Redemption Church
Sundays at 10:00am
Our Story
In August 2012, the founding pastor of Redemption Church Sylmar, Pastor Mark Rodriguez, and the elders of Redemption Church Northridge took a significant step. They gathered with a group of individuals to meet on Sunday nights, dedicating their time to prayerfully considering the idea of planting a church in the Sylmar area. After six months of faithful prayer, the Lord opened the door for worship services to begin on Sunday, February 3, 2013, at one of the Children’s Hunger Fund meeting spaces.
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In 2015, the Lord continued to grow the church and allowed us to begin meeting at our current location on Glenoaks in Sylmar. We continue faithfully to “Preach the Word, Praise the Lord, and Evangelize All People” while growing in the grace and knowledge of His truth.
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In March 2020, COVID-19 impacted our congregation deeply in many ways, which caused us to lean upon the great and sovereign God we trust. Then, on November 1, 2020, our sovereign God, by His everlasting grace, saw fit to take our dear brother, Pastor Mark Rodriguez, to his eternal home. Both the congregation and the elders had an overwhelming desire to faithfully continue serving the community of Sylmar for the sake of the gospel, which we are effectively continuing to do even now.
We at Redemption Church are a diverse group of people who desire to proclaim the gospel’s message by “Living a Transformed Life by the Power of the Gospel Together.”
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What we Believe
As a local church in Sylmar, Ca, we seek to have our beliefs, our thinking and our living shaped by God’s objective truth revealed in the Bible.
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We believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God, sufficient and authoritative for all matters of faith, life, and godliness.
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We believe there is one God, eternally existing in three distinct persons, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
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We believe Jesus Christ is fully man and fully God, lived a perfect life, died a substitutionary death on the cross for the sins of the world, was buried and after three days rose from the dead, conquering death, and is now seated at the right hand of God.
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We believe all men are sinners, falling short of the glory of God, and are in need of salvation from sin and its consequences.
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We believe that salvation is by God’s grace, mercy, and faith alone, through the preaching of the gospel, repentance, and the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit.
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We believe every believer is indwelt by the Holy Spirit and is able by His grace to walk in the newness of the Spirit by obeying Jesus and thus becoming more like Him.
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We believe that salvation includes regeneration which produces increasing obedience and transformation into the image of Jesus.
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We believe in the universal church whereby all true believers are united through faith in Jesus according to the truth of God’s Word.
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We believe that at the end of the age Jesus Christ will return to this earth personally, visibly, physically, and suddenly in power and great glory to translate His Church from this earth and so the saints shall always be with the Lord.
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We believe in the future resurrection of those who have died, the saved to eternal life and the unsaved to eternal punishment
Our Leadership:
Daniel Castillo
Pastor
Daniel has attended Redemption Church Sylmar since 2019 and faithfully serves as one of the pastors. He leads the church by preaching on Sundays and teaching weekly Bible studies and men’s discipleship groups. He is also a full-time firefighter for the City of Los Angeles while attending seminary part time. Daniel and his wife Stefanie have been married for twenty-five years and have three adult children.
Ricardo Carrillo
Pastor
ricardocarrill8472@sbcglobal.net
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Ricardo started attending Redemption Church Sylmar in 2018 and faithfully serves as one of the pastors. Ricardo has a Certificate in Christian Leadership studies from the Urban MinistryInstitute TUMI, a Certificate from the Bible Training Center for Pastor, a Pre- Ministerial Certificate from CHET Centro Hispano de Estudios Teologicos and an Expository Preaching certificate from IME Instituto de Ministerio Expositivo. Ricardo also serves as an English to Spanish translator teacher of bible studies and small group leader. He has been married to Norma for thirty-one years and has two daughters, Paloma, and Angela.
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