Meeting Purpose: Please mark your calendars for a special congregational meeting to vote on the formal adoption of Hope’s new Mission, Vision, and Core Values statement into the Hope Lutheran Constitution.

Member Notices: Notices were mailed to each congregation member through the postal service, and the meeting was also announced in last month’s newsletter.

Invitation to Participate: We faithfully encourage all members to take part in this important voting process as we continue moving forward toward our “True North.”

New Mission Statement

Hope, as the engaged hands and feet of Christ, feeds our community’s spiritual and physical needs, embracing all.

New Vision Statement

Our vision is for Hope to be a center of the community that leads to caring relationships including people we have not yet met.

Hope’s Core Values

• Because we are loved, we unconditionally love.

• Because we are accepted as we are, we accept others as they are.

• Because of God’s grace, we are rooted in faith which calls us to reach out and share our gifts with all.

• Because God created all, we care for and love all creation.

• Because we have hope, we courageously engage in God’s plan for the future

This task is a big step in implementing what we have learned from the Strategic Planning Process that we have participated in over the past several months. 

Students, teachers, and all those working in schools, please join us for a back-to-school blessing on Sunday, August 9th.

• Learn more about Stephen Ministry

• Experience active listening and caring models

• Discuss how to start this ministry at Hope

The Blessed Tomorrow program is a faith-based initiative designed to empower individuals and congregations to take meaningful action on climate change and to help participants connect climate issues to their spiritual values and daily lives.

We warmly invite you and your loved ones to join us for a special Easter Sunday celebration as we rejoice in the hope and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Come experience uplifting worship, an encouraging message, and the joy of community. Whether you’ve been with us for years or are visiting for the first time, we would be blessed to have you with us.

Let’s celebrate the miracle of Easter together!

Join us this Good Friday as we gather to remember the depth of Christ’s love and the sacrifice made on the cross. Through scripture, prayer, and quiet reflection, we’ll walk together through this sacred moment in the story of our salvation.

Join us for a meaningful Maundy Thursday Worship Service as we remember the night Jesus shared a final meal with His disciples and gave the command to love one another. This quiet, contemplative service prepares our hearts for the journey through Good Friday and into the hope of Easter.

Do you care deeply about God’s beautiful creation around us? Here is a chance for you to help the Idaho Fish and Game Department restore wildlife habitat on a site burned by last summers' wildfires. Saturday March 28, the Bitterbrush planters from Hope will go into the Boise foothills for a day of planting native shrub seedlings on the Padock Fire near Emmette and you are invited to be part of it. Bring your own pair of gloves, water, and a lunch. Everything else will be provided. No experience is necessary. Idaho Fish and Game experts will train us. We will carpool from church. Mark your calendar and stay tuned for more details.

Journeying through Grief

• Explore definitions of grief, mourning, and bereavement

• Find stories and experiences in common

• Build resilience through prayer and fellowship

Guest Facilitator - Rev. Barbara Harrison Condon, Grief and Bereavement Practitioner

This conversation is for all kinds of grief, including:

• Loss of a loved one

• Loss of a job

• Loss of a relationship

• Life transitions

• Illness or surgery

• National and world events that we don’t know how to respond to

Future Conversation

Saturday, May 2 - An Overview of Stephen Ministry, Christ Caring for People Through People

This event is also 10 to 12:30 pm with lunch included.

Join the Men of Hope for some food and fun with breakfast on Saturday, March 7 at 9:00 am.

Are you or someone you love involved in caring for another person? Caregiving can take many forms and happen in many ways. It can be shopping for groceries for a neighbor, driving a loved one to a medical appointment, or providing support for a short or long period of time. You may be helping someone who needs round the clock care. You may be spending more and more time dealing with medical issues that are affecting a loved one. The person receiving care may live close by, or be many miles away.

Most of us will be caregivers at some point in our lives. Sometimes this is expected, and sometimes caregiving happens suddenly as the result of an accident or illness. There are many physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of caregiving. The January 17 HOW TO BE A RESILIENT CAREGIVER conversation will provide an opportunity for a faith based discussion of caregiving, time to share stories of caregiving, and an opportunity to build resilience through prayer and fellowship.

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Please join us for our special Christmas Eve worship times of 3 pm, 5:30 pm, and 10 pm. Each service will include candlelight worship at the conclusion of the service and special music throughout the service.

A Blue Christmas service offers people a sacred space to not only remember their loved ones who have passed, but also to name their losses and griefs from the previous year, or maybe to recognize their disappointments or loneliness or fears. It is a refuge, of sorts. A way to acknowledge that they are not alone in the midst of their hurt. That others are hurting, too.

Relive the wonder of the miracle of the Christmas story.

We will be doing our live nativity INSIDE from the cold with live animals.

Join us to celebrate all the beautiful angels among us. We will have lunch provided and an angel themed gift exchange.

Please join us for a traditional Thanksgiving meal provided by the church and congregational members.

This event is especially for seniors that do not have family in town or a place to go for the holiday. We are happy to host anyone who does not have a place to go for Thanksgiving though. No one should be alone for the holidays.

Interested in helping with the event?

• Volunteer to help! (set up, serve food, bag leftovers, help clean up)

• Donate money to help buy turkeys and containers.

• Bring food to share at the meal!

• Invite friends and neighbors (especially seniors) that would be alone otherwise.

Please join us for trivia, snacks (including freshly popped popcorn), and a family friendly movie!

Invite your family, friends and neighbors to join us in this community event!

Skilled artisans display the perfect gifts for your loved ones this holiday season. Purchase homemade cookies, candies, bars, and fudge sold by the pound, as well as other baked goods and jams. 

While shopping enjoy a scrumptious cinnamon roll and coffee or a soup lunch. Santa will be here!!

Proceeds from the bazaar will be given to the Hope Food Pantry and the Meridian Food Bank Backpack Food Program for the West Ada School District.