House of Hope Church

Formation Series: Anti-Racism and Spiritual Practice
2026-04-29 17:30 - 19:00, 2026-04-22 17:30 - 19:00, 2026-04-15 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Kirk Parlour, 797 Summit Ave, St. Paul, MN, 55105, United States
Wednesdays, April 15, 22, 29
Kirk Parlour | 5:30 – 7 p.m.
Our Formations Series will continue with a four-week series led by Pastor Phillip Romine on the methods of Biblical interpretation. “I aspire to remember every day that I love you as I love myself, and we all know, or most of us do, what a struggle it can be to love ourselves well.” So writes Tema Okun, echoing a core teaching of Jesus. This 3-part series will focus on building spiritual practices that encourage us to love ourselves and our neighbors, in a dominant culture that discourages it.
Join us for a potluck meal at 5:30 p.m. and bring a dish to share, along with wisdom from your experiments in loving yourself.

Wednesday Bible Study
2026-04-29 09:30 - 11:00, 2026-04-22 09:30 - 11:00, 2026-04-15 09:30 - 11:00, 2026-04-08 09:30 - 11:00 | Room 1 and Zoom
Topic: Bible Study meets every week on Wed, until Jun 24, 2026,
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Tuesday Centering Prayer
2026-04-28 09:30 - 12:00, 2026-04-21 09:30 - 12:00 | Elizabeth Chapel and Zoom
House of Hope offers Centering Prayer worship every Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. in person and on Zoom. Centering Prayer is an opportunity to rest in God’s presence and invites all to nurture spiritual practices to enhance life’s journey. For instructions on how to access the online centering prayer, please email hoh@hohchurch.org. Friday Centering Prayer will continue at 9 a.m. on Zoom.
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Worship
2026-04-26 10:00, 2026-04-19 10:00 | Sanctuary, 797 Summit Ave, St. Paul, MN, 55105, United States

Friday Centering Prayer
2026-04-24 09:00 - 10:15, 2026-04-17 09:00 - 10:15, 2026-04-10 09:00 - 10:15 | Zoom Meeting
House of Hope offers Centering Prayer worship every Friday morning at 9 a.m. led by Linda Lane on Zoom. Centering Prayer is an opportunity to rest in God’s presence and invites all to nurture spiritual practices to enhance life’s journey.
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Women's Book Group
2026-04-24 08:00 - 10:00, 2026-04-17 08:00 - 10:00, 2026-04-10 08:00 - 10:00 | Zoom Meeting

Drop-In Knitting, Crafts, and Conversation
2026-04-23 13:00 - 15:00, 2026-04-16 13:00 - 15:00, 2026-04-09 13:00 - 15:00 | House of Hope Church, 797 Summit Ave, St. Paul, MN, 55105, United States
We are moving Drop- In Knitting, Crafts, and Conversation to Thursdays beginning January 8, 2026.
Join us for drop-in projects or fellowship in the church library each Thursday from 1 – 3 p.m. Bring a project, and we will create and visit!

Mid-Week Prayer Services
2026-04-22 12:15 - 12:45 | Elizabeth Chapel
House of Hope will offer a short, contemplative prayer service in the Elizabeth Chapel. Led by clergy, Scripture reading, prayers, bells, and silence will invite us to ground and center ourselves. Come with eyes to see and ears to hear.

Session Meeting
2026-04-21 18:30 - 20:00 | House of Hope Church, 797 Summit Ave, St. Paul, MN, 55105, United States

The Didier Seminar with Rev. John L. Bell
2026-04-19 10:00 - 12:00 | House of Hope Church, 797 Summit Ave, St. Paul, MN, 55105, United States
The Didier Seminar continues on Sunday, April 19.
Rev. John Bell will join us in worship to preach and lead our Sunday Enrichment.
Sunday Enrichment | 11:15 a.m.
The Importance of the Imagination in Unlocking Holy Scripture
To take the Bible seriously, for many people, means to study it. That is often a cerebral pursuit. Perhaps there are other means by which the depths of divine truth may be discovered through music, hymns, and song.

