A community of believers gathering to praise our awesome God together.
Experience God's Love at New Hope Lutheran Church
A community of believers gathering to praise our awesome God together.
New Hope Lutheran Church
God is Sovereign. All glory to Him alone.
This Thursday, May 29th, 2025, we gather at the Hope Center at 5:30pm for an Agape Meal followed by an Ascension Thursday Service celebrating our living Lord Jesus Christ rising up into the clouds and into Heaven. We are grateful for our musicians Tedi Morlan, Mark Nourse, Melissa Virgin, and Curt Bentley who will be there to lead us in song as we all praise and magnify our awesome God together. Mark will be singing "He's Alive" and "Glorious Day" and Melissa will be singing "The Commission" and "Salt and Light". We will also sing "Shine Jesus Shine" and "Benediction (May the Peace of God Our Heavenly Father)". Please join us for a celebration of this High Church Festival Day as we glorify our risen Lord. Thank you so much, as always, to Jan Saterlie for arranging our gathering place. God is so good.
If you would like to contribute to charitable mission work of Ogden Rescue Mission, please make your check out to "New Hope Lutheran Church" and write "Ogden Rescue Mission" on the memo line of your check and on your offering envelope.
If you would like to contribute to charitable mission work of www.JourneyClinic.org and www.PregnancyMedicalClinic.org please make your check out to "New Hope Lutheran Church" and write "Journey Clinic" on the memo line and on your offering envelope provided by Steve Saterlie, our Financial Secretary. Journey Clinic is a non-political organization, and it exists to help women and children with counseling and medical care. We are all made in the image of God, and life is a precious gift from God. In addition to glorifying God and sharing the Good News of salvation through Jesus Christ, we love, care, and encourage one another with kindness, support, mercy and grace.
Our "Youth Cam" can be viewed, including a weekly live stream, at www.facebook.com/pastorbruceandfamily.
The replay of our Worship Services to honor, celebrate and praise the Lord can be found at www.youtube.com/@NHLUTAH.
Due to new Facebook live streaming rules, we will be recording and uploading segments of the Worship Service on the New Hope Lutheran Church Facebook page and uploading to YouTube on Sunday afternoons.
The Services will be still be live streamed on the Pastor's Page at
www.facebook.com/pastorbruceandfamily
New Hope Lutheran Church's YouTube channel can be found at
www.youtube.com/channel/UC5nvkfjOI3xHN8wYW02v7-g
New Hope Lutheran Church's Facebook page is as follows:
Facebook www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553431594479
God is good all the time!
Jesus Christ is the head of our Church. We believe in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We believe that we are to give all glory and honor to God, and to show love and kindness and mercy to all people.
We gather together weekly to worship and praise the Lord, declaring Christ crucified and risen.
We believe that Christ is coming back again to save us. We believe in the resurrection of the saints. We believe we are saved by faith alone in Jesus Christ. We believe in God's grace, mercy and forgiveness. We don't celebrate what we do for God. We celebrate what God has done for us.
We are collecting non-perishable food items, cleaning products, toiletries, and blankets to stock the Hope Center Blessing Box. You may also contribute a financial offering to help purchase supplies for the Hope Center Blessing Box. You can make your check out to "New Hope Lutheran Church" and write "Blessing Box" on the memo line and on the offering envelope. Please see Jean Sojourner or Bunny Griffey for more information about the Roy Blessing Box. You may also give to the "Benevolence Fund" which exists to help those in need.
If you have any questions, concerns or confidential prayer requests, please contact Pastor Bruce Grentz at 801-721-1922 and pastorbruceg@hotmail.com or bgrentz@gmail.com.
Our mailing address is as follows:
New Hope Lutheran Church
P.O. Box 1655
1123 N. Fairfield Road
Layton, UT 84041.
Contact information for President Mark Nourse (pictured above)
and Vice-President Alan Huss can be found in our church app. Jean Sojourner is Chairperson of our Reconciliation and Caregiving Ministry.
We are so grateful to our Community Liaison and Chairperson of Fellowship Ministry, Jan Saterlie, who arranges our gathering place every week. Jan takes care of us and makes sure we have everything we need for a successful event and an offering of praise to the Lord that we pray is pleasing to Him, our great God.
To add announcements or prayer requests (for "Prayers of the People")
to the weekly Sunday bulletin, please email Minuette Grentz at NewHopeLutheranUtah@gmail.com or call or text 214-564-3000.
Thank you, and God bless you.
"Christ is Lord of lords and King of kings," Rev 17:14.
