Highlights from Easter 2013

We are overwhelmed by the incredible day we had last Sunday, and we want to THANK you so much for your prayers and love as we had our second EASTER as Redemption Church!

Highlights from Easter, 2013:

-We had 4 people accept Jesus as their Savior for the very first time!!! One of these was a friend's father who was here visiting from New Jersey. It was a beautiful gift to share this special day with our new brothers and sisters in the Lord!

-We had 18 adults attend our first service and 57 adults attend our second service! Many of these were believers, and many were not. It was incredible to see the Lord bring friends and strangers to hear and celebrate the Good News with us!

-We had approximately 100 people show up for our Easter Egg Hunt between services!!! We were blown away at all the families that responded to our door hangers and invitations and showed up with Easter baskets in hand! Some stayed for our service and many did not, but we were able to share the love of Jesus with many new people in our community. No glitches! It was an awesome time!

-Our team was AWESOME!!! Serving together as a body was a very special and meaningful way to spend Easter together. God's Spirit was with us and the excitement was tangible as we got to see some of the fruit of our labor. 

-Redemption Kids was GREAT! We had a combined effort of 10 adults serving in our childrens' ministry and welcomed 20 kids into our kids' classes on Sunday! It was a fun morning for all the kids, and they got to hear the message of God's love for them from wonderful and gifted teachers. 

-We had MANY people fill out a card to join a community group! We are VERY excited to see the people the Lord is bringing to Redemption Church to serve and grow together with us!

-FINALLY, God was glorified in our gathering together. We got to worship, fellowship, give Him praise and thanks for all He has done for US! 

Praise God for all He is doing and His faithfulness to use us and bring glory to His good name. We love you all and continue to lift you up in our prayers also. Please pray for those who responded to the Gospel this week to be growing and plugged in! We are continuing to reach out to many of those who came on Sunday and are praying for continued relationships and growth. 

Be blessed,

Daniel and Laura

A much needed update:)

Hi! 

Here's to hoping you haven't forgotten about us since it has been a very long time since we updated our blog. We are jumpstarting a new system to keep it updated and current though, so please keep checking back!

Our last couple of months have been full of the miraculous works of God in our lives, our family, and our church. Not only did we get to celebrate Christmas with a 3 and 5 year old (which is the ONLY way to do it, let me tell ya! :), but we also had a sweet month with our core church planting team in the month of December. We took a break from our weekly church services on Thursday nights to prepare to launch SUNDAY services as a church on January 6th! (more on that in a moment) So, that meant our month was busy and full of friends and family in Christ surrounding us in our home and celebrating Christmas together. We had a beautiful and sweet Christmas Eve Eve service with all of our kids there, and we lit the advent candles and got to hear and reflect on the miracle of Jesus's birth. It was wonderful.

Which brings us to January!! After one year living in Delray Beach and 8 months after our first Redemption Church meeting, we had our very first SUNDAY MORNING service! It was such a joy to watch couple after couple and young and old people alike walk into the community center where we meet to worship Jesus with us! We counted about 50 adults that first Sunday and have had new and different people attending each week since then. We have already had several people recommit their lives to Christ and have many people wanting to get involved in the church and joining community groups! It is a miracle to us to see God use us to bring His Word to people and show them His love for them. Our kids are THRILLED to have new kids at church to play with too! Travis and Alesha who moved down in September from Olympia, Washington as well as AJ and Dominique and our "native Floridians" the Snellings--all are a tremendous JOY to serve with, and we have had new people showing up to help out with set up and tear down each week already! God is GOOOOOOD!

Laura has been loving having a discipleship group of women studying the Word together, and she has been teaching through the book of James. Their group has had other Christian and non-Christian women join them, and it is a huge answer to prayer to see the Lord bringing these women together and into her life. 

Other than that, life is good. We are happy. Laura still suffers from frequent migraines, so you can lift her up in prayer. Also, I am hoping to rearrange my schedule as the needs of our church grow with Sunday services, and I am feeling stretched. We are hopeful and full of faith for all God has for us here. 

Be blessed,

Daniel, Laura, Jeremiah, & Mailey

The Williams Family Newsletter

We just sent out our first Newsletter! I know, I know. The mind boggles that there could be even MORE to read than what you can find on our blog! (and e-mail updates, if you are on our prayer team...) But, it's true! :)

If you didn't already receive a newsletter from us either in your mailbox or as an e-mail attachment, and you would like to, let us know. You can just drop us an e-mail letting us know you would like a copy either sent to you via e-mail or regular mail. We will be sending them out every other month, so hopefully that will be often enough to keep you up to date on what's happening and how you can be praying--but not so often that you get tired of hearing from us. :)

We had fun putting this one together and hope that you enjoy reading it and seeing a few more pictures from our life here...