December Update/Prayer Guide

Well, the time for our departure to Las Vegas, NV is just days away. We will be loading the moving truck in Hernando on Monday, January 17 and pull out early on January 18. We are aiming to unload the truck in Las Vegas on Saturday morning, January 23. If you are available to assist on either of these days, please let us know. Message us here on the blog, email us or give us a call! Any and all help will be appreciated.

PRE-DEPARTURE PRAYER TIME - If you are in the North Mississippi/Memphis area on Friday, January 14, we will be having a prayer gathering at Lifepoint Church on Scott St in Senatobia, MS at 7:00 p.m. Come and join with us for our final pre-departure prayer meeting.

DECEMBER PRAYER GUIDE - Our primary prayer needs this month are:

• Buyer/Renter for the Tweedy's House in Hernando
• Funding for the moving truck in January ($1500)
• Additional Financial Partners for Redemption
• Employment for Barry & Neal in Las Vegas

SECURING HOUSING TRIP

In mid December we will be traveling to Las Vegas to secure housing for our move in January. The expense of this trip is in advance of any funds that will be available for Redemption. We are appealing to those of you that are on our blog for help. We know that December can be a challenging time financially, but if God places it on your heart to help us, please be obedient. We will be needing about $1500 for travel and lodging for the four of us that will be going. Please send any gifts to the following address as soon as possible. (Make checks payable to Global Church Planting Partners.) Thank you so very much!

Neal and Barry

Global Church Planting Partners
PO Box 1249
Senatobia, MS 38668

November Update

NOVEMBER UPDATE AND PRAYER NEEDS

Neal had the opportunity to be in Las Vegas this month and while there met with several that are praying for and committing to be a part of the Redemption Baptist core group. While there, Neal explored housing options for the Tweedys and himself. Excitement continues to build toward our relocation in January. Barry is currently serving as a Church Planting Intern with Lifepoint church in Senatobia, Redemptions's launching church. This offering him the opportunity to learn from a church planting team that has seen God work through them in a great and mighty way. Below you will see our current prayer needs as will as information about partnership opportunities. Please take a moment to lift these requests up in prayer.

+ Establishment of Prayer Network + Core Group Development

+ Sale of the Tweedy’s House + Jobs in Las Vegas for Neal & Barry

+ Strategic Housing in Las Vegas + Additional Financial Partnerships

We would appreciate your prayers and the sharing of these prayer needs with your prayer groups.

If you have an interest in being a part of our prayer network, please sign-up on our blog at

www.redemptionvegas.com or call Barry at 702.306.7524.

If you would like to make a financial gift, please indicate for “Redemption Baptist” and send to:
Hope Baptist Church + Attn: Maria Reed + 8215 S. Eastern Suite 100 + Las Vegas, NV 89123

October Prayer Guide

DAY OF PRAYER AND FASTING - OCT. 24

+ Establishment of Prayer Network
+ Core Group Development
+ Sale of the Tweedy’s House
+ Jobs in Las Vegas for Neal & Barry
+ Strategic Housing in Las Vegas
+ Additional Financial Partnerships

We would appreciate your prayers and the sharing of these prayer needs with your prayer groups. If you have an interest in being a part of our prayer network, please sign-up on our blog at www.redemptionvegas.com or call Neal at 662.292.3963 or Barry at 702.306.7524.

If you would like to make a financial gift, please indicate for “Redemption Baptist” and send to:

Hope Baptist Church
Attn: Maria Reed
8215 S. Eastern Suite 100
Las Vegas, NV 89123

Prayer Guide September 2010

We want to say a word of appreciation to all of you that continue to pray for Redemption Baptist Church as we are still working toward being on the ground in Las Vegas by January 2011. This is our most current list of prayer needs that you can lift up to the Lord on our behalf:

• Establishment of our Prayer Network
• Core Group Development
• Sale of the Tweedy's House
• Jobs in Las Vegas for Neal and Barry
• Strategic Housing in Las Vegas
• Additional Financial Partnerships
  

If you have any questions our want to help in some way, please message us and we will be in touch!

I'm in Vegas this week.

Hey Everyone:

I am in Vegas this week doing some work for Redemption. I had a great meeting with the staff at Hope Baptist, who is our local sponsor church. Hope Baptist has agreed to help manage our finances until we are ready to take them on ourselves. This means that they will be the place that all donations for Redemption should be sent. If you would like to support Redemption financially, you can make a check out to Hope Baptist Church and mail it to:

Hope Baptist Church
Attn: Maria Reed
8215 S. Eastern Suite 100
Las Vegas, NV 89123

Be sure to mark on the check that it is for “Redemption Baptist.”

