Hope Lutheran Church

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]