Catch up on the latest Hope Church News! In this issue: Mardi Gras Celebration/Shrove Tuesday March 5 Ash Wednesday Service Wednesday Evening Lenten Worship Services Spring Garden-Clean Up Mark Your Calendar for Think Hope–and Start Your Imagination: Saturday, April 27, 2019, 5 to 8:30 p.m.
Judi Boogart is this month’s featured poet, no stranger to many varied parts of Hope Church. She sings with our chancel choir and has also sung with the community choir Persisterhood, committed to social justice causes. My family also has fond memories of nature walks over the years with her and Peter, as part of […]
What is the Sacristy Guild? It is a group of Hope Church members who take time each week to prepare the sanctuary for worship. The work of the Sacristy Guild is to ensure that our sanctuary reflects the holiness and the joy that we all create together in worship. In preparing for each service, the […]
Barb and I are of course happy with the recent restoration and reinstallation of the rooster on the church steeple and for its reminder of the Biblical story of Peter’s denial and subsequent grace. But we can’t stop thinking about our visit last April to the Christelijke Gereformeerde Kerk in Opperdoes, North Holland, The Netherlands. […]
This is a test: do you know what the footnote to the asterisk says in our worship bulletin? (Answer: ‘Congregation to rise in body or spirit’) Extra credit: has it always said this? (Answer: no). And for double extra credit: what did it say before? (Answer: it used to say ‘Congregation standing as able’) The […]
Have you noticed that the Kids Hope Logo is of a child (albeit a stick figure) surrounded by a heart? How wonderful is that? Our Kids Hope program at Hope Church is surrounding children with love! Those doing the “loving” include not only our mentors but also those who substitute for them when they cannot […]
The Caring for Creation Ministry regrets that we can no longer continue our free battery recycling program. We have lost our source for free disposal and will not be able to cover the market cost of recycling. Button and rechargeable batteries can still be recycled for free at locations such as Batteries-Plus-Bulbs and Ottawa County’s […]
The Personnel Committee is pleased to announce that Tiffany Lachniet has been hired to serve Hope Church as administrative assistant, working in the office on Sundays and Tuesday afternoons. Tiffany began on Sunday, January 13. Tiffany brings a background in administration and Human Resources to her new role. Tiffany was recently married this past summer […]
Catch up on the latest Hope Church News! In this issue: Pancake Fundraiser Lunch: February 24 New Administrative Assistant: Tiffany Lachniet Nursery Volunteers Needed Cultivating Communities of Caring: Choral Singing in Prisons by Dr. Mary Cohen, University of Iowa – Friday, March 1, 7 pm March, April & May Greeters
Battery Recycling to be discontinued. The Creation Care Ministry regrets that we can no longer continue our free battery recycling program. We have lost our source for free disposal and will not be able to cover the market cost of recycling. Button and rechargeable batteries can still be recycled for free at locations such as Batteries-Plus-Bulbs […]