Our Elders


Norm Butler
Norm Butler
Norm is an Arizona native who was raised on a farm in east Mesa. He graduated from Arizona State University with a BS in Finance and an MBA. Currently he is the Market Executive for Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Middle Market Banking Group for Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. He has attended Church of the Redeemer since 1985 and has served as a Deacon from 1996 to 2011. During the 1980s and 1990s Norm served as a youth leader at Redeemer and is currently teaching Sunday school for the high school group. He holds firm to the Confessional and Reformed doctrines. Norm has been married to Sharon for over 23 years. They have three children, Kirsten, Lauren, and Brian.
Robin Campbell - Chairman
Robin Campbell
Mr. Campbell also serves as church and school administrator. Robin and Lois, his wife, began attending Church of the Redeemer with their three children in 1980. He has served as an elder since 1985 and as a deacon from 1982 to 1985. He holds a MA Degree in Business Management from Central Michigan University and a BA Degree in Business Administration from the University of Maryland. He also attended Redeemer's Center for Biblical Training. Robin is a retired Major, U. S. Air Force, Medical Service Corps, and a retired division director, Maricopa County Department of Health Services. The Campbells have three children, four grandchildren and three great-grand children.
Ric Cox
Ric Cox
Ric was born in Pennsylvania, and at an early age his family moved to Arizona. He grew up in Tucson, and later moved to the Phoenix metro area. Though church was regularly attended as a youth, he lived his life without regard for God and came to know Christ as Lord and Savior as an adult shortly after serving time in the Marine Corps. During attendance at the University of Arizona, he participated in a weekly Bible study where he met a young lady. They were married in 1993 and have been blessed with three children. After moving to the Phoenix metro area, finding a doctrinally sound church proved difficult. Following a visit to the Church of the Redeemer in 1999, he knew that this was where he and his family belonged, and have remained since.
Jerry Hogg
Jerry Hogg
Mr. Hogg was born in California and spent his early years there. His father was a US Navy officer and as a result the family moved often and lived in virtually every state except Alaska as well as in England and Italy. Mr. Hogg - Jerry - followed in his father's footsteps and joined the Navy, serving as a surveyor in the SeaBees stationed in the Philippines and on Guam. After the service Jerry attended the University of Alabama receiving a BS in Physics. After college he worked for NASA as a rocket scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. While in the Washington DC area Jerry met Judy, and they were married in 1966. During this time Mr. Hogg received his MSEE from George Washington University in D.C. Judy and Jerry are the proud parents of Holly and Jim both happily married. They have two grandchildren who they see when ever they can. Mr. Hogg serves as Chairman of the Board of the Redeemer Christian School, and as an Usher. He retired from Motorola after thirty years, but still works in the valley as an electrical engineer.
Tracey Monroe
Tracey was born in Oklahoma City, along with his twin brother Stacey, over Texas soil, so they could claim to be Texans. His family moved often. He lived in south Texas, Houston, Port Author and San Antonio before his family settled in Austin. After graduating from highschool there, he earned a bachelor degree at what is now Texas State University. He moved to Fort Worth, then Little Rock. There the Lord snatched him from the fire and he began to mature through the discipleship program of the Navigators known as the 2:7 Series, which he completed in the two years set for the program. He learned to depend on the Lord through Jesus and to hold His Holy Word as infallible. He met his soon to be wife, Denise, as he was completing that discipleship. Then he and Denise moved quit a bit with either her positions or his. So he got his wife in Arkansas, his dog in West Texas (Lubbock), his son Joseph in Kansas (Lawrence), and his daughter Gabrielle in Pittsburgh; they had puppies in South Dakota, another daughter Gretchen in West Virginia, and a new dog in Arizona. It was in Kansas that the Lord introduced them to His Sovereign Grace, as explained in the Westminster confession, in which they could rest and grow. They were encouraged and challenged by the preaching of Bill Vogler, their pastor in Lawrence at Grace EPC. They discovered a radio program called the "White Horse Inn" while in Pittsburgh, which the church sponsers, and R. C. Sproul. He and his family have been Calvinist since then, finding reformed fellowships with each move. They have been members of Church of the Redeemer since early 2001, growing in His grace and care.
Hal Thompson
Hal Thompson
Hal was born and raised in Amarillo, TX where in his youth he pursued a life of sin and dissolution. In his college years God granted him repentance. The mid 70's was an amazing and confusing time for a young Christian with no real grounding as the Charismatic Movement was in full swing and The Late Great Planet Earth was jumping off the shelves. But another movement was also underway to counter the false doctrines with the great biblical doctrines such as justification by faith. The great Calvinist professor S. Lewis Johnson was at Dallas Seminary in those days, and by God's grace and kind providence Hal soon fell in with students of his. The world of Warfield, Charles Hodge, and Calvin was opened up, and Hal began to see more and more the love of God and the marvels of the work of Christ. Hal was blessed to study Greek and Hebrew at Believers' Chapel in Dallas and has continued to study and teach the Scriptures. Hal has been at Church of the Redeemer since moving to Phoenix in 1993 with his wife and three children.
Richard Brown (Emeritus)
Richard Brown
Jack Johns (Emeritus)
Jack Johns
Gary L.W. Johnson - Pastor
Gary L.W. Johnson
Virgil McDowell (Emeritus)
Virgil McDowell
Bob Watson (Emeritus)