Bible Study / Summer Fun!
The Church of the Redeemer — conveniently located in downtown Sarasota — is offering a fun, faith-filled, and educational Vacation Bible School session for young children throughout the Sarasota community. Children who have reached age 4 by 9/1/08 through those entering 5th grade for school year 2008-09 are invited to join in the many wonderful activities offered during the one-week session which takes place Monday through Friday, 9 am to noon, August 11 -15.
The theme of this year’s Vacation Bible School is “For I Know the Plans I Have for You.” Activities include interactive study of lessons from the Bible, water-sliding, painting, singing, and more.
Don’t miss this opportunity to enroll your child in a stimulating, Christian “summer camp” environment conveniently located in downtown Sarasota. The entire week-long session requires only a $10 registration fee and includes a mid-morning snack for the children. Some scholarships are available to those in the community who have need of financial assistance.
Advance registration is required and may be done by phone at 941.955.4263, or by visiting www.redeemersarasota.org/vbs.html, and following the instructions for registration.
Sarasota, FL / 05 July, 2006 – High school youth from the Church of the Redeemer in Sarasota recently returned from a week-long Senior High Mission Trip to Biloxi, Mississippi. The purpose of the mission effort, called “Building on the Bayou,” was to perform much-needed site-clean up at buildings and homes devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Sarasota, FL / 24 January, 2006 – Thanks to the inspiring talk given by Betty Gentry, co-founder of the Orphans Hope Project/Uganda, at a recent Episcopal Church Women’s meeting at the Church of the Redeemer, over $3,000 was raised in support of poverty-stricken orphans and widows in Uganda. The entire amount raised, according to Gentry, will go directly toward the Project.
Sarasota, FL / 20 December, 2005 – Betty Gentry, co-founder of the Orphans Hope Project/Uganda, will speak about her experiences helping orphans and widows in poverty-stricken Uganda at the Church of the Redeemer on Wednesday, 11 January, 2006. Gentry is a life-long Episcopalian who has worked as a missionary in Uganda for over 22 years. She spends several months each year in Uganda working alongside her Orphans Hope Project co-founder and Ugandan native, Edward Gitta Mussisi.
Sarasota, FL / 7 July, 2005 – A group of young people from the Church of the Redeemer’s Youth Program recently returned from a week-long mission in the Dominican Republic. Led by the church’s Youth Minister, Scott Merritt, the group traveled from Sarasota to the Dominican Republic to do mission work for the Santo Tomas Episcopal Church located in the small town of Gautier, about 30 minutes outside of Santo Domingo.