2012 was the inaugural year for Redemption Church. From being sent out of Desert Springs Church (DSC) in February, to our first Christmas Eve services only last week, it was an awesome and busy year. Below is a recap of the 2012 highlights at Redemption Church. January The start of…

This week we will start our new series “DNA: Who We Are, What We Believe”. This series will serve as the backbone and pre requite for membership at Redemption Church, Lord willing the sermons will turn into lessons for future membership classes. Through this series we will talk about the…

Praying is a vital thing for the Christian life, as well as for the life and health of any church. At Redemption, we believe that God has called us to the mission of making disciples and planting churches in New Mexico and beyond. This mission requires prayer. Without prayer, and…

Hey All, I am currently on vacation but am really excited for this weekend and next’s sermons. Pastor Bryan Lopez will be preaching a small miniseries about adoption. He will be sharing why have such a heart for this and where we hope to see this go at Redemption Church….

Hope #4 Our Mission at Redemption Church is to “make disciples and plant churches”. We covered the second part of that mission in a previous hope, but now it is time to discuss the first part. Matt Chandler says this about Hope #4: “My fourth hope for the Acts 29…

  Matt Chandler describes the 3rd hope for Acts 29 as this: “When I have sat down and had a meal or a cup of coffee with Eric Mason in Philadelphia, Doug Logan in Camden, Bryan Loritts in Memphis, Bryan Carter in Dallas, Leonce Crump in Atlanta or Lorenzo Elizando…

Hope #2 Matt Chandler, president of Acts 29, describes Hope #2 for the network as this: “For every story of one of our guys handling what we believe to be biblically correct in a way that isn’t winsome or gracious or waving the flag of personal liberties instead of the…

Redemption Church is part of a network of church planters called “Acts 29”. This network was founded by Pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church. Pastor Mark was a church planter that saw church planting as a lonely and hard calling. After doing it alone, he started Acts 29 so…

We called our Grand Opening Service a “Jesus Party”. We did this to emphasize that the reason we are excited to be in a place of our own in Rio Rancho is solely because of Jesus. We wanted a place to worship Jesus as a family, as well as a…

Following the core group meetings and preview services in the fall, the holiday season arrived and we found the location where Redemption Church would meet. The location was on the corner of 528 and Southern, which was the area of Rio Rancho that we wished to be in.  The City…