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Details for Mega Mission 2018
Living Hope is joining with Evergreen Church Lakeville for a local mission trip for the whole family! Mega Mission is happening this week from Thursday, July 26th through Sunday, July 29th. Here are the details if you want to join with us! Thursday, July 26th: 7:00 PM: Gather at Paul’s Barn (5632 Salem Road Court SW, Rochester) for Ice Cream Sundaes, prayer and, Mega Mission information. Friday, July 27th: 7:30 AM: Leave from North Menards in Rochester to caravan…
Mega Mission 2018
Mega Mission – Thursday, July 26 – Sunday, July 29, 2018 We are excited to do our own Mega Mission and to be partnered with Evergreen Church in the Twin Cities for this short-term mission trip for the whole family! -Thursday, July 26th: Kickoff meeting at Foster Arends Park (4051 E River Rd NE, Rochester, MN) at 7:00 p.m. -Friday, July 27th: Spend the day on Mission at Evergreen Church in Lakeville (16165 Kenwood Trail, Lakeville, MN) -Saturday, July 28th: Invite the Rochester community…
Gather in the Rambler at St. James Coffee July 19th
Our friends Spencer Bernard (pastor at Evergreen Bloomington) and his wife Lisa will be performing at the St. James Coffee House on Thursday July 19th from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Invite all your friends and come check out some great country folk! https://www.facebook.com/gatherintherambler/
Parenting Training Camp pt 2
Coming up fast is Parenting Training Camp pt 2! Evergreen pastor Eric Cram and his wife Kathy will be presenting this free workshop on Saturday July 21 at Schaeffer Academy 8:30 – 12:00. Childcare will be provided. Email info@discoverlivinghope.com for more details
Sundays at Schaeffer!
Living Hope Church is moving to Sundays at Schaeffer! 2700 Schaeffer Lane NE, Rochester (Near Century High School off of Viola and E Circle Dr) We’ve loved our time at Crossroads College but the time has come to get a spot for Sunday mornings. After a longer search than we expected we connected with the great people at Schaeffer Academy. They have worked out a great rental agreement with us and we’ve taken a couple Sunday mornings to work out…
New Series – The Book of Acts
The Book of Acts – Examples of Faith Living Hope has just started a 10 week series studying through the book of Acts at our weekly house church. This is an important study for us as we come from a movement of churches that strives to emulate the faith and reliance on God that we see in the first century as recorded in Scripture. In addition, as a new church plant, we get to see first-hand the challenges of taking…
Spring Break 2018
From March 10th-14th a team of 21 people from Ames, Iowa and 13 people from West Lafayette, Indiana converged on Rochester for a five day Mission Trip. We’ve done mission trips with these two sister churches in the past. These dear saints sacrificed part of their Spring Breaks to serve us and labor alongside us here in Rochester. During their stay, the team participated in various service projects. As a church, we are still working on getting people settled in.…
Spring Retreat Recap
Over 35 people gathered in Rochester in Mid-March for the Living Hope Church Spring Retreat. Since many members of our team are still in the process of moving to Rochester, this was an important opportunity to gather together from Ames, the Twin Cities, and Rochester to deepen our relationships, pray, worship, and hear testimonies and teaching. Pastor Paul and Pastor Charlie both taught on the subject of “The Strength of a Church Planter.” While there are many wise strategies we…
How Did We Pick the Name Living Hope?
Wow, what a journey! Picking a name is hard! So much of your identity as a group of people comes from what you’re called. We brainstormed, got suggestions from lots of people, prayed, made lists, filled white boards with ideas, googled a whole lot of random stuff, prayed, dug through thesauruses, brainstormed some more, came up with the some great names that we already taken, prayed some more and so on and so on. Finally, as is often the case,…