“Our name is our message.” That’s the new saying around Redemption Church — formerly First Baptist Church, North Mobile, in Saraland. The new name, which was unanimously decided on by a team of lay leaders, will officially launch Sept. 13.
Brad Hobbs, campus pastor who will help plant and launch a second location called Redemption Church West Mobile Campus in the coming months, said Pastor Ed Litton began praying about what was next for the Mobile Baptist Association church in February and asked members to do the same.
“We began to try to discover how to align our priorities as a church to focus on being very intentional in disciple making and very intentional in helping plant churches not just in Mobile but nationally and internationally,” Hobbs said.
A name change, Hobbs said, was in order so that “the name of our people would also be their message. … Not that we are First Baptist but that we are first God’s redeemed. That our people would be about God’s redemptive work in places they live and go to school and work.”
Litton shared the new name with the congregation Aug. 30.
“We believe the overarching theme of God’s story is the redemption of every life for his glory,” Litton wrote in a press release. “We exist to see lives redeemed by the love of God and we will do what it takes to live out that mission.”
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