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 [...]

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 [...]