Time to clean out your medicine cabinet! Please join us downtown Holland this Saturday. Bring your expired prescriptions or over the counter pharmaceuticals to the Holland Public Safety to help prevent accidental drug overdoses by children and make the environment a bit cleaner too! It’s important to remember that water treatment plants aren’t designed to […]
A photo exhibit, We Have Faith, will be on display at Hope Church, November 3–17, 2013. We Have Faith is a museum-quality traveling photo-text exhibit featuring well-known LGBT and allied clergy and people of many faiths and denominations, including Christians, Jews and Muslims. A public open house will be held on Sunday, November 10, 2-4 […]
Reformation Through the 20th Century Sundays, October 20–November 24 9:40 a.m. Commons I We’ll pick up where we left off last spring with Diarmaid MacCulloch’s DVD series. MacCulloch combines church history with travelogue—enriched by music, architecture, and visual arts—in presenting his history of Christianity. The class will be led by Judy Parr, Ed Anderson, and […]
Caring for Creation presents Low Carbon Diet A 30 Day Program to Lose 5000 Pounds Sundays, October 20–November 10 9:40 a.m. Room 106 Climate change was barely on anyone’s radar screen twenty years ago. By 2006 it was a scientifically established phenomenon and worldwide discussion. Today the discussion has moved from response to survival. There’s […]
Justice For Some or Justice For All? A Community Conversation on Race Part 3 will take place on Tuesday, October 22nd 6-7:15 p.m. at Imagine Fellowship (167 W 20th Street, Holland). Topics of Discussion include: Is the Government shutdown really about Obamacare? Understanding Dutch culture. Racism in the Church – Why is Diversity so Hard?
The congregation is invited to a presentation given by Karen and Larry Mulder entitled, “What We Learned about Care Giving in the House of the Dying.” Karen and Larry will reflect on what they learned in the House of the Dying during their time spent in Haiti. They had seen and experienced many things, but […]
On Sunday, October 20, Fish Club will visit the corn maze at Crane Orchards in Fennville. Meet at the church at 3pm and bring $5. We’ll return around 5:30pm.
Embrace the Mystery Saturday November 2 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. East Congregational Church 1005 Giddings Ave SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506 Rachelle Oppenhuizen will facilitate the main section as we Enter The Circle and explore how we might engage with mandalas as a powerful tool for personal/spiritual growth. Participants will also have the opportunity to walk a labyrinth […]
Hope Church Readers will meet on Wednesday, October 16, at 1 p.m. in Commons II. The book for discussion will be James Brownson’s, Bible, Gender, Sexuality: Reframing the Church’s Debate on Same-Sex Relationships. Come prepared for a lively discussion led by Barbara Osborn.
October 13: Wes Granberg-Michaelson’s “Unexpected Destinations” Wes Granberg-Michaelson’s choice to attend Hope College rather than Wheaton has taken him to some “unexpected destinations,” and he’ll share some of his reflections from his ministry within the denomination and around the world.