History.

Hope Lutheran Church was founded in Frankfort KY in 1965 and has been located at the current site since 1970. Our building is beautifully situated atop a hill overlooking Hwy. 60 and includes space for worship, fellowship, and learning.  Hope is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the largest body of Lutherans in the U.S.

 Hope Lutheran is one of nearly 300 congregations of the Indiana-Kentucky synod of the ELCA.  Their website is linked here: iksynod.org/.  Together with our brothers and sisters, Hope supports Frankfort social ministries, the Food Pantry, seminary, Lutheran outdoor ministry, hospitals, missionaries, and vital work around the world.

Hope is the only ELCA Lutheran church within a three-county area, but yet a congregation where each person is important to the life and ministry of the parish. We work together and volunteer time and resources to the greater work of God in our midst.

In 2023, Hope Lutheran, Frankfort; and Gethsemane Lutheran, Lexington; both entered into a shared ministry covenant where Pastor Jerri serves half-time at Hope and half-time at Gethsemane.  Since that time, the congregations have provided various shared ministry events to the congregations and communities, to the glory of God.

Online Worship

Please click into our Facebook link or go to YouTube for current online worship resources:

www.facebook.com/hopelutheran.church.37

Pastor’s Newsletter Article June 2024
June is the month of recognizing graduates.  Our prayers and blessings from the Shared Ministry go out to those graduating this spring and summer.  June is also a time to continue to be healthy congregations.  Hope congregation is going through the transition of a new organist/pianist with the retirement of Dr. Sonny Burnette.  We thank Dr. Sonny for his twenty years of ministry and service.  Gethsemane congregation is going through transition with some new committee chairpersons.  We welcome them and opportunities for both continuing and new ministry.
 Transitions can be challenging—yet full of blessings.  What makes for a blessed transition?  There are at least three scriptural Hebrew words for transition.  The first word is ma’avar, which means to “pass through.”  To look at it positively, we are to not impede such transitions and recognize and allow God room the space to work.  A second Hebrew word for transition is shinui, which literally means “change.”  Our scriptures teach us that God is steadfast and does NOT change.  God has created humans, however, TO change.  Thus, transitions can be a time of introspection and, if needed, repentance and opening ourselves anew to God.
 The third biblical word for transition may be one of the harshest in the concordance.  This is the word chiluf, which means to “move on” in the way that the grasses sprout anew after the old sproutings have dried up and passed away, such as in the 90th Psalm.  We know that transitioning has an essence of “passing away”—but more often it means to “exchange.”  This is again to look at the positive. 
Yes, a blessed transition is one that is healthy and hopeful, without recriminations or suspicions or second guessing or unrealistic clinging to the past.  This is not easy work, but worth it.  We are challenged in Sundays after Pentecost to grow in faith and discipleship.  Therefore, let us ask God to help us through all that needs to come.  Certainly, just as God leads, God will also bless.  Press on with me into the adventure of God’s amazing grace and love. 
With Hope & Confidence in Christ,
Pastor Jerri ╬

Opportunities

​Zoom livestream and published on Facebook later in the week.



Other Opportunities:
Altar Guild
Worship & Music Committee
Property Committee
Stewardship & Finance Team
Community Ministry Team
​Social Nourishment Team
​Catechism Class
​Bible Study by Ajitha