Spirit of Hope UMC

04/24/2026

Join us in wishing our Office Administrator Janine’s Birthday!

03/27/2026

Friends, it will be rescheduled. Thank you for understanding.

03/15/2026

Join us for online worship!

Fourth Sunday of LentThis is a prerecorded service as we are expecting a big snowstorm!Church website: https://spiritofhopeumc.orgContact the church: https:/...

03/14/2026

Spirit of Hope UMC will be worshiping online only this Sunday. Please check your email for the link to the service, check our youtube channel or website so you can join us from home. We look forward to being together in spirit and worshiping with you wherever you are.

02/19/2026

Our Ash Wednesday service. Stay safe everyone.

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

02/18/2026

https://www.youtube.com/live/hbCPCjrPp4Y?si=e5Vb0KSCwtwhbQ6Z

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

02/17/2026

01/24/2026

Look at what’s happening at Spirit of Hope next month!

Tickets for Thin Air Theater’s production of “Romeo and Juliet” are now live! Buy yours now through Eventbrite. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1981337093583?aff=oddtdtcreator

01/20/2026

God of mercy, make us a congregation that sees the unseen, embraces the overlooked, and walks alongside those who have learned to hide their pain. May we not shrink from discomfort, but be people who, like Jesus, insist that suffering be brought into the light and met with compassion. Move us from habit to attention, from ritual to mercy, from simply surviving to boldly inviting healing into every broken place among us. -Pastor Luke

01/13/2026

A news update on ICE activity near Park Avenue United Methodist Church in Minneapolis.

Today, January 13, 2026, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) presence surrounded Park Ave United Methodist Church in South Minneapolis. The church is within blocks of where Renee Good was killed during ICE operations on January 7, 2026.

The ICE presence lasted from approximately 9:20 a.m.-11:20 a.m. and spanned three sides of the church—Park Avenue on the east, 34th Street to the north, and Oakland Avenue to the west.

Protesters were present on the scene and remained peaceful. Toward the end of the two-hour period, pepper spray and pepper bombs were deployed by ICE agents against the protestors, with chemical irritants drifting across Park Avenue UMC’s parking lot.

Rev. Dan Johnson and other Park Avenue UMC staff were affected by the chemical irritants as they aided protesters on church property. The neighborhood cleared of ICE agents by about 11:20 a.m.

The church is secure, all staff are safe, and no injuries, except from the chemical irritants, were reported.

Rev. Dan Johnson asks for prayers for his congregation and neighborhood. He asks people to visit https://www.parkavechurch.org/ for more ways to help the community.