http://www.redeemerbaltimore.org/

The Church of the Redeemer, Baltimore, 5603 N Charles Street, Baltimore, MD (2026)

06/13/2026

Dear Redeemer Community,

Happy PRIDE Weekend, Baltimore!

The church program year may have officially ended, but Faith@Five offers two more celebratory services in June - one for PRIDE weekend, and another for Juneteenth, next Saturday...

This Saturday evening we gather during Baltimore Pride Weekend for a service that celebrates the gifts LGBTQ+ composers and lyricists have brought to the life of the Church. Through music, prayer, readings, and Holy Baptism, we will reflect on themes of love, healing, belonging, justice, and the sacred dignity of every person.

Throughout the service, you’ll hear music by Trey Pearson, Mark Miller, John Bell, Marsha Stevens, Mary Louise Bringle, Bob Fitts and others whose faith journeys have helped shape the Church's song in our time. Their stories are diverse, sometimes joyful, sometimes difficult, but all bear witness to the enduring human longing to be known, loved, and welcomed.

Perhaps fittingly, we will also celebrate Holy Baptism together — that ancient reminder that before any label, achievement, difference, or division, we are beloved children of God and members of one household.

Our opening solo, Trey Pearson's "Hey Jesus (The Prayer of a Gay Son)," gives voice to a deeply personal prayer for acceptance and love. The service will conclude with Mark Miller's "Draw the Circle Wide," a song that reminds us that no one stands alone and that we are called to stand side by side.

Then, next Saturday, June 20, we will continue our June celebrations with a special Juneteenth service honoring African American composers, hymn writers, and performers whose music has shaped both the Church and the wider world.

Whether you come every week or have been away for a while, I hope you'll join us for these two evenings of worship, reflection, and song as we celebrate the many voices that enrich our common life together.

Please stay after the service for some refreshments and conversation.

Grace & Peace,

Robert 💜

This Saturday - Service Music:
Prelude: Hey Jesus (Prayer of a Gay Son)
Introit: Draw the Circle Wide (Mark Miller)
Hymn: Come and Find the Quiet Center (Beach Spring)
Hymn: Don’t Be Afraid (John Bell)
Offertory: For Those Tears I Died (Marsha Stevens)
Sanctus No. 5 (Robert Chrystal)
Communion: He Will Come and Save You (Bob Fitts)
Hymn: Sing a New World into Being (Mary Louise Bringle)
Postlude: Draw the Circle Wide (Mark Miller, reprise)

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LAY MINISTERS…
The Choir, leading musical worship
The Faith@Five Musicians:
Billy Georg (Percussion & Keyboards)
Redeemer Saturday Sexton: Rob Lopez
Readers: Russell Wright & Becky Kelley
Intercessor: Alice Pinderhughes
LEM: Wendy Moskowitz
Director of Music, Faith@Five:
Robert Chrystal (with The Connections Choir)

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06/06/2026

Dear Redeemer Community,
[Faith@Five, TODAY at 5:00 PM in the church]

This Saturday at Faith@Five, our readings invite us into one of the great adventures of faith: taking the next step before we can see the whole journey.

In Genesis, Abram hears the call to leave behind everything familiar and travel toward an unknown future. In Romans, Paul reminds us that Abraham's story was ultimately a story of trust, believing that God's promises are larger than our fears and stronger than our doubts. And in the Gospel, we encounter people whose lives are changed because they dare to follow, reach out, and trust that healing and hope are possible.

Throughout the service, our music mirrors these same themes. We will sing spirituals, Celtic hymns, and gospel favorites that remind us of God's faithful presence. From "Guide My Feet" to "He Touched Me," from "I Will Follow" to the beloved hymn "We'll Understand It Better By and By," we will reflect on what it means to walk forward in faith, trusting that God continues to guide, heal, and call us onward.

Faith is not always certainty. More often, it is the willingness to take the next faithful step. It is trusting that even when the road is unclear, God is already present ahead of us.

Join us this Saturday at 5:00 p.m. as we gather for worship, music, and prayer. Whether you are feeling confident in your faith or simply searching for direction, there is a place for you here.

Please stay after the service for refreshments and conversation as we begin our summer fellowship gatherings.

Grace & Peace,
Robert 💜

P.S. June brings two special musical observances at Faith@Five. On June 13, we will celebrate Baltimore Pride through music by LGBTQ composers and hymn writers, honoring their gifts to the Church and the wider musical world. On June 20, we will commemorate Juneteenth with a service featuring music by African American composers and themes of justice, hope, freedom, and reconciliation. We hope you will join us for both of these meaningful evenings of worship.

