Recent Posts

Sign-ups begin Sunday, September 5th! CLICK HERE to register for the Table.



Preview the new curriculum below:

Learn to effectively balance your life with EMC President Dr. Pat Gelsinger.


On Saturday, September 11th the New England Indian Christian Fellowship is hosting An Evening with Dr. Pat Gelsinger at Grace Baptist Church in Hudson, MA. Dr. Gelsinger is a the President and Chief Operating Officer at EMC and is also the author of "The Juggling Act: Bringing Balance to Faith, Family, & Work." Don't miss out on this great event!

For more details, please CLICK HERE to view the event flyer or CLICK HERE to register online.

RSVP Here!

Sunday, August 22nd and Sunday, August 29th following the worship service an informational reception will be held regarding the Family Life Center project. A short presentation will be made, questions will be answered, a light lunch will be served, and childcare will be provided through grade 5. Please RSVP for one of these receptions. You can easily reserve a spot by clicking the "Register Now" icon.

---

For more information, please visit the Family Life Center page on Mt. Hope's website HERE or contact the church office at (781) 272-1014.

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

Received this request from Rebecca Andrejczyk if you can help let me know:
The email below is from my sister Melissa to a bunch of us who have been supporting a family through their son's bone marrow transplant and difficult (and still not here) recovery. Melissa met them while on the isolation ward at Children's Hospital with her son Orilus nearly 4 years ago. While Orilus has made a full recovery, Eddie's health continues to deteriorate. He's still super sick and attends multiple appointments per week. They just had to leave their public housing in Salem due to renovations as you'll read below and are residing in a Ronald McDonald house. I'm wondering if you would pass this along to the church body and see if anyone has housing on the north shore that they could use, even in the short term while they wait for the government housing to come through. I'm just trying to think of everyone we know who might be able to help.

A week ago Friday, Kori (Eddie's mom) received notice that the public housing in which they've lived since Eddie's transplant had decided to make some major renovations...beginning Monday (so they had almost no notice!). When Kori told Jimmy Fund the news (she was concerned, of course, about construction debris/dust/mold and Eddie's immune system) they told her that she could not stay there for Eddie's sake. Ugh.
Salem Housing Authority must find a new place for them to stay until the work is finished, but they think it will be some weeks before they can find her a place. Meanwhile, the work has begun and Eddie and his family have had to leave. They're now residing at Ronald McDonald house in Boston in very less than ideal circumstances, and when I talked with Kori today, she and both of her boys were crying, they are so sad to feel so unmoored.

I'm writing because I guess I feel overwhelmed; sometimes this family's needs are so great I don't know how best to help. I know we can pray for them; honestly, I think they are reaching new levels of discouragement, anxiety, and depression, and they need our prayers and encouragement. But also, what to do? Kori needs to be in/near Salem, where Eddie is supposed to be receiving summer tutoring and where some of his appointments are. She's going to push Housing later this week to get her a place, but I'm so sad to think of them in Boston, alone, living out of suitcases, in a room with no TV, sharing a kitchen with other medically-traumatized families (and their germs), accumulating additional expenses...it's a lot. If ANY of you have any ideas about how to help the family through these next weeks, please let me know.

"Dear friends, don't be afraid of those who want to kill your body; they cannot do any more to you after that. But I'll tell you whom to fear. Fear God, who has the power to kill you and then throw you into hell." Luke 12:4,5.

I read this passage and the first thing I wonder is what it is to fear God. Jesus who spoke these words as God incarnate didn't seem to be going about trying to get people to fear him as he ministered. In fact the things he was doing, healing, teaching, forgiving, showing compassion, seemed to do the opposite of awakening fear in people. But, Jesus did call people to discipleship and discipleship is obedience. Who we obey in a way is who we fear. Now it might not be a cowering in the corner "please don't hit me" kind of fear. But, maybe it is "I love you so much that I fear disappointing you" or "I respect you so much that I fear letting you down" or "I care so much what you think of me that I fear letting you see who I really am." This last one maybe is what Jesus is warning us against seeing as he just got finished lambasting the Pharisees in chapter 11 for putting on a good front, but not having anything to back it up on the inside. If we fear what other people think of us and we fear looking bad in their eyes to the extent that we will make decisions based on what others think about us rather than on what God wants us to do then we are fearing (obeying) people and not fearing (obeying/worshiping)God. If we want to know who we fear, we only have to look at who we obey.

