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https://vimeo.com/1116569766 This stream is for the September 14, 2025 service of Hope UCC. The message is based on the readings of John 5. The hymns are VU 412 “This is the Day,” and “What a Friend We Have in Jesus.” Other music includes “Nun Bitten Wir / To God the Holy Spirit Let Us Pray,” “Nun Danket Alle Gott / Now Thank We All Our God,” “O Christ, the Healer, We Have Come,” “The Serenity Prayer,” “Exhale,” and “O Jesu Christe, Wahres Licht.”

https://vimeo.com/1114673020 This stream is for the September 7, 2025 service of Hope UCC. The message is based on the readings of Luke 4, Frederick Buechner and Elizabeth O’Connor. The hymns areVU 326 “O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing,” “God of all learning,” and VU 567 “Will You Come and Follow Me.” Other music includes “Nicea: Holy Holy Holy,” “Hear the Message We Are Now Proclaiming,” “A Filii et Filiae,” and “O Dass Ich Tausend Zungen Hatte Konig” byJohann Balthasar Koni

https://vimeo.com/1114673020 This stream is for the August 31, 2025 service of Hope UCC. The message is based on the readings of Luke 14 and Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat. The hymns are VU 595 “We Are Pilgrims (The Servant Song),” and VU 457 “As We Gather at Your Table.” Other music includes “Trumpet Tune” George Frederic Handel, “Adagio” Arcangelo Corelli, “Shche ne vmeria Ukrainy (Ukraine Has Not Yet Perished),” “Musette,” and “Trumpet March” Jeremiah Clarke.

https://vimeo.com/1110725836 This stream is for the August 24, 2025 service of Hope UCC. The message is based on the readings of Luke 13 and Micheal Lerner. The hymns are VU 619 “Healer of Our Every Ill,” and VU 352 “I Danced in the Morning.” Other music includes “Good, Good Father,” “Great Are You, Lord,” “Preludes for Solo Cello: 1 and 3,” “Carnival of the Animals: The Swan,” and Cello Suite No 1 in G Major: “Allemande.”

https://vimeo.com/1108852559 This stream is for the August 17, 2025 service of Hope UCC. The message is based on the readings of Luke 12 and Parker Palmer. The hymns are VU 660 “How Firm a Foundation,” and VU 716 “My Life Flows On.” Other music includes “Unchained Melody,” “Apres un reve,” “Teach Me Thy Song, O Lord,” and “Here I Am Lord.”

https://vimeo.com/1106895949 This stream is for the August 10, 2025 service of Hope UCC. The message is based on the readings of Hebrews 11 and John A Buehrens. The hymns are VU 707 “For the Faithful Who Have Answered,” and VU 417 “God, as We Rise to Leave.” Other music includes “I Remember,” “Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again,” “No One is Alone,” and “Light in the Piazza.”

https://vimeo.com/1104929636 This stream is for the August 3, 2025 service of Hope UCC. The message is based on the readings of Psalm 107 and Maria Boulding. The hymns are VU 651 “Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah,” and VU 288 “Great Is Thy Faithfulness.” Other music includes “Classical Gas,” “Three Little Birds,” “Summer’s End,” “His Eye Is On The Sparrow,” and “Come, Christians, Join to Sing.”

https://vimeo.com/1102933607 This stream is for the July 27, 2025 service of Hope UCC entitled “Pentecost 7C.” The message is based on the readings of Psalm 85 and “Friends on the Path: Living Spiritual Communities” by Thich Nhat Hanh. The hymns are VU 686 “God of Grace and God of Glory,” and VU 421 “Lead On, O Cloud of Presence.” Other music includes “Voluntary #6,” “Make a Joyful Noise,” “Hallelujah,” “Joyful Celebration,” and “CraZy TrAiN.” Followed by the Annual Church Me

https://vimeo.com/1099158949 This stream is for the July 20, 2025 service of Hope UCC. The message is based on the readings of Psalm 52 and “Bathing with Trees” by Frederic Brussat. The hymns are “Tree of Wisdom Fruitful Green,” and VU 506 “Take My Life and Let It Be.” Other music includes “Be Thou My Music,” “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring,” “Opus 34, No 14,” “Apres Un Reve,” and “All Hail the Power.”

https://vimeo.com/1097323221 This stream is for the July 6, 2025 service of Hope UCC entitled “Pentecost 4C.” The message is based on the readings of Galatians 6 and Terry Tempest Williams. The hymns are “How Beautiful, Our Spacious Skies,” and “This Is My Song.” Other music includes Suite Hebraique “Rapsodie,” “Star Spangled Banner,” “Apre's un reve from Trois melodies,” and Chello Suite #1 “Prelude, Gigue.”

