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March 12 Letter from our Senior Pastor regarding coronavirus.
March 12, 2020
March 12, 2020
Dear members and attenders,
As we indicated on Monday in our email correspondence, should the need arise to adjust various aspects of our Sunday morning practices, Redeemer is ready. On Wednesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that COVID-19, the virus is now a pandemic. There are more than 120,000 cases worldwide and there have been 4,000 deaths. In the United States there are now more than 1,000 cases.
In regard to the situation in San Antonio though, nothing has changed since Monday. There is no current ...
RPC ministry partnerships extend across the border.
March 06, 2020
What started as a series of speaking engagements in Monterrey, Mexico is yielding cross-cultural fruit for Redeemer this year, as a relationship between RPC, the Centro para la Plantación de Iglesias (CPI) church planting network and City to City Latin America grows.
In 2018 and 2019, RPC Senior Pastor Tom Gibbs and Associate Pastor Victor Martinez traveled to Monterrey multiple times to provide training in leadership and church planting to CPI planters. CPI is a longstanding church planting network associated with the National Presbyterian ...
Mentors needed for new RPC partner Thru Project.
March 02, 2020
The first time Robyn Parker ran the dishwasher in her very first apartment after leaving the foster care system at the age of 19, bubbles began to overflow out of the machine and onto the floor. She called the only adult whose phone number she knew — her former case worker, Chris Lopez, who explained to her the difference between dish soap and dishwashing detergent. It wasn’t the last time she would need to call on Chris in a stressful moment.
“I didn’t know you were supposed to separate laundry, and I had just bought new jeans, so ...
2019 Ministry Report
January 28, 2020
Read the 2019 Ministry Report here.
Dear Redeemer Members and Friends,
Today Redeemer celebrates 17 years of worshipping together as a congregation!
From the beginning, Redeemer’s vision was to be a church serving not only our members, but an anchor church providing resources, training and support to other churches and ministry partners. We want to make room for more and more people to be brought into the Kingdom of God through church planting, missions and campus ministry in San Antonio, South Texas and Latin America.
In 2019, God ...
Three reasons to attend the MLK March with Redeemer
January 08, 2020
Last year I attended San Antonio’s Martin Luther King, Jr. March for the first time with a group from Redeemer. Before I attended, all I really knew was that San Antonio’s MLK March is the largest in the country. By the end, it was clear to me that just stating the size of the march can’t communicate the significance of this event in the life of our city. If you’ve never attended the march, or even if you have, I want to give you some reasons I think you should join Redeemer’s group at the march this year.
Come to see. One of the most ...
Get wisdom at Women's Bible Study this spring
January 02, 2020
Want wisdom? How can you get wisdom? James 1:5 tells us how in one simple step: Ask God.
The book of James gives practical sign posts to mark the path of wisdom in the Christian life. This spring our women will encourage one another on this “wisdom path” by studying the book of James using Courtney Doctor’s study, Steadfast, published by The Gospel Coalition.
Am I a Christian? Would someone observing my life from the outside think that? Or does my life simply mirror the world around me?
In five succinct chapters, James holds up a ...
Church plants Trinity Grace and Hope to join Boxes of Blessing.
November 25, 2019
As Redeemer distributes 10,000 boxes of food through the Boxes of Blessing ministry this December, two PCA church plants will give Boxes of Blessing to their communities for the first time, extending the reach of the boxes to the Northwest San Antonio suburbs and New Braunfels.
This year’s Boxes of Blessing event will fill 10,000 boxes with food to feed a family of four for a week. The boxes are distributed by public schools and nonprofits to families who struggle to keep enough food on the table during the Christmas holidays without the ...
One People: Race, the Gospel & the Church
November 24, 2019
On November 7, 1837, Elijah Parish Lovejoy was killed by a pro-slavery mob while trying to preserve a newly-arrived printing press and building, in which was located his anti-slavery newspaper, The St. Louis Observer. Born in 1802 and the son of a Congregational minister, Lovejoy moved to the Midwest after college hoping to make his mark in the newspaper business. He eventually became editor and part-owner of the St. Louis Times.
In 1832, however, his career aspirations were redirected under the influence of a powerful Christian revival....
2019 End-of-Year Giving Update
November 18, 2019
Dear Members and Friends,
Halloween has come and gone, Thanksgiving is around the corner, and Advent and Christmas are close behind. With each passing year, we travel familiar territory, yet simultaneously encounter new challenges that stretch and deepen our faith in the Lord Jesus. I’m sure you’ll agree that 2019 has been true to form.
I have recently finished Tod Bolsinger’s important book on leadership and ministry titled Canoeing the Mountains. The narrative arc and dominant metaphor for this work is based upon Lewis and Clark’s ...
RPC City Ministry Partner Spotlight: Lavish
September 16, 2019
In December of 2011, Kayla Moilanen acted on an idea she had been mulling over for a while. She and a group of friends bought scarves, wrapped them as Christmas gifts, and took them into a strip club to give to the women working there. She still remembers the reaction the gift got from one woman.
“A woman said to me ‘This is the only gift I will receive this Christmas,’” Kayla recalls. “She said ‘No one cares about us here, they only care about what we can do for them.’ That broke my heart, and I knew in that moment this was not a one-time ...
