By means of the Giving Tree at Hope Fellowship, sometimes referred to as the Angel Tree, our church deacons asked one hundred people to sign up and prepare a gift for a struggling individual or family in the community.
Today Nelson Mandela is being laid to rest in Qunu, a small village near his family’s property. The funeral is expected to be one of the largest in modern times. In his tribute at Tuesday’s Memorial service, President Obama compared Mandela to Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr., calling him “the last great liberator of the 20th century.”
Michael Broersma, our Worship Zone Co-ordinator, has been after me for a couple of years about coming out and watching one of the church league hockey games. “Tell me when Hope Fellowship is playing Zion CRC,” I said. “This Saturday night,” he told me last week. So off I went
A person is innocent until proven guilty. That means that many of the charges levelled at Mayor Rob Ford are only allegations until they’re proven in court. A charge is no longer an allegation, however, when someone actually admits that the accusation is true.
Christina Reid, a new Christian who was baptized at Hope Fellowship Church last year, is actively raising money for her eleven month missions tour to eleven different countries. One of her “World Race” fundraising events is a concert by pop recording artist, Mzz Sarah G. Opening the concert will be Lydia Van Dyk, an amazing vocalist whose pure and powerful voice is well known to us because of her years of participation on various praise teams