Hope Lutheran Church

Lent (coming from the Latin word for Spring) is a 40 day season of the church year.  Often a time of reflection, Lent is a season to return to God and travel with Jesus to the cross and resurrection.
There are several opportunities to reconnect with God at Hope this Lenten season.  Join us for mid-week [...]

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 [...]

Have an extra warm coat hanging around? Donate it.
There are many people in the Washington DC area who do not have even one warm coat. This becomes a huge issue as we continue to head into this winter season. Living into the Matthew 25 call to clothe the naked, Hope is collecting [...]

Our Adult Sunday School is using the Nooma (www.flannel.org) video series as a jumping off point for discussion about faith and spirituality.  This past 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 [...]

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 granted. [...]

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 be [...]

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 few [...]

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 [...]

Want to see what we’ve been up to for the past two days, here are two more photo albums, one for each day.
As the Gathering is very fast paced and we don’t often get down time, I will have to post captions later.  But please enjoy the pictures while you wait.

Jesus, Justice, Jazz - Day [...]

After almost 27 hours on the train from Union Station to New Orleans, we have finally arrived for the National Youth Gathering!
It’s now the first morning of the gathering and I’m looking forward to what this day and the next four bring.  I’m sure they promise new experiences, hard work, worship and encounters with God, [...]