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.

January 2025 Update:

This past month, we had a wonderful time celebrating the coming of Jesus into this world to "save his people from their sins" (Matthew 1:21).

You can see our Christmas Eve Candlelight Service pictured above. Not only was this service a time of meaningful worship, but my best estimate is that at least half of the 200+ people who attended were not regulars at our church. Indeed, I had about 5-7 of our church members and regular attenders introduce me to their unbelieving spouses that evening. Praise God that they were all able to hear the gospel clearly presented! Please pray it would take root in their hearts. 

We also made a pretty big transition a few weeks ago from one worship service to two worship services each Sunday. Overall, this transition went very smoothly. One particularly nice thing is that it gave people who had been more or less "on the sidelines" a chance to step up and serve.

In addition, you may recall that I mentioned our efforts to expand our parking lot. We will go before the Zoning Hearing Board of our local municipality this Monday in order to make our case for why we should be granted the variance we are requesting in order to do this project. Please pray for God's favor with those in authority. 

On a more personal note, I'd like to request your prayers for numerous women in our church who have had miscarriages recently. I can count at least 4 women who have lost a baby in the past 4-5 months. Please pray for God's comfort and grace for those families during this time. 

Lastly, we're excited to have Will Sorge, the full time Pastoral Assistant at our church, delivering his first sermon this Sunday! Some of you may remember me reporting that we baptized Will about two years ago. Until 2020, Will was an atheist living in New York City but came to faith simply by reading the Bible (along with his now-wife). Will has been on staff at our church for the past 6 months and is also enrolled at Southern Seminary. Please pray for God's anointing on Will this Sunday as he preaches and that God would raise him up to be used in ministry in a mighty way moving forward! And please also pray that God would raise up many others from our church to be pastors and missionaries. 

Please know that we're immensely grateful for your prayers. We wish you a Happy New Year of tremendous blessing! 

Serving Him,
Josh & Becky