Fall Youth Campout

Redeemer’s jr high and high schoolers are planning to kick-off the fall with our 4th annual overnight beach campout at San Clemente State Park. They will build relationships with one another as they camp under the stars, study the Bible, roast s’mores around the bonfire, go surfing, play games and hang out with friends. This experience will not only be memorable and impactful, it will also be well-supervised and SAFE with quality adult leaders.

Details

Dates: Friday – Sunday, October 21 – 23

Location: San Clemente State Beach Campground

Cost: $50 per camper

Drop-Off: Friday, 4pm, Feichtmann House, Costa Mesa

Pick-Up: Sunday, 10:10am, Temple Bat Yahm (in time for middle hour and 2nd worship service)

Contact: Joey LeSuer, joseph.m.lesuer@biola.edu

Registration

Please complete the following:

Forms and payments may be submitted to Joey LeSuer, joseph.m.lesuer@biola.edu, or Adam Feichtmann, adamf@redeemeroc.org.

What To Bring

Needed Items: Bible, notebook, pen, flashlight, sleeping bag, pillow, toilettries, warm and cool clothes, jacket, board shorts, modest one-piece swimsuit (no tankinis), beach and bath towels

Optional Items: surfboards, boogie boards, beach toys, etc.

Please pack lightly and only what you plan to use.

Bible Dedication

Sunday, September 25th Join us for worship on September 25th to dedicate the bibles provided by our Redeemer children’s fundraiser over the summer. We will pray for the inmates who will receive these bibles during both services so that all of our children can participate in this dedication. We will be partnering with Gary and Lisa Cram, founders of the Prelude Foundation, to distribute the bibles to inmates throughout Orange County. Join us in sharing God’s word with those who need His message of redemption.

Ethiopia ACT: Rainy Season Bible School

Ethiopia-ACT-Bible-School-1-670x415 Here is an update from one of our global partners, Jason Polk with Ethiopia ACT.

ethiopia-act-bible-school-2Our Suki Community Center was packed as we held our Rainy Season Vacation Bible School for the second year in a row. We had an amazing group of staff and volunteers from local churches who worked hard to make it all come together. By the end of the week almost 120 kids had attended from the Suki community–which represents a lot of cookies andethiopia-act-bible-school-3 coloring pages. But far more important than the number of kids in attendance was the impact God’s Word had on their lives. As one example we overheard several older kids in the grade school class reflect on their lesson from Romans about the reality of our sin and the gift of God’s grace in Jesus Christ, saying they had never had these things explained before. It was a tiring week, but everyone finished deeply encouraged by God’s work in transforming young lives through the gospel.

 

2016 Women's Fall Retreat

Following Jesus

October 14 - 16  |  Carlsbad Inn 

Have you ever wondered why the "road" can seem so hard at times?

Join us as our speaker, Courtney Doctor, walks us through Mark's gospel to see what Jesus meant when he called his disciples to follow him and how that can offer us hope in the midst of our struggles.

We will seek to answer questions such as:

  • What road was Jesus on?
  • Where was he headed?
  • What stood in his way?

We will look at what it means to follow Jesus... and face the obstacles that can stand in our way.

Click HERE to register now. Registrations are due by October 1st.

About the Speaker

Courtney Doctor received an MDiv from Covenant Theological Seminary in 2013 and currently serves as the Director of Women's Ministry at the Kirk of the Hills in St. Louis, MO. Her desire is to study, teach, and apply well the word of God. She is a Bible teacher, a conference and retreat speaker, and the author of From Garden to Glory.

Retreat Details

Carlsbad Inn Beach Resort 3075 Carlsbad Blvd. 92008

October 14 - 16 Friday Check-in: 4:00-6:00 pm Sunday Worship: 9:45 am at Carlsbad Inn Sunday Check-out: 11:00 am

Click HERE to register now. Registrations are due by October 1st.

