Fish Club will join with First Presbyterian and Grace Episcopal youth on Saturday, December 7 from 4-6pm for the Tri-Youth Christmas Party. Meet at First Presbyterian Church (659 State Street). Please bring $5 for bowling and a white elephant gift to exchange (this should be a re-gift item, no need to spend money!).
All singers in grades 2-7 are welcome to join the Hope Church children’s choir, Jubilate. It’s time to exercise our voices and learn new songs for Advent and Christmas! Jubilate Choir will rehearse in the Choir room on the following dates: Sunday, Nov. 17 at 4:15 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 24 at 12:45 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 1 […]
The Youth Ministry looks forward to an exciting year filled with activities that will nurture faith, build character, create community, and engage our youth in service. Sunday, September 29 was the first Tri-Youth gathering of the program year. Hope Church youth joined the youth from First Presbyterian and Grace Episcopal at Moran Park for an […]
Adventure Weekend Fish Club will kick-off the program year with a camping trip in Ludington the weekend of September 13 and 14. The group will spend time hiking, sharing devotions, and celebrating a new start. Fall Schedule The Fall schedule will include a parent meeting on Sept. 22, game night, hosting pizza Sunday, devotions, apple-pie […]
Our Purpose Nurture faith ~ Build character ~ Create community ~ Engage in service Youth Groups Fish Club (Middle School) Fish Club is a youth group experience for the sixth, seventh, and eighth graders of Hope Church and their friends. Fish Club seeks to provide a close Christian community of friends for […]
BRIM Bunch: This group meets five times per year and is for people 50 years old or over who are looking for good fun, good food, and good fellowship. Meetings typically begin over dinner and include a program. For more information contact Lois & Vern Boersma. Caring for Creation: This faith based environmental group’s goals […]
Words are important, and actions are too. As Hope Church looks ahead to another program year in its ministry, the Christian Education Ministry offers the theme of “Connections” to bring our words and actions together as a community of faith. The words are important: “Connections: God, Neighbor, World.” They are an expression of the reconciling […]
Anne Duinkerken, Youth Ministry Director & Restorative Circles Facilitator It has been more than a year now that I have been a part of the Restorative Circles group. I went through training a year and a half ago to be a facilitator. Pastor Jill and I had hoped and believed that this would be a […]
Fish Clubbers Hike the Appalachian Trail Back in June, 13 adventurous middle-schoolers and eight brave adult sponsors left the Hope Church parking lot for the Appalachian Trail in North Carolina. The group hiked 43 miles in four days and three nights in wonderful weather, just one afternoon of rain! The trail had lots of ups […]
The Christian Education Ministry is involved with the planning, developing, and execution of a large variety of opportunities for Hope Church members to engage in faith development. The Ministry seeks to celebrate Hope’s diversity, to become even more faithful to the vision of Jesus, and to assist Hope Church in becoming a mission center in […]