Our Redeemer's Blog

Faith Resources for Trying Times

Our Redeemer’s staff is collecting faith and spiritual resources that can help during these turbulent times. We’ll update this page as more resources are found. Do you have a faith resource to share? If so, email communications@ourredeemers.net. OCTOBER 7, 2020 Many of you participate in our “Circles of Connection” – small groups on zoom that […]

Social Justice at Our Redeemer’s – Take Action!

Contributor: Shannon Beck – Our Redeemer’s Social Justice Coordinator “In the model of Christ and for the life of the world, we are an inclusive, devoted, caring, and spiritual community that accepts challenges, takes risks and grows.”  –ORLC vision statement The recent deaths of Aumad Aubury, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd and subsequent local and […]

COVID-19 Update from Pastor Kathy Hawks

Dear Friends, Yesterday, one of our families came by my house as I was weeding. They stood at the end of my driveway, mom, dad, a kindergartner and preschooler, playing toy guitars and holding up a big sign that said, “WE MISS YOU!” It was the highlight of my day!!! YES! Staying home and physical […]

The Informal Ensemble’s New Recording Available (It’s Free!)

With great excitement, we announce the release of the Informal Ensemble’s new recording, “Advent, Epiphany, Lent: Settings for the Beginning of the Liturgical Year”. A full year has been spent recording, mixing, and mastering to create this record, and it took two years prior to that to write all the original tunes. The record focuses […]

Earth Day: Honoring God’s Earth, Our Home

Contributed by Shannon Beck, Our Redeemer’s Social Justice Coordinator Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad; let the sea resound, and all that is in it.   12 Let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them; let all the trees of the forest sing for joy. -Psalm 96:11-12  Even in a pandemic, and […]

How We’re Giving – A Message from Pastor Kathy

Dear Friends, In the last few weeks, I’ve had fresh appreciation for our community. Despite the changes and challenges right now, the ministries and community of Our Redeemer’s continue. We are caring for our Road to Housing guests, the Ballard Food Bank, and the people whose lives are most compromised by the virus.  We are […]

Groups/Classes/Meetings on Zoom 

Katlin Dickenson-Laurence, our office guru and welcome minister extraordinaire, has been working to create Zoom meetings for each group that regularly meets at church for whom meeting virtually makes sense. That schedule is the same schedule as the times you had been meeting in person.  The groups we are scheduling are as follows: Theology on […]