RPC Staff Update

Dear Redeemer Members and Friends,

Grace and peace in Christ Jesus our Lord to all of you!

Today, Redeemer announces the transition of RPC Executive Director of Operations Jeremy Whitley to a new role in ministry. Jeremy has accepted a call to serve as Executive Director of Atlanta Westside Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Atlanta, Georgia.

Jeremy and Angel Whitley and their adult children, Emily and Mason, have been members at Redeemer since 2006. Jeremy has been an officer at RPC for 15 years, first as a deacon and then as a ruling elder. Jeremy served in an executive role with USAA for ten years, after which Jeremy and Angel owned and operated Fleet Feet Sports San Antonio. In 2015, as Redeemer entered a phase of growth following the purchase of its first permanent facility, Jeremy joined the RPC staff as Redeemer’s first Executive Director of Operations.

In his decade as executive director, Jeremy brought to Redeemer a unique combination of professional management experience and commitment to vocational ministry. He oversaw Redeemer’s $4.3 million Building for the Future Capital Campaign in 2018 and directed the resulting renovation of Redeemer’s first floor to include a new children’s ministry wing. In March of 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic began and Redeemer and churches worldwide faced stay-at-home orders limiting in-person worship, Jeremy established Redeemer’s first worship livestream in a matter of days, enabling the congregation to stay connected in worship through a time of great uncertainty. Later, Jeremy led the staff in executing plans to return safely to in-person worship.

Jeremy served as moderator of the RPC session and chief of staff during Redeemer’s two-year pastoral transition from 2021-2022, providing stability, a pastoral heart, and steady, skilled leadership to Redeemer’s staff through that period of change. Jeremy has also been active in shepherding and counseling the members of Redeemer, particularly its men. He helped found Redeemer’s sexual brokenness ministry for men in 2017, and has led many of the groups over the years. And since 2022, he has served as Director of Men’s Ministry, enacting changes that have resulted in growth and blessing in that ministry.

Until the 2024 hire of Eric Arguello, Redeemer’s first facilities manager, Jeremy oversaw the maintenance, improvements, and contractor relationships related to the stewardship of Redeemer’s downtown campus. Jeremy led negotiations for the 2024 purchase of property, which has created more parking for the church, and was instrumental in guiding plans for the renovation of the Fellowship Hall, to provide a beautiful and well-equipped space for the 2025 launch of Redeemer’s Spanish-speaking worship services.

Jeremy and Angel also demonstrate a deep commitment to world missions. Jeremy was a member of Redeemer’s first mission trip to L’viv, Ukraine in 2008, and has returned many times, leading Redeemer’s annual trips to support an English language camp for college students offered by Mission to the World missionaries there. In 2025, Jeremy and Angel were sent by Redeemer to spend seven weeks in L’viv working with and supporting the pastors and church leaders of the Ukrainian Presbyterian Church as they navigate ministry to people traumatized and displaced by the war.

On behalf of Redeemer’s Session, as moderator, I want to express our great thanks to God, and to Jeremy, for his wonderful years of service as a key staff member and church officer, and to Angel as well, as a servant leader among us. They will be sorely missed! In our sense of loss, we trust in the Lord’s care for his church and in his pattern of sending out his best for new mission. (Acts 13:1ff.) God has a track record of filling holes in the fabric of his church in unexpected, surprising ways, even when we are saddened by losses of ones dear and invaluable to us in our part of Christ’s kingdom.

Jeremy’s last day on staff with RPC will be December 12, 2025. We will have further communications about interim and long-term staff transitions to fill the roles that Jeremy leaves. For many of us, tears will flow at the loss of the Whitley's living and serving among us in the life of Christ’s church here at Redeemer San Antonio. And that is quite appropriate. But please also join us in giving thanks to God for Jeremy’s faithful, fruitful leadership at Redeemer, thanking Jeremy and Angel for their longtime commitment to and love for the congregation and mission of RPC, and encouraging them as they prepare to move to Atlanta to continue their ministry in a vibrant, growing church there.

With much love in Christ,

Paul Hahn