Living Hope Fellowship is a welcoming and inclusive, informal, lay-led church seeking to understand, experience, and demonstrate God's love as revealed by Jesus Christ and our various faith traditions.
Sunday Service 5:00 pm with fellowship meal following at 56 Burdick Hill Road (Lakeview Church building) Ithaca, NY 14850.
In July we meet at local parks. Check out the schedule to find where we are meeting.
For more information call Monroe or Juanita Weber-Shirk at 277-1950
LHF is not an Anabaptist group per se although many come from an Anabaptist background, have served with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), or have an attraction to the Anabaptist faith. We consider ourselves to be interdenominational in character. Although there is not consensus regarding pacifism, the congregation has a strong leaning toward justice and peace ministries. We believe we are seekers/disciples together, a community of faith striving to bring God's rest and justice to those around us in as many ways as we have members. We believe in faithful stewardship of God's creation as evidenced in lives of voluntary simplicity.
Our mission is to love and serve God and our neighbors as Jesus explained to the law expert in Matthew 22:37-40. We are together precisely because we believe in the collective building of the community of God/the community of believers on earth. We take seriously the responsibility to co-minister with and to one another. We strive to acknowledge a variety of personal experiences and journeys, believing that each covenanting and participating member is honestly searching for knowledge of God and for the translation of that knowledge into a life of love, service, and simplicity. We are together as a church-community to support and enable each of us to pursue lives of faith and service with strength and joy. LHF has a strong shared belief in voluntary simplicity with over 50% of our budget going to missions rather than to self-sustainment. We have provided a church home and family for people who have felt in the margins in more traditional church settings.
LHF has a strong emphasis on lay leadership and has never had a formal pastor.