Friendships grow in Women’s Bible Study small groups
September 04, 2019
My journey to Bible study at Redeemer started with an email from the nursery coordinator after our first visit to the church. She told me about the Bible study, mentioned that there was childcare available, and asked me if I would be interested in participating. Although I was apprehensive and nervous, the thought of childcare and a chance to meet people in this new church and new city where I found myself after our most recent military move was enticing.
I decided to sign up, and almost immediately began second guessing myself. The ...
New Church Planting Network: Reach South Texas
August 29, 2019
In South Texas Presbytery, which encompasses a rapidly-growing population of 7 million people, there are currently 23 congregations and missions of the Presbyterian Church in America. What if that number of PCA churches could double in the next 25 years? That is the goal of Reach South Texas, a new church planting network backed by Redeemer and other PCA churches within the bounds of the South Texas Presbytery.
Recently formed as a nonprofit, Reach South Texas aims to plant churches in the greater Austin, Bryan/College Station, Corpus ...
Leadership change coming to Children’s Ministry in September
August 26, 2019
After seven years on the staff of Redeemer, Director of Children’s Ministries Sarah Beaugh will be stepping down in September. Redeemer is pleased to welcome Melanie Hsieh to the staff as the new Director of Children’s Ministries. Melanie’s first day will be September 9th; Sarah’s last day will be September 16th.
Sarah joined the Redeemer staff in 2012 as nursery coordinator when Redeemer was worshipping at Edison High School and setting up nurseries in classrooms every week, unpacking bins of play mats and snacks and toys to make space ...
Renewing the Redeemer Vision
August 13, 2019
Recently I asked Redeemer’s membership coordinator, Lori Dante, what percentage of Redeemer’s active membership has joined the church since the move into our downtown facility. I knew that the answer was going to be substantial, but I had not anticipated how significant. Lori’s research revealed that roughly 65% of Redeemer’s current membership has joined the church since the spring of 2014. We have not had a sermon series on the Redeemer vision since 2012, so on Sunday, we will launch “Renewing the Redeemer Vision,” our sermon series for the ...
Help your kids be irrelevant this summer.
July 09, 2019
The other day I was sitting around a table of students. We were at breakfast together, and we had read the Bible with a devotional and prayer. Then they began to get on their phones and talk about the latest memes that had been around. For my less tech and social media savvy readers, a meme is a picture or video, normally with text, that has cultural meaning, and spreads virally from one person to another over the internet. Popular memes gain traction, promote other memes and take on new meaning as they are shared. Like many other phenomena ...
Welcoming the stranger at the bus station
June 12, 2019
When I first became interested in the opportunity to help immigrant families traveling through the Greyhound bus station in downtown San Antonio, I took a lot of comfort in the idea of going with friends. I do not like figuring out new situations by myself, so Victor and Jeannie Martinez and I had planned to attend the required training with the Interfaith Welcome Coalition together in early January. But I ended up having a sick child at home that day, and needed to reschedule and go by myself! I was nervous, but the Lord took care of me. ...
Harriet Peavy: A Servant of the Church
June 03, 2019
In 2002, Harriet Peavy got an unexpected phone call from Tom Gibbs, who had recently moved to San Antonio to explore the planting of Redeemer Presbyterian Church. Harriet had recently been introduced to Tom by her son, Daniel Peavy, who had met Tom and Tara Gibbs while he was completing a master’s degree at Baylor University, where Tom served as campus minister with Reformed University Fellowship.
Tom was calling because he needed someone to sit in the newly-rented church office for one morning a week to answer the phone while he was out on ...
Sisterhood Summer Gatherings
May 30, 2019
Stop for a moment to think of a Christian woman who has influenced your life by listening, speaking truth, or just letting you know she cares about you.
I can think of women who have taken me to coffee, watched my kids, brought me meals in hard times, guided me in being a wife and mother, or even just chatted with me on an email string. Being a spiritual sister to another woman can range from a decades-long discipleship relationship to getting to know each other while working a ministry event together. It can be long or short. It can have ...
New staff members!
May 22, 2019
We are pleased to announce the hire of three new members of the Redeemer staff.
Sarah Doerfler will join the staff as Assistant to the Senior Pastor and Special Projects Coordinator. Tara Gibbs will serve as Director of Women’s Ministry, a newly-created role on the Redeemer staff. Aron Jang will be Redeemer’s Summer Youth Intern, serving from June through August.
Sarah will take over responsibilities from Harriet Peavy, who retires in June, managing Senior Pastor Tom Gibbs’ schedule and coordinating lay responsibilities during worship ...
Staff Announcements
May 07, 2019
Today we announce a significant staff milestone in the life of Redeemer. Harriet Peavy, the first staff member of Redeemer, who in 17 years has served as bookkeeper, office manager and Assistant to Senior Pastor Tom Gibbs, will retire in June. We cannot adequately express our love and thanksgiving for Harriet and her contributions to Redeemer. There will be a congregational celebration of Harriet’s years of faithful, joyful service following the second worship service on Sunday, June 9th.
This transition on the staff is bringing about other ...
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