Thank You for Supporting Our Neighbors in Need Offering Thank you to those who gave financial gifts to our Neighbors in Need Offering, one of the Five-for-Five Offerings of the United Church of Christ. Our total contribution to this gift was nearly $900.00 as 24 giving units shared their financial support towards this offering. Thank […]

Knitting Group ~ Thursday, October 22 ~ 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Let us join together for conversation and to see how our projects are going as we meet here at Hope United Church of Christ. The Council has authorized small groups (10 persons or less) to be in the church building, with appropriate COVID 19 […]

Advent Devotional Available for Purchase Before we know it, the Advent season will be upon us, a time set aside for preparing and waiting as Christmas approaches.  A resource that can help us in our daily faith journey comes from the United Church of Christ and is titled, Draw Near, and promises us reflections for […]

  Fall Back – Change Your Clocks on Saturday, October 31 It is that time of the year when we need to set our clocks back one hour before going to bed on Saturday, October 31. Don’t forget!

Thank You for Supporting Our Neighbors in Need Offering Thank you to those who gave financial gifts to our Neighbors in Need Offering, one of the Five-for-Five Offerings of the United Church of Christ. Our total contribution to this gift was more than $700.00. Thank you to the Stewardship Committee: Cathy Boeset, Jane Buck (Chairperson), […]

Family Promise Hope United Church of Christ was scheduled to participate with Family Promise of Linn County this week.  Here is an update from our Family Promise Coordinator, Cathy Evers: We have a new family in the program! The family is a mother and six children.  Gordon Rey, Program Director for Family Promise, shared that […]

Stewardship Campaign – Be The Church: Together in Joy Our yearly Stewardship Campaign will soon begin at Hope UCC. This year’s theme is: “BE THE CHURCH: Together in Joy.” We find that theme to be particularly suitable this year since we’ve had to find new ways to BE THE CHURCH when we’ve not always been […]

Hope Cares We extend our care and condolences to the family of Richard Morris who died on October 7, while at Hiawatha Care Center. Arrangements are pending and will be announced at a later date. Cards can be sent to his wife, Lois, at 4600 Westchester Road NE, Unit B, Cedar Rapids, 52402.  

Thank You to All for Keeping Our Property Beautiful As the lawn mowing season winds down, we are grateful to the following persons who helped to keep our lawn mowed and trimmed this past growing season: Andrew Buck Mark Buck Dan Evers Aaron Gruwell Mark Hartenstein Fran Henderson Mel Krause Doug Lane Bill Thompson Jesse […]

Knitting Group ~ Thursday, October 15 ~ 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Let us join together for conversation and to see how our projects are going as we meet here at Hope United Church of Christ. The Council has authorized small groups (10 persons or less) to be in the church building, with appropriate COVID 19 […]