Posts from November 2014

Resources to help you celebrate Advent

Advent is a 4-week season that begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and continues through Christmas Day. “Advent” comes from a Latin word meaning “to come.” These four weeks provide an opportunity for us to focus on how we are to live between the two advents of Jesus Christ — his first coming two thousand years ago and his second coming…

A message from Pastor Dean: Let the whole church take the whole Gospel to the whole world

Dear Hope Family, Our Lord Jesus says, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”[1] This year – 2014 – we embrace our identity as “laborers” for the sake of those who are without God and without hope. We read “The harvest is plentiful” on…