On Thursday I will be meeting with several families who are interested in being a part of Redemption. They already live in the area and have a heart to see it reached with the Gospel. Please pray that the Lord would bless this meeting in a great way.

Give Barry or me a call if you desire for us to come and share with your church about what God is doing in Las Vegas.

I guess that is it for now. Thank you for all of your prayers and support!

In Him,

Neal

The Call to Redemption - Promo Video

The video below gives you a snapshot of how God has called us to plant Redemption Baptist Church in Las Vegas in the southern Summerlin area. This video also extends to others the invitation to partner with us in this work.

Thursday Update

Hey Everyone:

What a day! As the week comes to an end, we are tired but excited about the doors the Lord has opened for us. Barry and I met with a group who may end up being our core group for Redemption. It was a great meeting and we are looking to have another one next month because there were several couples who could not make it tonight. A lot of church plants struggle to get a core group, yet it seems the Lord is dropping one into our laps!

The team finished up surveying tonight. As part of the surveying, the teams have been getting prayer requests from the people they meet. We have written cards for the people we have prayed for to let them know that we have prayed for them. We will go and deliver the cards tomorrow evening to wrap up the weeks ministry.

Let me thank everyone for your encouraging comments and for all of the prayers. It has been a great trip. Tomorrow evening we will pack up and head to the airport. We will arrive in Memphis Saturday morning. We have had a great week, but we are excited to get home!

Neal

Wednesday Update

Hey Everyone:

It has been a great day! Barry and I had two important meetings. The first was with Mike and Shane from Hope Baptist Church. We had a wonderful lunch and worked out the details of them serving as our local sponsor. We then went to a meeting with the local director of missions, Harry Watson. Harry helped us improve our church planting proposal and encouraged us in what we are doing. It is good to have such great partners here in Vegas!

Tomorrow is the big day where we meet with a group of folks who are interested in the church plant. We are hoping to have a strong core group emerge from tomorrow’s meeting. The team will also be doing more survey work. They have done such a great job and we have had a great time serving the Lord.

Sorry for not uploading pictures, but I was away from the team most of the day. I should have some new pictures tomorrow. Again, thank you for all of your prayers!

Neal

Tuesday

Hey Everyone:

It has been another great day. We were able to do a lot of surveying as well as some folw-ups with people who have shown interest in the church plant. Besides the church planting work, we took some time to see Hoover Dam.

Tomorrow is an important day as Barry and I will be meeting with local church and associational leaders. Please pray that our meetings wil go well as we continue to build partnerships here in Las Vegas.

Neal

Viva LasVegas

Hey Everyone:

What a day! The Lord is blessing in great and wonderful ways. I got to do a follow up visit with a family who met our team that was out here two weeks ago. They have been praying for a church in their area for a while now. Not only are they interested in the plant, but on Thursday night, we will be meeting with a group of folks who are possibly interested in being a part of the plant. Please pray for Barry and me as we meet with this group and as they pray about being a part of Redemption.

The rest of the team has done a great job! The temperature today reached 110˚F, and yet they braved the heat to continue doing survey work. The team went and helped out with the “House of Light” inner-city ministry. They also had a chance to check out some of the sights here in Las Vegas.

I guess that is it for tonight. Stayed tuned tomorrow for more updates and pictures.

Neal

Day 2 - OBC Vegas 2010

Hey Everyone:

It has been a great day in Las Vegas. This morning started off rough, and we were late for church, but we were blessed to worship at Hope Baptist. It was so encouraging to see a large crowd of people who are hungry for the Word of God. We also got to see three people baptized at service. Knowing that 95% of the city is unchurched, seeing people come to Christ was a great blessing!

This evening we began our survey work. We had a great opportunity to talk with local people and even pray for issues they are dealing with in their lives. Tomorrow we will be helping with a Hispanic ministry here in downtown Vegas. We will then go back out surveying in the evening.

We appreciate all of your prayers! The Lord is already opening doors for us and we are having a great time serving. We will share more with you tomorrow.

Neal

We have arrived

Hey Everyone:

The Oakhurst Baptist Vegas Mission Team has arrived! We had a great flight and are now settled into our rooms. We will be worshiping with the folks at Hope Baptist in the morning. Check in each evening for an update!

