Salt & Light Fall 2021 Now Available Click here to read the Fall issue of the Hope Church Salt and Light!
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Welcome to Hope Church RCA. Make yourself at home.
Welcome to Hope Church RCA. Make yourself at home.
Salt & Light Fall 2021 Now Available Click here to read the Fall issue of the Hope Church Salt and Light!
Adult Education Classes: Sundays at 9:40 AM in Commons 1, masks required October 17 and 24: The Kingdom Will Come Anyway Bob Luidens, a Hope Church member since 2016 and a retired pastor in the RCA, recently published a personal memoir entitled The Kingdom Will Come Anyway—A Life in the Day of a Pastor. During the sessions, […]
Adult Education Classes: Sundays at 9:40 AM in Commons 1, masks required September 12: The Iona Community and Iona Abbey Pilgrimage Iona Community leader Ruth Harvey will Zoom to Hope Church live from Scotland’s Isle of Iona, introducing the Iona Community’s history, mission (peace/justice/worship renewal), and current activities. Dede Johnston will describe her multiple Abbey […]
Karla Kammeraad-Bos has been our valued financial administrator for the last 13 years. She is starting a new position elsewhere, and so her last day at Hope Church will be August 25. We have so appreciated her service to Hope Church and will dearly miss her. Please pray for Karla as she prepares to leave […]
Click here to read the full letter. See new guidelines below: New Covid guidelines for Hope Church (August 10, 2021) Sunday Worship Service in the Sanctuary Open to all with no limit on the number of attendees Masks required for all Social distancing In general, no social distancing required Please note that young children under 12 years […]
Josh Vis and Sally Vis are RCA mission partners supported by Hope Church, and their current film project was supported through the recent Community Partner grants from Hope Church. This recent update shares both encouraging progress on the film project and connects to insights and resources on issues of justice in Palestine/Israel. Dear friends/partners: We […]
Laurie Baron and I have been facilitating a writing group at Harbor House for the last couple years (even for a time over Zoom during the pandemic!), and we’d like to introduce a new voice to Poetry Corner – one of the women we’ve been writing with during June – Cyd Slone. Cyd has a […]
Please join us for an important Congregational meeting on Sunday, July 25 at 11:30am. This will be a hybrid meeting that allows for both in-person and Zoom attendance. The consistory is ready to act on the agreement to donate Hope Church property for the Housing Initiative to be developed and managed by Dwelling Place in […]
The Consistory appointed Coronavirus Task Force met on Tuesday, June 22, to review the current data on vaccination rates as well as the infection, hospitalization, death rates nationally, in Michigan, and in Ottawa County. The good news is that vaccination rates are strong for key demographics in Ottawa County (and we believe even stronger for […]
The Creation Care Ministry is highlighting these opportunities: Our own David Chase is participating in a demonstration of the ability of amateur radio operators to provide emergency communications when all other systems fail. Dave will be demonstrating a solar powered system. You can find David at the northeastern end of Zeeland’s Huizenga Park from 2:00 […]