MINISTRIES
The ministries of Center of Hope Church provide church members the opportunity to grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ through service and working with others. Each ministry looks to help people come to a saving relationship with Jesus Christ and to grow that relationship. Currently the church has Children's Ministries, Women's Ministry (Daughters of Zion), and Honorbound Men's Ministry.
Those interested in Women's Ministry are encouraged to take part in monthly meetings and planning of special events, which have included a December Bake and Craft Sale, and a Soup and Chili Luncheon to benefit the Food Pantry in Durand.
Honorbound Men's Ministry meets the first Sunday of each month following the morning worship service. Times of fellowship including golf, fishing, and other activities as well as service opportunities within the church and community will be regularly scheduled.
Children's Ministry at Center of Hope Church is by approval of the pastor and board of the church. We value the children that the Lord has given us to care for. Because of that, those wishing to minister to children will fill out an application with references, which also includes a release to do a criminal background check. We also wish to help our teachers with training at available Christian Education Conferences.
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Worship
The Assemblies of God grew out of the Pentecostal revival, which began in the early 1900s in places such as Topeka, Kansas, and the Azusa Street Mission in Los Angeles. During times of prayer and Bible study, believers received spiritual experiences like those described in the book of Acts. Accompanied by “speaking in tongues,” their religious experiences were associated with the coming of the Holy Spirit on the Jewish feast of Pentecost (Acts 2), and participants in the movement were dubbed “Pentecostals.” The Pentecostal movement has grown from a handful of Bible school students in Topeka, Kansas, to an estimated 600 million in the world today.
Many participants who were baptized in the Holy Spirit during revivals and camp meetings in the early 1900s were not welcomed back to their former churches. These believers started many small churches throughout the country and communicated through publications that reported on the revivals. In 1913, a Pentecostal publication, the Word and Witness, called for the independent churches to band together for the purpose of fellowship and doctrinal unity. Other concerns for facilitating missionaries, chartering churches and forming a Bible training school were also on the agenda.
Some 300 Pentecostals met at an opera house in Hot Springs, Arkansas, in 1914, and agreed to form a new fellowship of loosely knit independent churches. These churches were left with the needed autonomy to develop and govern their own local ministries, yet they were united in their message and efforts to reach the world for Christ. So began the General Council of the Assemblies of God.
Assemblies of God churches form a cooperative fellowship. As a result, the organization operates from the grass roots, allowing the local church to choose and develop ministries and facilities best suited for its local needs.
