Celebration and Anticipation
Dear Hope Church Family,
A year has come and passed since we launched our Making Room for More Campaign with Commitment Sunday in March 2025. This coming Sunday, March 1st, 2026 we eagerly mark that anniversary in our life together with both celebration and anticipation.
Celebration:
We celebrate the excitement and renewal the campaign has brought to our shared ministry. We celebrate the grace of generosity that is taking root and yielding great fruit in our church and through our church. We celebrate the galvanized mission that your sacrifice and mutual trust are empowering.
The sheer numbers from the campaign certainly tell a compelling story: over $5.2 million in commitments, over $4.3 million in actual gifts received, over $700,000 in gifts beyond pledges and commitments. I look upon the fulfilled-and-then-exceeded pledges, the thoughtful participation from so many in our church family – especially children, the support and generosity from those beyond our congregation, and I am as astounded as I am encouraged to arrive at this point only one year into a three year campaign. It all tells a story of God’s good work – absolutely worthy of our gratitude and celebration.
Anticipation:
While we do well to celebrate, we also anticipate that the best is yet to come! We have so much more to look forward to. The final numbers for the pricing and design of the building are coming into clearer and clearer focus by the day, and we are on the cusp of articulating and approving a refined path to breaking ground. I am very eager to share these emerging details about construction as soon as I can!
And yet every square foot we construct, every wall we raise, every space we prepare is not ultimately about a building. It is about making room for more people to hear the good news of Jesus, to be formed in grace, and to be sent out as agents of renewal. Our longing is that a gospel-shaped community inside these walls would overflow outside these walls – into the neighborhoods where we live, the workplaces we serve, the schools where we learn, and the city we love.
Thank you for standing with us in this season of growth and expectation. We are humbled by your partnership, encouraged by your faith, and eager to see the Lord use these efforts for his glory and the blessing of Winston-Salem for years to come.
Please do continue to pray with us:
“You do more than we could ask or imagine;
so, as we ask, and imagine, dear Lord, do more.
Dear Lord, do more.
Do more, dear Lord, do more.
We are asking and imagining, dear Lord, do more.”
Grace and peace,
David