Prayer
- Weekly emails and gatherings help us pray for one another at Hope Church. Throughout the year, daytime Word and Prayer meets every Wednesday morning from 10:30 to 11:30 in our Fireside room.
- See our calendar with prayer gatherings here.
- Submit your prayer requests through this form (keep them private with staff, or allow us to share them on our app’s prayer list and in our weekly prayer emails).
Visitation Team
- The Visitation Team provides encouragement and fellowship for our brothers and sisters in need, especially those who are homebound or hospitalized. We reflect God's love by listening, being present, reading the Word, and praying with those we visit. Monthly team gatherings help organize and encourage us.
- Email/call Katie Rudy if you need a visit or if you’re interested in serving: katie@hefc.net or 815-957-4663
Helping Hands
- Helping Hands exists to train disciples to worship God through serving others’ physical needs, usually those in our church body who don’t have the means or physical abilities to do the work themselves. Examples include providing rides to doctor appointments, fixing broken things, cleaning up after a storm, or building a handicap ramp. As God is the source of every good gift we have, we desire to demonstrate this truth by cheerfully giving our time, resources, and talents to those in need.
- Call the church if you’re interested in learning more or serving. 815.623.6545
Meal Train
- When people have big events in their lives, such as a birth or death of a loved one, an injury, or a big move, we love to provide them with meals. Whether it’s a home cooked meal, or carry out, this act of care does much to build up our church family.
- Call the church office if you would like to be added to our meal train email list, which would give you the option to sign up to provide meals for people in our church body whenever you can. 815.623.6545
Wedding Services
Please contact us for more information regarding services and planning here at Hope Church. 815.623.6545
Funeral Services
It is our desire and privilege to minister to the families of our congregation and community in their time of need. The death of a loved one is a difficult experience. We grieve the loss of one who has been close, but we do not sorrow as those who have no hope (1 Thessalonians 4:13). Please contact us for more information regarding services and planning here at Hope Church. 815.623.6545
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.” —2 Corinthians 1:3–4
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.” —2 Corinthians 1:3–4