The Didier Seminar with Rev. John L. Bell
2026-04-18 08:30 - 12:00 | House of Hope Church, 797 Summit Ave, St. Paul, MN, 55105, United States
The Didier Seminar: The Shaping of What We Believe with Reverend John L. Bell
April 18-19, 2026
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Singing is neither a harmless nor a neutral activity. For many people what they sing shapes what they believe about God as much, if not more, than preaching.

Saturday, April 18 | 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
8:30 a.m. Coffee and Treats | Kirk Parlour
9 a.m. Session I: The Subversive Potentials of Sung Text
10 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. Session 2: Correcting the Balance
The song of the church is not a closed canon enshrined in a denominational hymnbook. It has to be constantly renewed as our awareness and understanding of God’s will and God’s world increases.
11:30 a.m. Discussion and Closing Remarks
Sunday, April 19
Rev. John Bell will join us in worship at 10 a.m. to preach and lead our Sunday Enrichment.
Sunday Enrichment: The Importance of the Imagination in Unlocking Holy Scripture
Assembly Room | 11:15 a.m.
To take the Bible seriously, for many people, means to study it. That is often a cerebral pursuit. Perhaps there are other means by which the depths of divine truth may be discovered through music, hymns, and song.

Reverend John L. Bell
John Bell is a preacher, hymn writer, composer, lecturer, and broadcaster, who spends much of the year traveling, mostly in the Americas and Europe. He is an ordained minister of the Church of Scotland and a member of the Iona Community. During his studies in Theology, he became the first (and last) student Rector of the University of Glasgow. After a period in the Netherlands and two posts in church youth work, he became employed, first in youth work and then in the areas of music and worship, founding during that time, with Graham Maule, the Wild Goose Worship Group and the Wild Goose Resource Group.
He is a past convenor of the Church of Scotland’s Panel on Worship and the committee that produced the ground-breaking Church Hymnary 4. In 1999, he was honored by the Presbyterian Church of Canada and the Royal School of Church Music which bestowed on him a Fellowship. In 2002, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Glasgow. In 2013, he was awarded the Community of Christ International Peace Award, and in 2018, presented by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Thomas Cranmer Award for Worship, and for his outstanding Christian witness, through hymn writing, broadcasting and social action.
John has produced many collections of liturgy, scripts, sermons and reflections, original hymns, and songs (some in collaboration with Graham) and three collections of songs of the World Church. These are published by Wild Goose Publications, the Iona Community’s publishing arm, in Scotland and by G.I.A. Publications (Chicago) in N. America. He lectures in theological colleges in Britain and U.S., but is primarily concerned with the renewal of congregational worship at grass roots level.

Circle of Grace
2026-04-16 17:30 | Library, 797 Summit Ave, St. Paul, MN, 55105, United States
You need this; we all need this. All are Welcome. Everyone Belongs!

All are invited to attend the Circle of Grace gatherings that will begin this fall at House of Hope. The first gathering is September 18 at 5:30 p.m. in the Library. We invite getting together starting at 5 p.m. We’ll have some salads and rolls on hand along with coffee, tea, and water. There will be a short presentation and facilitated discussion starting at 5:30 p.m. At the November meeting, we will give some thought to and talk about Contemplative Nature Practices.
2026 Dates: March 19, April 16, and May 16

God is never a set of concepts to be understood but a relationship to encounter. – Christine Valters Paintner

Stephen Ministry Supervision (6:00pm)
2026-04-15 18:00 - 20:00 | House of Hope Church, 797 Summit Ave, St. Paul, MN, 55105, United States
Topic: Stephen Ministry Supervision

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Stephen Ministry Supervision (1:30pm)
2026-04-15 13:30 - 15:30 | House of Hope Church, 797 Summit Ave, St. Paul, MN, 55105, United States
Topic: Stephen Ministry Supervision

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Worship with Holy Communion
2026-04-12 10:00 | Sanctuary, 797 Summit Ave, St. Paul, MN, 55105, United States

Trustees Meeting
2026-04-10 09:00 - 10:30 | House of Hope Church, 797 Summit Ave, St. Paul, MN, 55105, United States

Matthew 25 Committee Meeting
2026-04-08 17:30 - 19:00 | Room 1 and Zoom
Matthew 25 meets every month on the Second Wednesday from 5:30 – 7 p.m. in Room 1 and on Zoom.
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