Location
Redemption Tempe
2150 E Southern Ave
Tempe, AZ 85282
(480) 889-3631
tempe@redemptionaz.com
Welcome to Redemption Tempe
We are a local congregation seeking to embody the gospel in all of life in Tempe.
Leadership
Each Redemption Church congregation is led by a team of local elders and staff. The unified body of Redemption (all congregations) is overseen by a Leadership Team.
Jim Mullins
Co-Lead Pastor
About Jim
Jim Mullins is the pastor of theological and vocational formation for Redemption Tempe and is on the leadership team for the Surge Network. He has worked as a pastor, entrepreneur, nonprofit leader, and a basketball scout in Turkey. He’s married to Jenny, and has an eight-year old daughter named Elliana. They spend their time watching basketball, cooking Middle Eastern food, and being completely ineffective gardeners.
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Josh Butler
Co-Lead Pastor
About Josh
Josh enjoys helping people who wrestle with tough topics of the Christian faith, and is author of the books The Skeletons in God’s Closet and The Pursuing God. He’s worked internationally in 7 different countries, been beat up by a billy goat, and run over by a Volkswagen van. Josh’s wife Holly, daughter Aiden, and sons James and Jacob enjoy spending time with friends over great meals, and exploring the scenic beauty of the Southwest.
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Warren Williams
Executive Pastor of Communication & Hospitality
About Warren
I have loved our Church and the city of Tempe since moving here from the Bronx, NY five years ago. I went to college at SUNY Albany where after graduating I became a believer. I moved to Phoenix in 2014 and have began to attend Redemption Tempe in 2015 where I also met my wife to be Jordan. I have served as a Pastoral Resident and a Deacon at R/Tempe and today I oversee Church Communications and our Sunday Service Volunteer Teams.
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Ryan Arneson
Executive Pastor of Campus, Students & Families
About Ryan
My wife Janet and I were married in March of 2002 and we have 4 beautiful children.
We both surrendered to Jesus during our time in college. After that, God put a burden on our hearts to preach the gospel to other students in college, and we spent about 13 years talking with students about Jesus on several college campuses. In 2009, we felt God had placed us in Redemption Church so when they asked if I would consider becoming a Pastor and Elder, I was honored and accepted.
It is a great honor and privilege to serve God and His Church.
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Will Vucurevich
Pastor of Care and Local/Global Mission
About Will
I’ve been married to Erin since 2009 and we have 2 energetic boys, Will and Micah. I started with Redemption Tempe in January 2016 after working in the field of behavioral health/social work. I love helping to equip people to impact our community through the power and wisdom of the gospel.
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Jake Slebodnik
Pastor of College and Career
About Jake
I came to Redemption as a student at ASU and spent the next 4 years interning and being steeped within the family of God. While I grew up in church, it was not until I began to hear the gospel as an all-encompassing story that I came to love Jesus in college. Yet though I grew up without knowing the love of Jesus, every Bible story and word from God came alive in me all at once. God in love did not waste one bit of his word on my heart. This fuels my passion for teaching the word of God in our Jr. High and High school ministries.
I direct Redemption Bloom and Flourish, our Jr. High and High School ministries here at Redemption Tempe. I have a crazy passion for stories of every kind and have found the gospel to be the greatest story the world has ever known. Through the constant retelling of this story, God has blessed me with the privilege of communicating the good news of Jesus to the children of the body of Christ.
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John Crawford
Pastor of Communities
About John
I was born and raised in Phoenix, grew up in Scottsdale, became a Christian when I was 22, got married to my beautiful wife Maryke in 2009, have 2 amazing boys named Wyatt and Jonah, been a hairdresser for 14 years, love being bi-vocational, received my undergraduate degree from Arizona Christian University, currently in my Junior year of seminary at the Missional Training Center, enjoy food, reading, basketball, ping pong, and sneakers.
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Brandon Bellerson
Pastor of Worship Arts
About Brandon
I’m a Phoenix native! Grew up in the Church and been following Jesus since I was 9. My wife Amelia is my favorite person and my daughter Delilah is the cutest kid around!I love playing and writing music, pour over coffee, incredible restaurants, smoking various meats, and reading!
