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Hope Evangelical-Lutheran Church

We Are Incarnational. Sacramental. Liturgical.

These words describe not just our relationship between us and our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, but also how God wants us to live in the world and love our neighbors:

⦁   Just as Jesus Christ took on human flesh to express the love of God for His human creatures by living a perfectly righteous life and dying on the cross in their place to atone for their sins, we are also called to live sacrificially for one another as we “bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ,” (Galatians 6:2).

⦁   Just as by Sacraments the Holy Spirit delivers to us the benefits of Christ’s life, death, and resurrection to us, we are also called to take this saving Gospel into the world by “[proclaiming] the excellencies of Him who called [us] out of darkness into His marvelous light,” (1 Peter 2:9).

⦁   Just as our worship is marked by good order and an abundance of the Word of God, our lives are also called to be structured around the Word of God, as St. Paul exhorts us, “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly,” (Colossians 3:16), as it is through the Word that Christ makes good on His promises to us: “Whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life,” (John 5:24).”

This is the source of our identity and calling from God who has made us “ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. [Therefore] we implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God,” (2 Corinthians 5:20).

We Are Historical. Orthodox. Lutheran.

As a member congregation of the English District of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod:

⦁   We confess the truths of Holy Scriptures as they are correctly summarized in the three Ecumenical Creeds (The Apostles’, Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds) and explained in the Lutheran Confessions: The Unaltered Augsburg Confession of AD 1530 and The Book of Concord of AD 1580/1584.

⦁   We uphold the Holy Scriptures as the inspired and inerrant revelation of God which serve as the basis and final judge of all doctrine and the foundation for a holy life according to the will of God.

⦁   We affirm the Sacraments of Holy Baptism, Confession, and The Lord’s Supper as commanded and instituted by Jesus Christ through which we receive from God the greatest gifts we can imagine: The forgiveness of sins, regeneration and rebirth, the indwelling presence and aid of the Holy Spirit, and the promise of the resurrection to eternal life.

⦁   We worship according to the form of the historic liturgy as a good, orderly, and proper vehicle for the Word and the Holy Spirit by which we “[hold] fast to the Head [who is Christ Jesus], from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God,” (Colossians 2:19).

For more about our Church, please read the online Beliefs and Practices Brochure

Join us Sundays for Bible Study at 9:00 AM and Divine Service at 10:00AM and Wednesdays at 7:30 PM. View Church Calendar

Those unable to attend are invited to join us live via  Facebook  or  YouTube

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“[Jesus said,] ‘Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.’” John 15:4-5

Address
Hope Evangelical-Lutheran Church
3800 Beard Road
Fremont, California 94555
Phone: 510-793-8691 (office closed)
Email: reverendhulett@gmail.com

Our Pastor
Reverend Ray Hulett was born in Long Beach, CA in 1983, so he is technically a native Californian. However, just before his first birthday, his parents moved to the Philippines as missionaries with Grace Brethren International Missions, and he spent 13 of the next 17 years there, returning to Los Angeles in 2001 to attend the University of Southern California. He graduated from USC in 2005 with a BA in English. Prior to attending Concordia Theological Seminary-Fort Wayne, IN in 2017, he worked for 12 years at a telecommunications company. The path to seminary and the Office of the Holy Ministry started in 2008 when he did a random Google search. That search led to a Lutheran website, then internet radio shows and podcasts, and finally to St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Long Beach where he was confirmed on All Saints’ Day, 2009. Two years later he met Aubrey (a born and raised California girl from Orange County) who was also catechized and confirmed at St. Paul’s shortly before they married in July of 2012. It was not long before she began encouraging her husband to consider the ministry, but Rev. Hulett embraced it only after his younger brother, Ryan, passed away from leukemia in 2015, and a new appreciation for Christ’s promise of resurrection was kindled. Rev. Hulett and Aubrey were joined by Arthur in 2016, just eight months before leaving for the seminary; Ruth followed in 2019, just before their vicarage at Messiah Lutheran Church in Danville, CA; Albert arrived a week before Call Night in 2021; and Regina joined them in 2022. They also have seven children who were taken to Jesus from the womb where they wait to be reunited in the Resurrection.

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For Those With Interest In Our Church

If you have questions about our congregation, its teachings, or wish to become a member of the congregation.
Please email: reverendhulett@gmail.com