July 2008


Scripture reading: Matthew 13:31-35, 44-52

It wasn’t too long into Christian history before the PR staff up in heaven decided that it was time to put together the official story of Jesus’ life. So all the recording angels got together in the heavenly newsroom to recite all their stories, clarify the details, and put together the authorized version. Well, at this meeting, there was a copy intern (for anonymity, let’s just call him Matthew), and this copyist’s job was to take down each story in the correct order on notecards. (more…)

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The new moderator of the PCUSA, Bruce Reyes-Chow, talked last Monday (yikes, I’m behind!) about going where people are already looking for things to make your church visible. Specifically, where they’re looking for advice on stuff other than church. For Bruce’s “emerging” church in San Francisco, that means an online review site, among other things.

How do people find things here in the Quad Cities? Where should we go to bear good news to people who need to hear/see/feel it? I’m guessing most of us didn’t find the church through an online review. (more…)

This might be it… a new website for Hope Community Presbyterian Church! We still have plenty of exploring to do, with WordPress and other options, but we look forward to having a dynamic, regularly updated website to help everyone keep up on the life of our church.

Stay tuned!