New Hope Lutheran

New Hope will soon be journeying through the season of Lent into Easter.

Wednesday Feb 18th we will observe "Ash Wednesday" with both "drive thru ashes" available in our lower parking lot between 4 and 5pm and a worship service with holy communion and the imposition of ashes in our worship center at 6pm. Choose whichever event works best for your spiritual practice and life circumstances!

On the five Wednesdays of the season we will share a pot luck "soup and bread" supper at 5:30pm followed by Holden Evening Prayer with the "Call to I Am" meditations at 6pm. These gatherings will take place in our fellowship hall (contained within our "office-classroom" building). Vicar Thania will lead the "I am" series. I am...the bread of life, the light of the world, the door, the good shepherd, the resurrection and the life. Join on any or all Wednesdays which fit your spiritual practice and life circumstances!

In early April we will recall the steps of Jesus through holy week, beginning on Palm Sunday at 10am, gathering for holy communion at 6pm on Maundy Thursday, meditations at 6pm on Good Friday and an Easter celebration on Sunday at 10am. Join us as often as you are able. Choose what works best for your spiritual practice and life circumstances!

Feeling Discouraged?

Read Haggai's Message to the Weary

Does the urgent crowd out the eternal in your everyday life? When life feels overwhelming, Haggai's message offers clarity and hope. Explore this powerful truth in a new article by BSF gurst contributor Anne Graham Lotz.

Hey read me!

Greetings New Hope Lutherans and Friends

This coming Sunday, we shall grapple with the Transfiguration story about Jesus.

Jesus took Disciples …Peter, James, and John on a mountain and they met Moses and Elijah…two leaders long dead. Their appearance and that of Jesus changed or “transfigured” to dazzling brightness.

At New Hope….we fully admit that we do not have all the answers to explain everything. I suspect that you have experienced spiritual events that defy your senses to fully comprehend?

Yet, we point All to God, revealed in Jesus, who helps us make sense of our lives, grapple with the mysteries, and trust that God loves us now and for eternity. We recognize the eternally expanding reality that the more we learn and know about anything, the more questions we are able to ask. Thus our faith journey is not having all the answers, but the spiritual wherewithal wonder, grapple, and ask more questions!

Could the the Transfiguration story be a glimpse of hope beyond mortal life? Could the story contain a word or message, just for you? Each of us? Are you beckoned to bolster and explore your faith journey? If so…suggestion: 10 AM. Sunday. 15 Feb. 26. Doors are wide open.

Here we go!

Interim Pastor Jeff Swanson

The Unvarnished History of Salvation

New Essay #8 is live.

"Lions, tigers, beasts,fire, sword and worse!"

Greetings New Hope Lutherans and Friends

For many years, I’ve been thinking about the history of “salvation” teachings in the Church, beginning amongst the first Christians. So, I’ve decided to write a series of short essays. Limited to 500 words each. Easy reads...click on the button to begin :)

Essay Series

Welcome to New Hope Lutheran Church

Weekly Worship Sunday's at 10:00 am

If you are looking for a faith family we invite you to consider New Hope. Come as you are, we are imperfect people trying to follow Jesus! Wherever you are on your faith journey, there is a place for you here.

We welcome people from ALL walks of life! We try not to draw lines and live what we say, "ALL are welcome".

We are an ELCA congregation https://elca.org in the northeast part of El Paso, easily accessible from US 54, on the corner of Kenworthy and Sun Valley.

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