Sunday Service: September 7, 2025 • Pastor Q Kim at HOPE Church in Clarksville, MD ---

Sunday Service: August 24, 2025 • Pastor Carlos Reyes at HOPE Church in Clarksville, MD ---

Pastor Carlos shares a message on change and how change is inevitable in the life of a believer and is often used by God to shape, grow, and align His people with His purpose. Through personal stories, biblical examples, and spiritual reflection, he urges the church to embrace change—however uncomfortable—because it leads to transformation, obedience, and deeper relationship with God. He highlights the importance of discipling the next generation, living out God's Word, and allowing the Holy Spirit to guide change, reminding the congregation that true spiritual growth requires surrender, trust, and willingness to follow God into the unknown.

Sunday Service: August 17, 2025 • Pastor Jason Choi at HOPE Church in Clarksville, MD ---

Pastor Jason’s sermon centered on the urgent need to overcome spiritual laziness—not just in our external work, but especially in our relationship with God. He emphasized the biblical truth that passivity, particularly when rooted in fear, is not harmless but actually considered evil in Scripture. Using the parable of the talents in Matthew 25, he challenged the church to stop burying what God has entrusted to them—whether time, money, gifts, or relationships—and to actively invest them into the kingdom. He called the congregation to reprioritize their spiritual lives, especially their secret place with God, and to embrace God's grace as motivation, not fear. The heart of the message highlighted HOPE Church’s calling to invest in the next generation. Pastor Jason, sharing personal stories and sobering statistics about youth suicide and hopelessness, made a passionate plea for the church to pour time, energy, and resources into children and youth, stating that such investment reflects the profound heart of the Father and can carry eternal impact.

Sunday Service: August 10, 2025 • Pastor Mimi Kim at HOPE Church in Clarksville, MD ---

Pastor Mimi’s sermon was a deeply personal and powerful reflection on the battle between fear and faith. She shared her own journey of wrestling with anxiety, panic, and uncertainty surrounding her decision to leave HOPE Church, emphasizing how fear—whether rational or irrational—can paralyze us, hold us back from God’s blessings, and is often used by the enemy to derail us. Yet, through her own story and biblical examples like Abraham, she demonstrated that faith is both a choice and an action, not dependent on feelings or visible outcomes. True faith, she explained, means trusting in God’s promises even when we can’t see the full path ahead, and acting in obedience despite fear. PM encouraged us to transform our “what ifs” into “even ifs,” affirming that God remains good and faithful no matter the outcome. She concludes with a reminder that faith is not about certainty of circumstances but about confidence in God’s unchanging character.

Sunday Service: August 3, 2025 • Pastor Q Kim at HOPE Church in Clarksville, MD ---

In his sermon, Rise Up and Walk!, Pastor Q emphasizes that the miraculous healing in Acts 3—where Peter and John heal a lame beggar at the temple gate—is not just about a physical miracle, but a powerful sign pointing to the deeper work of Jesus: spiritual healing, restoration, and inclusion into the presence of God. Drawing from his own past stroke and everyday encounters with people in need, PQ challenges the church to truly see the broken, stop for them, and offer what we have—not just material aid but the authority, love, and life of Jesus. He contrasts the modern church’s dependence on wealth with the early church’s dependence on spiritual authority, urging believers to reclaim that power to love, heal, and proclaim the gospel. Ultimately, he calls us to repent, return to God, and rise up—both physically and spiritually—through faith in Jesus Christ.

Sunday Service: July 27, 2025 • Pastor Q Kim at HOPE Church in Clarksville, MD ---

In his sermon, Pastor Q reflects on a pivotal moment 34 years ago when he was deeply convicted by the disconnect between the vibrant, Spirit-filled church in Acts 2 and the modern church experience. He emphasizes that true church is not just a weekly service or a building, but a living, Spirit-empowered community marked by deep fellowship, shared life, sacrificial love, and continual devotion to the apostles’ teaching, prayer, and breaking of bread. Drawing from Acts 2, he underscores that the early church’s power and transformation flowed from their daily, communal life, and that this model—house-to-house gatherings and temple worship—should be reclaimed. Pastor Q shares his own journey of shifting toward house churches, giving up traditional ministry structures to pursue a more authentic, biblical vision of church as “home”—a place of belonging, growth, and God’s presence. He calls the congregation to move beyond attending church to being the church: a vibrant, connected family that lives out its faith together for the sake of the world.

