GEMS & Cadets meet every other Wednesday ~ 6:45-8:30 PM
February 8 and 29
March 7 and 21
GEMS contact Sharry Murawski with questions 708-687-0167
Cadets contact Derek Meyer with questions 708-333-1553
YEEPS' Schedule (Youth Grades 9-12)
Sunday, January 29 ~ Prairie Hope participation
February 24-25 @ Anti-winter Winter Retreat (leave church @ 6:00 PM)
Sunday, March 11 ~ Disussion Night
Sunday, March 25 Family Bowling Night
Sunday, April 15 ~ Game Night
Saturday, April 21 ~ All Church Bingo Fundraiser Night
Sunday, May 6 ~ Segway Tour
Sunday, May 20 ~ End of the Year Party
Hope’s Association of Retired People
Hope’s Association of Retired People meets at 10:00 AM on the first and third Wednesdays of the month. We talk, laugh, share stories, read, think, wonder, question, drink tea and coffee, eat treats, etc. We’ve been known to pray. It is informal and encouraging and you don’t need to be retired. You just need to show up. We’ve got the books.
A Prairie Hope Companion ~ January 29
Prairie Hope Companion returns Sunday night at 6:00 pm, and hopes to be better than ever. Sketches will feature Dan Quist and Steve Evenhouse with the opening lineup; Dave and Anne Vander Weele, Russ and Lynn Hollender with a new Ketchup Commercial; Mark Dykstra and Doug Hoogstra with the audio News and Notes; Bill Boerman-Cornell, Dennis Brumirski and Jill Forster-DeHaan with Pastor Noir; and Dick DeJong introducing us to Mr. Christian Reformed. Dave Larsen returns to host the show and bring the News from Oak Forest.
Musical guests include Glenn and Mary Medema, Dave and Bev Baar, the Hope CRC Tabernacle Choir, Kathryn Boerman-Cornell and Will Klanderman, Aaron and Marissa Carpenter, Betsy DeJong, Mark Jones and Dora Diephouse.
The show is produced by Corenna Roozeboom and directed by Josie Boswell, with technical assistance from Meine Visser, Jeremy Hulford and Derek Forster-De Haan.
Supper is at 5:00 pm.
Speaking of Supper….
This Sunday, January 29 at 5:00 all you need to do is show up. We have subs and salads and cookies. We have enough people setting up and cleaning up. We have a wonderful space in Fellowship Hall.
You don’t need to sign up or pay up.
You just need to show up, eat, and enjoy your Hope family before the show.
Think of it as dinner theater.
Show is at 6:00 pm. A nursery will be provided for the show.
Hope's Annual Chili Cook-off ~ March 3, 2012
Mark your calendar and do whatever it is that you do to get ready. Soak or steep or stew or simmer or just coat your stomach with some preventative pepto….
Adult Education ~ after the morning service
January 29 Josh Larsen: 2011 in movies (Academy Awards preview)
February 5 Roger Wiers: 2011 in review through political cartoons ~ Part 2
February 12 Mike VanderWeele: Writings of Marilyn Robinson
Hope's Book Club ~ February 19 @ 6:00 PM
Please join us on February 19th @ 6:00 as we discuss ROOM, a novel by Emma Donoghue.
ROOM is a disturbing tale, the unfolding of which is part of the fascination of reading this novel. 'To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.... Told entirely in the language of the energetic, pragmatic five-year-old Jack, ROOM is a celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between parent and child, a brilliantly executed novel about what it means to journey from one world to another.'
Yoga
Join us every Thursday night 7:00-8:00 PM for yoga - $6 donation. Questions? Email Natalie at .
Hope Prays
A group of women (no reason why it couldn’t be men…..) meets at
Basketball
Join us for informal Saturday morning pick-up basketball games starting on Saturday, October 1. We get together from 9:00 – 11:00 at the SCCS Tinley Park gym on most Saturday mornings. There's no pressure to make every week; just show up when you can. Anyone (guys or gals) interested in playing can contact Jeremy Hulford at and he will add you to the e-mail list. Join us for great Hope hooping fun!
For more information contact us at