Rhythms

The best first step toward belonging is to attend our Rhythms course. It’s a 4-week course that we hold every other month on Sundays during 1st service, and covers who we are as a church, the ways we serve, and helps you find a Redemption Community (RC) that would be a good fit for you as you engage and participate in the community life of Redemption Peoria.

Over the course of this 4-week course, we will aim to give you insight into the rhythms of the family and community life of our church. It's less of how we look and act and more about how we live and move and have our being.

Baptism

Baptism is an outward expression of this inward transformation. It symbolically portrays a believer’s identification with the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  It proclaims to all that we have died to our old self and now live in the freedom of new life in Christ as a forgiven child of God and devoted follower of Jesus.

Baptism follows the example set by Jesus, found in Mark 1:9. Our new life with new priorities and passions expressed in ministry also begins with an act of obedience in being baptized.

• For frequently asked questions on how we practice baptism at Redemption Peoria, read our Baptism Information Packet (linked below).

• For more information or questions about being baptized, email Jon Demeter.

Serving

We have a diversity of needs in the church – needs that are always surfacing and evolving - and we depend on our volunteers. Volunteers lead groups, take out trash, counsel hurting people, change diapers, make videos, play music, edit documents, clean bathrooms…the list is endless. Some people find opportunity to serve in ways that align with their gifts. Others simply respond to a need that they see (taking out the trash isn’t a spiritual gift but someone needs to do it). Some volunteering requires a long-term commitment, like Children’s Ministry. Some is temporary, like giving a ride home. All of it is important.

Sometimes the greatest way to bless others is to simply give your time to serve them. Sometimes the strongest community is built among those who serve shoulder to shoulder together. We encourage you to find a way to serve within your congregation.

Membership

Membership provides a way to determine who is committed to the mission, doctrine, and values of Redemption Church – our local expression of the body of Christ. Such delineation is not meant to be elitist or divisive. It is not meant to create different classes within the body. Rather, it simply recognizes that there are people within any expression of the body of Christ at varying levels of commitment – and that’s okay. But as an intentional community with a mission and purpose, it is helpful to know who is committed and who is simply curious.

discipleship

We believe that your formation and growth as a follower of Jesus can happen at multiple levels and in multiple environments. We do have an intentional pathway to discipleship that we feel is the best growth environment for our local context to love God and others. The Surge school & the seeJesus school are those environments. They start every fall for 9 months.