THIS SATURDAY'S MUSIC:
Voluntary: ‘Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus (gospel hymn)
Introit: O Lord, to You (G. Sadler)
Hymn: Guide My Feet (Spiritual)
Hymn: God it Was (Iona Community)
Offertory: He Touched Me (Gaither)
Communion: I Will Follow (Maranatha!)
Hymn: We’ll Understand it Better By and By
Postlude: And Can It Be (Wesley & Campbell)

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LAY MINISTERS…
The Choir, leading musical worship
The Faith@Five Musicians:
Billy Georg (Percussion & Keyboards)
Dave Wallack (guitars)
Redeemer Saturday Sexton: Rob Lopez
Readers: Wendy Moskowitz & Alice Pinderhughes
Intercessor: Becky Kelley
LEM: Terry Beauchamp

Director of Music, Faith@Five:
Robert Chrystal (with The Connections Choir)

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05/29/2026

Dear Redeemer Community,
[Faith@Five, in the church, Saturday at 5:00 PM]

This weekend at Faith@Five, we gather for Trinity Saturday, a day that invites us to reflect on the mystery of a God whose very nature is relationship, communion, and love.

Our readings remind us that from the very beginning, Creation was spoken into being with purpose, beauty, and goodness. We are part of that Creation, made to live in relationship with God and with one another. In a world that feels so divided and uncertain, we hear a different invitation: to live in peace, to encourage one another, and to remember that the God of love and peace remains with us.

Throughout our service, we will sing of God's Presence bringing comfort in difficult times, strength for the journey, and the power to make us whole. We will celebrate the mystery of the Three-in-One, giving thanks for the ways God continually draws us into deeper community and calls us to see one another not as strangers, but as companions along the Way.

As we gather around the table, we are reminded that faith is never meant to be kept to ourselves. We are sent into the world to share hope, extend compassion, and carry love into the lives of others. And we do so with a promise that echoes throughout the service: we are never alone.

The Rev. Josh Laws will serve as preacher and celebrant, and our musicians and Connections Choir will lead us in a service filled with prayer, song, and fellowship.

Join us this Saturday as we worship, reconnect, and continue building a community where all are welcome and all belong.

Please stay after the service for refreshments and conversation as we begin our summer fellowship gatherings.

Peace,

Robert 💜

This Saturday - Service Music:
Prelude: Where the Spirit of the Lord Is (gospel)
Introit: Come, Holy Spirit (Maranatha!)
Hymn: How Wonderful the Three-in-One
Hymn: Father I Adore You (folk canon)
Offertory: Sing to the Father (Maranatha)
Communion: Go Ye Therefore (Patillo)
Hymn: God is One, Unique and Holy
Postlude: Touch the Earth Lightly (Murray & Lim)

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LAY MINISTERS…
The Choir, leading musical worship
The Faith@Five Musicians:
Billy Georg (Percussion & Keyboards)
Dave Wallack (guitars)
Redeemer Saturday Sexton: Rob Lopez
Readers: Mimi Walters & Katherine Shamer
Intercessor: Jamie Hutchinson
LEM: Wendy Moskowitz
Director of Music, Faith@Five:
Robert Chrystal (with The Connections Choir)

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05/22/2026

Dear Faith@Five Community,
[Feast of Pentecost: Prelude 4:45-5:00 PM, Postlude: Soloist]

This Saturday evening, we gather for the Feast of Pentecost, one of the great celebrations of the Church year. In the Episcopal tradition, Pentecost is often called the birthday of the Church: the moment when the Holy Spirit rushed into a frightened and uncertain community and transformed it into something living, courageous, and deeply connected.

The story is filled with wind and fire and voices speaking across every imaginable barrier. But beneath all of that mystery is something beautifully simple: people who once could not understand one another suddenly discovering that love itself could become a common language.

That feels especially important right now.

This week’s music and prayers move like breath through dry places, like rain upon thirsty ground, like light breaking through long nights. Together we will sing of the Spirit who awakens sleeping hearts, renews weary souls, and gently draws people together into one body. Again and again throughout the evening, we return to the image of God not forcing or conquering, but breathing life back into the world.

