With fall fast arriving can the season of Advent be far behind? Now comes the season of great anticipation with the celebration of God’s incredible gift of grace. This year the Worship and Stewardship Ministry, with Pastor Melissa’s guidance, has decided to send out a daily email message during the Advent season. See where your participation is needed and sign up to receive it.

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To make meaningful change in our culture and move toward God’s plan for this world, we must begin by examining ourselves: understanding the biases we all carry, and how they affect our own lives and our interactions with other people. Engaging in Justice and Service is hosting a two-part series on Zoom with “Not in Our Town” to help us examine our relationship to racism.

At noon on Tuesday, November 3rd, let’s spend a few minutes together lifting up prayers for this important election. Using a lightly structured format on Zoom, we’ll pray for the election process to be covered by God’s grace and express our hopes for unity.

The Hopewell Council of Churches in conversation with Bev Mills & Elaine Buck, have decided to host a community-wide book group on If These Stones Could Talk.

Our second shipment of masks is on it’s way to our Friends for Health in Haiti. This shipment contains 225 masks made by the Hopewell community. Read the article published in FHH’s newsletter about the first shipment of masks.