Hope Lutheran Church

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, [...]

There is a story in which a young minister is sitting in her house one day when she hears a banging on the door. When she opens the door she discovers one of the church members standing before her. It is obvious that he is exhausted from running to her house and is barely [...]

About a month ago I was in a conversation and one of the people responded to something I had said with, “That’s life.”
Now, while I do agree that there are some things which we must accept as part of life (i.e. the very fact that change is a certainty), but there are many other things [...]

It is likely that over 13,000 people will die of hunger today.  963 million people across the world are hungry. Every day, almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes, that’s one child every five seconds. (Statistics provided by Bread - http://www.bread.org/learn/hunger-basics/hunger-facts-international.html)
With all this in mind and the ever growing need for hunger awareness and action due to [...]

Update: Thank you so much to all who volunteered and donated.  We exceeded our goal of 1000 cans and collected 1291 cans of food for the Oxon Hill Food Bank!  Because of you, there is more food available for people in our community.
If you wish to donate again or for the first time, we continually [...]

Welcome to Hope Lutheran Church, Clinton, Maryland.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.   John 14:6a
When Thomas asked Jesus how they would know where to go, Jesus answered with the rather cryptic phrase, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.”  Sometimes it seems as if the way is just [...]