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Dear Friends and Supporters, We know that many of you have been praying for us and for Kenya as the news of the Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi was making the headlines in U.S. papers and on various television stations. This has been a long week for us and knowing that so many of you […]
Time to clean out your medicine cabinet! Please join us downtown Holland this Saturday. Bring your expired prescriptions or over the counter pharmaceuticals to the Holland Public Safety to help prevent accidental drug overdoses by children and make the environment a bit cleaner too! It’s important to remember that water treatment plants aren’t designed to […]
Neighborhood Connections is starting a new initiative called Circles in the central City of Holland. Circles is a national initiative that helps low-income families move from financial stability – where they are just getting by week to week – to financial mobility – where they are able to rise above poverty. Shannon MacKay, one of […]
A photo exhibit, We Have Faith, will be on display at Hope Church, November 3–17, 2013. We Have Faith is a museum-quality traveling photo-text exhibit featuring well-known LGBT and allied clergy and people of many faiths and denominations, including Christians, Jews and Muslims. A public open house will be held on Sunday, November 10, 2-4 […]
Circles is an initiative of Neighborhood Connections, and has already begun in the Westcore and Washington School Neighborhoods. Circles USA is an evidence based program nationally recognized as best practice to improve household economic security. Circles is an 18 month program designed to help families transition out of poverty and for initiating systemic changes in […]
Reformation Through the 20th Century Sundays, October 20–November 24 9:40 a.m. Commons I We’ll pick up where we left off last spring with Diarmaid MacCulloch’s DVD series. MacCulloch combines church history with travelogue—enriched by music, architecture, and visual arts—in presenting his history of Christianity. The class will be led by Judy Parr, Ed Anderson, and […]
Caring for Creation presents Low Carbon Diet A 30 Day Program to Lose 5000 Pounds Sundays, October 20–November 10 9:40 a.m. Room 106 Climate change was barely on anyone’s radar screen twenty years ago. By 2006 it was a scientifically established phenomenon and worldwide discussion. Today the discussion has moved from response to survival. There’s […]
Justice For Some or Justice For All? A Community Conversation on Race Part 3 will take place on Tuesday, October 22nd 6-7:15 p.m. at Imagine Fellowship (167 W 20th Street, Holland). Topics of Discussion include: Is the Government shutdown really about Obamacare? Understanding Dutch culture. Racism in the Church – Why is Diversity so Hard?
The congregation is invited to a presentation given by Karen and Larry Mulder entitled, “What We Learned about Care Giving in the House of the Dying.” Karen and Larry will reflect on what they learned in the House of the Dying during their time spent in Haiti. They had seen and experienced many things, but […]
On Sunday, October 20, Fish Club will visit the corn maze at Crane Orchards in Fennville. Meet at the church at 3pm and bring $5. We’ll return around 5:30pm.