American Pastor Fellow. Pablo and his wife, Velia, have come from Monterrey, Mexico, where Pablo planted Cumbres del Rey Church Presbyterian Church. Cumbres del Rey is associated with both the longstanding Centro para la Plantación de Iglesias (CPI) church planting network and City to City Latin America, an arm of global church planting movement Redeemer City to City, a ministry of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York. Rev. Chavarria has ...

RPC Announces Senior Pastor Tom Gibbs’ Transition Into New Role This Summer.

January 06, 2021
Rev. Dr. Tom Gibbs
Happy New Year! I hope you and your families were able to enjoy a satisfying, healthy and restful observance of the Christmas holiday. Our Christmas Eve services were special as always. Given the challenges of 2020, I know we are all praying that God will enable us to move on from the pandemic and begin to heal in 2021. I’m coming to you by video today because Tara and I have some exciting and bittersweet news that we would like to share with you. After a long process of discernment, the Board of Trustees of Covenant Theological Seminary, ...

Got Advent? Need It Now More Than Ever!

November 25, 2020
Rev. Dr. Tom Gibbs
Do you remember the “Got Milk?” ad campaign from several years ago? At a time when milk was losing favor across the country, these commercials were hugely popular and helped reintroduce milk as a healthy drink option. Even if you’re not a milk drinker there’s probably not one person reading this article who isn’t familiar with this successful campaign. By comparison, I wonder if we might say something similar about the Christian season of Advent. We’ve heard about it, but for most of us it gets reduced to “getting ready for Christmas.” ...

2020 End of Year Giving Update

November 16, 2020
Rev. Dr. Tom Gibbs
Dear Members and Friends, It’s hard to believe that we are coming to the close of another year. This time last year our favorite topics of conversation were still what to do with our children’s Halloween candy and our plans for the upcoming holidays. What a difference a year makes! I don’t think any of us will ever be able to forget the challenges that arose during the year 2020. In March, of course, our country began to navigate COVID-19, a new coronavirus for which there was no vaccine. Currently, just under 250,000 Americans have lost ...

See RPC Senior Pastor Tom Gibbs' prayer on FOX-29.

November 02, 2020
RPC Senior Pastor Tom Gibbs was featured on the FOX-29 Sunday morning television show “Mission Park Cares" this week offering prayer for our city, state and country as we approach the presidential election. Pastor Gibbs' prayer begins at the 45-second mark in the program. We hope this is an encouragement to you!

Session Expands Worship Capacity

October 13, 2020
Rev. Dr. Tom Gibbs
Greetings, Redeemer family! I hope this letter finds you well. I want to pass along to you some updates regarding capacity for our in-person worship services which the Session recently adopted. As you know, since early September Redeemer has been holding two in-person worship services on Sundays with an attendance cap of 175 worshippers per service. These services have gone very smoothly and have been well attended. As your pastor, it has been such a joy to see you again in worship! The Session is also thankful for the congregation’s ...

RPC Hires Matthew Peacock as Interim Director of Music Ministry.

September 10, 2020
Redeemer is pleased to announce the hire of Matthew Peacock as Interim Director of Music Ministry. Matthew is a Master Sergeant in the Air Force and is currently the Section Chief of Publicity as well as the Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge of the popular musical ensemble “Velocity,” with the U.S. Air Force Band of the West at JBSA – Lackland Air Force Base. He is a native of Monroe, Louisiana and is married to Nina Peacock. They have three children, Autumn, Evangeline and Dale. The family first came to Redeemer in 2019. Matthew has ...

Hebrews: Hope for Such a Time as This

September 10, 2020
Tara Gibbs
As we launch into fall, it is an unusual time, isn’t it? Some of us feel anxious and overwhelmed as we navigate masks, social distancing, distance learning, uncertainty at work, and anxiety in the news. It may sound strange to say that it’s exactly because of all of this that you should add one more thing to your calendar. But this fall in our women’s Bible studies we will dive into the book of Hebrews together, and I want to encourage you to join us. I think Hebrews is the perfect gift we need right now, and I am excited to share it with ...

New opportunities in an unusual ministry season

September 09, 2020
Haley Wachdorf
When normal life ground to a halt in March of 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic upended the routines of school, work, social lives – and church. Redeemer first cancelled in-person worship services on March 15th in response to the pandemic, and had only a matter of days to assemble a livestreamed service of worship. From there, the changes just kept coming. But six months into the uncertainty of the pandemic, as Redeemer embarks on a unique fall season of ministry, the worship, community and mission of Redeemer are flourishing in ways it would ...

Worship Service Sign-Up Starts Soon

August 27, 2020
Rev. Dr. Tom Gibbs
Greetings, Redeemer! I am looking forward to our return to in-person worship services on September 6th and I hope you are, too. As I mentioned in my last letter, we will be hosting Sunday services at 9:30 and 11 a.m., with each service capped at roughly 40 percent of our sanctuary capacity. To maintain that attendance cap, we will be asking you to RSVP for the service you plan to attend each week. Our first round of worship service sign-ups will start this upcoming Monday, August 31st. Here are some important details about how that process ...

Children's Ministry Launches Weekly Videos

August 17, 2020
Melanie Hsieh
Greetings, Redeemer families! The world around us has drastically changed over the last several months and many of us feel overwhelmed as we attempt to establish a “new normal.” At the same time, we know that our families want to put practices in place that will help our children grow up in their faith. Redeemer Children’s Ministries believes this is the perfect time to establish habits of family worship. To help you in that endeavor, we have worked hard over the past month to develop tools to help you shape the spiritual climate in your ...

Trusting God: When Life Stops Making Sense

August 16, 2020
Rev. Dr. Tom Gibbs
Recently, one of Redeemer’s members said to me, “We are now at the farthest point that I had imagined COVID-19 impacting my life and family, and it’s still not over. I was not ready for this.” Another of our members had hoped to get away to the Texas coast in Port Aransas for several days of vacation in late July. Within hours after their arrival though, Tropical Storm Hanna had become Hurricane Hanna and was forecast to come ashore on the second day of their trip. Rather than ride out the storm, they packed up their vehicle and traveled back ...

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