Kid's Summer 5-Day Club

Here are a few of the promised pics of the summer club. The kids had a blast and CEF did a great job running the show.

Update

Well, it has been over three weeks since preview service #3 and we are gearing up for the fourth next Sunday, July 11th. I have a new drummer who played with us last time and will play this time as well. I really like him and he is very talented and spiritually sensitive. Our friend Suzanne Alobeyo is also helping out with worship by singing. We are about to buy some sound equipment this weekend and keep pressing on to the goal of having great worship. Our children's summer 5-day club is going on right now (pictures coming soon) and so far it has had a small response. We had more response from our fliers last year and this year we dropped 250% more and they were higher quality. Advertising in the paper has yet to show any fruit either. The Bible study at Cocco's is slowly growing and that is an area of encouragement. We are done with Christianity Explored and Discipleship Explored for awhile and chose rather to begin an investigative Bible study in the Gospel of John. We start in a couple weeks. Please keep praying as we approach the launch service in September.

Aldan Fun-Day

We attended our annual Fun-Day here in Aldan along with the local Boy Scouts' Car-Show this last Saturday. This is our second time attending these events and we find them very useful in meeting people in our neighborhood. Here are the kids and some friends in the rumble seat of a winning Model A. The Fun-Day had arts n crafts, moon-bounce, batting competition, and a dunk-tank (which was a big hit, and a little too cold if you ask me.)

Preview Service #2

Our second service went better than the Easter service, despite having fewer people. The turnout was not discouraging and we are hopeful for the June service. We simplified some things and tried to do less of a production, which helped both with sound quality and work-load. Sorry but we have failed to take any pictures from these first two services! I am not surprised considering all we need to remember to do. Now I am back in the office trying to square away all business matters before the next service. Next on the list: sales tax exemption. Thanks for keeping up with us.

"Preview" Service # 1

Easter has come and gone and after a week of crazy work we had our first "preview" service. There were about 40 adults and 12 children in attendance, which is a large turn-out except that many visitors are just showing support and are already involved elsewhere. The next preview service, May 2nd, might be a better indicator of potential interested parties? We had many minor problems, and a few complaints, but overall the service went quite well, much better than I expected a first service to be. Soon after the next service, we will be starting Discipleship Explored on May 5th, and hopefully we will have many new participants and several from the last Christianity Explored class. We will continue to run these classes in the local pizza joint. I am trying to keep it all together, but I am beginning to have a healthy fear of the week to week grind after the Launch service in September. With no staff and no extra funding, I must be everything the church needs: worship leader, preacher, administrator, marketeer, community developer, counselor, etc. It will be a crazy rest of the year!

Website

Well, after much hard work around here my in-house graphic designer has completed the first phase of the website and I must say it looks pretty good! Thanks dear!

www.redemptionpca.com

Check it out! and please see our new prayer requests!

Redemption Fellowship, Inc.

I have recently filed the Articles of Incorporation with the state of PA that will make us a corporation. We will have exclusive rights to our name in this state and will soon Trademark our logo. We are ramping up the marketing in several ways. We continue to place ads in the newspaper, drop flyers, and invite contacts. Soon we will have a new website and Facebook page. Unfortunately we had a computer failure a short while ago that has slowed us down and we are still waiting for new software to continue with the website, but so far it is looking pretty good! A few new faces are popping up here and there and we are hopeful that this is our year. Please keep praying.