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Family Night – with a Meal!
Hope ChapelJanuary 4th, 2023Community Updates

What is Family Night? Hope Chapel hosts small groups and book studies on Wednesday evenings from 6-7:30 PM (meal at 5:00 p.m. this semester). Everyone is welcome: single, married, with or without kids. For more info about groups that meet during family night – and groups that meet throughout the week – check out the Hope Groups page!

JUNIOR HIGH MINISTRY

Jr. High meets weekly on Wednesdays in the Lighthouse. They also meet 2nd & 4th Sunday mornings. Contact Wes for more info and address.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT KIDS’ CLUB RSVPs CLOSED

If you have kids (5th grade and younger) you’d like to bring, please RSVP on Realm for a fun program with an emphasis on scripture memorization.

CHEF ABBY MAKES A MEAL THIS SEMESTER AT FAMILY NIGHT

Chef Abby is making the meal this semester. It begins at 5:00 p.m. and we’ll clean up around 5:45 p.m. so people can be in their groups by 6:00 p.m.
Women of Hope T-shirts Available Now!
Suzi RainesJanuary 4th, 2023Community Updates
It’s time to order your Women of Hope T-shirt!

bit.ly/WoH2023

One beautiful design – an Audrey Lopata original! Two beautiful colors to pick from in the adult sizes.

Adult Sizes (Unisex):
- XS-XL = $22
- 2XL = $24
- 3XL-4XL = $25
- Available in either color – Heather Prism Sunset or Heather Blue Lagoon
Youth Sizes:
- S-XL = $18
- Available in Heather Blue Lagoon, only
NOTE: For FREE shipping, you must enter the code LOCAL where it says “Discount code (optional)” on the Checkout page. (Make sure you press the + sign next to it and then it will show “-$7.00”)

Putting local in the Notes section will NOT give the discount. In the Discount code box, you must use LOCAL and also click the + for the discount. We can NOT change it afterwards.

This will ship your shirt to Women of Hope for later distribution. If you want it shipped to your home, do not use this option.

All proceeds benefit Women of Hope.

Deadline to order is January 15th.

Link to order: bit.ly/WoH2023
“Light Up the Church”: Remembering Kristallnacht
Hope Chapel of AustinNovember 3rd, 2022Community Updates
On November 9, 1938, hordes of German paramilitary and citizens attacked Jewish citizens, their homes, schools, businesses, cemeteries and synagogues in what became known as Kristallnacht — the Night of Broken Glass.

Over the last decade synagogues around the world have participated in leaving their lights on all night on Nov. 9th. This year churches worldwide are joining them to “let their lights shine in the darkness” Wednesday, Nov. 9th in solidarity with the Jewish people, to stand against anti-semitism. At Hope Chapel, we will place about 50 “LED candles” in each of our windows visible from the streets, and yard signs out front indicating the purpose.

For more information, visit LightUpTheChurch.org
“Welcome Home” A Future and A Hope Conference – Registration Open Now!
Mandy RynikerNovember 3rd, 2022Community Updates
Fostering Hope’s annual adoption and foster care conference, A Future + A Hope is coming up on March 4, 2023.

This year’s theme is “Welcome Home.”

Hope Chapel partners with Fostering Hope as we seek to provide holistic support for our own foster/adoptive families and those in our community.

From Fostering Hope:

Whether we have adoptive children, foster children, relatives, or we are reunifying with our children after difficult circumstances, our homes should be welcoming. And yet for so many of us, it almost seems laughable to imagine a restful home.

Let’s work together to create a community that welcomes children home – even if “home” is temporary! Find more information and register at iamfosteringhope.org.
2022 Combined Christmas Choir
Deb DormanOctober 31st, 2022Community Updates
2022 Christmas choir – Reaching beyond our walls to bless the Church in the City!
Our first practice is this coming Saturday morning at 10:15!

This year we are partnering with Northwest Fellowship to form
A combined Christmas Choir.

Would you prayerfully consider joining us to celebrate
One Church in the City
One choir, two congregations
Celebrating our one Savior with Joy-filled voices

2 offerings (“performances”)
1) Northwest Fellowship’s Christmas Party
Sunday night, December 11 at 6pm
13427 Pond Springs Road 78729 (near 183 and Anderson Mill Rd)

2) Hope Chapel’s Sunday morning worship service, December 18 at 10am
6701 Arroyo Seco 78757

Our practices will be from 10:15-11:45 on Saturday mornings
And they will be divided between Hope and Northwest Fellowship (NWF) as follows:

This Saturday, November 5 at Hope Chapel
Saturday, November 12 at Northwest Fellowship
Saturday, November 19 at NWF
Saturday, November 26 – Give Thanks! (We’re off for the holiday!)
Saturday, December 3rd at Hope Chapel
Saturday, December 10th at NWF
Saturday, December 17th at Hope Chapel
Men’s Retreat October 14-16
Joe FriedmanSeptember 27th, 2022Community Updates
Men of Hope Retreat • October 14-16th at Twin Lakes YMCA

Body Building – Being and Building the Body of Christ

Come focus this year on Body Building – Being and Building the Body of Christ with your brothers from Hope on retreat not far from home at the Twin Lakes YMCA Cedar Creek Camp. In I Corinthians 12:

“For just as the body is one and has many members…If the foot should say, ‘Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,’…The eye cannot say to the hand, ‘I have no need of you…’

…But God has so composed the body…that the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.”

KICK-BACK, RELAX TIME
Unstructured time abounds: fellowship, sitting around the campfire, prayer, conversation, and time away to enjoy with brothers in Christ.

And maybe mark some of them with a paintball.

COSTS
Camp runs from Friday 5PM to Sunday 11:30ish.
Full: 5 meals and overnight stay – $120/per person
No Lodging: Day Camp with meals – $70/per person
No Meals or Lodging: Day Camp without meals: $35/per person

SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE
Joe Friedman says, “We are also very happy to receive donations for scholarships. (Note: the fees for the retreat, though paid to Hope Chapel, are not tax deductible. However, gifts made for retreat scholarships are tax deductible).”

SIDE ACTIVITIES IN ADDITION TO HIKING, BIKING…
Archery: no charge
Paintball: $35 per person; minimum of 10 players required.

RSVP TODAY AND/OR HELP PLAN
You can RSVP for the retreat here. Have questions? Contact Joe Friedman.