https://vimeo.com/1095410378 This stream is for the June 29, 2025 service of Hope UCC entitled “Open and Affirming / Pride.” The readings are from Matthew 5 and James Kavanaugh. The hymns are “All Are Welcome, “This Little Light of Mine,” and “In the Midst of New Dimensions.” Other music includes “Just Breathe,” “This Will Be,” “Child of God,” “Seasons of Love,” “Thee I Will Love,” and “Love, Love, Love.”

https://vimeo.com/1093511663 This stream is for the June 22, 2025 service of Hope UCC entitled “Pentecost 2C.” Pastor Carol Reynolds provides the message based on the readings of Luke 7 and Spiritual Survival Tips” by Candace Chellew-Hodge. The hymns are VU 643 “Faith While Trees Are Still in Blossom,” VU “Child of Blessing, Child of Promise,” and VU 570 “Jesus’ Hands Were Kind Hands.” Other music includes “It Is Well With My Soul,” “My Jesus, I Love Thee,” “I Need Thee Ever

This stream is for the June 15, 2025 service of Hope UCC entitled “Trinity.” Pastor Carol Reynolds provides the message based on the readings of Psalm 8 and Rev Kimberlee Tomczak Carlson. The hymns are “Celebrate a New Day Dawning,” and VU 260 “God Who Gives Life Its Goodness.” Other music includes “Waterton,” “Sarapiqui,” “A Piece of Me,” and “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee.” https://vimeo.com/1091620327

https://vimeo.com/1089511897 This stream is for the June 8, 2025 service of Hope UCC entitled “Pentecost Worship Service.” Penny Beerntsen provides the message entitled “Proximity: The Power of Story and the Hope of Restorative Justice,” based on the readings of Matthew 25 and Bryan Stevenson. The hymns are VU 371 “Open My Eyes, That I May See,” “Above All,” and VU 375 “Spirit, Spirit of Gentleness.” Other music includes “My Hope is Built,” “Come, Now is the Time to Worship,”

https://vimeo.com/1087538574 This stream is for the June 1, 2025 service of Hope UCC. Pastor David Raben provides the message based on the readings of John 17 and John O’Donohue. The hymns are VU “Come Children, Join to Sing,” and VU 602 “Blest Be the Tie That Binds.” Other music includes “All the Earth With Joy is Sounding,” “Sometimes a Light Surprise,” “On Eagle’s Wings,” “O Blessed Spring,” and “Come, We that Love.”

https://vimeo.com/1085471417 This stream is for the May 25, 2025 service of Hope UCC entitled “Becoming a Champion in Christ.” Ajamou Butler provides the message based on the readings of Exodus 33, Romans 15 and Habakkuk 2:2. The hymns are VU 288 “Great Is Thy Faithfulness,” VU 612 “There Is a Balm in Gilead,” “It Is Well with My Soul,” and VU 575 “I’m Gonna Live So God Can Use Me.” Other music includes “His Eye is On the Sparrow,” “Come Christians, Join to Sing,” “Hail Holy

https://vimeo.com/1083308179 This stream is for the May 18, 2025 service of Hope Church Mental Health Worship Service. Kathy Bandstra provides the message based on the readings of John 13 and Greg Bauman. The hymns are “Help Us Accept Each Other,” and “They’ll Know We are Christians By Our Love.” Other music includes “Shallow,” “Someone You Loved,” “I’m Feeling Good,” “You Are Loved,” “If You Search With All Your Heart,” and “Love Changes Everything.”

https://vimeo.com/1081285961 This stream is for the May 11, 2025 service of Hope UCC entitled “Intergenerational Worship Service.” Pastor Carol Reynolds provides the message based on the readings of John 10, and Andrew Harvey and Anne Baring. The hymns are “Here All Belong,” and VU 280 “Mother and God. Other music includes “Gift of Love,” “Come, Follow Me,” “Mothering God, You Gave Me Birth,” “Power of Your Love,” and “Ayre.”

https://vimeo.com/1079139547 This stream is for the May 4, 2025 service of Hope UCC entitled “Easter 3C.” Pastor Carol Reynolds provides the message based on the reading of John 21. The hymns are VU “Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise,” and VU 468 “Let Us Talents and Tongues Employ.” Other music includes “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing,” “My Redeemer,” “Gabrielle’s Oboe,” and “I Will Sing of My Redeemer.”

https://vimeo.com/1077098575 This stream is for the April 27, 2025 service of Hope UCC entitled “Holy Humor Worship Service.” Pastor Carol Reynolds provides the message based on the readings of Psalm 126 and Dennis Sibley. The hymns are VU 624 “Give to Us Laugher,” VU 260 “God Who Gives to Life Its Goodness,” VU 958 “Halle, Halle, Halle,” and VU 224 “Sing a Happy Hallelujah.” Other music includes “Wild Honeysuckle Rag,” “Downright Happy Rag,” “Lime Jello Marshmallow Cottage C