As many of you know, Phillip Lienau has been interning at Redeemer during his discernment for ordained ministry. This Sunday [August 8, 2021] is his last service at Redeemer as he begins the next phase in his discernment. Phillip will begin seminary in a few weeks at Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California.

I am grateful for Phillip’s time here at Redeemer and I hope you will join me in wishing Phillip good luck and prayers for his continuing discernment God’s call in his life.

I am also grateful for everyone at Redeemer who has made Phillip feel very welcome during a very strange and difficult time. Being a church that can cultivate an environment for people to discern where God is calling in ministry, ordained or lay, is a special communal vocation, and one that Redeemer continues to live into in beautiful ways.

—Fr. Jed Fox, Rector of Church of the Redeemer, in the parish newsletter

Departing gift for Phillip Lienau

During the outdoor service, an icon of Phillip was on the altar through the consecration. Before the close of the service, Fr. Jed Fox blessed the icon and then presented it to Phillip Lienau as a departing gift.

The final sermon

On August 8, 2021, Phillip Lienau had an opportunity to preach his sermon twice. The first time was at the outdoor service at 9:00 am, and then again at the 10:00 am livestreamed service.

Church Divinity School of the Pacific

The only Episcopal seminary on the West Coast, Church Divinity School of the Pacific forms leaders called to find new ways to create Christian communities and share God’s love. Through a recently announced partnership with Trinity Church Wall Street and an ongoing dialog with bishops and grassroots leaders, we have done the following:

• Focused our degree programs on Christian mission, discipleship, and evangelism and on core leadership skills of contextual awareness, critical reflection, and public conversation.
• Established a popular low-residency degree option for students balancing family obligations or professional responsibilities.
• Concentrated online CEU offerings on core courses in ministry, theology, and scripture.
• Established partnerships that allow us to create distance learning curricula for individual dioceses.
• Instituted a required course in community organizing for all Master of Divinity [the professional degree for those studying for the ministry] students.

A student’s experience at CDSP integrates scholarship, reflection, worship, spirituality, and the practice of ministry. Our pedagogical approach is grounded in the realization that after seminary, clergy and lay leaders will be immersed in the shifting realities of the American religious landscape and will constantly be learning new things—whether they want to or not.

Church of the Redeemer

Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world. We are an Episcopal Church serving north King County and south Snohomish County, Washington. As you travel your road, go with friends walking the way of Jesus at Redeemer.

Church of the Redeemer is at 6210 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. We are a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.

The Episcopal Church welcomes you.