Hope Chapel - Community Updates Archives

Congregational Meeting • Wednesday, April 22nd
Hope Chapel of AustinApril 7th, 2026Community Updates

Our Twice A Year Meeting • Updates, Finances, and Future Plans

Come on Wednesday, April 22nd for Hope’s Spring Congregational Meeting from 6:00-7:30PM (Family Night resumes the next week). Please plan to join the meeting for information from the Board and Senior Pastor Matt Ryniker. The meeting includes a financial report from the Board, and updates, and future plans for our congregation.

Childcare RSVPs close Monday, April 20th

The HopeKid’s Program is available for 5th grade and under. Please register your kids even if they are already registered for Family Night!

Click HERE to reserve a spot for your child today.
Men of Hope Annual Retreat – April 24-26th
Hope Chapel of AustinApril 7th, 2026Community Updates

WHO SHOULD COME? WHERE?

If you’ve been here once or 10,000 times – Gustavo said: come – men ages 16 and up! Join us at TBarM.

THEME ANNOUNCED

Gustavo said on Sunday: “We’re going to be diving into the Lord’s return and how to prepare our hearts for our King. What do we do in anticipation…?

‘A voice cries: In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.’ Isaiah 40

So men, we’re going to be talking about how do we make those paths straight? What does that look like in our lives now? How do we help the Lord’s presence and His goodness flow through our lives now?”

THEME ANNOUNCED

Register on Realm today! Complete and sign the waiver for the camp. Cost concerns? There’s a scholarship fund. Don’t let money be the reason you don’t come.

QUESTIONS?

Contact Gustavo Espinosa, Men of Hope Director, with questions.

WHAT WILL YOU DO IN YOUR FREE TIME AT TBarM?

Enjoy unstructured time for group fellowship with old and new friends or solo time with God. Maybe: Oasis Pool, Putting Green, Weight/Cardio Room, 18-Hole Disc-Golf Course, Pickleball, Sand Volleyball, Gaga Ball, Sports Fields, Basketball, Tennis, Putt-Putt, Corn Hole, Arena Soccer, and 9-Square, Basketball, Air Hockey, Ping Pong Tables, Volleyball, and Pickleball.
Parent/Child Dedication Class April 18th
Hala TompkinsApril 7th, 2026Children's Ministry
Dear Parents of Hope,

Our next Parent/Child Dedication class is Wednesday, April 18th – we’ll cover the “why” of child dedications and principles for creating a Christian home. If you want to dedicate a child this spring or simply be encouraged in your parenting journey, please join Pastor Matt Ryniker and Children’s Ministry Director, Hala Tompkins for an evening of encouragement and equipping as you prepare to dedicate the newest member of your family to the Lord Jesus.

Class starts at 10AM – Noon.

The Dedication Service is scheduled for Sunday, April 19th.

Sign up for the class and childcare by emailing Hala Tompkins, Director of Children’s Ministries.
Easter – Resurrection Sunday – April 5th
Hope Chapel of AustinApril 2nd, 2026Community Updates

Please join us at 10:00 AM as we celebrate our Risen Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ, the Son of God at Hope’s Easter Celebration – music and worship, celebration, Bible teaching, and the younger set has HopeKids classes (up to 5th grade).

If you are homebound and can’t join us in person, please join us by livestream.

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The Christian celebration of Jesus’ Resurrection.

From the New Testament, the Gospel (Good News) of John, Chapter 20:

“Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.

They asked her, ‘Woman, why are you crying?’

‘They have taken my Lord away,’ she said, ‘and I don’t know where they have put him.’

At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there…Jesus said, ‘…Go…to my brothers and tell them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’

Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that he had said these things to her.”

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The MomCo Egg Hunt and Easter Celebration
Hala TompkinsMarch 30th, 2026Children's Ministry
Mothers of young children are invited to join the MomCo@Hope on Friday, April 3, for an egg hunt, games, and the true story of our Risen Jesus! Join us in the Family Room at 10am. Bring a treat to share and one dozen filled eggs for each of your children. NO chocolate please!

Contact Jamie or Ashleigh for more information.
Good Friday Service • April 3rd • 6:30 PM
Hope Chapel of AustinMarch 27th, 2026Community Updates

April 3rd’s Good Friday Service at 6:30 PM includes seven friends from our community reflecting personally over the seven last phrases that Jesus spoke from the cross and is interspersed with worship and silence. It is always a very beautiful and poignant time together. You’re encouraged to invite friends, family, and coworkers.

We recommend the service for children ages 6th grade and up but leave this to the parent’s discretion. Testimonies given may contain more mature content.

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HOW GOOD FRIDAY IS CONNECTED TO PASSOVER

Jesus shared Passover meal with His disciples after sundown the night before His death (evening is the beginning of the Jewish day). He also gave His disciples a new way to remember Him: Communion; the unleavened bread represented His broken body and the cup of wine represented His blood shed for us (John 20) just as the Passover lamb’s blood marking the enslaved Israelites’ houses caused the death of the first born to “pass – over” them safely. Jesus, the true representation of the Passover lamb, freely gave His life as a sinless sacrifice in payment for our sin (ours rightfully deserving death), freeing us from our enslavement to it, rescuing us from death – even as God freed the Israelites from Pharaoh’s slavery (Exodus 1-15). The Passover prefigured Jesus’ death – one Lamb for all humankind.

Learn more about Passover in Exodus And learn about The Last Supper, Good Friday, and Easter by reading about them in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John – or by listening to the musical drama our own Dennis O’Donnell wrote partially from Exodus and John – or in this article about Passover and Jesus: Four Ways Passover Foreshadowed Easter.