Sawyer Goerg is collecting children’s vitamins (chewable & drops), prenatal vitamins, Tylenol/Motrin (liquid, infant drops, & chewables), disposable diapers (loose or full packs), gently-worn infant clothing, and baby formula. She will be traveling to the Dominican Republic with HRC in July and these supplies will be handed out at the Women’s Health Clinic. There is a collection box in the fellowship hall and in the upstairs hallway near the elevator. CONTACT Sawyer Goerg with any questions.

The next meeting of the group will be tomorrow, Monday, March 1, 2010 at 10:00 A.M. at the Youth House. Members, please bring all finished sweaters to turn in at that meeting. Anyone interested in joining our group is always welcome. Instruction is available for those interested in learning to knit and/or crochet. CONTACT Barby Richardson

Wishing you all a good week and hoping you’ll be able to join us on Wednesday evenings for a soup supper and worship time.

Joys and Concerns

 Please continue to pray for those in our congregation dealing with health issues, particularly Bill Weeks, Betsy Disomma, Tina Rentsch. Also continue to pray for those in our Sunday bulletin’s prayer corner. Read more »

A Clearing Season

There will be a wardrobe in worship at Hopewell this Sunday.  It will be symbolically crammed with all the crud that confuses our lives.  We stuff our stuff in the closet and hope that it stays hidden, and then one day we open it up and it all comes tumbling out.  It is time to clear some things up in our lives; to simplify and sort through what we need to see clearly.  This Lent, for the next six weeks, that will be the image we work with; a clearing season. Read more »

There will be an All You Can Eat Pancake Breakfast on Saturday, March 20 from 7:30 – 11:00 AM in the fellowship hall. The menu will consist of pancakes, sausages, orange juice, coffee and tea. Tickets are $8 for adults and $6 for Seniors and kids under 12. Tickets will be on sale starting TODAY, February 21, in the fellowship hall.

If you are willing to help set up, lead games, make crafts or clean up at the Winter Festival on February 27th, please CONTACT Sheryle Silvern at 227-1965. We are also collecting baby food jars for a Winter Festival craft. If you have any that we can use, please give them to Sheryle Silvern. Thank you

Wishing you all a good week! Last week’s Buzz is on our website. I was unable to send it out to more than 20% of our email list. We have been having trouble with our server and hope to find a more reliable way of sending out emails soon. If you are receiving duplicates of our church-wide emails, please bear with us.  The software we are presently using sometimes loses the server connection and does not tell us which emails have already gone out, so we have to restart the entire list! Thank you for your patience! Read more »

“Belhar” 

For these past three weeks we have been highlighting the Belhar Confession in our worship and my preaching.  “The Dutch Reformed Mission Church formally adopted the Belhar Confession in 1986. It is now one of the “standards of unity” of the new Uniting Reformed Church of Southern Africa (URCSA). Belhar’s theological confrontation of the sin of racism has made possible reconciliation among Reformed churches in Southern Africa and has aided the process of reconciliation within the nation of South Africa.” Read more »

Tidbits of Mission at HRC

Matthew 5 reads:

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” 

Multiple ChristCare groups and other Bible Study groups are asking a simple question, “How can we be Christ in this world through our missional life and service.  Can you imagine 35 ChristCare groups doing missional service regularly?  The community would not know what hit them!

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.”

Did you know that Loving Stitches made 25 sweaters for Guidepost’s third world project.  13 prayer shawls were prayed and stitched for people in need.  153 hats, mittens and scarfs were made for the Homeless Shelter.  15 baby blankets were delivered to Care Net.  20 lap blankets were made for local nursing homes.  Countless squares were made from “leftover yarn” for Warm Up America.  All this by only 13 gifted knitters and those who graciously donated yarn! Read more »

Please join HRC as together we journey through Lent .

Our theme this year is “A Clearing Season”. Our focus will be to remove obstacles that keep us from God and clear space for Him, His will for us, and His grace.

Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, Feb 17th with worship at 7:30PM; Return, Repent, and Renew. Please join us for a service reflecting God’s mercy.

On Sundays we will look to clear space for God. On the first Sunday of Lent, Pastor Mark will guide us through ” Exploring the Wilderness”. Pastor Holbrook will follow each Sunday after with the themes: First Clearing, Natural Rhythms, New Growth, and Weathering Storms.

Wednesday evenings we gather for soup supper, fellowship and worship. This year worship will take on a more expressive, creative format, each week being unique. This will be an opportunity to explore worship though the arts: music, dance, visual art and drama. These services will be an example of the style of worship we are considering for once-a-month Saturday evenings. Please join us, all are welcome. Soup Supper will begin at 6:00, and worship will follow at 7:15.for approximately 30 minutes.