Fall Kick-Off & Worship at UCI

Sunday, September 11, 2016Worship at 10:00 am UCI Student Center

On September 11th we will be worshiping off-site at UC Irvine’s Student Center in the Crystal Cove Auditorium. Join us for a joint worship service followed by refreshments and information on our Fall Ministries & Programs including:

  • Community Groups
  • Classes & Lectures
  • Men’s & Women’s Ministries
  • Youth Programs
  • RUF @ UCI

See below for details on campus parking and directions or click HERE to download a pdf with this information. We are looking forward to worshiping together and celebrating a great fall kick-off!

UCI Parking & Directions

Park in the UCI Student Center Parking Structure on the corner of W. Peltason & Pereira. Notify the parking attendant you are with Redeemer Church for a FREE Parking Permit.

Central County Parish Pool Party

Saturday, August 27, 4-7pm, Tustin Let's end the summer with a splash! Join the Central County Parish for a pool party and potluck dinner. We'll be gathering at Columbus Grove pool (16601 Sonora St., Tustin) at 4:00 pm. Bring a main dish or appetizer to share (to serve about 6-8 people). We encourage anyone living in Central Orange County to come, and bring your neighbors too! Please RSVP with Lynsey, lymsmonterastelli@yahoo.com, so we know how many are coming. We look forward to seeing you there!

Getting Ready for Fall Launch

We are excited about all of our programs and ministries coming up this fall. To best prepare for a successful launch, we need your help. Many of you are already serving in countless ways and we are so grateful for your involvement. If you are not already serving at Redeemer or would like to serve in some new ministry areas, please consider volunteering in one of our programs or ministries this fall. Please see the contact information for some of our ministry areas below. If you are interested in serving or have questions about one of these ministries, you may email the contact person directly.

(If you are interested at all in children's ministry, DEFINITELY come to the training meeting this Sunday, August 21st, during the Middle Hour, 10:10-10:50 am.)

We look forward to serving with you for our 2016-2017 Redeemer programs and ministries!

Youth Beach Bonfire

Sunday, August 7, 6:00-9:00 pm Redeemer Youth are invited to our August beach bonfire and BBQ at Corona del Mar Beach! We’ll enjoy volleyball, beach games, and s’mores. Dinner will be provided for free. Friends are welcome to join us, but please RSVP so we can plan enough food and drink. Contact Pastor Adam, adamf@redeemeroc.org, with questions or to RSVP.

Youth Beach Day

Saturday July 23, 5:30am or 9am - 3pm Redeemer Youth (6th-12th graders) join us for a day at T-Street beach in San Clemente! Come enjoy the sun and surf with friends. We will depart at 9am and return by 3pm. However, if you would like to do a sunrise surf session at San Onofre State Beach, a group of boys will leaving at 5:30am to enjoy the waves. Lunch will be provided. Contact Pastor Adam, adamf@redeemeroc.org, for more information or to RSVP.

Youth Pizza & Psalms

Thursdays, 6/30-8/18, 6:00-7:30 pm, Blaze Pizza in Irvine If you are in Jr. High or High School and love FREE custom-built Blaze Pizzas, you are invited to join us this summer for a Bible study in the book of Psalms while we enjoy pizza and hang out together. See details below:

Dates: Thursdays, June 30 - August 18*
Time: 6:00 - 7:30 PM
Location: Blaze Pizza Irvine (4255 Campus Drive Irvine 92612 in the University Center)
Contact: Adam Feichtmann, adamf@redeemeroc.org

What to Bring: Bible and your appetite!

*We will not meet for our study on July 28th since we'll be having our youth Lawn Chair Movie Night instead. More details to come on this event.

 

Summer Brunch

Sunday, July 10, Middle Hour All are invited to join us for a summer brunch between services on July 10th. We’ll enjoy delicious food and some fun outdoor activities for all ages, including a bounce house for the little ones, the ever-popular photo booth, and volleyball. Bring your whole family, invite friends, and don't forget the sunscreen!

