For many years our community has supported a newborn support group. The name has changed a few times, but the goal remains the same: helping newborns who need clothing, diapers etc. The Ahwatukee chapter has been meeting at Esperanza for …
For many years our community has supported a newborn support group. The name has changed a few times, but the goal remains the same: helping newborns who need clothing, diapers etc. The Ahwatukee chapter has been meeting at Esperanza for …
Esperanza cooks have been delivering encouragement to doctors, nurses and other health care staff since the pandemic began in March 2020. You can help! Here’s how we got started. In April 2020, when the COVID_19 pandemic was gaining momentum, Esperanza …
As is tradition here at Esperanza, we will all gather in ONE WORSHIP SERVICE AT 9:30 A.M. to celebrate our young people who are affirming their baptisms. They have been learning and growing in their faith and now are ready to take …
Pastor Annemarie and Deacon Connie toured Esperanza recently to show our people putting their faith to work in service and the places where we lift our hearts in worship. Watch hope growing on the vine in the garden that is …
This year we have a special opportunity to make Thanksgiving dinner truly a feast for 10 needy Kyrene School District families. Peggy and Larry Hanson will be coordinating donations to fill baskets with traditional Thanksgiving foods. In addition, they will …
Soon it will be Advent, the season when we await the arrival of the newborn Jesus. What better time to help welcome babies born to families in need? Our youth group and confirmation class are working on a service project …
By Jim Gisselquist We have completed 3 weeks of the building of the Jama house and the construction is going very well. We just completed the addition of the trusses, so the structure is beginning to look more like a …
Opportunities abound to put your faith to work by helping out with Esperanza’s long-term service projects. Contact our coordinators to find out how you can assist. Care for the Caregivers: Raise spirits among the Help health care providers at the …
Opportunities abound to put your faith to work by helping out with Esperanza’s long-term service projects. Contact our coordinators to find out how you can assist. Meals for the VA Chris Armfield has organized cooks to prepare homemade lunches for …
The public schools are on fall break so Sunday Funday School, confirmation and youth group will be off this Sunday, October 10.
I love language. The beautiful complexities and joyful absurdities of the phenomenon that is human language. I’ve studied linguistics from anthropological and sociological lenses; I’ve lived immersed in a language not my own (Swahili in Tanzania); I grew up surrounded …
Join us at 5 p.m. on Sunday for the Hope Grows Here Happy Hour in the Garden. Esperanza is a community of friends joined together by God’s love. Let’s celebrate new friendships and old in the Garden of Eatin’ as …