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Blog Archives: January 2019 — December 2019
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 ...
2019 Officer Elections
May 01, 2019
This week, the Session had the privilege of sitting down with those who have most recently completed officer training at Redeemer and is pleased to announce their candidacy for office in the class of 2022. Elections will be held on Sunday, June 2nd, immediately following the 10:45 a.m. worship service.
Candidates for the Session include returning elders Bob George, Charley Hollimon and Jeremy Whitley.
New candidates for the diaconate are Walt Mays, Matt Michelson, Reagan Winslow and Ross Van Klaveren. Returning candidates for the ...
Stranger Things: a study through Daniel
April 22, 2019
This Sunday we will start a new sermon series on the Old Testament book of Daniel that will take us all the way through the summer.
Daniel is an exciting book that focuses on the Israelites’ period of exile in the ancient city of Babylon. Daniel and his friends were among those first taken captive by the Babylonians in 605 BC under King Nebuchadnezzar. At that point, Israel became a vassal state of Babylon, who later completely destroyed Jerusalem in the year 586 BC. It was a strange time in a strange land for God’s people. It was a ...
VBS is not just for the kids
March 05, 2019
When our family came to Redeemer in the spring of 2015, I was not ready to try to make new friends. We were grieving our most recent military move, and I sat on the sidelines for a few months. But when the summer came and we started hearing about Vacation Bible School, I knew it was time. This was our new church home, and we needed to jump in and make these people our family. From moving and connecting at churches over 15 years as a military family, I have learned this: VBS is the best week of the entire church year for making new friends....
Redeemer Serves the City impacts the community
March 05, 2019
How much difference does that new coat of paint you apply during Redeemer Serves the City really make? Sometimes it’s the difference between leaving our neighbors feeling alone or feeling seen and cared for, according to Beatriz Aldrete, parent and family liaison at Ogden Elementary School.
Ogden Elementary will be one of several work sites Redeemer teams visit during Redeemer Serves the City on May 4th, a day of service to our community. Ogden, part of the San Antonio Independent School District, is a vital anchor point for an economically ...
Lent and the story told by the Christian Calendar
March 04, 2019
Wednesday, March 6th, is Ash Wednesday and marks the beginning of the Lenten Season within the Christian calendar. Lent dates all the way back to the fourth century and originally was a season for recent converts to prepare for their first baptism on Easter Sunday. Its forty days correspond to Jesus’ forty-day fast in the wilderness (cf. Matt. 4:2). By counting forty days back from Easter (excluding Sundays, which remain celebratory in remembrance of the resurrection), Christians arrived at the Wednesday seven weeks before Easter.
With the ...
2018 Ministry Report
January 31, 2019
Read the 2018 Ministry Report here.
Dear Redeemer Members and Friends,
Today Redeemer celebrates 16 years of worshipping together as a congregation! By God’s grace, Redeemer continues to be an exciting and growing church community. This was especially true in 2018, which felt like a Holy Spirit whirlwind of activity.
This year we launched Northwest church plant Trinity Grace Church, completed a capital campaign, welcomed a new pastor, and celebrated the completion of the Children’s Ministry expansion downstairs, which has both ...
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