Surfing in Malibu, Ugly Sweaters Up Next

Our families with youth are growing! This year we have had a steady attendance for our Sunday morning Scripture & Catechism Class, and our BRAND NEW Thursday evening Youth Community Group at the Newport-Mesa YMCA. Two weeks ago a few of our youth volunteers took a group of 15 students camping in Malibu. The Fall Campout was a huge success and a great time for our students to camp in tents under the stars, study the Bible, roast marshmallows, go surfing, enjoy the beach, and build healthy and strong relationships. In the next few months we are excited to build on our momentum with some family gatherings, an ugly sweater Christmas party, continued weekly Bible studies, and even winter camps happening in early 2014. If your families have youth, please join us and encourage your students to be part of our gatherings and events in the 2013/2014 year.

Adam Feichtmann

Director of Community and Family Ministries

Redeemer 101 Class

Sundays, November 10-December 1, 9:00am We will be offering a Redeemer 101 class beginning on November 10th. This class is the first step in becoming a member of Redeemer. Whether you have attended Redeemer for 1 week or 5 years, this 4-week class is designed to teach you the basics about Redeemer and give you a forum to ask questions. The class will give you an overview of Redeemer’s identity, membership, doctrine, history, and ministry opportunities. Pastor David Juelfs and Adam Feichtmann will be jointly teaching the class. Please RSVP using the link below or contact Kem Erskine, kem@redeemeroc.org.

The Kingdom Significance of Your Everyday: The biblical vision of work and everything else

Sundays, November 10 - December 15, 9:00-9:45 am Instructors: Dr. Tim Pickavance and Dr. Dave Reinkensmeyer Location: MPR Area, Room 10

How many hours do you work each week? Whether your hands get dirty fixing motors, performing surgery, creating spreadsheets, or changing diapers and folding piles of laundry, can you explain with confidence how what you do matters in God’s kingdom? This class is designed to help you begin to answer that question. Class participants will study and discuss the scripture to see God’s vision for what you do Monday through Friday. Just a glimpse of this vision reveals a God who brings dignity, significance, and mission into even the most ordinary aspects of our everyday lives.

Worship: Forming and Expressing What We Love

Sundays, November 10 - December 15, 9:00-9:45 am Instructors: Elder Rob Mouw, Chris Giammona, and Pastor David Juelfs Location: MPR Area, Room 9

Regardless of religious or spiritual beliefs, we are all worshipers. We all long to proclaim the beauty, worthiness and significance of something outside of us, and we love to do it. Whether sports teams, romance, the beauty of the natural world, our own children, a god of our own creation, or the true God, we all worship. The scripture not only shows us whom to worship, but also how to worship.

Class participants will study the biblical concept and everyday significance that every person is a worshiper actively worshiping something. We will also study the scriptures that provide the shape and content of Christian worship.  Participants will leave with a greater ability to engage, appreciate, and understand the worship at Redeemer.

Quote: Jared Ayers

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We are not Christians because of our goodness, or even our capacity for arriving at correct beliefs. We are Christians because we are a mess, and God is gracious. – Jared Ayers

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The Significant Marriage Seminar

Friday-Sunday, November 8-10, Corona Del Mar Mark your calendars to attend The Significant Marriage seminar led by Dave & Mary Gothi. Discover how God wants to use your unique marriage to make a difference. In The Significant Marriage Weekend Seminar you will learn to be intentional in creating a plan together to become all that God created you to be as a couple. The schedule for the weekend is as follows:

  • Friday, 6:30-9:30 pm
  • Saturday, 9:00 am – 5:30 pm
  • Sunday, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm

For more information, pick up a flyer at the Redeemer book table on Sunday. Contact Kem Erskine, kem@redeemeroc.org, with questions or to sign up.

Parish Gatherings

Sunday, October 27, 4:00-5:30 pm, Beach Cities and Central CountySunday, November 3, 4:00-6:30 pm, North County

Our Parish Gatherings for Beach Cities and Central County are Sunday evening, October 27th. The North County gathering has been rescheduled for November 3rd. We will gather together with our Redeemer neighbors, enjoy some good food and let the kids play together. You will also meet the newly formed parish councils and engage in some guided conversations about how we can join together to love our neighbors. Based on your ideas and input we will gain greater clarity on how we can mobilize our resources to serve our neighborhoods. Guided by the following questions we will pray, brainstorm and plan:

  1. How can our parish make Jesus known among your neighbors?
  2. Where does your neighborhood need healing? How can our parish help?
  3. What is already good and beautiful in our city and how can we celebrate and support this?
  4. How might our parish inspire and support creating the good and beautiful in our city?

