Hope Lutheran Church

Christmas is over (the 12 days are up on Epiphany, January 6 as the wise men come to visit Jesus) and the lights have come down in our neighborhoods and houses. But the light continues to shine even when the twinkling of Christmas lights fades or disappears.  We hope you will worship with us as [...]

If you were in worship Sunday, October 30, 2011, you heard 25 theses/ideas/notions of how church should be.  These theses are up for public debate and are submitted below.  Write your comments here, email them to the pastor (pastor@hopeclinton.org), talk about them, and wrestle with how we shall be a community of faith and Hope.   [...]

I know some people who wish winter would just die.  That it would pass away and leave us without its harsh wind, bitter cold, and sometimes towering snow.  These are the people who seek to escape winter by traveling to a tropical destination once the temperatures fall below 50. But winter won’t die – instead [...]

You. You’re important to what we do here at Hope Lutheran because you’re important to God’s mission in this world. And when you’re involved at Hope, you’re involved in changing the world – because whatever we do, you do. We’re a group of folks who aren’t afraid to get dirty, tackling some of the worlds [...]

By now you’ve surely heard the news that Haiti has suffered a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake.  Many buildings have crumbled and several thousand have died.  Port-au-Prince, the capital city which was nearest the epicenter and with some of the greatest destruction, and the area around it is without electricity and water and many people are [...]

Our Adult Sunday School used the Nooma (www.flannel.org) video series as a jumping off point for discussion about faith and spirituality.  One week we watched the video “Noise” and it the midst of the discussion about silence and the ability (or lack there of) to find it in today’s world, I thought about those things [...]

We’re often encountered by the question, Where have you found hope? Some of us find hope for a better life in a new job or in our educations.  Others of us find some glimmer of hope in our childrens’ eyes or their curiousity that leads them to question so much of what we take for [...]

Every two years, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in American (ELCA, the larger church body of which we are a congregation) gathers together to pray, worship, and be about the business of the church during the Churchwide Assembly. This year voting members and others are gathering in Minneapolis, MN this week.  While there is much to [...]

Story has great meaning in our lives.  So it is no wonder Jesus used stories (parables) often when teaching. We hope you’ll join us this Wednesday evening, August 5, at 7:00 PM at Panera Bread in Waldorf (map).  We’ll take a look at some of those very stories, parables, Jesus told as well as a [...]

The past three days have been very, very full days for us.  It has been a challenge to even find a spare moment of time for sleep let alone to write a blog post detailing what is going on here in New Orleans.  But tonight I’ve got some time (although again, not much) so I [...]