About

At Hope Church, we want to help every person in every place find hope in Christ.
We do this by connecting our neighbours to Christ and each other.

Our Pastor

Dustin & Jill Conner

Our family is excited to be a part of helping every person in every place find hope in Christ because we know He loves this city more than we do! We’ve lived in Nolan Hill since February 2017; we love our neighbours, our community and our city! Kirk and Jane are our awesomely cute kids.

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Church Planting Resident

Calum Dullaard

Calum has been with Hope Church since the very beginning and was brought on staff in summer 2019 to be our Community Groups Director, youth ministry leader, and co-pastor.

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Hope Kids Director

Beth Dullaard

Beth does an amazing job leading our kid’s ministry! Her role includes coordinating our kid’s classes during our Sunday worship gatherings and our summer kid’s events like KidsFest.

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Worship & Outreach Pastor

Siseung Ahn

Siseung works hard to lead our church into worship through song every Sunday! He writes worship music in both Korean and English and  does a fantastic job leading us each week.

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Our Core Values

Every Man, Woman AND Child Needs Jesus
We believe the Gospel of Jesus transforms lives, families, communities, cities and countries! As a church, we work hard to both demonstrate and declare the good news of Jesus to every person in every place.
Every Member HAS A PLACE AND A PURPOSE
We believe that every person should have a place at Hope Church! As a church, we intentionally equip our people for a variety of ministry opportunities so they can find a place to use their spiritual gifts and passions to bless our church and community.
Everyone is Welcome to Be Part of God's Family
Like the City of Calgary, we believe everyone is welcome to be part of God’s family regardless of their ethnicity, status or history! As a church, we work hard to create welcoming environments so every person from every place can find a home at Hope Church.
Every Endeavor Covered in Prayer
We believe prayer changes lives and makes us more dependent on God’s Holy Spirit! As a church, we take time to regularly and intentionally pray for each other, our friends who do not know Jesus and our community as a whole.
Every Resource is a Gift to Be Given
We believe that since God has been radically generous to us, we should be radically generous with others! As a church, we encourage people to be generous with their time, talents and treasure so we can advance God’s work in our church and community.

Our Beliefs

The Scriptures
The Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is God’s revelation of Himself to man. It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. Therefore, all Scripture is totally true and trustworthy. It reveals the principles by which God judges us, and therefore is, and will remain to the end of the world, the true center of Christian union, and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, and religious opinions should be tried. All Scripture is a testimony to Christ, who is Himself the focus of divine revelation.
The Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God, fully divine. He inspired holy men of old to write the Scriptures. Through illumination He enables men to understand truth. He exalts Christ. He convicts men of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. He calls men to the Savior, and effects regeneration. At the moment of regeneration He baptizes every believer into the Body of Christ. He cultivates Christian character, comforts believers, and bestows the spiritual gifts by which they serve God through His church. He seals the believer unto the day of final redemption. His presence in the Christian is the guarantee that God will bring the believer into the fullness of the stature of Christ. He enlightens and empowers the believer and the church in worship, evangelism, and service.
Man
Man is the special creation of God, made in His own image. He created them male and female as the crowning work of His creation. The gift of gender is thus part of the goodness of God’s creation. In the beginning man was innocent of sin and was endowed by his Creator with freedom of choice. By his free choice man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. Through the temptation of Satan man transgressed the command of God, and fell from his original innocence whereby his posterity inherit a nature and an environment inclined toward sin. Therefore, as soon as they are capable of moral action, they become transgressors and are under condemnation. Only the grace of God can bring man into His holy fellowship and enable man to fulfill the creative purpose of God. The sacredness of human personality is evident in that God created man in His own image, and in that Christ died for man; therefore, every person of every race possesses full dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love.
The Church
A New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ is an autonomous local congregation of baptized believers, associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel; observing the two ordinances of Christ, governed by His laws, exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by His Word, and seeking to extend the gospel to the ends of the earth. Each congregation operates under the Lordship of Christ through democratic processes. In such a congregation each member is responsible and accountable to Christ as Lord. Its scriptural officers are pastors and deacons.

 

The New Testament speaks also of the church as the Body of Christ which includes all of the redeemed of all the ages, believers from every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation.

God
There is one and only one living and true God. He is an intelligent, spiritual, and personal Being, the Creator, Redeemer, Preserver, and Ruler of the universe. God is infinite in holiness and all other perfections. God is all powerful and all knowing; and His perfect knowledge extends to all things, past, present, and future, including the future decisions of His free creatures. To Him we owe the highest love, reverence, and obedience. The eternal triune God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.
Jesus Christ
Christ is the eternal Son of God. In His incarnation as Jesus Christ He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. Jesus perfectly revealed and did the will of God, taking upon Himself human nature with its demands and necessities and identifying Himself completely with mankind yet without sin. He honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and in His substitutionary death on the cross He made provision for the redemption of men from sin. He was raised from the dead with a glorified body and appeared to His disciples as the person who was with them before His crucifixion. He ascended into heaven and is now exalted at the right hand of God where He is the One Mediator, fully God, fully man, in whose Person is effected the reconciliation between God and man. He will return in power and glory to judge the world and to consummate His redemptive mission. He now dwells in all believers as the living and ever present Lord.
Salvation
Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. In its broadest sense salvation includes regeneration, justification, sanctification, and glorification. There is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord.

 

A) Regeneration, or the new birth, is a work of God’s grace whereby believers become new creatures in Christ Jesus. It is a change of heart wrought by the Holy Spirit through conviction of sin, to which the sinner responds in repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Repentance and faith are inseparable experiences of grace.

 

Repentance is a genuine turning from sin toward God. Faith is the acceptance of Jesus Christ and commitment of the entire personality to Him as Lord and Saviour.

 

B) Justification is God’s gracious and full acquittal upon principles of His righteousness of all sinners who repent and believe in Christ. Justification brings the believer unto a relationship of peace and favor with God.

 

C) Sanctification is the experience, beginning in regeneration, by which the believer is set apart to God’s purposes, and is enabled to progress toward moral and spiritual maturity through the presence and power of the Holy Spirit dwelling in him. Growth in grace should continue throughout the regenerate person’s life.

 

D) Glorification is the culmination of salvation and is the final blessed and abiding state of the redeemed.

Baptism & The Lord's Supper
Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It is an act of obedience symbolizing the believer’s faith in a crucified, buried, and risen Savior, the believer’s death to sin, the burial of the old life, and the resurrection to walk in newness of life in Christ Jesus. It is a testimony to his faith in the final resurrection of the dead. Being a church ordinance, it is prerequisite to the privileges of church membership and to the Lord’s Supper.

 

The Lord’s Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby members of the church, through partaking of the bread and the fruit of the vine, memorialize the death of the Redeemer and anticipate His second coming.

We are a gospel family who connect neighbours to Christ and each other

Worship Gatherings

We meet Sundays on Zoom and in-person (1st & 3rd Sundays) at 10:30am to worship together, hear an encouraging message, and celebrate what God is doing in and through Hope Church. Kid's activities are provided.

Community Groups

Community groups meet during the week throughout Symons Valley, Calgary. This is a smaller setting where we form family, study the Bible, and pray for one another.

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Gospel Conversations

Many at Hope meet regularly in pairs or triads for spiritual growth and encouragement. We disciple each other in Christ and help disciple our curious friends to Christ through sharing God's good news of salvation and restoration.

Community Events

We want to be great neighbours in Symons Valley! So we help connect our neighbours to each other frequently through free and fun community events and kid's camps! Click to see what's next!

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