Session Votes to Move Back to Phase 3 of our COVID Plan
On Dec 3, the Session voted to move from Phase 4 back to Phase 3, effective immediately. Our Phase-In Plan is flexible and dynamic, enabling us to respond to circumstances as they change. Here’s what you need to know: We will still have Sunday worship services in-person and via livestream, but all other gatherings…
Read MoreConflict in Ethiopia
Please be remembering Ethiopia in your prayers this week. Over the last three weeks, conflict between government forces and separatists has been growing in the country’s northern Tigray region. This has led to hundreds of deaths, combatant and civilian, and has caused thousands to flee across the border to neighboring Sudan. Please be in prayer…
Read MoreHatches, England (UPDATE)
It is with sadness that we pray this week for the Hatches and their extended family after the passing of Josephine’s father, John Gitonga, in Nairobi, Kenya. Mr Gitonga caught pneumonia and passed shortly after in hospital on November 11. Adding to the sadness and difficulty of this situation has been Josephine’s inability to travel…
Read MoreHaruaki and Asami Odate, Japan (UPDATE)
On November 10, members of Redeemer had a Zoom call with the Mission to the World (MTW) team in Japan. We heard from missionaries and church members in Japan about the blessing that the Odates have been to the church as they seek to church plant. The church in Japan has been especially thankful for…
Read MoreSacred Road Ministries, Yakama Nation, WA
Back in September Redeemer was visited by Joshua Tsavatewa, the Assistant Pastor of Hope Fellowship Church, a PCA mission church located on the Yakama Reservation in Washington state. Joshua shared with us about both the need and the fruit of the church as it seeks to minister and witness to the Yakama community. Of particular…
Read MoreEmily Owen, RUF Intern, Kansas State
This week we are praying for Emily, who is in her second year of the RUF internship program at Kansas State University. Though the challenges of the current pandemic have brought various changes to how RUF is seeking to minister to students, the Lord has allowed for RUF to continue meeting in person in various…
Read MoreFee and Kelly Kennedy, RUF International, Dallas (UPDATE)
Please continue to remember Fee and Kelly in your prayers as they minister to the international students of SMU. It has been a busy month of running RUFI’s Global Café, a time for international students to come together to eat and listen to the gospel. Though the Café has been happening over Zoom, this has…
Read MoreEllie Honea, Japan (UPDATE)
As Ellie continues to support the work of church planting in Tokyo, she has been using her skills in music and translation to experiment with an online music ministry during quarantine. Please be in prayer for this ministry, that it would reach and encourage many as Ellie uses these songs to point people towards Christ.…
Read MoreUpside Down Returns!
This week’s video is a reflection on the past 7 months, with info on how we will move forward with Upside Down next week! Scriptures “For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. Therefore, as…
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