This year we are expecting 700 people from the community coming. Our game plan is to decorate the cars and give out candies on the lawn, feed them in the courtyard, perform music, give away prizes, and present the gospel in the auditorium.
Come and lend us a hand to serve our community!

[Update...]
Thanks to many of you who came out, especially David Twiss (The Illusionist) and the North Pointe band, as well as those of you who serve with the food, the cars, the helps, and the clean up, etc. We gave away over $450 worth of prizes in raffles. But best of all are the following testimonies:

“Thank you all members of the church for the Trunk or Treat!!! You guys ROCK!!! It was a blessing to see how much fun the kids had. We really appreciate all your hard work. Yesterday was one of the best Halloween I’ve ever had… Again Thank you.” ~one attendee

“nothing like helping handing out candies to kids…” ~one volunteer

“The most amazing thing is to see how the Coastal members work. Here they are in their old age, yet they went all out carrying heavy stuff, participate fully, etc. just to share God’s love to the people from the community. This is amazing for us to see, and to imitate…” ~one RP leader

See more pictures here

Starting from Oct.30, 2011 we will learn about the concept of “Salvation” for real life from the first few chapters of Exodus for a few weeks until Thanksgiving.

Join us in celebrating God’s transformation power and receiving our new brothers and sisters into Redemption Point’s family on Sunday 10/23/11

Redemption Point Baptism 10-23-2011: testimonies from Redemption Point on Vimeo.

“Forgotten God” is a 7-weeks series about the Holy Spirit, starting May 15, 2011

This Easter we would like to invite the neighbors around Bumble’s house to an Easter Egg Hunt and BBQ at the Park right across from Bumble’s house. Come and join us at 10am and bring non-church kids for Art and Craft, Game, and Egg Hunt.

No religious service will be conducted.

Afterward we will have BBQ/hotdog for lunch and invite all guests to attend the Easter night service at 6pm.

It’s summer time again when we will participate in the VAY annual Sport Tournament.

If you are interested in playing basketball, volleyball, track & field, Bible Trivia for Redemption Point, please contact Binh Bong at church.

For 30 days before Good Friday, Redemption Point will engage in a “spiritual Spring Training” in which we will meditate for 30 days on the end of our lives by looking at how Jesus (and other biblical characters) facing their end-of-life.

So come and join us in daily reading of Scripture, journaling your thoughts, meeting for accountability and encouragement in Growth Group during the week, and worship corporately on Sunday Night.

Subscribe to the daily devotion short email reminder from rp-devo below…

Unlike other religions (or even other falsified biblical religions), Christianity centers around the truth of the Gospel: “Jesus Christ – God’s promised Rescuer and Ruler – lived our life, died our death, and rose again in triumphant vindication – as the first fruit of a new creation – to bring forgiven sinners together under His gracious reign” . This gospel is described through out the Bible in the most astounding terms: Angels long to look into it all the time (1 Peter 1:12); it does not simply bring us power, but it is the power of God itself (Rom.1:16); it is also the blessing of God with benefits, which accrue to anyone who comes near (1 Cor.9:23); it is even called the very light of the glory of God itself (2 Cor.4:4-6).

The Gospel has the life of God; after it has regenerated us, it is the instrument of all continual growth and spiritual progress (Col.1:6). Paul is showing that we never “get beyond the gospel” in our Christian life to something more “advanced” (Col.2:6-8 and Galatians). The gospel is not the first “step” in a “stairway” of truths; rather, it is more like the “hub” in a “wheel” of truth. It is not just the A-B-C’s but the A to Z of Christianity.

We are not justified by the gospel and then sanctified by obedience, but the gospel is the way we grow (Gal.3:1-3) and are renewed (Col.1:6). It is the solution to each problem, the key to each closed door, the power through every barrier (Rom.1:16-17). The main problem in the Christian life is that we have not thought out the deep implications of the gospel, we have not “used” the gospel in and on all parts of our life. Richard Lovelace says that most people’s problems are just a failure to be oriented to the gospel–a failure to grasp and believe it through and through. Luther says, “The truth of the Gospel is the principle article of all Christian doctrine… Most necessary is that we know this article well, teach it to others, and beat it into their heads continually.” The gospel is not easily comprehended. Paul says that the gospel only does its renewing work in us as we understand it in all its truth. All of us, to some degree, live around the truth of the gospel but do not “get” it. So the key to continual and deeper spiritual renewal and revival is the continual re-discovery of the gospel. A stage of renewal is always the discovery of a new implication or application of the gospel–seeing more of its truth. This is true for either an individual or a church.

The gospel opposes both religion and irreligion (Matt.21:31; 22:10). These two errors represent the natural human tendency: they can be called moralism/legalism, and hedonism/relativism. They are both ways to avoid Jesus as Savior and keep control of our lives; both are based on distorted views of God. The Gospel will say to both at the same time: “I am more sinful and flawed than I ever dared believe” (vs. antinomianism); and “I am more accepted and loved than I ever dared hope” (vs. legalism). To “get the gospel” is to turn from self-justification and rely on Jesus’ record for a relationship with God. The irreligious does not repent at all, and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians also repent of their righteousness. That is the distinction of the Gospel, which produces love, joy, humility and gratefulness, and all godliness in our lives.

We are the English speaking offspring of the immigrants (mostly Vietnamese), who now find it is easier to express ourselves in English. Therefore we congregate to take a keenly look at God and how He is working in our midst. After all, if there is an eternal heaven or hell, wouldn’t that be the most important thing to consider?

As we look around, we see many fractured relationships: in family, between generations, among the churches, in different cultures – isolations in society. But the “Good News” (in which the Bible called it “Gospel”) is this: all can be (and will be) restored when God reconcile our broken relationship to Him.

In being so, we exist to…
…be captivated by God’s love
…grow together in His Spirit
…serve and share the Gospel of Jesus
The Gospel changes everything!

We worship on Sunday night 6pm at Coastal church on the corner of Slater and Ward in Fountain Valley.