Nursery
Redeemer invites all families to worship together throughout the service. There are three nurseries available: one for newborns, one for early walkers to age 2, and one for age 2 to 3. Our nursery is staffed weekly with volunteers. If you are interested in volunteering in the nursery, please contact Mark Vanest at (317) 238-5487 x107.
Children's Worship
Redeemer Children's Worship is for children age 4 through 1st grade. Children worship with their parents and are dismissed during the offertory to attend children's worship. Since children are part of our community, they are welcome to stay in sanctuary and continue to worship with their families. Children's Worship is a time designed to teach children to worship God through Biblical storytelling. Children respond to the gospel with art projects or through quiet work with story baskets. Children share fellowship and a feast at the end of our service.
MOPS
MOPS stands for Mothers of Preschoolers. MOPS groups are communities that strive to encourage and support mothers of young children through relationships. MOPS recognizes that the years from infancy through kindergarten are foundational in a mother-child relationship and are filled with unique needs. MOPS at Redeemer meets the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month. For more information, contact Shannon Hinkle.
Youth Ministry
Youth at Redeemer exists to offer a dynamic, Gospel based community where study of the Bible, as well as activities and retreats will enable teens to discover the unique importance of a personal faith in Christ and the life-giving power the Gospel has for them, their friends, families, and schools. We are also passionate to connect them to the greater Redeemer community through nurturing relationships. This will empower our youth and help them grow into their roles in the larger church family.
We believe that the power of the Gospel will create a strong and vital community of teenagers in Indianapolis who follow Christ and positively transform the social, spiritual and educational environments of their schools and neighborhoods. We desire that at the end of their Middle School and High School years our youth will be able to engage their community and the culture around them and in loving and winsome ways tell others about Jesus.
Youth Hang-Out
Youth in grades 7-12 are invited to join us for Hang-Out time in the Underground on the 2nd and 4th Sundays each month. Parents are welcome to join in this time. (Please make other arrangements for younger siblings). We will meet from 11:30-1:30 on these Sundays.
School of Servant Leadership
Identifying, training, and releasing Servant-Leaders is the most important thing we do at Redeemer! The School of Servant Leadership (SSL) is the education and discipleship ministry of Redeemer. Our vision is that the School of Servant Leadership will change Indianapolis at every level - socially, culturally, and spiritually - by connecting, training and releasing 100's of servant-leaders to serve in the home, church, marketplace, and city.
The majority of our classes meet on Sunday mornings, 9:00 a.m. - 9:50 a. m.
Classes cover four areas of the Christian life.
1. Bible and Theology
2. Creation and Culture
3. Servant-Leadership Training
4. Christian Life and Spirituality
Values of the School of Servant Leadership
Gospel-Jesus centered: as a community of mission we will seek to be relentlessly centered on Jesus. In our teaching we will continually return to our "founding story", the incarnation, life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The gospel of Jesus motivates our teaching.
Community: Our primary call is to be a community of grace - an alternative city. As an community we must experience ongoing spiritual renewal in our fundamental passion for Jesus, for one another, and for the renewal of our city. In our classes we will seek to be a people who literally love each other as we have been loved by God as seen in Jesus. In community we learn to break our addiction to culture and follow Jesus. Christian education happens by and in community.
Discipline: Our classes will emphasize spiritual disciplines. Our training will seek to be inward-outward ("being" before "doing"). Every class will press its learners towards the disciplines of community, Word, prayer, fasting, contemplation, spiritual friendship, gospel "self-talk". Discipline is the fuel by which we persevere in our vision to change the city.
Theology: Our training will seek to be theologically astute. The Bible will be the source book for all of our teaching; the authority by which we act, the guide by which we discern God's will for our community. Our teachers are expected to mine the Scriptures, and then secondary sources to provide the best teaching available for lay-people. Theology creates our vision for our mission.
Mission: Our training focus on training leaders for action, for mission. We're not simply about "informing the mind." We seek to inform minds and enflame hearts to change the city and our world. Thus each class will have a "mission", a cause that they will together be working towards. We expect leaders, ministries, and cell groups to be formed out of our School of Servant-Leadership that will create art, beauty, and culture, that will fight to change the institutional structures which perpetuate and support systemic injustice, that will equip parents for homemaking and hospitality, that will train Bible expositors and teachers. Our mission puts-into-action our gospel, communal, spiritual, and theological training.
2008 School of Servant Leadership Spring Classes
• Ecclesiastes
April 6-May 25
Auer/Hinkle Studio
Teacher: Kim Davis
Sundays @9:00-9:50 am
Ecclesiastes is a book of the Bible we often ignore because of its disturbing views of life "under the sum." The author discovers meaninglessness in every human pursuit--a realizaiton even Christians struggle with. Join us as we examine the Preacher's hard temporal truths in the eternal light of the Gospel.
• Biblical Femininity
April 6-May 25
Back office in Sanctuary
Teacher: Carrie Sinsabaugh
Sundays @9:00-9:50 am
Discussion style class in which we will talk about feminity. We will look at Genesis and other women in Scripture to understand our unique role for ushering in God's plan for redemption. Class size limited
• Reformed Theology 103
April 6-May 25
Gallery #1
Teachers: Josh Nottingham and Rob Wynkoop
Sundays @9:00-9:50 am
The emphases of the Reformed tradition have been misunderstood or misued in the Church since the Reformation itself. This class will discuss what makes a church "Reformed"and why this is an important part of our spiritual lives.
• ReNew Prayer
April 6-May 25
Cry Room
Teacher: Jason Dorsey
Sundays @9:00-9:45 am
Each Sunday morning we will gather- not to study prayer- but to pray! Prepare your heart for worship, call upon God to meet our congregation in all of his presence, glory, and life-changing power, and intercede for our city in this time of congregational prayer.
• Summerfest 2008
April 6-May 25
Gallery #2
Teacher: Jenny Dorsey
Sundays @9:00-9:50 am
Do you have a passion to connect your urban friends and neighbors to the Redeemer community? Do you have a heart to see outreach to both our covenant kids adn teh youth of our city? Join Jenny Dorsey, and a team that is gathering to launch our first annual "Summerfest." The dates for Summerfest are June 1-4. The purpose of Summerfest is to come together as a large community (congregation and city neighbors) and experience intimacy or relationships over food, music, instruction, and preaching.
• Love Walked Among Us, a book study, part III
April 6-May 25
HCA office, next to the gymnasium
Teachers: Kathy Matthews and Joan Sato
Sundays @9:00-9:50 am
This class will take you through the book Love Walked Among Us by Paul Miller in 24 lessons (Fall, Winter, and Spring). This study is helpful for those investigating the claims of Christianity because "nowhere was the vitality of Jesus more visible than in His love, a love unlike any the world has ever seen. It is also helpful to Christians because we see our brokenness when we compare how we love each other to how perfectly Jesus loves. draws us to Jesus in awe and worship. A limited number of books will be available for purchase on the book table in the back of the sanctuary. Buying the book would be beneficial but not crucial for the class.
• International Missions Weekend
May 17-18
Gallery #2
Teacher: Yosef Desta
Sunday @9:00-9:50 am
Reserve this weekend in your calendars. Yosef Desta, Pastor of Indianapolis Ethiopian Evangelical Church will be sharing. Please join us as we explore our theme: The Global Church: Beyond Borders and in our Backyard.
All of our School of Servant Leadership classes will gather together in Gallery #2, for this Sunday morning seminar.