Pentecost reminds us that the Holy Spirit does not belong only to the powerful, the certain, or the polished. The Spirit is poured out on ordinary people – on the exhausted, on the hopeful, on the grieving, on the young and the old, on those carrying visions they can barely explain and those simply trying to make it through another week with tenderness intact.

As part of this celebration led by The Rev. Keith N. Johnson, Jr., we’ll also renew our baptismal covenant together, recommitting ourselves to lives shaped by compassion, justice, mercy, dignity, and care for one another and for creation itself.

And this Saturday evening, we are especially grateful to welcome our regularly featured soloist, Christopher Jones, who will return to offer the warm and deeply moving postlude “Draw Us in the Spirit’s Tether” by Harold Friedell. Its closing words feel almost like the heartbeat of Pentecost itself: that through caring, helping, and giving, we become true disciples together.

So come as you are.
Come tired.
Come hopeful.
Come carrying questions.
Come needing music.
Come needing peace.
Come needing friends.
There is a place for you here.

With love,
Robert 💜

THIS SATURDAY's MUSIC:

Extended Prelude (15 minutes):
Come, Worship the Lord (John Michael Talbot)
Come, Holy Spirit (John Michael Talbot)
Wind Upon the Waters (Marty Haugen)
Introit: Holy Spirit, Come to Us (Taize)
Hymn: Sweet, Sweet Spirit (LEVAS)
Hymn: Rain Down, Spirit (R. Chrystal)
Offertory: Spirit of the Living God (LEVAS)
Communion: Breathe on Me, Breath of God
Hymn: Holy Spirit, Living Breath of God
Postlude: Draw Us in the Spirit’s Tether (soloist: Christopher Jones)

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LAY MINISTERS…
The Choir, leading musical worship
The Faith@Five Musicians:
Billy Georg (Percussion & Keyboards)
Dave Wallack (guitars)
Redeemer Saturday Sexton: Rob Lopez
Readers: Millicent Bain & Anne Bruder
Intercessor: Alice Pinderhughes
LEM: Terry Beauchamp

Director of Music, Faith@Five:
Robert Chrystal (with The Connections Choir)

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05/16/2026

Dear Redeemer Community,
[Faith@Five will meet in the church from 4:55 - 6:00 PM]

There are weeks and even months when the world feels loud with uncertainty, when we keep looking upward for answers, waiting for clarity, relief, direction, or peace. And yet, this Saturday evening’s worship gently reminds us that sometimes holiness begins not in certainty, but in gathering together anyway. In staying. In praying. In singing beside one another while we wait for strength to arrive.

This week’s music and readings move through longing, tenderness, endurance, and hope. We will hear voices that speak honestly about burdens too heavy to carry alone. We will be reminded that anxiety, grief, exhaustion, and struggle are not signs that we have failed. They are part of being human. And still, we are told: you are cared for. You are not abandoned. You are not facing the fire alone.

Again and again throughout the service, the music reaches toward closeness. Not performance. Not perfection. Presence.

A room filled with people singing softly (or even loudly) together.
A prayer whispered because it is all we can manage.
A soul finally becomes still after carrying too much for too long.
The quiet courage of continuing to love each other in a fractured world.

Saturday evening we will also continue leaning toward the coming season of Pentecost, toward breath and Spirit and renewal, toward the possibility that grace still moves among ordinary people gathered in ordinary rooms. Sometimes the holiest thing we can do is simply show up for one another with open hearts.

As always, there is room for every part of you at Faith@Five:
the joyful parts,
the weary parts,
the hopeful parts,
the uncertain parts,
the parts still healing.

Come sit among friends.
Come sing if you wish.
Come simply listen if that is what your spirit needs.

And if your week has left you tired beyond words, perhaps tomorrow evening can become a small resting place for your soul.

We begin at 4:55 PM.

With love and gratitude,
Robert
Faith@Five Worship & Music Ministry

P.S. Next Saturday we celebrate the Feast of Pentecost at Faith@Five, and the musicians will offer an extended instrumental prelude from 4:45–5:00 PM before worship begins. Come early and let the music carry you gently into the evening.

