Update on Our Mission Church, Christ The Redeemer in Pigtown Baltimore, MD

Robotics Team

Christ the Redeemer Ministries has been serving our community by
coaching a First Lego League Challenge team, Shark Frenzy!, for the
past 5 years. This year’s team is made up of 5 elementary and middle
schoolers from around Baltimore City. Musa, Tahrir, Aarya, Nathan, and
Vincent competed against 16 teams at the Anne Arundel Community
College qualifier in December. They took home 4th place overall as
well as a trophy for their Innovation Project! Shark Frenzy is now
able to move on to the state qualifier at University of Maryland
Baltimore County on February 21st. Come out and support our team!


Over the years, the team has looked different. We started as a team of
2, made up of 2 families from Pigtown. In recent years, we have had
more interest from families all around Baltimore. We have been able to
serve a total of 6 families over the last 5 years, but keep our roots
in Pigtown. Christ the Redeemer continues to host the only First Lego
League team in Baltimore City that is not school-based, but open to
the community. We meet every Saturday at the church to practice
programming, research, and teamwork. Christ the Redeemer has been able
to serve these families in a wide range of ways over the years,
providing spiritual guidance, Christmas presents, canoe trips, and
recovery options to families in need. We continue to see blessings
flow as we serve Baltimore families using our combined gifts of
teaching and engineering under the leadership of Fr. Terry.

Bikes for Christmas

Fr. Terry worked with John and Julia Flagg, a couple who restore used
bikes, to provide two local families with bikes for Christmas. One
family attends Christ the Redeemer church services and was gifted 3
bikes. Another family is a part of the First Lego League team that
meets on Saturdays. They were also gifted 3 bikes. John and Julia
Flagg restored some bikes and donated others to help the church
provide for the families this Christmas.

Freedom Conference 2025 In Review!

 

The Freedom curriculum starts out with a reintroduction to our Lord; it helps us to see Him as our beloved, faithful Pursuer and to stop viewing Him as an angry God looking for a reason to damn us. The 12 week course teaches us to live a transparent, repentant, relationship fueled lifestyle; a lifestyle Freedom describes as living in “the Tree of Life.” Every week, my wife, Amber and I have had the pleasure of teaching, using the format of fellowship, prayer, worship, discussion, and Holy Spirit inspired, intentional individual prayer. 

We were able to bring a group to the Freedom Conference in Midlothian, VA. To use a coffee metaphor, the curriculum is like good old fashioned drip coffee, picking up strength over time. The conference was like a few shots of espresso—strong and concentrated in a small amount of time. It was so powerful. The format was similar to the curriculum; praise, a teaching, a group agreement with truth and disagreement with lies, and individual prayer.

This curriculum alongside the conference was so powerful! The testimonies were abundant. Our group has unburied and repented of old weights and hindrances, forgiven wrongs, and had our eyes open to the promises of scripture. This is how God designed us to live. Freedom.

The Freedom Conference 2025 was a powerful weekend of growth, rediscovery, and healing. Sixteen members of the Cathedral Church of Reconciliation joined together at a church near Richmond, VA for nine deeply focused sessions aimed at uncovering the past and present burdens that can keep believers from fully experiencing the abundant life promised in Jesus Christ. Teams of believers—each of whom had previously walked their own journey of healing through past Freedom Conferences—devoted their time, prayers, and gifts to serve. They covered the event in intercession and led the room in heartfelt praise and worship. From the very beginning, the atmosphere was filled with expectation and reverence. 

Throughout the weekend, participants were invited to lay down emotional baggage and trust that Christ—through His Word, united with faith and prayer—can truly transform anything. Many were profoundly touched and left feeling lighter, freer, and renewed. Praise God for the freedom found only in the Holy Name of Jesus!

Introducing Transfiguration Church!

Transfiguration 

Church in Williamsburg, Virginia 

TCW.Life

We are very excited here in Williamsburg with a new facility and a new name! We also have embraced a New Song as our experiences with the Lord expand. 