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Daniel Zehring
Music Director
About Daniel
Daniel is the Pastor of Worship Arts and R/Kids for Redemption Tempe. He is married and works with his wonderful wife, Laura. He is thrilled to be Dad to Eleanor, Welsey, and Hazel. As a Phoenix native, he has been planted in Tempe since he attended ASU. Daniel has a long, ongoing list of current and former hobbies including hacky-sack, juggling, unicycle riding, Moped crashing, balancing ladders on his face, lawn care, skateboarding, reading, and cornhole tossing
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Susanne Gonzalez
Director of R/KIDS
About Susanne
Redemption has been my home since its early days on Ash, and have been able to serve in R/Kids both as a volunteer and staff member for over 12 years. I love seeing kids of all ages come to our church and experience the love and joy that following Jesus brings, and I’m so grateful to the parents who share them with us! My husband and I have two beautiful rascally children and a rottweiler mix pup named Tesla.
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Ken Dickinson
Director of R/Tempe Facilities
About Ken
I’ve had the blessing of being able to work at several different Redemption Church congregations in the facilities department. I started working full time at R/Tempe in October of 2019. My employment journey with Redemption Church started in July of 2012. When I was 7 years old, in a Sunday School classroom, my relationship with Christ began. However, I lacked a consistent church community and solid theology. This resulted in me being a cultural Christian for most of my life. God used family illness and work hardships to soften my heart. I started attending East Valley Bible Church in 2011. There I found the community and discipleship I desperately needed to help transform my life for Christ. I am the facilities director at R/Tempe. I manage the maintenance and care of the church property, the cleaning of the property, event set ups/tear downs and a few other hats. It is such a joy to have the privilege of being able to shape and sustain the place where God’s people gather to intimately interact with Him.
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Jordan Unterburger
Director of Production & Technology
About Jordan
I was born and raised in Los Angeles and moved to Tempe in 2015 to attend Arizona State University. A lot of things happened during my freshman year – I came to Christ when a staff member from Cru met me on campus and shared the gospel with me. I also became friends with my future wife – we will be married in September 2020. We have both been conveniently attending Redemption since we moved here from two different states, which is why it now feels like home to us. After volunteering and working part-time during the past couple years, I am excited to be doing what I love full time alongside such a supportive and encouraging staff team.
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Jason Raber
R/Tempe Elder
About Jason
I have had the privilege of being here at Redemption Tempe since day one. It has been an honor to see how God has moved over the years and I am constantly excited and expectant for what he will do next. A long the way God has blessed me with a great wife (Kate) and four kids (Micah, Sammy, MJ, and Ruthie).
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Mike Jones
R/Tempe Elder
About Mike
Mike is a 30 year veteran of industry. His experience and skill-set include leadership and administration, corporate development and acquisition, systems analysis and development. Uniquely, recently he served as Pastor of Morristown Christian Fellowship Church in Morristown, Arizona for 8 years. He has a passion to teach. Mike holds a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from Glenville State College and a Master of Divinity degree with a Concentration in Biblical Studies from Gateway Seminary.
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Melanie Beilfuss
Campus Coordinator
About Melanie
I began attending Redemption Tempe in 2015 after moving back to Arizona from eight years working in Washington, DC. My main role now is wife and mom to three beautiful kids, but I also get to use my love of all things administration and process to coordinate use of our campus.
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Melissa Stone
Ability & Neuro Diverse Ministry Coordinator
About Melissa
A true native of Arizona, I returned to the valley in 2012 from North Carolina with my husband, Daniel, after finding out our 2nd child’s medical needs were not going away. God blessed us with two more children to round out a big and messy family of six. I previously graduated from The Master’s College with a degree in Biblical Exposition, but have found my current role as a stay at home mom, spreading the gospel through the special needs community of doctors, therapists and other families. Oh how unexpected and beautiful life is turning out to be as we raise a family that is not typical.
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Laura Zehring
Events and Aesthetics Coordinator
About Laura
I grew up in Chandler, AZ and went to ASU where I studied interior design. My husband and I also met while attending ASU, so Tempe felt like the natural place for us to settle in and raise our family, which now includes 3 great kids. I remember accepting Jesus as a kid after my Sunday School teacher presented the Gospel message in class one morning. Now years later and just a few miles down the road from that experience, I get to be part of a team that fosters that same opportunity for the kids at Redemption Tempe. I love this community of believers and have grown in countless ways here over the years. As Kids Connection Coordinator I want to make it the best place possible for our kids to hear, see and know the truth of the Gospel.
