Holland PRIDE 2023: Celebrating 20 Years
We’re so happy to have met you! Hope Church is a rostered member of Room for All, which has as its mission “To support, educate, and advocate for the welcome and full affirmation of people of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions in the RCA and surrounding communities of people of faith.” You may be interested in viewing our worship service on June 4, 2023 that launched Pride month this year with Pastor Phil preaching. Or view the Room for All Sunday services from 2022 or 2023 during Pride month.
Please join us at 11 a.m. or on any Sunday morning for worship either in person at our sanctuary or online through YouTube Live or through our radio broadcast which can be streamed on the WHTC website. In person and online services are at 10 a.m. in the summer (Memorial Day – Labor Day) and at 11 a.m. the rest of the year. The radio broadcast is always at 11 a.m.
Hope College students are invited to Bible Pride, a bible study for LGBTQIA+ Hope students and allies. This group meets at the Keppel House on Hope College’s campus on Thursdays from 5:30pm-7pm and includes dinner beginning August 31 for the 2023-2024 school year.
Bible Study Resources from Room for All
Outsights is a blog that provides insight into faith, gender and sexuality from an “out” perspective. Each blog features insights by people who identify as LGBTQ or allies.
Rev. Bruce Cornwell, pastor at Community Reformed Church in Colonie, NY, has researched and prepared a series of Bible studies on several key biblical texts.
A weekly conversation on the scripture lessons of the Revised Common Lectionary offered by The Human Rights Campaign, Out In Scripture.
An excellent resource for small group or church study/discussion, Body and Soul: We Belong is a six-part video series that explores full-inclusion through the lens of six themes central to the Reformed identity. Accompanying it is a downloadable discussion guide featuring question based on video content, Scripture, and Reformed liturgies or confessions.
Hearts Unbound is a free 10-part Bible Study Curriculum by David R. Weiss that confirms the overwhelming message of the Bible, in story after story, is that of God’s radical love and welcome.
Transfigured is a first-of-its-kind 40-day devotional made to uplift and validate people who are genderqueer and transgender in their search for acceptance.
Queering the Trinity is a sermon given by Pastor Phil Quinn on June 4, 2023, that discusses “queering” scripture.