About Redeemed Threads

I wasn’t always this guy.

Faith apparel for the quietly transformed — started by a man who was done with life, until one prayer changed everything.

Bill at five, in a pink shirt
Age five
Bill Reese
Bill today
Bill at the Sydney Opera House

For most of my life I was a rainy-day Christian — the kind who shows up when things fall apart. And things did fall apart. A long, damaging marriage that left me questioning everything about myself. Depression that ran so deep I prayed I wouldn’t wake up. I wasn’t brave enough to end it. I was just… done.

So one day, with nothing left to lose, I said it out loud: “Fine. I’ll try this God thing.”

The response I heard back was immediate and unmistakable:

It’s about time, Bill. I’ve been waiting for you to say that so I can get to work.

And He did. Almost instantly, things began to shift. Peace where there was chaos. Confidence where there was none. A reason to get up. I kept stepping out in faith — one uncomfortable step at a time — and I just kept becoming someone new. Sober. Anchored. Genuinely alive.

Today I run sound for our worship team, meet weekly in a small group, walk in discipleship with my pastor — and somewhere in all of that, I felt a clear nudge: share your heart. Freely.

That’s Redeemed Threads.

Not a church brand. Not a billboard. Just a quiet, confident signal to the world that Hell Lost Another One — and that anyone carrying weight they weren’t meant to carry can lay it down.

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

That verse saved my life. These threads carry that message. You don’t have to have it figured out — you just have to take the first step.

Welcome to Redeemed Threads. — Bill