What's new at Hope.
Every other year, we welcome international students at UT in a very practical way by making available free furniture and household items. We focus on the graduate students who come from overseas with nothing but their suitcases. They don’t go into the dorms on campus, but rather apartment housing that is either lightly furnished or unfurnished. Of course, it is open to all the international students!
We Need Your Donated Items
Bring your donated items! These can be gently used chairs, tables, bed frames (no mattresses, please), drawers, lamps, desks and bookshelves. Also we need household goods: lamps, plates, pots and pans, cups, coffee makers, toasters, irons, towels, dish towels, sheets and pillow cases, etc.
DROP OFF: Saturday, August 6th – furniture/household items can be brought into the Family Room.
SET UP THE GIVEAWAY: Friday, August 12th from 6-8:00 p.m.
HELP HOST THE GIVEAWAY: Saturday, August 13th from 7:30 am to 4:00 pm. Can you collect, deliver and/or help out on the day of the event? There are lots of places to help, even if you aren’t able to lift!
Volunteer English Conversation Partners (no teaching experience necessary) needed for the Fall Semester. Students sign up at the Furniture Give-Away.
Many students who will come for the Furniture Give Away will want to connect with us for friendship, experiencing out USA culture, and a chance to hang out for a meal or holiday (to see what it’s like to celebrate Christmas or Thanksgiving).
Volunteer today!
Talk with Nance at a Sunday service, or email her, Nance Friedman, or call evenings: 512.888.2629.
If you have a child who attended the Adventure For the City camp at Hope Chapel, please Matt, Suzi and Hala for a discussion of how camp worked for your family and our efforts to bless the Brentwood neighborhood.
Matt will facilitate a time of questions and answers and discussion. Snacks will be served. We want to hear from parents as we make plans for next year.
Announcing the beginning of Hope’s initiative for small gatherings of prayer and worship in homes! Fireside Gatherings are 1-hour long worship and prayer times where all participants are actively engaged in praying for our local needs and our workers abroad.
HOW CAN YOU GET INVOLVED?
You can offer your home to host a once a month session (October, November, & January), lead worship in a home, or become a prayer facilitator.
Contact Ceci Proeger at ceci@theproegers.com or text 512-521-9922 or Deb Dorman, deb@thedormans.com
We will train prayer leaders and worship leaders for our Fireside gatherings, which will take place in homes across the city in October, November and January. Included in our training will be opportunity to practice the model we will be using in homes.
Mark your calendar to come worship and pray with the body of Hope Chapel! Using the Fireside model of worship and prayer, we will move from worship to prayer (and back), including small group and corporate prayer for specific requests for Hope Chapel, locally and abroad.
Childcare for children 1st grade and under is available from 7-8:30 p.m. Deadline to reserve childcare is Monday, August 29th. RSVP for childcare by filling out the information below, then scroll to the bottom and click “Sign Up”.
We regret that the deadline has passed to reserve child care.