Outreach, Benevolence, and Missions Ministry
Outreach, Evangelism, Benevolence, and Missions are very important to us. We give to the Ogden Rescue Mission, Lantern House, Journey Clinic, and other great causes and efforts to help those in need.
We help with hurricane relief by giving to the North American Lutheran Church (NALC) Disaster Relief program. We are also collecting money to send to the Lutheran Church of the Atonement in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, which is an NALC and an LCMC congregation. If you would like to help, write "hurricane relief" on the memo line of your check and on the offering envelope provided by the Saterlies to give to this mission of mercy. We also contribute to the Roy Blessing Box located near the Hope Center in Roy. We give a portion of the offering on Christmas Eve as alms as is the centuries old custom throughout Christendom.
Fellowship Events
Happy birthday, New Hope Lutheran Church.
On Sunday, November 17th, 2024, after the Worship Service we will have a congregational meeting and a luncheon to celebrate our first year of existence as a congregation. A year has gone by so fast. We praise and thank God for His kindness and blessings upon the New Hope Lutheran Church family. We are so blessed and we thank God for all we have.
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553431594479
www.facebook.com/pastorbruceandfamily
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We gather for Worship Service Sundays at 9:35 a.m.
Sunday School and Confirmation Class
Mark and Carmen Cairns are our Sunday School Superintendents for New Hope Lutheran Church. Sunday School takes places every Sunday immediately after the 9:15 a.m. Worship Service. We are so grateful for Carmen and Mark, who are committed to teaching the children the Bible stories and lessons of God's Word using. Mark and Carmen have selected Concordia (Lutheran) curriculum for Sunday School. Confirmation Class is taught by Pastor Bruce Grentz using Lutheran curriculum. Families, godparents and sponsors are welcome and encouraged to participate along with the Confirmands.
Location & Fellowship
Thank you so much to Tedi and Steve Morlan for purchasing a new, beautiful wooden stand for Pastor Bruce Grentz to rest his notes upon during the Sermon. Tedi is our Church pianist, and Steve and Tedi host our weekly Praise Band practices in their home.
We also gather at the Lindquist Chapel at 3408 Washington Blvd. in Ogden from time to time. Thank you so much to the Lindquist family and staff for your great kindness and generosity. Thank you to Jan Saterlie for making arrangements for our meeting place each week.
We love God and country. God bless the USA.
Patriotic Hymns and Songs on November 10th
Sunday, November 10th, we will sing patriotic hymns and songs. Please join us to praise and worship our Holy Lord God together. We thank our Veterans who sacrificed so much so that we could all enjoy the freedom and liberty to worship and praise God together in peace. God bless the USA. May God brings peace to the whole world in Jesus' name. We pray for peace in Israel, peace in the Ukraine, and peace everywhere. Amen.
Happy Birthday, New Hope Lutheran Church
On Sunday, November 17th, 2024, at 9:35 a.m., will will have a congregational meeting and a luncheon immediately after the Worship Service at the Hope Center. Please join us to celebrate New Hope Lutheran Church's first year of existence. We give God all the glory, thanks, and praise. God is so good!!!
We celebrate God's grace through faith in Jesus Christ.
God, Country & Community
God, Country & Community
God, Country & Community
We are thankful for our veterans. We are thankful for all those who worship and praise God together with us every week. We do not have a permanent place of our own at this time, but we are so grateful for all we do have. God keeps blessings us, and we are so thankful. We are blessed by God's goodness, kindness, and grace.
Game Night
God, Country & Community
God, Country & Community
Is this a serious Bible Study or a serious game of Yahtzee? On this occasion, it was a serious game of Yahtzee. We do love our game nights and our other super fun fellowship gatherings. We also have Bible Study every Thursday at noon at Scooters in Roy, Utah, where some really good discussions take place. We are grateful for our Christian friendships.
Our new New Hope sign
God, Country & Community
Our new New Hope sign
If you see this sign, come on in and praise and worship God with us. God is so good all the time. And all the time God is good. We owe everything to God. We are grateful to the Lord, and we are grateful for our church family. We are thankful for the opportunity we have to praise God together.
"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God"
Round-Table Format
Our set-up allows for discussion, interactive sharing time during the sermon, fun, fellowship, and agape meals. If you have felt rejected by churches in the past, we are here for you to accept you, to encourage you, to care for you, and to celebrate God's love. We are a loving, caring, and growing community. All are welcome to participate.
Caring Christian Community
We strive, with God's help guidance, to be caring Christian community. When we fall short, we come to the cross of Christ and God's altar to ask for forgiveness with a penitent heart. We pray for strength from God to obey and embrace the command from our Lord to be disciples of Jesus Christ and to share The Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
Holy Communion
What's Open Communion?
