As a church, we are setting aside 50 days to pursue the kind of hope that Jesus won for us through his life, death, and resurrection. From April 21 until June 9 (Pentecost), we will be setting aside 7 minutes a day, 1 hour a week and 1 meal or activity a week to pray and fast for hope.

[1] Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. [2] Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. [3] Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, [4] and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, [5] and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. (Romans 5:1–5, ESV)