Core Values and Mission

Hope's Core Values

We are ...

• Welcoming
• Growing Disciples who Lead
• Loving Our Neighbors, Near and Far

Mission

Hope Lutheran Church and Student Center, a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, strives to be a community of

• faith;
• Biblical hospitality, and 
• friendship

growing in Jesus Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit.

With God's help, we commit ourselves to

• gather for Word and Sacrament, 
• teach and study God's word,
• bear witness to the gospel in our daily lives,
• support, encourage, and work in partnership with the Lutheran Campus Ministry at the University of Maryland,
• give ourselves in loving service, following the example of Jesus Christ.