Community
SINCE2018
Paul Green and his wife Mary along with a core group of people began Hope Community Church
in February 2018, with a clear mission to love God and love others.
Hope Community Church exists to bring hope to all people
through the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Our Leadership Team
Our leadership team is made up of men and women who love, care and pray for every person in the congregation.
Please feel free to reach out and email Pastor Paul at paul@hopecommunitychurch.life
You can also call our church office at 715.822.3586.
Paul Green - Lead Pastor circlefacebook
Paul Green, Lead Pastor, is above all else real! He is who he is every day of the week. He hunts, golfs, and loves hockey. His greatest love is God. He is married to his best friend Mary who joins him in ministry and in life. Together they enjoy being parents and grandparents.
Paul began ministry after working in the trades and then in his own business for several years. He was called into ministry, pursued his training, and a short while later began a church plant in Duluth, MN, with his friend Jeff Sorvik. Together they brought life and purpose to spreading the truths of God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This ignited a passion in Paul to see churches multiplied in all communities, bringing hope to a broken and hurting world. His heart is to see people restored to the lives God intends for them to live. He believes we should love God and love people, and that people matter to God, so they should matter to us.
Paul preaches the Bible in a way that is relatable, understandable and applicable to life. He believes the Word of God should not just be read but lived out.
Mary Green - Worship Director & Communications
Mary loves being a wife, mother, and grandmother. She is a writer and loves to create. Her greatest love is God. She has a passion for the local church and loves doing ministry with her best friend, Paul.
As the Worship Director, Mary collaborates with the worship team to create a culture of worship that extends beyond Sunday morning into everyday life. She also serves as the Communications Director and web content manager.
Her passion for the local church fuels her desire to make Jesus known!
Steve Thoe - Elder
Steve graduated from UW-Eau Claire in 1976 with a degree in Business Administration. He worked for Cumberland Federal Bank for 36 years and was President of the bank during the last 17 years of his career.
Steve is married to Ruth and they have four daughters and six grandchildren. He is eternally grateful for God’s gift of salvation by faith through grace and enjoys serving on the Elder Board of Hope Community Church. He is currently serving his community with Cumberland Kiwanis, Cumberland Friends of Scouting, Cumberland Federal Foundation, Cumberland Federal Bank Board and Barron Mutual Insurance Board. He loves hunting, fishing, and spending time with his grandchildren.
Steve loves to talk and get to know people. He understands the importance of relationships, both with God and others!
Bob Erickson - Elder
Bob was born and raised in the Timberland community just northwest of Cumberland. He farmed with his father for 20 years after graduating from Cumberland High School in 1980. In 2001, Bob began working at Seneca Foods as a mechanic. After 5 years, he moved to the Cumberland Hospital where he currently works in the maintenance department. He coached wrestling for Cumberland High School for 20 years as well, which he very much enjoyed!
Bob and his wife Rochelle have been abundantly blessed with 4 children and 3 grandchildren. Bob is grateful to have been raised in a Christian home with parents who made church a priority and relationship with Jesus personal. He remembers many times his mother praying over him. As a young man, he says he did not always make his parents proud, but he states that they covered him with grace and their unconditional love never wavered. There is a lifetime of messages in those things, and they are a great example of the love the Father has for us.
Bob feels very humbled and honored to have witnessed the birth of Hope Community Church, and has been amazed to see God provide for every need. He says, "I can’t wait to see what God does next!"
Our Beliefs
God
1. We believe in one God, Creator of all things, holy, infinitely perfect, and eternally existing in a loving unity of three equally divine Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Having limitless knowledge and sovereign power, God has graciously purposed from eternity to redeem a people for Himself and to make all things new for His own glory.
The Bible
2. We believe that God has spoken in the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, through the words of human authors. As the verbally inspired Word of God, the Bible is without error in the original writings, the complete revelation of His will for salvation, and the ultimate authority by which every realm of human knowledge and endeavor should be judged. Therefore, it is to be believed in all that it teaches, obeyed in all that it requires, and trusted in all that it promises.
The Human Condition
3. We believe that God created Adam and Eve in His image, but they sinned when tempted by Satan. In union with Adam, human beings are sinners by nature and by choice, alienated from God, and under His wrath. Only through God’s saving work in Jesus Christ can we be rescued, reconciled, and renewed.
Jesus Christ
4. We believe that Jesus Christ is God incarnate, fully God and fully man, one Person in two natures. Jesus, Israel’s promised Messiah, was conceived through the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He lived a sinless life, was crucified under Pontius Pilate, arose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of God the Father as our High Priest and Advocate.
The Work of Christ
5. We believe that Jesus Christ, as our representative and substitute, shed His blood on the cross as the perfect, all-sufficient sacrifice for our sins. His atoning death and victorious resurrection constitute the only ground for salvation.
The Holy Spirit
6. We believe that the Holy Spirit, in all that He does, glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ. He convicts the world of its guilt. He regenerates (renewal by spiritual rebirth) sinners, and in Him they are baptized into union with Christ and adopted as heirs in the family of God. He also indwells, illuminates, guides, equips, and empowers believers for Christ-like living and service.
The Church
7. We believe that the true church comprises all who have been justified by God’s grace through faith alone, in Christ alone. They are united by the Holy Spirit in the body of Christ, of which He is the Head. The true church is manifest in local churches, whose membership should be composed only of believers. The Lord Jesus mandated two ordinances, baptism and the Lord’s Supper, which visibly and tangibly express the gospel. Though they are not the means of salvation, when celebrated by the church in genuine faith, these ordinances confirm and nourish the believer.
Christian Living
8. We believe that God’s justifying grace must not be separated from His sanctifying power and purpose. God commands us to love Him supremely and others sacrificially and to live out our faith with care for one another, compassion toward the poor, and justice for the oppressed. With God’s Word, the Spirit’s power, and fervent prayer in Christ’s name, we are to combat the spiritual forces of evil. In obedience to Christ’s commission, we are to make disciples among all people, always bearing witness to the gospel in word and deed.
Christ’s Return
9. We believe in the personal, bodily and glorified return of our Lord Jesus Christ. The coming of Christ, at a time known only to God, demands constant expectancy, and as our blessed hope, motivates the believer to godly living, sacrificial service, and energetic mission.
Response and Eternal Destiny
10. We believe that God commands everyone everywhere to believe the gospel by turning to Him in repentance and receiving the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe that God will raise the dead bodily and judge the world, assigning the unbeliever to condemnation and eternal conscious punishment and the believer to eternal blessedness and joy with the Lord in the new heaven and the new earth, to the praise of His glorious grace. Amen.
How can we pray for you?
email your prayer requests to: hopecommunitychurch.life@gmail.com