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Melissa Blakey
5th and 6th Grade Leader
About Melissa
I grew up in Chicago and moved to LA for college and stayed after I graduated to work in television. I became a Christian in college at 19 on a retreat. I met my husband online and moved to San Diego right before marrying him and we’ve been married for almost 8 years. We came to Arizona in 2017 to be closer to family. We have two boys who are 4 and 2. I enjoy hanging out with friends, writing, discovering new places, hiking, and trivia. I actually won a trivia game show once and one of my bucket list items is to be on Jeopardy! someday.
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Havalah Wood
R/Kids Curriculum Coordinator
About Havalah
I moved to Tempe 8 years ago from paradise (literally, New Zealand) and fell in love with the desert. I’m married to my high school sweetheart and am mama to Ezra and Joelle. Several friends affectionately call me a grandma because of my hobby choices (crocheting, sewing, baking, etc.). For the past 2 years I have led the R/Kids Sunday prep team; coordinating the craft, activity and curriculum supplies used in our classrooms on Sunday.
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Megan Farina
R/Kids Supervisor
Jen Hanson
R/Tempe Graphic Designer
About Jen
Jen has attended Redemption Tempe since 2012 and joined the staff in 2015. She loves having the opportunity work with an incredible community of hilarious, caring, Jesus-loving coworkers/friends, along with getting to use her gifts as a graphic artist. Jen enjoys camping with her husband and four boys and her favorite activity is being alone with a cup of coffee and a good book. Jen’s family is known for its high-level of commitment to group costumes and themed parties.
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Autumn Matney
R/Tempe Graphic Designer
About Autumn
Redemption Tempe has been my home since about 2010. I joined a Redemption community while I attended ASU, and the friendships and community I was blessed with played a big role in my coming to know and trust Jesus. I now have the privilege to work for R/Tempe as a graphic designer on the communications team. My projects range from making chalkboard signs for the R/Kids area to helping design journals alongside the pastors and other leadership. My husband Drew and I have two children, and we enjoy hosting a Redemption community each week as well as serving in R/Kids.
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Samantha Wince
Social Media Coordinator
About Samantha
I am married to my high school sweetheart. We have one biological daughter and we are currently fostering a beautiful baby girl. We have been at Redemption for 3 years,In college, I was a part of the Navigators ministry and it is where Jesus met me and my relationship with the Lord truly began. I love working with the incredibly talented, kind and humble people at Redemption Tempe!
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Jasmine Clawson
Worship Lead
About Jasmine
Originally from Seattle (Go Hawks!) and my husband from East Texas, we met in Oregon and within two years we were married. It was a natural and immediate fit, joining Redemption Church in 2017 when Ben and I moved from Bend to Phoenix. We have two beautiful girls, Olivia (6) and Charlotte (4) and a sweet dog named Shy. My faith journey brought me to Jesus at a very young age and later I was baptized at age 14 on the mission field in Nicaragua. Birthed from that trip was a desire to worship. I have been a student of worship ever since, leading, teaching, and learning in spaces both locally and abroad. I enjoy our church family here at Redemption and it is a constant honor to add my voice to the mix.
REDEMPTION'S MULTI-CONGREGATIONAL STRUCTURE
Redemption church is multi-congregational in structure. This means that a central governing body provides structure, direction, and support for the ministry of each local congregation. Local congregations, like Redemption Tempe, are united and collaborative, but each has its own leadership and is free to contextualize its efforts. Click on the link below to learn more about the overall structure of Redemption.
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REDEMPTION'S BELIEFS AND PRACTICES
We are a non-denominational church with a Reformed view of salvation. We believe that all of life is all for Jesus. We have been saved by grace through faith, which is itself a gift. That gift empowers us to be a transformed people who embody His redemptive power and participate in the renewal of all things.
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REDEMPTION'S OUTWARD FOCUS
We are a sent people. As the church we are not called to turn inward and build our own kingdom. We are called to turn outward and give ourselves to the spread of the Gospel, the establishment of healthy local churches, and the multiplication of disciples. This is a call to invest beyond our church, beyond our tribe, and beyond our generation.
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Community and Global Initiatives
We strongly believe that all members of the body of Christ are sent people, called to proclaim and demonstrate the gospel to the world. Therefore our community and global efforts should never be limited to structured programs. However, in response to the needs in our community, and God's heart for the nations, we do build global partnerships and facilitate opportunities to participate in God's mission of blessing the nations in Christ.