Sunday Service: July 20, 2025 • Pastor Mimi Kim at HOPE Church in Clarksville, MD ---

In her sermon, Pastor Mimi reflects on HOPE Church’s three-year House Church journey, encouraging us to recognize the eternal impact of our invitations and service, even when outcomes remain unseen. Drawing parallels from Moses’ life in Hebrews 11:23–27, she identifies four faith-driven resolutions that shaped his destiny: refusing to be defined by others, choosing short-term pain for long-term gain, valuing God's priorities over the world's, and persevering without fear. Pastor Mimi challenges us to evaluate who defines our identity, what values guide our decisions, and how often we act in faith to please God. She closes by affirming the eternal significance of each of our contributions, reminding everyone that the choices we make by faith today can lead to lasting impact and reward.

Sunday Service: July 13, 2025 • Pastor Q Kim at HOPE Church in Clarksville, MD ---

Pastor Q gave a passionate reflection on Acts chapter 2, focusing on the powerful moment when the crowd at Pentecost was "pierced to the heart" by Peter’s bold proclamation of the gospel—that Jesus, whom they crucified, is both Lord and Messiah. PQ connects this biblical conviction to personal experiences of revival, emphasizing that true transformation begins with repentance—a turning away from sin and a change of mind toward God. Through examples from Scripture, history, and personal testimony, PQ calls those who do not yet believe, to respond to God’s call by repenting, believing in Christ, and being baptized, receiving forgiveness and new life in Him.

Sunday Service: July 6, 2025 • Pastor Q Kim at HOPE Church in Clarksville, MD ---

Pastor Q's sermon was a heartfelt and powerful reflection on grief, faith, and the core of the Christian gospel. He began by sharing the recent passing of Rana, a long-time friend and church member, whose 17-year health battle reminded him of hope, perseverance in prayer, and the bittersweet nature of loss. Then, preaching from Acts 2, he highlights Peter’s bold proclamation of Jesus’ life, crucifixion, resurrection, and exaltation—declaring Him as both Lord and Messiah. Pastor Q emphasized that Jesus was authenticated by God through miracles and raised from death by divine power, and that the outpouring of the Holy Spirit confirms Jesus’ authority. Like Peter, Pastor Q challenged the congregation to consider their response to Christ—whether they would reject or receive Him. He concluded by tying this proclamation to communion, reminding believers that while sin entered through disobedience (“take and eat”), salvation was made possible through Jesus’ sacrifice—now we “take and eat” in remembrance of grace.

Sunday Service: June 29, 2025 • Missionary Lana Vasquez at HOPE Church in Clarksville, MD ---

In this powerful sermon, Lana Vasquez shares her journey of radical obedience to God’s call, recounting how her ministry has expanded from rescuing trafficked and orphaned children in Thailand and war-torn Burma to confronting overwhelming darkness in Brazil. Amid personal hardship and spiritual exhaustion, she nearly gave up, but through a renewed encounter with God in the Amazon, she was reminded of the "faces on the other side of her yes"—the lives forever changed because she obeyed, even when it was hard. Drawing from Peter’s story of walking on water, she emphasizes that faith often means stepping out when it’s uncomfortable, inconvenient, or even terrifying. The message is clear: following Jesus isn’t about a single moment of saying yes, but about continuously offering our next yes, no matter the cost. God doesn’t expect perfection—just obedience—and He promises to meet us in the storms, uphold us by His word, and empower us to walk in authority over what once tried to drown us. This is a call to every believer to step out of comfort, embrace divine discomfort, and walk with Jesus as wet-feet water walkers.