Come Holy Spirit, We Need You,

Robert 💜

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This Saturday - Service Music:
Voluntary: King of Glory (Todd Dulaney)
Introit: I Must Tell Jesus (LEVAS #66)
Hymn: Whosoever Meaneth Me (gospel hymn)
Hymn: My Jesus I Love You (LEVAS #89)
Offertory: Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God
Communion: My Heart is Not Proud, O Lord (R. Chrystal)
Hymn: Soon and Very Soon
Postlude: Come Holy Spirit, I Need You (gospel hymn)

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LAY MINISTERS…
The Choir, leading musical worship
The Faith@Five Musicians:
Arielle Tobias (Percussion)
Dave Wallack (guitars)
Redeemer Saturday Sexton: Rob Lopez
Readers: Jamie Hutchinson
Intercessor: Jeff Ayres
Director of Music, Faith@Five:
Robert Chrystal (with The Connections Choir)

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05/09/2026

Dear Redeemer Community,
Taize Eucharist from 5:00-6:00 PM - chapel
Beatles Sing-Along Recital 6:00-6:45 PM - chapel

This Saturday evening, we gather again in the candlelit quiet of the chapel for our Spring Taizé Contemplative Eucharist, a service shaped by silence, prayer, gentle song, and the steady reminder that none of us walks through this world alone.

There are seasons when the soul feels thirsty for rest. Seasons when the world feels loud, uncertain, or heavy, and we long for a softer place to set down what we are carrying. This Taize service was created for moments like those.

Together, we will pray through silence and chant, through words about courage and compassion, and through reminders that love does not abandon us, even in fear, grief, exhaustion, or uncertainty. We will hear again the promise that we are not orphaned, not forgotten, not left behind. We will sing of mercy deeper than guilt, peace beside still waters, and the quiet healing that comes when people gather gently in the presence of God and one another.

Because this is a contemplative Taizé service, the congregation is invited to remain seated throughout the liturgy, including during the prayers and Eucharistic Prayer, until the time comes to receive Communion. We hope this helps clear up any confusion about standing/sitting and creates a peaceful and prayerful atmosphere where everyone may simply breathe, listen, reflect, and rest.

And after the final candlelight fades, the evening will open into joy.

Please stay afterward for our final Faith@Five Recital Series event of the season: an interactive Beatles Sing-Along with the Choir and Faith@Five musicians. We will lift our voices together in songs that have carried generations through longing, tenderness, memory, heartbreak, hope, and sunlight breaking through clouds. There is something quietly holy about a room full of people singing familiar melodies together. Like passing around old photographs that still warm the hands.

Come for the silence.
Stay for the singing.
Bring your whole self.

There is a place for you here.
There always has been.

With a Little Help from My Friends,

Robert 💜

This Saturday - Service Music:

Invocation: Come, Holy Spirit (Iona)
Mediation #1: Let All Who are Thirsty Come
Prayers Meditation ( #2): Without Seeing You
Sanctus No. 1 (R. Chrystal)
The Lord’s Prayer (White/Chrystal)
Mediation #3: Bless the Lord (Taize)
Hymn: I Will Sing the Sondrous Story (Hyfrydol)
Voluntary: Jesus, Remember Me (Taize)
The Beatles Recital follows.

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LAY MINISTERS…
The Choir, leading musical worship
The Faith@Five Musicians:
Billy Georg (Percussion & Keyboards)
Dave Wallack (guitars)
Redeemer Saturday Sexton: Rob Lopez
Readers: Anne Bruder & Tracy Carroll
Intercessor: sung
LEM: Alice Pinderhughes
Director of Music, Faith@Five:
Robert Chrystal (with The Connections Choir)

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05/02/2026

Dear Redeemer Community, (Faith@Five, in the church today)

This Saturday at 5 PM, we will gather again at Faith@Five in the church, and the shape of this service is one of grounding… of being steadied, even when life feels uncertain.

We begin with a sense of calling. Not a loud demand, but something quieter and deeper… the invitation to offer ourselves as a place where goodness can live and grow. To become, in our own lives, something set apart for healing, for peace, and for love.

From there, the music and readings move into trust. The kind that leans on a Shepherd’s care… the kind that remembers we are led, even when we don’t see the whole path. It is a reminder that guidance doesn’t come through force, but through Presence.

We also hear the tension of the human story… of rejection, of standing firm when the world pushes back, of voices that speak truth even when it costs something. And yet, what is cast aside (“The Stone which the builders rejected…”) is not lost. It becomes the very foundation upon which something stronger is built.

Right alongside that strength is refuge. A place to hide, to be safe, to be known without having to prove anything. A steady voice that says: your times are held, your life is not slipping through your fingers. You are seen. You are protected.

At the heart of it all is a simple but powerful choice… to follow. Not perfectly, not without doubt, but with intention. To say yes again, even in small ways. To trust that the path we walk is held within something larger than ourselves.

