Join Us Sundays at Spotsy Village

Welcome! So glad you’ve visited our online home! Here, you’ll find out who we are, when we gather, and what we are about. We look forward to meeting you and getting to know you soon.

Services will be held weekly at the following times:

9:30am – Worship, nursery, and all children classes up through 5th grade.
11:00am – Worship, nursery, and all children classes up through 5th grade.
Adult classes  mostly meet in homes during the week. We have a couple of classes that meet at Redeemer on Sunday mornings.

For those not able to join us in person, we livestream our 9:30 service
each week on YouTube. If you miss a service, you can watch the
video in our media library, on our YouTube channel, or catch audio only on
our podcast.

Upcoming Events

March 22 – Trauma Training

March 30 – Mission Trip Interest mtg

March 31 – Mother/Daughter Event

April 4 – Join Redeemer Class

Scripture

“And God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul.” Acts 19:11 ESV

Last Sermon

Vic Carpenter: Confronting Evil

 

 

 

 

Interested in learning more about Redeemer’s history, beliefs and structure? Then come to our next Join Redeemer Class. Joining Redeemer is a 3-step process and this class is the first step. Afterwards, you decide if you want to proceed.

<a href="https://redeemerva.churchcenter.com/registrations/events/2711739" target="_blank">Register</a>
Join Redeemer Class April 4, 6:30 pm
Interested in learning more about Redeemer’s history, beliefs and structure? Then come to our next Join Redeemer Class. Joining Redeemer is a 3-step process and this class is the first step. Afterwards, you decide if you want to proceed. Register
A Christian, Classical,  K-12 Academy is coming this fall!  Mercy Hill Community Church is starting <a href="https://hcafredericksburg.org/" target="_blank">Heritage Christian Academy</a> to serve the reformed community in the greater Spotsylvania area. Their goal is to cultivate virtue in young men and women through a Classical Christian education - and they want to do it in partnership with the many reformed churches in our area.

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Pray<br><br>
<a href="mailto:kdelage@hcafredericksbur.org?subject=Heritage%20Christian%20Academy&body=" target="_blank">Ask questions</a>
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Attend their interest meeting
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Parents wanting to learn more may attend the interest meeting at Mercy Hill Community Church at 9215 Courthouse Rd, Spotsylvania, VA.
Heritage Christian Academy March 22, 10:00-Noon
A Christian, Classical, K-12 Academy is coming this fall! Mercy Hill Community Church is starting Heritage Christian Academy to serve the reformed community in the greater Spotsylvania area. Their goal is to cultivate virtue in young men and women through a Classical Christian education - and they want to do it in partnership with the many reformed churches in our area.

Pray

Ask questions

Attend their interest meeting

Parents wanting to learn more may attend the interest meeting at Mercy Hill Community Church at 9215 Courthouse Rd, Spotsylvania, VA.
RBC is partnering with Scott and Michelle Kvandal with Su Refugio Ministries to support two mission trips in 2025.
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1. Argentina: July 24-August 2.
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2. Peru: October 2-10.

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If you are interested in attending one of these trips, an interest meeting will be held at 1:00 pm on March 30, at RBC.
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<a href="https://www.surefugio.org/" target="_blank">https://www.surefugio.org/</a>
Mission Trip Interest Meeting March 30, 1:00 pm
RBC is partnering with Scott and Michelle Kvandal with Su Refugio Ministries to support two mission trips in 2025.

1. Argentina: July 24-August 2.
2. Peru: October 2-10.

If you are interested in attending one of these trips, an interest meeting will be held at 1:00 pm on March 30, at RBC.

https://www.surefugio.org/
Everyone is invited to the Wednesday night youth group to hear our guest speaker, John Noyes, from Stand To Reason. His topics are: “Is the New Testament Reliable?” and “Intelligent Design: What is it? and Why is it Important?”


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Students: Come at 6:00 pm. We will have pizza for you.
Apologetics Night April 2, 6:30-8:30 pm
Everyone is invited to the Wednesday night youth group to hear our guest speaker, John Noyes, from Stand To Reason. His topics are: “Is the New Testament Reliable?” and “Intelligent Design: What is it? and Why is it Important?”

Students: Come at 6:00 pm. We will have pizza for you.
Please join us for an inductive Bible study of the book of Ecclesiastes, as we explore how to make sense of life in a fallen world and how to lay hold of what ultimately matters.  

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Three groups meet starting in April:  Thursday mornings with childcare (April 3), Tuesday mornings and Tuesday nights (April 8).

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Please register online and see website for more information.