Bible Drive

Sundays, June 19 - August 28 Our children are invited to participate in raising funds to provide bibles for the OC jails. We will be partnering with Gary and Lisa Cram, founders of the Prelude Foundation, to distribute the bibles to inmates throughout Orange County. Children are encouraged to bring their change for the collection jar by our prison ministry mailbox at the Redeemer book table. Join us in sharing God’s word with those who need His message of redemption.

Lamin Sanneh Talk

Come hear from Lamin Sanneh, the D. Williams James Professor of World Christianity at Yale University. Professor Sanneh will be visiting Redeemer to share his moving and thought-provoking story which he recently wrote in his 2012 autobiography, Summoned from the Margin. Join us in listening to his riveting story of conversion from Islam to Christianity. Sunday, June 12th 10:10 - 10:50 AM In the Morgan Chapel at Temple Bat Yahm 1011 Camelback Street, Newport Beach, CA 92660

Summoned from the Margin

This book is the story of Lamin Sanneh's fascinating journey from his upbringing in an impoverished village in West Africa to education in the United States and Europe to a distinguished career teaching at the Universities of Yale, Harvard, Aberdeen, and Ghana.

He grew up in a polygamous household in The Gambia and attended a government-run Muslim boarding school. A chance encounter with Helen Keller's autobiography taught him that education and faith are the key to overcoming physical and personal hardship and inspired his journey. Burning theological questions about God's nature and human suffering eventually led Sanneh to convert from Islam to Christianity and to pursue a career in academia. Here he recounts the unusually varied life experiences that have made him who he is today.

About Lamin Sanneh

Born in The Gambia and descended from an ancient African royal family, and a naturalized U.S. citizen, Lamin Sanneh was educated on four continents. He earned degrees in history and Islamic studies and has taught in several Universities, including the University of Ghana, Legon, the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and Harvard, before coming to Yale in 1989 as the D. Willis James Professor of World Christianity and of History.

Professor Sennah has received numerous honors and academic distinctions. He is a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, and an Honorary Research Professor at the School of Oriental & African Studies in the University of London. He is a recipient of honorary doctorates from the University of Edinburgh and Liverpool Hope University. He has been twice chair of Yale’s Council on African Studies. He has served as consultant to the Pew Charitable Trusts; was an official consultant at the 1998 Lambeth Conference in London; and was a founding member of the Council of 100 Leaders of the World Economic Forum. He was the recipient of the John W. Kluge Chair in the Countries and Cultures of the South at the Library of Congress. For his academic work, Professor Sanneh was made Commandeur de l’Ordre National du Lion, Senegal’s highest national honor. Professor Sanneh is a fellow of Trumbull College at Yale. He was appointed by John Paul II to serve on the Pontifical Commission of the Historical Sciences at the Vatican and by Pope Benedict XVI to the Pontifical Commission on Religious Relations with Muslims.

He is the author of over two hundred articles in scholarly journals and of more than a dozen books on Islam and Christianity, including his memoir, Summoned from the Margin: Homecoming of an African (Eerdmans, 2012) and his forthcoming book entitled, Beyond Jihad: The Pacifist Tradition in West African Islam (Oxford University Press, Summer, 2016). He is series editor of the multi-volume Oxford Studies in World Christianity in which three volumes have appeared, with six more underway. He is co-editor of the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Christianity (forthcoming in June, 2016). Additionally, he is an editor-at-large of the ecumenical weekly The Christian Century, a contributing editor of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research, and he serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals and encyclopedias.

Central Parish Food Drive

Central County Parishioners are invited to participate in the following opportunity that will not only help families in Orange County, but will also give you a great excuse to engage in conversations with the neighbors on your block.

Families Forward Food Drive

View information on this service opportunity with Families Forward HERE.

This document includes a variety of information:

  • "Who Is My Neighbor" map, where you can write down the names and personal information of the eight neighbors that live closest to you.
  • Information about the Families Forward organization that is located in Irvine
  • Food Drive flyer that you can print, copy and use to give to your neighbors as you talk to them and encourage them to donate items for the Families Forward pantry. While unseen, poverty and homeless do exist in this area.