I must admit that reading Luke 3 this morning I was tempted to breeze over all the names contained in the genealogy at the end of the chapter. I mean at least in Matthew's genealogy we get a little interesting commentary like "whose mother was Bathsheba the wife of Uriah." But, in Luke it is a list of straight names for fifteen verses. For many of the names, like Addi and Cosam, this is the only reference to them in all the Bible, quite likely the only reference to them in all recorded history. And yet in their line will eventually come Joseph who will be instructed by an angel of God to marry a pregnant girl and become the stepfather for Jesus. There are a few things I think we can draw from this obscure part of Scripture. First, God's view and picture of history and our lives is so much bigger than ours. Second, though we do our best not to be forgotten in this world, even having our names engraved on a granite stone after we die, people will eventually forget about us, but God never does. Third, we are a part of an interconnected line that precedes us and extends from us. Fourth, in light of father's day being last week I am reminded that my greatest significance may not be in who I am, but in who I father. This principle holds true for all people, not just parents, it may be the people in whom we invest that make the greater mark on history. If that is the case then we like Addi the son of Cosam can take comfort in the fact that we got to play a part in God's plan. So here is an "Atta Boy" and "Atta girl" to all the Addis and Cosams and Johns, and Susans, and Joes, and Marys, and Ricks of this world who live their lives quietly never completely realizing the true eternal significance of their lives - keep up the good work, because we are all depending on you to play your part.

What time should you come to church this summer? Read here to find out!

Sunday Mornings

On Sunday, July 4th we will move to one worship service at 10:00 a.m.

We will resume our two-service schedule with services at 9:00 & 10:45 a.m. on Sunday, October 3rd.

Mid-Week Connection

Our regular Mid-Week Connection activities will end for the Summer on June 16th, however, our final gathering will be on the 23rd of June. On the 23rd we will honor those receiving awards in our Girls Ministries and Royal Rangers programs.

Don't forget that Vacation Bible School is June 27th through July 1st! CLICK HERE to view trailer.


To keep up to date will all the events at Mount Hope CLICK HERE to view the online calendar.

Last Saturday my wife and I were playing a game with our son. The game had a spinner on which the highest number was eight and the lowest was one. About the middle of the game, my son was lagging behind and he said "I'll be right back." At this point he went to a chair in the corner of the kitchen and put his head down in his hands. We had no idea what was going on and were getting a little impatient, but waited for him to return. He came back to the board and said, "I prayed for an eight." My wife and I just looked at each other both happy that our son has enough faith to ask for God's help even in a game, but wondering what his reaction would be if he did not spin an eight. In my heart I was silently praying, "Oh Lord let it land on eight and let this be a small reminder to my son that you are the God who hears him and answers his prayers." He got a three. We quickly cheered for his three and said what a great spin that was, hoping to put off for now the question that five year olds and ninety-five year olds wrestle with, "Why didn't God answer my prayers?" In the end he never asked, we continued to spin and had fun playing out the game, which I won. When I finished first, despite my best efforts to manipulate my spin to allow him the victory, he said "you won, great job Daddy, now lets see who finishes second."

I thought about all the fun we had finishing the game and cheering for one another, and I wondered how many people get stuck on demanding to know why their prayer was not answered in the way they desired and miss the joy of finishing the game and celebrating with others?

So the lesson I was hoping to teach my son with his answered prayer turned out that his unanswered prayer (at least not the way he wanted) was an even greater lesson to me. Which brings us to another lesson, when I think God is trying to teach something to others He is often teaching something to me if I would just pay attention.

Reading today in C.S. Lewis. He uses an analogy for coming to Christ of moving from the hallway (place of waiting) into a room (place of relationship where there are chairs, meals, and fires). Then he writes these words, "When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall. If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more, and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the house rules common to the whole house." - Mere Christianity, Preface.

These words scream to me humility, grace, and compassion. We may be tempted to be combative with those who have chosen a different path, a different belief system as we have. We may be tempted to argue in order to justify our choice and why we are right and they are wrong. But, this is not following the rules of the house of which we claim to be a part. He is no hero who shows grace and compassion to those we like and like us. True grace and compassion is shown to those who don't show it to us and whom it is difficult to like. Lest we forget, grace is unmerited favor, and it is only grace when we express it to people who do not deserve it, as we ourselves do not.

So who is in your life right now where you have an opportunity to show true grace and compassion?

What is happening to the kids at Mount Hope?

Something seems to have silenced the children of Mount Hope. Won't somebody save them? Watch this dramatic series unfold. A new episode will be shown each Sunday until June 27th.


Episode 1



Episode 2



Episode 3



Episode 4



Watch the VBS trailer below:



VBS will be taking place June 27th - July 1st at Mount Hope from 6:30-8:30pm.

To register your child for VBS, please click here CLICK HERE.

Questions about VBS? Please contact Pastor Danielle at dchristy@mounthope.org or (781) 272-1014 x.118

Raising funds for missions has never been easier.

Looking for an easy way to support Speed The Light? A great way to help support Revolution Student Ministries as they raise money for Speed the Light is to click the "VistaPrint" logo to visit a special website. 30% of anything purchased from VistaPrint through this link will go to Revolution. All the money that is earned will be donated by Revolution to Speed the Light. If you would like to learn more about STL, please click their logo.

To learn more about Revolution Student Ministries CLICK HERE.