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I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge
the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season.
Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. -2 Timothy 4:1, 2
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Our Pastor: Rev. Edward Suffern Pastor Ned Suffern has been
serving as pastor here since November of 2009. In 1980, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from
Grove City College in Pennsylvania, having also taken a junior year abroad studying at the University of East Anglia
in England, where he was a Bible study leader for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. He taught chemistry, physics and Bible
for four years at Stony Brook School on Long Island, New York. He also had experience as Program Director for two
summers at Christian Service Brigade Frontier Camp in Lovell, Maine.
In 1985 Ned married his wife Lois, soon after
she finished her Bachelor's degree in elementary education and music. Earning the Master of Divinity degree from New
Brunswick Seminary in 1987, Pastor Ned served as Associate Pastor of Youth, Education and Evangelism at Sixth Reformed Church,
North Haledon, NJ, until 1993. He and Lois then began fourteen years of pastoral ministry with the congregation, youth director
and leaders of Hope Reformed Church, Clifton, NJ. After that, Pastor Suffern served through October of 2009 as Preaching
and Teaching Pastor of First Reformed Church in Orange City, Iowa, where he worked with the congregation and staff to advance
their mission: "Glorify God, Know Christ, and Make Him Known."
Working together with the session, diaconate and congregation
of RRPC in the ministry of Jesus Christ is a joy to Pastor Ned and his family. Ned and Lois have been blessed with three daughters, Kathryn, Rachel, and Johanna,
and a son, John. The purpose of the Suffern family is to serve Christ whatever they do and wherever they go. Lois has
taught piano privately for more than two decades and is a certified elementary school and music teacher. Kathryn is
a missionary who teaches at the Christian International School of Prague with her new husband, Matthew Ulrich, working through
TeachBeyond. Rachel graduated from Grove City College majoring in English and Christian ministries, and she currently
works in the medicare billing department of Glens Falls Hospital. Johanna is an accomplished violinist who is studying
mathematics and music at Grove City College. John's passion is baseball, and he is active as a junior leader in RRPC's
Brigade group.
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Our Session - Elders Rev. Edward Suffern, Pastor Rev. Charles Holliday, Emeritus Ralph Kelsey Jack Merry, Emeritus Eldrid Page, Emeritus Kirk Phillips, Clerk of Session
Our Diaconate - Deacons Mark Beilstein (on sabbatical) Ken Burl, Treasurer John Hungerford Don Petersen, Chairman |
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Our members at RRPC: Full-time staff serving the Lord wherever
they live, work and play ! Redeemer
Reformed Presbyterian Church is a congregation that seeks to glorify God and enjoy him forever.
As a church family, every member has a role through prayer and service in advancing the three-fold mission of our congregation: - Redeemer Church seeks to worship God reverently and sincerely.
- We are dedicated to building up this congregation of God's adopted sons and daughters
in the faith of Jesus Christ.
- We are determined
to bring the good news of salvation through Jesus Christ to a lost and broken world so loved by God.
The way to accomplish this mission is
the unfettered preaching, teaching and living out of God's Word, the inerrant scriptures.
Pastor Ned's desire is that as Redeemer Reformed Presbyterian
Church experiences a life of transparent dependence upon our sovereign God through prayer, God will bring glory to His name
as we make disciples, starting here in the foot-hills of the Adirondacks, and reaching to the ends of the earth.
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