We will be collecting these donations the Week of June 12th. Here's what you'll do:

  • Collect donations in your neighborhood.
  • Contact Shawn Monterastelli, smonterastelli@hotmail.com, so we can try to schedule a group drop-off/tour at Families Forward that works best for those participating.
  • For those that are not able to make the tour, you can drop off your donations at Redeemer on Sunday, June 12th, or contact Shawn to make other arrangements.

Who Is My Neighbor?

Knowing your actual neighbors is a critical step in bringing the Shalom of Christ to our Parish. I realize that knocking on your neighbors' doors is very counter-cultural for us, so I know your participation will require some earnest initiative and prayer as you step out of your comfort zones and into the lives of neighbors who might actually still be strangers to you. One plan of attack could be going around to your 8 closest neighbors on a Sunday afternoon to hand out the donation flyers, and then go around the following Sunday afternoon to collect the donations. If you have children, bring them along to meet and talk with your neighbors too!

Share Your Stories

Finally, as you get to know your neighbors, please share stories with your parish telling them about the challenges you face in this process, as well as the glorious ways that you see God at work through you. Sharing these stories, both the challenges and the glories, will be an encouragement to all of us.

2016 Ethiopia Team Presentation

Sunday, June 5, 10:10 am Join us during middle hour on June 5th in the chapel to hear from our 2016 Ethiopia team. Come and listen to the life changing stories from Redeemer’s team that went to Ethiopia this past April. Learn how God is working in Africa and be inspired to love our church, county, and people in similar ways. Details for the planned 2017 trip will also be announced at this presentation.

May 2016 Polk Update

Life, Death, and Resurrection:Short Video Update from the Polks

This video was assembled by our friend Brian Denker to give a glimpse into the Easter morning worship of Suki Fellowship. God has blessed us with a number of new believers and gave us a special time of worship together, even though our fellowship is still grieving the sudden death of our youngest church member-- 6 month old Netsanet-- from uncertain causes. I have cried and wrestled with God in prayer over Netsanet's death, and still have no clearer answers than I did before. But the psalms have been a comfort as they simultaneously speak of struggle and gospel hope; the dark moments when it feels like death and sin have the upper hand, and the unrelenting faith that says "I will put my hope in God." It reminds me that it is precisely in the reality of death that resurrection hope is most critical. Though a tiny earthen grave now holds the body of Netsanet, the grave of Jesus Christ is empty. The gospel is clear: Death never gets the final word.

"Consider and answer me, O LORD my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death, lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed over him," lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken. But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. I will sing to the LORD, because he has dealt bountifully with me." Psalm 13:3-6

Ahmanson Lectures on Beauty

Join us for a 3-part lecture series on "Beauty" given by Roberta Ahmanson.roberta_ahmanson The lectures will be on May 15, May 22, and June 12, and will start promptly at 10:10 AM, during the Middle Hour between our first worship service at 8:45 AM, and our second worship service at 11:00 AM in the Morgan Chapel at Temple Bat Yahm.

About the Lecture

This three-part lecture series will be focused on deepening our awareness and understanding of the important and vital role that beauty and the arts play in shaping human experience. Our hope is that these unique and engaging lectures will broaden our vision as a church as we join our culture in creating the good and beautiful.

About Roberta Ahmanson

Roberta Green Ahmanson is a writer and speaker who lives with her husband Howard in Corona del Mar. A former newspaper religion reporter, her current work focuses on the intellectual roots of current trends as well as the relationships between art, religion, culture, and history.

Women's Paint Night

Tuesday, May 17, 7:00 pm Join us for a women’s paint night! Whether you are an experienced artist or you haven’t picked up a paintbrush since kindergarten, come get your creative juices flowing. All supplies will be provided, so just bring yourself. We will gather at the home of Leslie Watkins in Newport Beach, and enjoy refreshments and fellowship as we paint together. Contact Ashley Moore, ashley.moore05@gmail.com, with questions.

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