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For the past nine summers, the consistory approved an adjusted summer preaching schedule that would provide our pastors some increased workload flexibility for the summer. Adjusting the schedule gave our pastors the time and space for reading, planning for the coming program year, professional exploration and growth as well as accommodating the impact on pastors’ […]
Registration is open for the June 11, 2019, Summit on Race and Inclusion, “Commitment to Justice.” The event will be held from 8 am to 4 pm at Hope College. Registration fee is $85. To register for the Summit online, please visit www.ethnicdiversity.org. Because Hope Church is a sponsor of this event, there are 2 […]
Please email office@hopechurchrca.org with details of graduation from high school, college, or graduate school. If you know your future plans, please include those. We will recognize our graduates at a later date in a Sunday worship bulletin.
The church office will be closed on Monday, May 27 for Memorial Day.
On Sunday, May 26, the summer worship time will change to 10:00 a.m. Early Worship will go on summer hiatus and will resume in the fall. There will be no Church School hour, but children ages 3 through completion of second grade will meet in Room 204 after they are dismissed from the 10:00 a.m. […]
Amid my parish nurse experiences, I have been prompted in many ways to pay more attention to the skill and gift of listening. I heard about generous listening in early worship, discussed compassionate listening with Congregational Care and Health Ministry, witnessed examples of it at REST support group and have had many personal situations to […]
Judi and I have just returned from a trip to the Great Smoky Mountains. The name is honest—their appearance is smoky. There’s a scientific explanation for this, but I’m not going to share it; I prefer the wonder of it all. The mountains are the progeny of an old relationship. Two continents embraced—millennia ago—and they […]
We all know Lois Maassen as someone who wears many hats at Hope Church and beyond. (I won’t even begin to name them, because I would inevitably miss some important things!) I know her as a person who loves the written word, and so I was pleased when she agreed to be a part of […]
By the time you have read this, you will likely have just enjoyed watching our youths lead us in worship for Youth Sunday. For this particular Sunday each year, the youths and pastors spend about a month preparing and reflecting on the lectionary texts, laying the groundwork for the theme and direction that arises for […]
Church School/ Children in Worship May 19th is the last Sunday for Church School and Children in Worship. The following week, May 26, children ages 3 through those who have completed 2nd grade will be meeting together in Room 204, upstairs in the Education Wing, when they are released from the 10 a.m. service. The […]