Transfiguration a feast celebrated on August 6th is a revelation of the glory of God the Son. It records Jesus talking with Moses and Elijah in preparation for His passion. Then a voice from Heaven pronounces the Father’s  pleasure with the Son and stresses the importance of obeying Him. A great revelation of His Deity. 

It is very interesting on how this name change came about. Bishop Robert Northwood and I were discussing the possibility of a name change. We discussed some possibilities and agreed to spend some time in prayer about them. Upon visiting a shut-in from our congregation a couple of weeks later (a long time member named Sandy Sullivan), I was proceeding with prayer prior to serving her holy communion. She put up her hand to signal me to stop and said—“He wants the name changed.” I slapped my thigh in amazement—because she had no way of knowing about the discussion that I had had with the Bishop. I looked at Eddie Sluka who had accompanied me on this visit and we both smiled! 

Our new facility is beautiful and is still in progress as to its readiness for all ages. We are working very hard and we covet your prayers for our expansion and outreach. I have many new programs planned for the new year—so that many different people can find a way into our community. Prayer meetings not being the least. We conducted a “Grief Share” program recently which was very well attended. We intend to continue to reach out to this grieving community. We do however have one need that has been persistent over the years and that is for a Worship Leader. Please pray with us to that end. We have spoken to several people over the years—but with not much fruitfulness.

We are taking a more assertive approach with the help of the Diocese—because we realize without this expression we cannot convey the three streams which converge into the one river effectively. Please pray for us for this victory. Thank you.

 

Father Michael Pacella III, PhD

Looking To The Future Of Saint Michael’s Seminary!

Seminary Meeting 11/3/25

On November 3rd and 4th, 2025, The Cathedral Church of Reconciliation hosted an important meeting about the future and vision for Saint Micheal’s Seminary in Forest Hill Maryland. Last year, The Cathedral Church Of Reconciliation began carrying the torch of the seminary from its former roots in San Clemente, California. Bishop Rob Northwood held a meeting with many other clergy including our new primate, Arch-Bishop Chuck Jones. Those who were interested in the future of the Charismatic Episcopal Church’s Saint Micheal’s Seminary were invited, bringing in many clergy from many states, some being: California, Virginia, Georgia and New York.

The first day started with worship led by Father Jim Ball and a word from Bishop Rob about the main topics that were of utmost importance, all leading up to Holy Eucharist. From there, they had their first meeting and began discussing what should be done in the first semester back from the seminary’s recent sabbatical. All who were there shared and gave their ideas and visions for what the seminary should look like going forward from here. It was a balance of reaching for the new while still holding onto the traditional ways of the seminary.

They came together in worship and unity and by the end of the last meeting on November 4th, they came to a consensus through much prayer in and through the Holy Spirit. Many of the clergy left the meeting feeling encouraged and refreshed with new focus and determination. Thank God for our amazing leaders and followers of His Spirit! It truly is a wonderful and comforting thing to know we have clergy who are passionate about the future generations of ministers and leaders in the CEC. All glory to God!

A rough draft of Saint Michael’s Seminary’s new logo created by Avery Northwood!

Men’s Retreat 2025

The Mid-Atlantic Diocese Men’s Retreat was a time of teaching and growth filled with the Holy Spirit. 

We were honored to have Father Nick Navarro from The Cathedral Church of the Intercessor come and teach us his simple Gospel. Through a series of talks and teachings by not only Father Nick, but other members of our clergy, the retreat proved to be both encouraging and empowering to the men who attended.

The weekend kicked off with a mass and sermon by Bishop Rob Northwood and Spirit led worship through some of the men here at The Cathedral Church of Reconciliation. Many who came, felt refreshed and renewed with a new understanding of God’s unending grace and holiness. Father Nick’s unique and wonderful perspective on God, our relationship with Him and how we are to walk out His Will in our lives, ignited the hearts of all who heard him speak!

All glory to God!