Another mission trip to Haiti is being planned for October 2014 and there is also an invitation to join a group from Beechwood Reformed Church that will be traveling there in January. If you are interested in joining either trip, please come to an informational meeting on Sunday, November 3 at 12:15 p.m. in the […]
Thankfully, we’re doing it again! What? Responding to Community Action House’s (CAH) request that we help supply turkeys for the more than a thousand families and persons approved to receive Thanksgiving boxes. Why? Because Hope Church has done wonderfully well in the past several years providing 10-12 lb. turkeys and basic food items to struggling […]
November 3 & 10 Caring for Creation presents Low Carbon Diet – A 30 Day Program to Lose 5000 Pounds Room 106 The Low Carbon Diet (LCD) is a nationally recognized curriculum which teaches how to identify, quantify, and reduce your individual household’s energy consumption. You’re invited to join us as we examine changing our […]
The annual Fish Club “Rake and Run” will take place on Saturday, November 2. Fish Club will rake leaves for those in need of a little extra help, and then “run” to the next home. Meet at Grace Episcopal Church (555 Michigan Ave.) at 9am.
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 […]