Attention:  All Redemption Fellowship Members

Please note that rehearsal for all children participating in the Easter Program is scheduled for Friday, March 12th at 7 p.m.

The Easter Program will take place during Easter Sunday morning service, which is scheduled for Easter Morning, Sunday April 4th at 10 a.m.

For more information about the rehearsal schedule or for questions about the program, please contact Maria Guest.

Women’s Summit 2010 – Building Healthy Christian Relationships

Discussions encompassing ways to build healthy relationships in our everyday roles as mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, and friends.

Saturday, March 13th  from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.  at Redemption Fellowship Church

Our guest speakers will be Mrs. Pamela Stringfield from Perimeter PCA in Atlanta and Mrs. Donna Causey from South Atlanta Community PCA in Fayetteville.  The program will also include uplifting music, powerful messages, as well as a Q and A session so that you can ask our speakers the questions that are important to you.

Registration for this event will continue through March 7th.  The registration fee is $10 and will include a catered lunch.  To register, please stop by the registration table after worship service at Redemption Fellowship Church any Sunday through March 7th OR you can download and print the registration form and mail it to the church along with your $10 registration fee.

Click here for more information and to download the registration form.

The 2010 Women’s Summit focuses on women and the importance of building healthy Christian relationships.  Please join us for a great time of fellowship with other women and an exciting exploration of God’s Word to equip us as we all strive to build healthy, Christian relationships.

Attention Redemption Fellowship Family:

The church is having its next Dinner and a Movie event on Wednesday, March 17, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. at the church.  The movie will be St. Patrick: The Irish Legend.

From IMDb: A young Christian boy attends a druid worship that is attacked by invading Irish tribes. Taken captive, he is taken back to Ireland to become a slave. Enduring many hardships, he finds comfort and eventually salvation in his faith. After several years, he escapes back to England, where he joins a convent to prove his faith. His greatest desire is to return to Ireland to convert the Irish to Christianity.

Years later, he is given the opportunity. Upon setting foot on the Irish soil, all snakes are automatically driven from the land. He then overcomes many obstacles, including disagreements with the British Cardinal, to fulfill his destiny and ultimately being given Sainthood.

Please plan to join us for a delicious meal and a wonderful presentation.

For more information, contact the church office at 770-460-1220.

Attention:  All Lay Leaders

There will be a lay leaders meeting on Monday, March 22, 2010 at 6:30 p.m.  This meeting will be hosted via conference call.  For information on how to access the conference via phone or computer, please contact Carter Savage or Edwina Cowgill in the church office.

Each Lay Leaders meeting will be held on the fourth Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. until further notice.

Song

Are you Washed in the Blood of the Lamb?

Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Are you fully trusting in His grace this hour?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

Refrain
Are you washed in the blood,
In the soul cleansing blood of the Lamb?
Are your garments spotless? Are they white as snow?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

Are you walking daily by the Savior’s side?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Do you rest each moment in the Crucified?
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

Lay aside the garments that are stained with sin,
And be washed in the blood of the Lamb;
There’s a fountain flowing for the soul unclean,
O be washed in the blood of the Lamb!

• Author

Elisha A. Hoffman a minister’s son attended Union Seminary in New Berlin, Pennsylvania, and was ordained in 1868.   Afterward, he worked with the Evangelical Association’s publishing arm in Cleveland, Ohio for 11 years.   Then following the death of his wife he pastored at the First Presbyterian Church in Benton Harbor, Michigan and in Cabery, Illinois (1911-1922).   He is remembered for his care for the poor and downtrodden, he died at age ninety a giant of the gospel song era.

Hat – itude

There’s a little more strut in your carriage
when you wear a nice hat.
There’s something special about you.

And then, she leaves home and joins the company of her mothers
and aunties and sisters and nieces and daughters at church whose
actions have been identical to hers that morning.
They too had waited longingly for the gift of a Sunday morning.

