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.   [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 holding [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]