My Covid VBS
Vacation Bible School has always been the best ministry week of the year for me! I have so many memories - Marty and I teaching preschool...
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Ross Harrison
- Aug 2, 2022
- 2 min
Why We Choose Summer Camp
If you’ve been around Hope Church for a while, you’ve probably noticed our efforts in sending both kids and students to summer camps....
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Michelle Schulte
- Jul 26, 2022
- 2 min
Sometimes I get asked this question...
Think back to those concert tickets you HAD to buy. Not being there wasn’t an option. You scraped, you schemed and you made it happen....
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Matt Collins
- Jul 12, 2022
- 3 min
Why Don’t We Howl at the Moon?
I am so thankful to be part of the Evangelical Free Church of America or the EFCA. Twenty-four years ago, I made a conscious choice to...
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Deanna Rietgraf
- May 3, 2022
- 2 min
A Beautiful Partnership
I was 16 years old when I went on my first missions trip and I’m pretty sure it was the first calling I had from God to be in ministry....
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Dave Clarke
- Apr 26, 2022
- 3 min
What is “Missions Work”?
One of the most clear Bible verses that talks about this thing we call “missions work” or “missions” is Acts 1:8 when Jesus says, “But...
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Bethany Lois
- Dec 14, 2021
- 2 min
The New Front Door
Google Search “Is there a God?” You'll see 1,910,000,000 results (0.58 seconds) The "front door" of our church, the way we met people,...
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Dave Clarke
- Dec 7, 2021
- 3 min
The Gift of Friendliness
Did you know that besides the Fall back-to-school season, the Christmas & New Year's holiday season is the time when we see the most...
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Hope Church
- Nov 2, 2021
- 5 min
100 Random Thoughts From The Staff
Happy 100th blog post!! In honor of this bloggiversary milestone, here are 100 random thoughts from the Hope Church staff: Jesus loves...
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Nelson Jenkins
- Sep 23, 2020
- 2 min
It was either Youth Pastor or Plumber
People often ask me why I decided to go into youth ministry...
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Deanna Rietgraf
- Feb 19, 2020
- 3 min
On Being New at Hope
About two months after I started at Hope Church, I was walking out of the worship center and someone said, “Have you met ‘so and so’ yet?...
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Dave Clarke
- May 2, 2019
- 4 min
Our 2019-2020 Agape Project is...
When I was a 9 years old, my parents built a house out in the country side. I remember jumping out of the 2nd story bedroom floor when...
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Matt Collins
- Feb 14, 2018
- 2 min
5 Things I loved about Night to Shine
Night to Shine is over, and from all accounts, it was a huge success. This would have been impossible if not for the many, many, many...
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Dave Clarke
- Jan 16, 2018
- 2 min
Is Our Church Secure?
Periodically, I get questions about security & what Hope Church is doing, especially when a tragic incident like the shooting at the...
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Dave Clarke
- Nov 8, 2017
- 2 min
Why does it have to be just one night?
Back in February, we met John Grothjan, the Community Services Director at Area Residential Care (ARC) in Dubuque. John had invited us...
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