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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]