<a href="https://redeemerva.churchcenter.com/registrations/events/2817572" target="_blank">Registration</a>
Ladies’ Bible Study April 3 and 8
Please join us for an inductive Bible study of the book of Ecclesiastes, as we explore how to make sense of life in a fallen world and how to lay hold of what ultimately matters.

Three groups meet starting in April: Thursday mornings with childcare (April 3), Tuesday mornings and Tuesday nights (April 8).

Please register online and see website for more information. Registration
We are making plastic canvas Easter baskets for April’s craft night. This is a free craft, but please register, so we have enough supplies.


<a href="https://redeemerva.churchcenter.com/registrations/events/2778567" target="_blank">Register</a>
Craft Night April 7, 6:30 pm
We are making plastic canvas Easter baskets for April’s craft night. This is a free craft, but please register, so we have enough supplies. Register
One simple way we can support our foster and adoptive families is by providing a meal once a month—just one meal helps a lot.

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You don’t have to be a gourmet chef—meals can be homemade, store-bought, or even a restaurant gift card. Every meal is a blessing that reminds these families they are loved, and supported by their church family.
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If you’re willing to help, please reach out to <a href="mailto:pennytraber@gmail.com?subject=I%20can%20prepare%20a%20meal&body=" target="_blank">Penny Traber</a>
Meal Volunteers
One simple way we can support our foster and adoptive families is by providing a meal once a month—just one meal helps a lot.

You don’t have to be a gourmet chef—meals can be homemade, store-bought, or even a restaurant gift card. Every meal is a blessing that reminds these families they are loved, and supported by their church family.

If you’re willing to help, please reach out to Penny Traber
Want to go hiking? How about going to yard sales? Do you know about a theater production? We created a group for people to communicate about local events. You can invite people to join you or if you are looking for something to do, check out the calendar in this group.

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<a href="https://redeemerva.churchcenter.com/groups/small-groups/redeemer-meetups-beta" target="_blank">Request to join.</a>
Redeemer Meetups
Want to go hiking? How about going to yard sales? Do you know about a theater production? We created a group for people to communicate about local events. You can invite people to join you or if you are looking for something to do, check out the calendar in this group.

Request to join.
We need volunteer teachers and assistants for Vacation Bible School, June 23-26. Please reach out to <a href="mailto:smorgan0402@gmail.com?subject=VBS%20volunteer&body=" target="_blank">Sherry Morgan</a> or <a href="mailto:bettysueminnick@hotmail.com?subject=VBS%20Volunteer&body=" target="_blank">BettySue Minnick</a> if you would like to serve.
VBS Volunteers June 23-26
We need volunteer teachers and assistants for Vacation Bible School, June 23-26. Please reach out to Sherry Morgan or BettySue Minnick if you would like to serve.
We have a prayer team that would love to pray for you. Come to the welcome desk or send us an email.<a href="mailto:mshively17@gmail.com?subject=Prayer%20Request&body=" target="_blank" style="color: #0061fe;">Prayer Team</a>
Prayer
We have a prayer team that would love to pray for you. Come to the welcome desk or send us an email.Prayer Team
Do you have questions about baptism, or are you ready to schedule yours? Let us know! See an elder on Sunday, or email us <a href="mailto:info@redeemerva.org?subject=Baptism&body=" target="_blank" style="color: #0061fe;">Baptism</a>
Baptism
Do you have questions about baptism, or are you ready to schedule yours? Let us know! See an elder on Sunday, or email us Baptism
Biblical counseling is one way we can help you during challenging times. Click below to start the process.

<a href="https://biblicare.net/Site/Access/Login?KeyID=EBCAC141-1224-490B-B7F5-4912236" target="_blank">Application</a>
Counseling
Biblical counseling is one way we can help you during challenging times. Click below to start the process. Application

Vic & Maria Carpenter

Friendship

“You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.”

John 15:14-15 ESV

 

“The Scripture was fulfilled that says, ‘Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.’ – and he was called a friend of God.”

James 2:23 ESV


Friendship is a beautiful thing, and the Bible has much to say about it. Friendship is a state of human relationship – perhaps the most desired and meaningful form of human relationship. Friendship is first an unforced and life-giving relationship. Throughout life we have many relationships that are necessary for business or daily life in community. We have family relationships, both near and extended, but having many people in and around our lives does not mean that we have many friends. In fact, we live in an age of supposed connection with countless digital means of ‘social media,’ yet we live in a highly disconnected, friendless, and lonely age.

