Take a Peek at Be The Bridge: The Springfield Race Riot of 1908
on July 3rd, 2020
Springfield 1908 'Race Riot'A Conversation with Rebecca LeatherwoodMeet Rebecca Leatherwood, who was part of our first Be The Bridge group at Hope. She has been attending Hope for 5 years.  The Be The Bridge model was created by founder, Latasha Morrison. Morrison’s organization equips individuals to serve as ambassadors of racial reconciliation with a unique Christian perspective."I have lived in...  Read More
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Take a Peek at Be The Bridge: Meet Emily LeVault
on June 26th, 2020
Take a Peek at Be The BridgeA conversation with Emily LeVaultMeet Emily LeVault. Wife to our Student Pastor here at Hope, Mom to two, an avid mac n cheese connoisseur, loves to make you laugh, and a fierce follower of Jesus Christ. In the fall of 2019 she was a part of Hope's Be the Bridge group study and has continued to participate in them since. She became a fan of Latasha Morrison's when first...  Read More
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Take a Peek at Be The Bridge: Juneteenth
on June 19th, 2020
Take a Peek at Be The Bridge:A history lesson with Rev. Dr. Kathleen WrightMeet Rev. Dr. Kathleen Wright. She is originally from Chicago and pastors St. Paul AME Church here in Springfield. Dr. Wright is part of the current Be The Bridge group here at Hope.  The Be The Bridge model was created by founder, Latasha Morrison. Morrison’s organization equips individuals to serve as ambassadors of racia...  Read More
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Take a Peek at Be The Bridge: Meet Rebecca Leatherwood
on June 11th, 2020
Take a Peek at Be The BridgeFor the last two years, RIkeesha Phelon and Lisa Miller have been leading Be The Bridge conversation groups here at Hope.  The Be The Bridge model was created by founder, Latasha Morrison.  Morrison’s organization equips individuals to serve as ambassadors of racial reconciliation with a unique Christian perspective.The recent murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, a...  Read More
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Mentoring Gears Up with the Pandemic at the Outlet
on June 5th, 2020
“We feel that, if anything, we should really put on the gas and we should go even harder now because these young guys, they’re at home,” Phelon said. “You know, some are not in the best situations. You know, some of the young men, being at school, being at The Outlet was their only kind of safe haven.”  Read More
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Hope Lyfts
on May 15th, 2020
Dave Neisler was driving for Lyft when he picked up one of his regular riders, Danielle, at the CWLP office. Once she reached the car she burst into tears. What happened next was nothing short of miraculous... As Dave sat and listened to Danielle's sto...  Read More
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Women on a Mission
on May 8th, 2020
“At the beginning of the shelter in place, I was feeling uneasy about the isolation because I live alone. So I started to pray and think of ways I could take a rotten situation and make it positive. Mr B. has been a big influence on me. He talked about making a list of people I could cheer on, and ever since then, I keep trying to think of ways to make others feel better," says Andrea Cantrall.  Read More
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Bernice Breaks the Barriers in Ghana
on May 1st, 2020
Bernice Breaks the Barriers in Ghana Over 400 years ago Shakespeare wrote:  “And though she be but little, she is fierce.”  Those words were never more true of anyone than of nurse Bernice Egu at the International Health and Development Network (IHDN) Mission Hospital in Ghana.  Read More
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Hope in Turkana
on April 24th, 2020
Water is life. You cannot have life without it. In the arid region of Turkana, Kenya, water is scarce. When Hope Church partnered with Bright Hope International to build a well and drip irrigation system for the village of Turkana, it not only brought life to the people through access to clean water, it brought with it the opportunity to begin a farm.   Read More
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Hope's First FMSC Pack = Success!
on April 17th, 2020
“It is a very rare thing to have an entire church working together to achieve a goal. It is even more rare to have kids as young as 5 years old working along with seniors and every age in between. It was such a blessing to me and my family.”   Read More
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The Links Share their SafeFamily Story
on April 10th, 2020
Brandy and Joe feel that God was in this effort from the start. Although struggling with control and anxiety, they gave it to God.   Read More
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