# @hopewdm on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DCNPLmKgb5e
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/24730345-hopewdm-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-11-10T22:00:16.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** HOPE (@HopeWDM) — https://gondola.cc/HopeWDM

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Once upon a time, about a generation ago, God planted a church called Hope. There were only a dozen or so of us back then, but we had dreams and we had hope. A few months later, after some challenging and humbling experiences, we fully surrendered this church to God, and immediately Hope started to grow. A dozen people quickly multiplied into hundreds. 

Soon after, we drove by a cornfield (24 acres) at the corner of Ashworth Road & Jordan Creek Parkway. There was just something about this field (of dreams), and we felt compelled by the Holy Spirit to stop, and park, and walk, and pray, and imagine a new church building for Hope on that field. We knew our first church building on just four-plus acres of land down the road wasn’t going to be big enough for our growing congregation. So, we called the commercial real estate agent whose phone number was on the big wooden “For Sale” sign at the corner of Ashworth & Jordan Creek. He was patient and kind ... and honest enough to tell us that we couldn’t afford to buy that field. When we let God write our story, it always turns out better. A few years later, still feeling the Spirit’s nudge to plant Hope on that particular field of dreams, we invited the owner of that field to Hope. A charmingly grumpy older man showed up on a Sunday and God captured his heart. After the service, with tears in his eyes, he drastically reduced the price of his field, just for our church, so that it might become holy ground for Hope! To turn that dream into reality, Hope embarked on two successive giving campaigns, one to buy the field on Ashworth & Jordan Creek and one to build the first phase of a new house of worship. Fast forward through 30 years and three more giving campaigns to today’s chapter of our Hope story ... now, in 2024, God has developed Hope into a thriving multisite mission church numbering more than 20,000 members, and outreach to millions of people worldwide, and the only possible explanation for such miraculous growth is God.

—Mike Housholder
Senior Pastor, Lutheran Church of Hope
#HopeStories #BuildingHopeForTomorrow #PromisedLand

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