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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 […]
From the Hope Church Pastors: “We are involved with a new community initiative on issues of social justice, and there is an upcoming community forum to provide information on these efforts. As we are engaged in these efforts, the pastors are in ongoing communication with the Consistory, and we are excited to be at a […]
Worship Time for Families with Younger Children will be offered via zoom on Sunday February 21 & Sunday, March 21 during the 11:00am service. The Family Worship time will start directly after the Word with the Children in the Sanctuary service and will continue on zoom from a Children in Worship room, as we’ll hear a Children […]
hosted by Hope Church, with Holland UCC, BLVD Church, First Presbyterian, First UMC, Maple Avenue Ministries, Grace Episcopal During the month of March in the season Lent, you are invited to an individual/group opportunity for challenge and growth in our shared commitment to racial justice. We will use the resources in the 21 Day Racial […]
Tenebrae Service, Maundy Thursday, April 1 7 p.m. Via Facebook Live (facebook.com/hopechurchholland), we will share in our traditional Tenebrae Service on Maundy Thursday. By interweaving readings, music, and the symbolism of extinguishing candles to denote the gathering darkness, we will walk with Jesus from his celebration of the passover with his disciples through his death […]
By Jocelyn Van Heest, Children’s Ministry Director In the Worship Centers, the children are well aware that there are important and meaningful seasons before each great celebration in our church year. The season of Lent is the time when we are preparing and making our hearts ready to celebrate Easter. The Lenten journey is a […]
Sundays, 9:40-10:40 am on Zoom: tinyurl.com/hopeadulteducation February 21 – What’s the Big Deal about Israel/Palestine? John Kleinheksel, retired RCA/ PCUSA pastor, educator, and musician, will provide an introduction to the realities on the ground there, past and present. February 28 – Aren’t We Supposed To Support Israel? Pastor Kleinheksel will show how fundamentalist Christian support […]