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April 11: Speaker Peter Boogaart for Citizens Climate Lobby Topic: Meeting the Climate Challenge: It’s a 60/40 Thing. April 18 and 25: Speaker Paul Sachs, Director of Planning and Performance Improvement for Ottawa Co. Topic: If you live in the Great Lakes State, you may think that access to fresh drinking water will always be […]
Building and Grounds Ministry would like to invite you to a socially distanced gardening party on Saturday, March 27, from 9:00-12:00. This will be for the annual cleaning up of the Hope Church gardens which involves raking leaves, some pruning, cutting off of grasses, etc. Please bring your own tools. Masks will need to be worn […]
By Ginger Clark, Parish Nurse, R.N. It’s been nearly a year of coping with COVID-19. You’ve done the tough job of physically distancing, wearing masks, frequently washing your hands, trying to remain connected with family and friends—and it has been very stressful for most of us. This reminds me of the important tasks we all […]
Hosted by Randy Smit and Rhonda Edgington Well known for its beauty, rich history, and preserved colonial architecture, San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico, is also the place where one might find Elena Munoz Ruiz on any given day; gazing out her window, stirring her cardamom tea to warm her hands, dreaming of […]
By Lisa Denison, Creation Care Ministry member Most of us do what we do because, well, we’ve always done it that way. We learned when we were young; no need to reinvent the wheel. Nothing could be more routine for Michiganders than snow removal. No need to rethink that one, right? Creation Care’s Lisa Denison […]
Hope Church member Barbara Knoops has been knitting all fall/winter to create this uplifting scene at her home for February when we are all in the middle of the winter blues! Enjoy!
By Scott Rumpsa, Executive Director of Community Action House What a year. Almost all of us have experienced loss to some degree this year. Since the onset of COVID-19 and resulting disruption, we’ve seen firsthand what many of us know—challenges like these fall heaviest on those least able to bear them. Fifty-one years ago, a […]
By Laurie Baron Among the many things 2020 upended was Freedom Writers. At the beginning of the year, Rhonda Edgington and I were meeting weekly with a circle at Harbor House, an OAR residential rehab house for women, and Elisabeth Bauman and I traveled weekly to the circle at the Allegan County Correctional Center. Along […]
By Lois Maassen, Hope Church and Room for All board member Hope Church joined the roster of Room for All churches in 2012, joining other congregations committed to affirming that all persons belong to God. In a more normal year, many of us would participate in Room for All events, and we’d welcome Room for […]
By Beth Carroll, Associate Pastor of Discipleship What needs to change? What needs to continue? Though these are two questions I ask every summer before the school year as I plan for youth ministry, they have become crucial questions I now ask weekly. COVID-19 has forced all of us to reassess how we live our […]