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Hope Church is accepting applications for a part-time salaried Custodian. The hours, averaging 32 hours per week are flexible (with Sunday mornings being a requirement), with additional hours for special church events. For full job description, please click here! If someone you know may be interested, please pass this opportunity on to them! Please send cover letter and […]
It’s time to start revving your imagination to see what you might contribute to Think Hope! Mark your calendar for Saturday evening, April 27, for this annual dinner and silent auction. We’re planning to benefit the Sprint to the Finish of our facility renovations, part of an effort to reach our financial goal before conversion […]
I don’t think this will quite be the last time I write about my Doctor of Ministry studies, but it’s getting close – which means the degree is getting close too! I’m going to tell you about my final class that I took in January, but also want to update you on how my studies […]
How well you and your doctor talk to each other is one of the most important parts of getting good health care. You and your doctor can work as a team along with nurses, physician assistants and pharmacists. Choose a doctor that you are comfortable talking with and one that will listen to your concerns. […]
Reconciliation, as I understand it, is the end of estrangement between God and humanity, or between one person and another, or one set of people and another. Is Persisterhood Choir part of a reconciliation effort? I’m not sure. But we hope so. We came into being because of estrangement, and since our inception we’ve reflected […]
Gardeners! A clean-up extravaganza is planned for Saturday, March 23 from 9:00 am til noon! Plan to come for an hour or half a day – there will be plenty to do and people to tell you what to do! Bring your own equipment and gardening gloves.
Daylight savings begins at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, March 10. Remember to turn your clocks forward an hour!
A friend to many at Hope Church and Hope College, our friend Jack Ridl offers a few poems and reflections this month. Along with the wisdom of his mentor William Stafford, what follows blesses and teaches and welcomes us all to a new way to be in prayer. (Enjoy the potato pancakes :-)) ~Randy ~~~ […]
In January, Elder Barbara Knoops and I spent 2 days at the RCA offices in Grand Rapids steeped in understanding more deeply the experiences of being a youth and young adult in today’s culture. The Growing Young Cohort is a fantastic resource the RCA is providing to help churches become more intergenerational and Barb and […]
March is here! Of course that still means we are experiencing the “lion” type of weather and very much looking forward to the “lamb” type of winter that we have at the end of the month. For me, as the director of Kids Hope, I think of March as a “Mentor Appreciation Month” (since I […]