Updates from the Children'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.
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.
Hello Parents of Hope!
If your child has been asking about being baptized this year, please plan on attending two classes with Matt Ryniker and Hala Tompkins. Class One is on Saturday, May 9 at 9am, and Class Two is on Wednesday, May 20 at 6pm. Both classes will last for 1.5 hours. The baptism service is scheduled for Sunday, June 7.
Our baptism classes are designed for children aged eight and older and are meant to help parents and kids determine together if this is the right year for baptism. Because of this, parents are asked to attend class with their child both weeks.
Let Hala know if you have any kid-related questions. Adults who would like to be baptized should simply contact Pastor Matt. He will be happy to talk with you!
Childcare is provided by reservation, Sign up for the classes and childcare by emailing halatompkins@hopemail.org.
Join us at T Bar M for men and young men ages 16 and up. We’ve got a great facility – with lots of amenities including a pool, disc-golf course, pickleball, volleyball, basketball, tennis, putt-putt, soccer, air hockey, and ping pong! Enjoy unstructured time for fellowship: as a group, with old or new friends, or solo time for fellowship with God.
EARLYBIRD DISCOUNT AND SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Sign up early and receive a discount! There are a limited number of single or double occupancy rooms – late registrations may be in a room with 2-3 other men (two queen beds). All registrants must complete and sign the waiver for the camp. Register on Realm today! ”
Cost concerns? There’s a scholarship fund. Don’t let money be the reason you don’t come. Hopites can check with Joe Friedman.
N2Worship Registration is now open! Space is limited so be sure to sign up.
Find more info, pricing, and registration HERE!
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