What's Open Communion?
We partake of Holy Communion every time we gather for Worship Service. We believe Holy Communion is a gift of God's grace. We partake in remembrance of Christ's death and resurrection. We partake for the forgiveness of our sins. Christ is the Great Intercessor and our Redeemer. We do not believe that Communion is only symbolic. We believe it is a Holy Sacrament.
What's Open Communion?
What's Open Communion?
What's Open Communion?
We practice open Communion weekly (you don't have to pass a test or go through a waiting period) for we believe the Lord's Table belongs to God and God's gift is offered to all in the name of Jesus Christ. Christ is the leader of New Hope Lutheran Church, and we are so grateful for God's mercy and forgiveness. We are all sinners saved by grace and faith in Jesus Christ.
Petal Blessings
What's Open Communion?
Petal Blessings
Petal Contracts or "Petal Blessings" can be purchased every Sunday and the money raised goes to our Altar Guild to purchase and maintain vestments. If you wish to give the gift of flowers to a loved one to mark a special occasion or to show friendship and care to someone in need of an encouraging message to brighten their day, the Grentz children will deliver the flowers to anyone you wish.
"The joy of the Lord is your strength," Nehemiah 8:10
Christmas Eve Services
December 24th, 2024, Christ Eve Service links are as follows:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WmD6dexFnw&t=13s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik-OwDI2AZ0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqnnNh8waPA
December 24th, 2023, Christmas Eve Service links are as follows:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZH-ZYCphyc&t=96s (Youth Cam)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAIDBSWDV6A (Band Cam)
Fellowship and Fun
On Ascension Thursday, May 9th, 2024, at 5:30pm, we had dinner together followed by a game night. On Sunday, May 12th, we will have a Mother's Day breakfast in between the announcements and the Call to Worship. Also in 2024, we have Trivia and Treats Night, which was super fun. We also had Bingo Night. We had our one-year celebration luncheon and our third annual meeting of the Fall Season. We would like to thank the Fellowship Team for all they do for us.
"Let everything that has breath praise the Lord!"
Alleluia and Hallelujah!
Our blessed assurance is that we are secure in Christ and that all we have we owe entirely to Him; we can only glory in, not ourselves or what we have or are, but in the fact that Christ is our advocate and intercessor to Our Father in Heaven. We pray The Lord's Prayer aloud together weekly. May God be pleased with our worship, prayers and praise to Him. Thank You, Lord Jesus. We love You, Lord. Amen. We are a liturgical congregation, but we are not formal and "high Lutheran". We love God's Word. We love to encourage one another, and we endeavor to foster a positive and caring environment. We are committed to mercy, grace and forgiveness for one another, and we are committed to praise and worship of our Triune God. You won't be beaten up for your past here. We focus on God's love and our love and care for one another and for the community. Our Pastor officiates weekly confession and absolution from the Lutheran Book of Worship. We are so grateful for God's grace and forgiveness. We celebrate what God has done for us - not what we do for Him. Our salvation is by faith through Jesus Christ alone. Christ's death and resurrection are what saves us. We partake weekly of the Sacrament of the Altar, Holy Communion, officiated by our Pastor (1st Corinthians 11:23-26).
Church Council and Ministry Team Leaders
Mark Nourse, President, Treasurer, vocalist, guitarist
Alan Huss, Vice-President, Security Team Leader and Projectionist
Bruce Grentz, Pastor & Chairman of Christian Education
Steve Saterlie, Financial Secretary
Jan Saterlie, Chairperson of the Fellowship Ministry and
Community Liaison and Co-Financial Secretary
Jean Sojourner, Chairperson of the Reconciliation
& Care-giving Ministry
Tedi Morlan, Principal Pianist and Trustee
Richard Blinkhorn, Chairman of Local Missions Ministry and Trustee
Sheila Courtney, International Missions Liaison and Trustee
Bill Lange, Trustee
Linda Chellson, Bunny Griffey, Susan Smith, Counters
Kadee Underwood, vocalist
Gracie Grentz, vocalist
Sabrina Wolfe, Projectionist
Mackie Grentz, Youth Cam (live stream) and Trinity Bell
Minuette Grentz, Chairperson of the Worship & Music Ministry,
Coordinator of Musicians, and Secretary
I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you with joy.
