Vision Pillars Worship

Series For the first part of 2026, we will be focusing on the three foundational pillars that shape Hope United Methodist Church's identity and calling: Inclusion, Connection, and Creation. These aren't just aspirational words on a page—they're the DNA of who we are as a community and how we live out Christ's love in the world. Each pillar invites us deeper into the transformative work God is doing in and through us.

Sunday, May 3 | Connected Across Difference

What have we been taught to call unclean — that Creator has already made holy? 

In Acts 10, the apostle Peter has a vision that crashes into everything he thought he knew. A blanket descends from the sky, filled with creatures he had been taught were off-limits. And God says: What I have made clean, do not call impure. Three times.

This Sunday we explore what it means to unlearn the scripts we inherited — about who belongs, who is safe, who is "other" — and what happens when we're willing to step across the lines we were taught to hold. We'll hear the story through the First Nations Version, a translation of scripture in the voice and style of Native storytelling traditions, and we'll ask together: Who are the Corneliuses in our community? And what might we still be learning to see?

Join us at Hope UMC as we continue our Connection series — and come ready to have your categories gently interrupted.