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YOU’RE TIRED — YOU’RE HUNGRY — YOU WANT ACTION! Housing has become a burden the poorest and most marginalized members of our community are carrying. People are tired of not having enough to make it. They are tired of being one emergency away of loosing everything despite going to work every day. YOU’RE TIRED OF […]
The Creation Care Ministry is announcing that Hope Church has joined a composting pilot program offered by Republic Services. The goal is to divert as much material as possible from the traditional waste stream. Events which include food can now divert paper products and food waste to designated receptacles which are lined with compostable bags. […]
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I’d like to express appreciation for the pastoral care given to Marvin Hoff. After his death our family has received many cards and loving thoughts as we grieve this loss. Thank you. —Joan Hoff I am so thankful for the prayers of Hope Church! I am a miracle, testifying to God’s grace. This November it […]
Dear Sisters and Brothers at Hope Church Greetings. Thank you for your prayers and love in Christ throughout the years. Your support and encouragement have meant a lot to me. I will study at Western Theological Seminary in the ThM program for another year and do some studies on the Gospels, especially Matthew. During my […]
Dr. Curtis A. Gruenler of Hope Church and the Hope College English faculty has won the Anne Middleton Book Prize from the International Piers Plowman Society for his volume Piers Plowman and the Poetics of Enigma: Riddles, Rhetoric and Theology. The award, for books published during 2017-18, was announced during the society’s 2019 meeting, held […]
Rode Molla and Endrias Assen are from the Ethiopian Lutheran Church, and when Rode attended Western Seminary they worshipped at Hope Church. Rode began PhD work in Colorado a couple of years ago, and Hope Church continues to provide financial aid and support. They are seeking to return to Ethiopia to provide holistic support to […]
Hosted by Randy Smit and Rhonda Edgington Trudy Vander Haar joined Hope Church in 1992, when she and her husband Del, who served as calling pastor, retired in Holland. Trudy served as an elder, was a storyteller for Children in Worship, was active in Circle, Brim Bunch, Hope Church Readers, and wrote a series called […]
By Ginger Clark, RN, Parish Nurse We have so much to be grateful for in this life. Each and every day. But reality is that sometimes constant life demands, struggles, and worries give more room to defeat than to a heart of thanks. Or we forget, in the midst of busyness and pressures, just to pause and give thanks […]
By Lisa Denison, Caring for Creation Ministry memberThe availability of clean drinking water is a major issue emerging on the global stage. Most people in the world can’t take potable water for granted. Even here in Ottawa County there is growing concern about the quality of the water being drawn from our aquifer. Caring for […]