Episcopal Church of the Redeemer

Worshiping God, living in community, reaching out to the world.

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  • Theresa Newell

    Theresa Newell

    Theresa Newell is our intern at Church of the Redeemer. She began in October 2022.

    Greetings! I am Theresa Newell, a postulant for the Holy Order of Priests.

    I am also a wife and mother. My husband and I have had a total of six children (two foster, two adopted, and two biological). They are mostly grown now—only the youngest, a junior in high school, remains at home. I spent several years as an elementary school teacher before I felt a call to the priesthood.

    I have a Master of Arts in Ministry and a Certificate in Spiritual Direction from Creighton University, a Jesuit University in Omaha, Nebraska. Currently I am attending Bexley Seabury Seminary’s online Diploma in Anglican Studies Program. I am also a chaplain at Swedish Hospital in Edmonds.

    I am very much looking forward to learning from and contributing to the Church of the Redeemer community as an intern.

    Thank you for the opportunity.

    Postulant

    A postulant is one who tests a vocation such as a vocation to an ordained ministry or the religious life.

    Postulants for holy orders seek ordination as deacon or priest. The length of postulancy varies. The time involves meeting with the bishop of the diocese, examination by the Commission on Ministry, along with physical and mental examinations, and in some cases attending discernment conferences or weekends. Postulancy is an initial time of preparation and testing for ordained ministry. Candidacy is the next stage in the ordination process.

    In religious orders, postulancy is the time of pre-novitiate discernment and preparation. Postulants may live as guests in the religious community for a period of time to become acquainted with the religious life and to allow the community and superior to observe their suitability for the religious life.

    The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, reaching out to the world.

    Church of the Redeemer

    Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world around us. 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 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. The campus is 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.

  • Bon voyage, Phillip Lienau!

    Bon voyage, Phillip Lienau!

    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

    Fr. Jed Fox presenting icon of Phillip to Phillip Lienau

    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 logo

    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 6220 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.

Spring forward this Sunday, March 8, 2026. Daylight saving time starts. 

Stop by The Hangar at Kenmore Town Square anytime between 2:00 pm and 3:00 pm for Ashes to Go on Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025.

3rd Sunday in Lent (Year A), March 8, 2026. Services at 8:00 am (no music) and 10:30 (music). Christian education for children and adults at 9:15 am. Spring forward one hour for the start of Daylight Saving Time.

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