Community Updates

Whether you know them or not, plan to welcome them home at the reception after the Sunday service on January 24th. We’ll eat sandwiches for lunch and hear details about how God is leading them now. 

Longtime Hopites and recent overseas missionaries, Mark and Ceci Proeger (and children: Asher, Noah, and Selah) have returned from CPx – the All Nations’ Church Planting School in Capetown, South Africa. We want to hear about their time there and what they’ll be doing now that they are back in Austin. 

On Sunday, Geno asked the Hope Chapel congregation to join in prayer and fasting for the group who will meet all day this Saturday, January 16th to hear the Lord about Hope’s missions’ decisions. He asked us to fast this Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from food (non-solid diet) and/or from media and spend that time in prayer for the Mission’s group to have:

    • ears to hear

    • an ability to focus

    • Unity, and 

    • for whatever the Lord shows you how to pray for them.

Geno invited anyone who’d like to come pray on Friday night the 16th to close out the time to meet in the main auditorium at 7:00 p.m.

Come spend an evening of extended worship! Everyone is welcome – we want to honor God and increase the praise going up from our planet to the One who is worthy of ALL praise. Come fill the auditorium with songs, dance, praise, and passion. Let’s more deeply discover the very thing which God created us for – to experience His Glory!

Child care provided for children 2nd grade and under, by reservation, from 7-8:30 PM. Deadline to RSVP is Sunday, Jan. 15th. RSVP 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.

Come find a group on Wednesdays at Family Night (meeting until summer). At Hope Chapel we believe strongly that it is in the context of small groups that we really live out our faith in Christ and grow to become all that God dreams for us.  

Evening Meal and Schedule

5:30-6:15 p.m.: Mealtime (donations accepted to defray the cost but the meal is offered free of charge). Can’t make the meal? Come at:

6:15 p.m.: child care begins while we do a quick clean up

6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m.: Hope Groups meet

WHAT GROUPS ARE MEETING?

http://hope.org/ministries/hope-groups/find/

All groups are open but each has a theme.

It’s time for a new issue of Feast, sometime around first week of the New Year 2016. If you aren’t familiar with Feast, it’s our congregation’s art magazine, showing art work and poetry and spiritual reflection/meditation. You can actually find a copy of the current issue on the table in the foyer, in the bowl.

Do you have a poem or thought (or two)? A picture? Scans of original artwork? The deadline for submissions is January 2nd, at 5:00 p.m. to Kevin Daniel . Subject matter and theme can be based on responses to sermons, reflections on art exhibits, personal narratives revolving around life with God in this season. It doesn’t have to be anything other than honest.

Normal length of written submission is approximately 350 words, allowances can be made. Larger jpeg sizes for visual art preferred.

Invite a friend, coworker, or neighbor now for the Christmas Eve Service from 5-6:00 p.m. on the 24th. 

 Come dressed for photos in front of the tree or bring the kids in pajamas. Invite your family and friends to sing the carols and hear the story once again of when Hope came as a human and lived among us. 

 Then stand in the darkness as the first candle is lit and see the glow slowly spread across the room, candle to candle. Until at last, enveloped in the glow, we remember when The Light came into the world and pierced the darkness.