Come with your ideas and come ready to be inspired by the ideas of others. Childcare and adult supervised activities for the kids will be available during the meeting.

Welcome to Redeemer Lunch

Sunday, October 13, 12:00 pm, Juelfs’ home in Costa Mesa Newcomers to Redeemer are invited to come have lunch at Pastor David’s home following worship on October 13th. Meet our pastoral staff, enjoy lunch together, and find out more about Redeemer in an informal setting. Whether this is your first Sunday or you have been attending for several months, you are welcome to come. Please RSVP with Kem Erskine, kem@redeemeroc.org.

Sermon Preview - Portraits from the Prophets: Obadiah

Sunday, October 27, 10:00 am worship

Failure after failure, set back after set back. Do you know what it feels like to think you will never win?

In our march through the Minor Prophets this fall, we have seen stirring images of God, but a dismal view into the faithlessness of his people. In mercy God sends his spokesman, his prophets, to call his people back to covenant faithfulness. Yet they continue to rebel against him, to violate the dignity of others, and even to violate their own dignity. As God warned, their refusal to live out their mission as his covenant people meant the destruction of their nation by foreign powers. In 722 BC the Assyrian army crushed the northern Kingdom of Israel and those ten tribes of Israel were lost to history. Tragically, the southern Kingdom of Judah followed the same path. After generations of repeated warnings, God allows the Babylonians to destroy the northern Kingdom and God sends his remnant people into exile.

The book of Obadiah, likely written after the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC, announces God's judgment against Edom, a neighboring nation to Judah. Edom delighted in the destruction of God's people, refused aid to Judah's refuges, and even handed those refuges over to the Babylonians.

Failure after failure, set back after set back. Is there any hope for God's people as they suffer under the weight of their self-inflicted tragedy?

God commissions Obadiah to speak into this shadow with a message of hope. God wins and so do you if you are on his side. Those who hurt you are not going to get away with it. Take heart. All is not lost.

God wins.

I look forward to worshipping together this Sunday.

Pastor David

Children's Liturgy Begins During Sermon Time

This fall we launched a Children's Liturgy during our sermon time program. The Liturgy is highly interactive, designed to engage children and prepare them to worship with adults as they grow older. Each Sunday, children gather for a corporate worship service that includes a Call to Worship, Prayer, Scripture reading, singing of hymns, mini-sermon, and benediction.    At the conclusion of the sermon, the children are divided by age to participate in games, crafts and discussion related to the sermon.
We will also continue to offer Vocational Visions presentations on a quarterly basis, where members of the congregation share with our children how they glorify God using their gifts, skills, and talents.  If you would be interested in scheduling a Vocational Visions presentation, please contact Dave Reinkensmeyer.
Beckie White

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Christianity is not the sacrifice we make, but the sacrifice we trust; not the victory we win, but the victory we inherit. – P.T. Forsyth

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Sermon Preview - Portraits from the Prophets: Habakkuk

Sunday, October 20, 10:00 am worship O LORD, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear? Or cry to you "Violence!" and you will not save? (Habakkuk 1:2)

Are you allowed to ask questions like that? The book of Habakkuk in the Hebrew scriptures opens with some tough questions. You can hear the anger and the pain. Habakkuk was an 8th century prophet in the southern Kingdom of Judah during Judah's final years. He looked around at all the evil and chaos, and it seemed like either God did not hear his cries for help or didn't care enough to help. Maybe God was not powerful enough to make a difference.

Habakkuk asked his hard questions and God responded. Habakkuk got a vision of God as a fierce warrior King completely in control, a God that could be trusted with every question, with every evil, and with every need.

Come to worship this Sunday with your own questions for God and let's listen together as he responds.

Pastor David

Sermon Preview - Portraits from the Prophets: Zephaniah

Sunday, October 13, 10:00 am worship Can you imagine what it would be like for God to sing over you? It was merely a spoken word that brought the universe into existence. What would happen if God lifted up his voice and not only spoke but sang?

