After hearing Pastor Jeff Noblit's preaching online, Josh Tancordo decided to move down to Grace Life Church of the Shoals to serve as a summer intern. While there, he met his future wife, Becky. After Josh had been mentored in Muscle Shoals for four years, the congregation commissioned Josh and Becky to plant Redeeming Grace Church in the summer of 2014.

After Josh and Becky built relationships and hosted a Bible study in Pittsburgh for two years, Redeeming Grace Church officially covenanted together as a church in October of 2016. Today, Redeeming Grace Church is a gospel-centered church that values rich biblical preaching and authentic Christian community. More than anything, they are passionate about Jesus. They want to see him worshiped, treasured, and exalted. To learn more about Redeeming Grace, visit https://www.redeeminggracepittsburgh.com/our-story.

March 2025 Update:

This past month, six of us (pictured above) had an opportunity to travel to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to attend the annual True Church Conference, hosted by Grace Life Church of the Shoals. It was a wonderful time with rich preaching, encouraging missionary updates, and plenty of immensely enjoyable conversations with friends. The whole trip was even more special because (for the first time in several years) Becky was able to attend as well!

In addition, our church also hosted a "Galentine's Luncheon" as an outreach event for women in our local community. In addition to the 13 women from within our church who came to the luncheon, we had 28 women from outside our church attend! All of them heard a very clear 15-minute gospel presentation as well as a powerful salvation testimony. We also saw at least 4 of them at our church worship service the next day! Please pray that the gospel seeds that were planted at this luncheon would bear fruit. 

In addition, please pray for us as we consider how the Lord would have us reach out to our community this summer. We're planning three outreach events at local nursing homes and also plan to try out a Prayer Station at local community festivals. Please pray for God's direction and blessing in these efforts and others. 

I recently came across a quote from Martin Luther, in which he said, "Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of his willingness." Thank you for your efforts in prayer to lay hold of God's willingness to spread the gospel throughout Pittsburgh to those who so desperately need to hear it!

Serving Him,
Josh & Becky