Music Ministry Summer Opportunities

Thank you, Student Brass Musicians! Thanks for all the brass players during the Sundays of Eastertide: It’s a joy hear you play and amazing to see how quick you can learn hymns and worship songs. Thanks go to Aaron Yost, Evelyn VanderVelde, Kyle Rosenau and Liam Morrison. Summer Choir Looking for an opportunity to sing […]

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Living Hope Construction Launch Celebration: June 12

Please join us to celebrate the beginning of construction that will provide facilities that are more welcoming, flexible, accessible, and sustainable! We’ll have refreshments, reflections and a musical commemoration, and the opportunity to make your mark on our new construction. Mark your calendar for 11:15 a.m. this Sunday, June 12; we’ll gather on 11th Street […]

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Hope & Grace: Campus and 20/30s Ministry – Summer Schedule

All Post High School and 20/30s are welcome and invited to join us for our Thursday night summer events! Please click here or see below for our Summer Events Schedule! June 9 at 6:30 PM: Potluck at Tunnel Park – bring a dish to pass! Meet at Hope Church at 6:15 PM to carpool. *If it rains, […]

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Caring for Creation Corner: June/July 2016

Check out these upcoming Caring for Creation opportunities for the summer: June 4 at 709 Pine Avenue at 10 a.m. ($10) – Holland Backyard Chicken Tour by 8th Day Farm July 9 at Windmill Island Gardens from 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. – 2016 Macatawa Water Festival hosted by the Macatawa Area Coordinating Council and […]

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Guest Preacher Veda Gill: June 12

We have a unique opportunity on Sunday, June 12, 2016.  The sermon will be given by Mrs. Veda Gill, the Executive Director of the Presbyterian Education Board of Pakistan (PEB), a position she has held since 1998.  The mission of the PEB is to provide quality educational opportunities to the poor masses, without regard for […]

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You, Too, Can Pitch in on the Living Hope Renovation!

As the construction moves forward, we’re getting more clear on the schedule for various parts of the project, which means we know when we can use volunteers to help out with various aspects. We have these opportunities upcoming: Cart debris (removed carpet, ceiling tiles, etc.) from the Commons to the parking lot dumpster the weeks […]

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Summer 2016 Preaching Schedule

For the past six summers, the consistory approved an adjusted summer preaching schedule that would provide our pastors, Gordon Wiersma and Jill Russell, 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 […]

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Summer Worship Time Change

On Sunday, May 29, 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. service.

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Principle and Practice: Rene Girard, Politics, Religion & Violence: May 28

All are invited to a free 90 minute presentation by Rev. James Alison and Duncan Morrow on René Girard’s mimetic theory and its relevance to situations of political and religious conflict, beginning at 11 a.m. in Winants Auditorium at Hope College on Saturday, May 28. James Alison is a Catholic priest, prolific author, and one of the […]

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Washington School Neighbors: May 2016

“God’s basic method of communicating God’s self is not the ‘saved’ individual, the rightly informed believer, or even personal careers in ministry, but the journey and bonding process that God initiates in community: in marriages, families, tribes, nations, events, scientists, and churches who are seeking to participate in God’s love, maybe without even consciously knowing […]

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