Hope Lutheran Church

Where were you when God first encountered you?  How did it feel?  What was the experience like?  What were you left with after it happened?
No encounter with God leaves us the way we were before the encounter and over the next month we’ll take time make connections between our encounters with God and worship at [...]

Beginning Sunday, June 6, we will shift to our summer schedule for worship. Worship will begin at 9:30 AM and there will not be Sunday School until after Labor Day. We hope you’ll join us this summer as we continue to explore what it means to be faithful disciples of Jesus.
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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 and our [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]