And in the end, everything turns toward gratitude… toward giving thanks for the grace that carries us, the community that surrounds us, and the love that does not let us go.

Come be part of this hour. Come stand on that foundation. Come rest in that shelter.

Saturday at 5 PM.
There’s a place here for you.

With care,

Robert 💜

This Saturday - Service Music:
Voluntary: Come, My Way, My Truth, My Life (The Call, V. Williams)
Introit: Lord Prepare Me to Be a Sanctuary
Hymn: Savior Like a Shepherd Lead Us
Hymn: The Stone Which the Builders Rejected (Farrell)
Offertory: You Are My Hiding Place (Ledner, canon)
Communion: O God, You are My God Along (Iona, ‘Resignation’)
Hymn: I Have Decided to Follow Jesus (LEVAS #136)
Postlude: To God Be the Glory (F***y J. Crosby)

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LAY MINISTERS…
The Choir, leading musical worship
The Faith@Five Musicians:
Mari Hill (flute)
Dave Wallack (guitars)
Redeemer Saturday Sexton: Rob Lopez
Readers: Millicent & Peter Bain
Intercessor: Becky Kelley
LEM: Terry Beauchamp
Director of Music, Faith@Five:
Robert Chrystal (with The Connections Choir)

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04/25/2026

Dear Redeemer Community,
[Faith@Five Today at 5:00 PM in the Chapel]

There are some weeks when the world feels loud, scattered… like everything is pulling in different directions at once.

And then there are moments when we remember what it feels like to be led beside still waters– To be called by name. To be gathered, not rushed. To be held, not managed.

This Saturday at 5 PM, we come together in a quieter space—our beautiful chapel—where the sound softens, and the room itself seems to resonate a little deeper. With the church campus full of MD Opera activity around us, we’ll step into something more intimate… a place where the music can settle into the air and stay there a while.

Our flute player, Mari Hill, will join us, weaving through the space with a kind of gentle clarity… the kind that doesn’t demand your attention, but earns it. You’ll hear melodies that feel like memories—simple, and full of rest.

We’ll sing and pray our way through the old, enduring promise:

That we are led to green places when we are worn thin.
That even in shadowed valleys, we are not alone.
That goodness has a way of following us, even when we don’t notice it right away.
That there is a table set for us, already prepared.
That there is more than enough for us all.

And maybe, for a little while, you can lay down whatever you’ve been carrying.

The service will be led by the Rev. David Ware, and as always, all are welcome at the table—just as you are.

There is a place for you here.
There always has been.

Saturday at 5 PM
Faith@Five, in the Chapel

With love,

Robert 💜

THIS SATURDAY - SERVICE MUSIC...

Voluntary: My Soul Follows (Smith)
Introit: The Lord is My Shepherd (B. Farrell)
Hymn: At Calvary (gospel hymn)
Hymn: My Shepherd is the Living God (folk melody)
Offertory: Come, Thou Fount (LEVAS #111)
Communion: The Lord’s My Shepherd (Townend)
Hymn: Abundant Life (Iona, Bell)
Postlude: The Lord is My Shepherd (Michael Card)

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LAY MINISTERS…
The Choir, leading musical worship
The Faith@Five Musicians:
Mari Hill (flute)
Dave Wallack (guitars)
Redeemer Saturday Sexton: Rob Lopez
Readers: John Scott & Wendy Moskowitz
Intercessor: Chorister
LEM: Wendy Moskowitz
Director of Music, Faith@Five:
Robert Chrystal (with The Connections Choir)

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04/18/2026

Dear Redeemer Community,
[Faith@Five TODAY: 4:55 PM in the Church]

There’s a moment we return to each year shortly after the Easter Vigil… a quiet walk at the end of a long day.

Two people, carrying disappointment, confusion, and a kind of grief that hasn’t quite found words yet. We sort of know how that feels, don’t we? They talk it out as they walk, trying to make sense of everything that has happened. And without even realizing it, they are not alone.

This Saturday, we step back onto the Road to Emmaus together.

We gather to sing and pray not because everything is clear, not because our faith is perfect or polished, but because we know what it is to carry questions… to feel worn, uncertain, even a little distant. And still, somehow, we keep walking.

There is something comforting waiting for us in that story.

A Presence that meets us exactly where we are… not where we wish we were.

And a moment—simple, familiar, almost easy to miss—when everything shifts, and we begin to see again.