Neal

Mission Team - FBC, Purvis

We had an outstanding week (July 3-9) here in Las Vegas with a team of college students and adults from First Baptist Church, Purvis. The team of 6 continued the survey work and prayerwalking in the Summerlin area where the focus of our work has been....where God has led us to plant Redemption Baptist Church. This team also had the opportunity to work with Casa de Luz (House of Light) which is a ministry resource center located in the heart of the "Naked City" district of Las Vegas, is seeking to be a true house of light for one of the city's most challenged neighborhoods. Operating under "Works of My Father," Casa de Luz aims to provide hope and love to people who need it most.

This team prayerwalked and surveyed a community of over 400 homes in four days in over 100 degree temps. Thank you all for every effort you made!

Great News!!!

Hey Everyone:

Things are going great with the church plant. Barry and a team from Hernando Baptist Church is in Vegas this week prayer walking and surveying Southern Summerlin. They have made some great contacts and we are finding many people who are interested in a new church plant. Please pray that the Lord would use the three teams that are going to Vegas this summer to help us determine where we should begin our work.

Also, I am pleased to announce that LifePoint Church in Senatobia, Mississippi, has come on board as the church planting church. This is an important part of the church planting process. I am so excited to be working under the authority and leadership of such a missions minded church.

Let me share a financial need with all of you. We have completed our DVD to send out to churches as we seek to develop praying, giving, and going partners. We need $1,000 to print the DVD mailer/flyer that we have produced. Please pray that the Lord would meet this need. If you would like to help with this particular project, please send a check to:

Global Church Planting Partners
PO Box 1249
Senatobia, MS 38668

Please mark on the check that this is for Redemption Baptist.

Thank you for your prayers and support. I hope to post the video on the blog in the next few weeks.

In Him,

Neal

Quik update

Hey Everyone:

Sorry we haven’t updated the blog in a while, but we have been busy! Things are going well. We should have a promotional video up on the blog by the middle of May. Pray as we continue to form partnerships with local churches and denominational leaders. We will have some major announcements in just a few weeks! Stay tuned.

Neal

Partnership Plan for Redemption Baptist Church

• As we are making preparations to go, we are looking for partners in ministry for this endeavor. There are three kinds of partners that God has placed on our hearts to seek:
  · Praying Partners
  · Giving Partners
  · Going Partners
  
• We are seeking to enlist Praying Partners that will commit to pray for a number of specific things that will empower this ministry for the task at hand. We will provide prayer guides and ministry progress updates for our Praying Partners through our website (www.redemptionvegas.com), emails and phone text updates.
  
• We are seeking to enlist Giving Partners that will commit to be a part of this work through giving financially as God directs them to give. We will be sharing what our start up budgetary needs will be with churches, organizations, or individuals so they may commit to give over a designated period of time to development of this church and its ministries.
  · Monthly Giving Opportunity
  · Specific Need Giving (project specific, one time gifts)
  
• The next area of partnerships that we are seeking are Going Partners. These partners can be families, couples or individuals whom God has placed a call to go and to serve for a season as seed members for the church plant. These Going Partners would relocate to Las Vegas and plug-in to the community and begin building relationships and connecting with people and through these relationships connect people with the redeeming power of Christ.
  · Long Term Planters – 2 years or more
  · Short Term Planters – 1 week to 2 years
  
• Let us hear from you if you have an interest in any of these partnership options, so that we can plug you in and provide you with more information.

Redemption is Coming

Hello Everyone:

This is the first blog of a new church plant in the works for Las Vegas in 2011. Barry Tweedy, along with his family and me (Neal Creecy) will be moving to Vegas in January 2011 to start Redemption Baptist Church. I am looking forward to seeing what God is going to do through this plant. Over the next few weeks we will be updating this website with more information about the church plant as well as the church planting team.

We do have a few prayer requests we would like to share so that folks can be praying:

1. Barry and I will be traveling to Las Vegas March 8-13. We are hoping to film a promotional video that we can share with churches. Please pray that the Lord would provide us people with the equipment and expertise in order to make a professional video.

2. During our trip in March, we will be looking at housing and schools. Pray that the Lord would show us what neighborhood He desires for us to plant our lives.

3. Please pray that we would continue to build partnerships with churches who want to be a part of this work.

Thank you for your prayers and I look forward to keeping you updated. By the way, if you would like to help financially, you can make a tax deductible donation to:

Global Church Planting Partners
PO Box 1249
Senatobia, MS 38668

Please mark “Redemption Baptist Support” on the memo section of the check.

That is it for now. More updates will be coming soon!

In Him,

Neal