Redeemer
Presbyterian Church

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Mercy
Jesus taught that the second-greatest commandment is to love your neighbor as yourself. And then he went on to describing who is a neighbor with his parable of the Good Samaritan -- not just your friend, not someone you might be comfortable with, but those in need whom God brings across your path.
Support to the Deacon Fund at Redeemer goes to just such as these whom the church will be able to help.
Redeemer encourages individual Christians to get involved, but also helps on a corporate level.

One grave area of need in North Alabama is the growing problem of drug and alcohol addiction, especially methamphetamine abuse. The jails are full. Families are broken apart. And there is simply not enough help and too few Christian programs that apply the Gospel to freeing people from their addictions, destructive life styles and habits.

A shining example of the power of the Gospel to change even drug addicts' lives can be seen at Restoration Ranch in Colbert County. If you would like to go visit and get involved, please speak to David Vial, one of our deacons, who has begun bringing church members to visit and get involved with this program.

Missions
We support both missions ministries and also missionaries. Following is a list of some of them. We hope you will consider supporting them too.

• Missionaries
  • Alfred & Jean McCrosky - Bibles for Russia
  • Gioia Michelotti - Cambodian Christian Arts Ministry
  • Olan & Lynna Stubbs - Campus Outreach - Birmingham
  • Shane & Brittany Terrell - Campus Outreach - Kentucky
  • Adam & Katie Comeens - Campus Outreach - UNA
  • Stephanie Kanute - Campus Outreach - UNA
  • Chad & Emily Walker - Campus Outreach - UNA
  • Rev. Gary & Carol Nantt - Mission to the World - Tijuana, Mexico
  • Rev. Marshall Brown - Reformed University Fellowship - Alabama
  • Rev. Richard Vise - Reformed University Fellowship - Auburn
  • Rev. Joel & Judy Linton - Taiwan Church Planting Partners
• Ministries & Organizations
  • Shoals Sav-A-Life
  • Evangel Presbytery
  • The Presbyterian Church in America

Redeemer has made a commitment to support that is more than a check in the mail. Every year they take a team to visit the foreign missionary on the field and to help in their ministry. In summer 2004, a team went to Taiwan with the Lintons. In 2005, a team went to the Ukraine with Bibles for Russia and the McCroskeys. This summer, the team plans to go to Cambodia to visit and help with the evangelism, discipleship and mercy ministry of Gioia Michelotti.

Each team for the year has to raise the support for the short term mission trip. Would you like to help them? Or would you like to join them?