Eyes opened. Hearts stirred. Hope rising from somewhere deep within.

And then, just as quickly, the realization that we were never alone on the road at all.

This Saturday at Faith@Five, we’ll gather as a community to remember that kind of Presence—the One that finds us, restores us, and gently calls us back into trust, into love, into one another.

We will sing. We will pray.
We will break bread together.

And in that breaking, we may just recognize something we didn’t even realize we were searching for.

Come walk with us. There is a place for you here. There always has been.

With love,

Robert 💜

This Saturday - Service Music:
Voluntary: Were I the Perfect Child of God (Iona)
Introit: ‘Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus (LEVAS #108)
Hymn: As We Gather (G. Kendrick)
Hymn: Open the Eyes of My Heart (P. Baloche)
Offertory: Lamb of God (Twila Paris)
Sanctus: Jazz Sanctus (LEVAS #253)
Fraction Anthem: Be Known to Us Lord Jesus (WLP #875)
Communion: Let Us Break Bread Together (LEVAS #152)
Hymn: Where He Leads I’ll Follow (gospel hymn)
Postlude: Stay With Us (Trotta)

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LAY MINISTERS…
The Choir, leading musical worship
The Faith@Five Musicians:
Arielle Tobias (percussion)
Dave Wallack (guitars)
Redeemer Saturday Sexton: Rob Lopez
Readers: Patty McLean & Karen Ross
Intercessor: Becky Kelley
LEM: Terry Beauchamp
Director of Music, Faith@Five:
Robert Chrystal (with The Connections Choir)

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04/10/2026

Dear Redeemer Community,
[Faith@Five - in the chapel, Saturday at 4:55 PM]

Happy Easter. ♥️

Eastertide is when breath returns to places that felt closed, where hearts that have carried weight begin to lift.

This Saturday at 5 PM, we’ll gather in the chapel — a more intimate space, a little closer together — and I hope you’ll come be part of it.

We’ll hear a word from our Youth Preacher, Ben Paglinauan-Warner, and be led by The Rev. Josh Laws, our Celebrant. There’s something especially honest about hearing faith spoken through younger voices—not polished, not forced… like someone standing in the doorway between doubt and belief and choosing to step forward anyway.

This week’s story holds that same tension.

A room closed tight.
Fear in the air.
Questions that won’t settle.

And then, right there in the middle of it…
“Peace be with you.”

Not after everything is figured out.
Not once the doubts are gone.
Right in the middle of it.

Even the one who said, “I need to see… I need to touch… I need something real,” was not pushed away. Thomas was invited closer.

That’s the kind of community we’re building together.

A place where faith doesn’t have to pretend.
Where questions aren’t a problem to fix.
Where breath returns, slowly… gently…
and we begin to rise again.

We will sing words that ask for that very thing:

Come fill this place.
Revive our hearts.
Wake us from where we’ve been asleep.

And later:

When I am weak, you are my strength.
When I fall down, you pick me up.
When I am dry, you fill my cup.

That’s Easter, too.

Not just something that happened once…
but something that keeps happening — in us.
A quiet, steady joy that doesn’t depend on having everything resolved.
A path of life unfolding, even when we can’t see the whole road yet.

So come, just as you are. Whether your faith feels strong…or fragile…or somewhere in between…There is a place for you here. There always has been.

I’ll be there at the piano, holding the space with you, and I’d be so glad to see you.

With love,

Robert 💜

THIS SATURDAY'S MUSIC...
Introit: The Risen Christ (Madeira/Getty)
Hymn: Joy Unspeakable (B. Warren)
Hymn: Let It Breathe on Me (reprise, LEVAS #116)
Offertory: You Are My All in All (Maranatha)
Sanctus: Jazz Sanctus (LEVAS #253)
Communion: O Mighty Cross (D. Baroni)
Hymn: I’m So Glad Jesus Lifted Me (LEVAS #105)
Voluntary: You Will Show Me the Path of Life (Ps. 16, M. Haugen)

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LAY MINISTERS…
The Choir, leading musical worship
The Faith@Five Musicians:
Billy Georg (percussion/keyboard)
Dave Wallack (guitars)
Redeemer Saturday Sexton: Rob Lopez
Readers: Becky Kelley & Paula Merkle
Intercessor: Nancy Hubble
LEM: Wendy Moskowitz
Director of Music, Faith@Five:
Robert Chrystal (with The Connections Choir)

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