When Casey Johnson and Nathan Hobert five years ago were starting what is now Redeemer City Church in Fitchburg, they had a broad vision of what it could be.
“We knew we wanted to be a church that was going to bless the community,” Johnson said. “We wanted to be very involved and we wanted to be Jesus incarnate in our city.”
Now Redeemer City has its own building on the west side of Fitchburg in a neighborhood that is short on community resources. They have partnered with two elementary schools, helped create an afterschool-program for children in a neighborhood isolated from the school they attend, help lead a network of faith leaders in the Fitchburg area and designed their new building so it could house a variety of programs that serve the community.