 

We learn about friendship as it is explained and defined in Scripture. Friendship is first based on common ground, or commonly enjoyed and shared experiences. We become friends of God as we believe in Jesus and follow Him as a disciple. We enter into a personal relationship with God. Friendship is one way to describe the relationship between God and human beings. When we believe and obey God, our relationship with Him changes from adversarial and separated to near and joyful.

 

The basis of acceptance by God, communication through prayer, forgiveness and reconciliation of relationship are all worked out into our healthy human friendships. Yet, friendship with God is the master friendship that teaches us how to build lasting friendships with other people. If we have a broken relationship with God, it will flow down into broken relationships with those around us. If we have a strong and joyful relationship with God, it will result in multiplied daily friendships and interpersonal harmony.

 

Let’s examine some other basic aspects of friendship. Friendship is based on the common ground of shared experience. The shared experiences of the nearest friends are not experiences of ease and pleasure. The nearest and dearest friendships are forged through the common ground of shared struggle and adversity. This seems counter-intuitive, but it’s true. As the other aspects of friendship outlined below are applied in hard circumstances, we treasure people that would show such kindness and goodness to us in the most difficult times.

 

Friendship relates to the appreciation of differences. This is a form of humility. Friends recognize that they need people that are different from themselves. Friends appreciate that others are good (or great!) at things they can’t do. Friends then encourage and cheer each other on in these varied areas of strength.

 

Friendship relates to disclosure, discretion, and trust. All people have a need to talk through and express matters that are important to them or heavy on their heart. However, often these matters are personal or sensitive in some way. Friends take joy in sharing with each other matters of the heart, but such personal disclosure requires trust in the other person that such personal matters will be kept personal and confidential. That’s trust. You will never develop meaningful personal relationships without the self-control of keeping personal matters personal. This earned trust flows into believing another person. Friends believe each other. There can be no friendship without trust.

 

Friendship relates to mutual and sacrificial care. Friends look out for each other and are actively looking for ways to bless each other. The old maxim is true! You have to be a friend to have a friend. Friends don’t sit back and wait for the other to call or act. Friends actively seek each other for good. The care of friends for each other is sacrificial. True friends open their homes to each other, really help in times of need, and never leave a friend with an unmet need if it can possibly be met. True friends will “give you the shirt off their back” and this is remarkable because it is a rare virtue. This sacrificial posture must be mutual and ongoing to form friendship. The desire to meet needs and show care, goes back and forth over time and is not one-sided. The meeting of needs shows love, concern, and genuine care.

 

Friendship relates to access. As we build friendship with others over time, we give them greater access to our lives and we gain greater access to their lives. This development takes years and requires face-to-face experience. It is impossible to develop deep friendship quickly or without significant personal time spent together. The most rewarding friendships are cultivated over the years and grow like a great tree – slowly but with deep rooted strength.

 

Friendship relates to forgiveness. We are all sinners and will wrong each other in various ways. Friends do not hold and nurse grudges and bitterness. Friends are willing to forgive and offer another chance to make things right. Friends are willing to reconcile and move forward again because of mutual care.

 

Friendship cuts across the other central relationships of our lives to make those relationships more life-giving and joyful. Friendship is the ground of the happiest marriages. Friendship is the ground of the best relationships between adult children and older parents. Friendship is the ground for our relationship to each other in the church (3 John 1:15). Cold marriages, forced family gatherings, and plastic impersonal churches are a tragedy. All such dysfunctional relationships go back to where I started this discussion – your relationship with God. If you have personally experienced the love and friendship of God, it will work its way out into your home and the church. The love and friendship of God will teach us to befriend our spouse and will cause the community of the church – those we have the most in common with – to be our nearest and dearest friends.

 

As followers of Jesus, let us demonstrate to the world how to form friendships. In a lonely and isolated time, may part of the light of our lives be the joyful friendships we form in Jesus’ name and to His glory.

 

Open your heart to Jesus and open your heart to others,

Pastor Vic

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Online Resources

We have sermons, studies, podcasts, and playlists that will help you grow spiritually and apply the Bible to your life.

Back to Spiritual Basics

Looking to get into a rhythm of reading the Scriptures, but aren’t sure what to read?
Pastor Vic has put together a 10-week reading plan that will help you grasp the foundational beliefs of the Christian. As you read, you’ll be equipped with questions to ask of any text that will take any study you do to the next level.

See for yourself. Click below to download the reading plan.

Grandpa's Devotions

Mike Patterson, one of our Redeemer elders, has written several devotions for young or young-in-the-faith Christians. If you’re looking for a great new Bible study to do on your own, or perhaps even with your family, Mike has you covered!

And when you finish with Grandpa Devotions, check out his library of Bible studies at DoctorMikeP.com.