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Welcome to the web site for Hope Lutheran Church — a new ELCA Lutheran worship community in River Falls, WI Please check our News and Events page for regularly updated information. See the Report by Bishops Rogness and Pederson of the Churchwide Assembly in Chicago. (See link on left side of NW Synod home page.). Here is the ELCA's official summary. Evangelical Lutheran Church of America Our mission statement: HOPE is called by God to look beyond ourselves. We walk together in faith, treasuring all people and sharing with them the love, hope and acceptance that is in Christ. We worship in the Newman Center at the corner of 5th Street and Cascade, River Falls, WI. Worship with Communion at 9:15 AM every Sunday morning Coffee Hour at 10:15 AM __________________________________________________________________ On Sunday, May 7, 2006, 219 individuals joined Hope Lutheran Church as Charter and Associate members. Hope was approved as a fully functioning ELCA congregation by the NorthWest Synod of Wisconsin of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America at the Synod Conference on June 2nd, 2006. [Hope was formerly recognized as a congregation under development.] Join us as we continue the exciting process of establishing a new worship community in River Falls. Rev. Jean Gfall, pastor of Hope Lutheran Church Hope Lutheran's first confirmation class: September 23, 2007.