~ Maya Angelou

Countless black women would rather attend church
naked than hatless.
For these women, a church hat,
flamboyant as it may be,
is no mere fashion accessory;
It’s a cherished African American custom,
one observed with boundless passion by black women
of various religious denominations.
A woman’s hat speaks long before its wearer utters a word.

The Real Men Real Talk program offers real advice from real men talking about real issues that are important to all men, including money, love, marriage, children, health, relationships, sex, the economy, politics, self-esteem, anger, grief, depression, as well as tackling the issues of status and success.

Real Men Real Talk, which meets on the 4th Saturday of each month, will be held at Redemption Fellowship Church on Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 8:00am.

More information about the Real Men Real Talk program can be found at http://redemptionfellowship.org/ministries/mens-ministry/

We invite you our neighboring brothers and sisters in Christ to come and share this amazing time in fellowship with us.

Everyone is invited to attend and the event is FREE.  To perform as a Christian artist you must contact Marcus Smith. Please come and join us at 6pm on Sunday, March 28 and every 4th Sunday for an enjoyable time of worship, fellowship, outreach, and praise.

To perform at this event or an upcoming HOT DONUTS event or for general questions or comments, please contact Marcus Smith and Raymonde Neely at hotdonuts@redemptionfellowship.org.

For general information, please visit our HOT DONUTS page.

For blog information, please visit us under The Pulse here.

There is only one solution for the “thirsts” we all have as people: the well of water flowing from the love and power of Jesus Christ.  Idolatry not only leaves you thirsty, it is actually very hard work which ironically makes you thirstier; you have to keep it up so you can feel good about yourself.  For example, if you worship people’s opinions, you will work hard at never letting them down; if you love money, you get very upset when God asks you to give more than you planned; if you are trying to raise perfect children, you become undone with the slightest amount of rebellion.  You really need to relax and let God help you; you are worshipping the wrong divinity.  In the midst of all this “warfare,” Christians are commanded to reach a world which believes in creating its own truth, not discovering absolute truth.  It is also a world that has a problem with authority especially when that authority is contained in a text that is two-thousand years old and claims to satisfy the thirsts, appetites and desires of today’s bodies and hearts.  We at Redemption Fellowship are called to reach this world with the gospel, but we will not do it until we ourselves are trusting God to satisfy us as His people.  Are we drinking from the fountain that never runs dry?  Are we yielding to the authority of the Holy Spirit?  Or are we arguing amongst ourselves over programs and events?  Are we distracted by our own gods of “me, myself, and mine?”  Have we forgotten that we are a nation of priests called to be witnesses for Him?  Brothers and Sisters, if we act and live like unbelievers, then we are cheating ourselves while simultaneously trying to convince others of the benefits of serving our God.  Believe me, I know what it is like to be cheated; I have a lot of experience in the area of idolatry.  I have personally dealt with the idols of exercise and physical appearance for years.  I believe I embraced these idols after failing an Army physical fitness test in the late seventies that left me devastated with shame.  I have been running ever since.  I have never failed an Army physical fitness test since that dreadful day and usually score the maximum–but it has never been good enough and I have never enjoyed it (signs of idolatry).  A lot of my marathon training was motivated out of the fear of dropping out of a race, and so I found myself overdoing it and only by God’s grace not seriously injuring myself.  I still work out consistently, however as a result of understanding how my heart functions, I am not controlled by physical fitness–although it is very tempting.  Idolatry is something that is always overdone and out of proportion when compared to normalcy.  I thank God for my personal history up until now and am glad that I can look back and see how He IS delivering me.  All humans are self-inflicted with their personal idols  since all humans want their needs met.  This is the human condition.  This should spur us all to preach and live according to the grace and power of Jesus like never before.  We must compel men and women to see that only in Christ will they find the satisfaction that they are desperately seeking in their personal gods.  Matthew 11:28 states, “Come unto me all you who are laboring and are heavy ladened and I will give you rest.”  Are you tired yet? Are you thirsty? Come to Jesus, and bring somebody with you.  Pastor Mike