This Sunday we are continuing our series on the Portraits from the Prophets by looking at the book of Zephaniah. Zephaniah as a prophet has one single message, "The Day of the LORD is coming." At the end of the book he paints a magnificently beautiful picture of a great Day of blessing when God will remove the guilt of his people, restore his presence with them, and then rejoice and sing loudly over them. The reality of God singing over his people is almost something too grand to comprehend, something too wonderful to grasp. But Zephaniah makes it even more marvelous when he paints it's diamond-like radiance in front of the dark and gloomy background of the Day of the LORD as a day of wrath as well as a day of blessing.

On Sunday, we are going to explore the Day of the LORD as a day of wrath and a day of blessing, and ask the questions: How can it be both? How can God come in both wrath and blessing? And how does Jesus Christ resolve this tension for us, so we can rejoice in God's singing over us?

I look forward to worshipping and singing with you all this Sunday as our God sings over us as well.

Adam Feichtmann

Sermon Preview - Portraits from the Prophets: Amos

Sunday, October 6, 10:00 am worship “The LORD roars from Zion.” The prophet Amos begins his book with a terrifying image. Strike from your mind all your experience with lions behind bars and glass at the zoo; strike cartoons and cuddly stuff animals. Instead, put yourself in the place of Amos, a shepherd from Tekoa. Put yourself in the black silent night surrounded by bleating sheep, a dinner bell for a hungry pride. A roar fills the night and ravenous eyes flash in the darkness. Four-hundred pounds of loin’s mane, tooth, and claw emerge from the night with a sound like thunder. The lion will take whatever he wants. Nothing can stop him.

The LORD roars from Zion. The enemies of justice are his prey. Amos calls the people of God to share God’s passion for justice, and reminds all the oppressed that the lion is coming to their aid. May the roar of the lion challenge us to share God’s passion for justice, and may the roar embolden us to follow our great king in his mission to set all things right. He is the great lion and we are his cubs following at his feet. I can’t wait to hear the roar of the lion this Sunday and worship together.

Pastor David

Sermon Preview - Portraits form the Prophets: Jonah

Sunday, September 29, 10:00 am You might be surprised by the simple power of a BBQ.

We love Orange County. Redeemer is starting to organize by neighborhood groups across the county called parishes. Parishes are designed to help us connect with the Redeemer people we live close to and to empower our local Redeemer communities to contribute to the health and thriving of our cities.

This Sunday (tonight for the South County Parish) all the parishes are gathering for a BBQ. It may seem simple, but deciding to take time out of your busy schedule to deepen your connections with your Redeemer neighbors will build power into your relationships and power into your ability to love your neighbors. Please make this gathering a priority. See the details below.

This week we look at the portrait of God given to us in the story of Jonah. It is a simple story. A man is running from God and God pursues him in love. As Jonah tells us, God is "a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster."

I look forward to gazing at this portrait of God and worshiping him together.

Pastor David

September Parish BBQ

Friday, September 27, 6:30 pm, South County onlySunday, September 29, 4:00, Beach Cities, North County, Central County

Mark your calendars for our first parish gathering this fall. A parish is simply a group of people living in the same geographic area. All are invited to attend the gathering nearest to your home:

  • Beach Cities: Couch Home, Costa Mesa, Contact: Adam Feichtmann
  • North County: Duncan Home, Fullerton, Contact: Drew Duncan
  • Central County: Park/Clubhouse Location TBA, Tustin, Contact: DeAna Glaser
  • South County, Nelson Home, Mission Viejo, Contact Jill Nelson

This is a great way to get to know Redeemerites who live near you and also an opportunity to invite others in your neighborhood to a Redeemer event. For more information about your parish BBQ and to RSVP, look for an evite coming soon, or email the contact above.

Women's Weekly Study: Idol Addiction

Beginning Monday, September 23, 7:00- 9:00 pm, Newport BeachBeginning Wednesday, September 25, 7:30-9:00 pm, Fullerton

We will be going through the DVD series Idol Addiction by our upcoming retreat speaker, Julie Sparkman. We'll have a 45 minute video and 45 minute small group discussion. More information about this series can be found at http://idoladdiction.org. To pay for and download a workbook, go to http://idoladdiction.org/store/. The study in Newport Beach will be hosted by Anna Tester and will begin with dinner at 7:00 followed by the DVD and discussion at 7:30. The study in Fullerton will be hosted by Jamie Pickavance will begin with the DVD and discussion at 7:30.

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