Rector

The Reverend Josh Acton, Rector of Christ the Redeemer, was formerly rector for St. Luke's Episcopal Church, a large congregation in north Dallas. He is also former executive director of the Center for Christian Healing, a Diocesan Ministry he founded in 2004. He is an experienced church grower, retreat leader and healing missioner who has served parishes in Dallas, Los Angeles and San Diego since his Seminary in New York (Master of Divinity), a former regional Director of the International Order of St. Luke the Physician, and co author of the book, Spirit Walk.

He came to Yuma with a love of the desert, he and his wife are both from the California Desert. He loves to scuba dive, read, and go on missionary travels with his wife and son. They bring their five year old son Issac who begins kindergarden this year, and their daughter Vanessa, 24, and grandson, Nathanal, age 4 have joined the family in their adventure to Yuma.

Fear Can be Overcome - excerpt from the September Newsletter
"I pray CtR will be known as the church where one can go to overcome fear, a place where we trust God's Word more than anything else. If I see my circumstances only with my physical eyes and live by my own senses, Satan can ruin my life with fear. If I instead trust my spirtual eyes and look to Jesus and make his word my whole reality, I find myself walking above the waves of fear. By his Word I can overcome all things! I want to be a church that overcomes every fearful situation with the trustworthy revelation we have received from God. If we walk by faith and not by sight - all things become possible!