Our Beliefs
Our Beliefs
Our Beliefs
We follow the Bible and the Lutheran Confessions. We gather together to hear God's word, to praise God in song, to glorify God through liturgy, to partake of the Sacrament of the Altar (all are welcome), to encourage one another, and to grow closer to Jesus Christ. We worship the Triune God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We believe in the three Creeds and in the Sacraments.
Our Purpose
Our Beliefs
Our Beliefs
Our purpose is to share God's grace with the world, and to be disciples of and for Jesus Christ to provide a welcoming, loving environment where all are invited to worship our Lord, to hear the word of God, and to receive the Holy Sacraments. We are so grateful for our LDS, Catholic and non-denominational church friends, who are a valued and loved part of our church community and church family.
Our Pastor
Our Beliefs
Our Pastor
Pastor Bruce Grentz, Th.M., M.S.M & FT,
has lived in Utah for over seven years, and he absolutely loves it. Pastor Bruce has a deep love for our amazing and awesome God, and a love for the people of New Hope Lutheran Church. Pastor always welcomes everyone with a joyful smile and open arms. Pastor Bruce can be reached at pastorbruceg@hotmail.com and
801-721-1922.
"Encourage one another and build each other up," 1 Th 5:1
Band Practice
Care, Kindness & Community
Care, Kindness & Community
Our band practices are filled with laughter and fun as well as praise and worship of our great God. Thank you to Tedi and Steve Morlan and Melissa and Nate Virgin and the Forest Park Ward of East Layton (LDS) as they kindly allow us to gather in their church building for band practice when needed. We are so grateful for our kind, awesome members, friends and wonderful neighbors.
Care, Kindness & Community
Care, Kindness & Community
Care, Kindness & Community
We are so blessed to have wonderful people stepping up to serve, to nurture, and to care for this new congregation and to reach the community. New Hope Lutheran Church is truly a congregation of love, care, kindness, and fun. We invite you to join us as you will experience a warm and welcoming environment and a Christian community that is positive, encouraging and supportive.
Bible Study
Care, Kindness & Community
Bible Study
New Hope Lutheran Church offers a 12:35pm Bible Study every Thursday at Scooters in Roy. We have some great discussions and prayer time. We recently completed reading and discussing the book When God Builds a Church. We are now studying the book of Jude in the Bible. Please join us as we grow together in our faith. We are thankful for time spent in God's Word with friends in Christ.
Praise the Lord! Praise him with strings and pipe! Psalm 150
Tedi Morlan, Principal Pianist
Tedi Morlan, Principal Pianist
Tedi Morlan, Principal Pianist
Tedi and Steve Morlan host our band practices in their home most every week (and sometimes twice a week). We are so blessed to have Tedi with us at New Hope Lutheran Church. Tedi and her husband, Steve, are wonderful charter members of New Hope Lutheran Church, and they are dear friends. We cannot speak highly enough of Tedi, and she is a lovely, talented, wonderful, and fun person.
President Mark Nourse
Tedi Morlan, Principal Pianist
Tedi Morlan, Principal Pianist
Mark Nourse is the President of New Hope Lutheran Church. Mark is also the lead singer and a guitarist in the New Hope Praise Band. Mark is the reason that the Grentz family got to come to Utah back in 2017, and we are forever grateful to him. Mark is a dear friend who deeply loves the Lord. Mark is an essential member of the Sunday Worship Service planning team each week.
Kadee Underwood, vocalist
Tedi Morlan, Principal Pianist
Kadee Underwood, vocalist
Kadee shares her beautiful, angelic, ethereal voice as a beloved member of the New Hope Band. Even more than her lovely voice, we love the privilege and gift of Kadee's presence. She is so fun to be around, and we are grateful for her sweet spirit and her positive and warm personality. You can find Kadee praising the Lord with us most Sundays during the Worship Service at New Hope.
"For by grace you have been saved through faith," Eph 2:8
Our location
The Sacraments
The Sacraments
We meet at the Roy Hope Center / Roy Senior Center each Sunday at 9:35 a.m. We also meet at Lindquist Chapel at Lindquist mortuary at 3408 Washington Blvd. in Ogden, Utah, and at the Alano Club building at 684 24th Street in Ogden. Thank you to Jan Saterlie, the Lindquist family, the City of Roy, and Richard Blinkhorn. We are searching for a permanent gathering place. God is so good.
The Sacraments
The Sacraments
The Sacraments
We believe that Holy Communion and Holy Baptism are more than just symbols. We believe that the Sacraments are gifts of God's grace with a physical element attached. Both Holy Communion and Holy Baptism are considered very special and sacred to us through Jesus Christ. We believe we can only have a true relationship with our Holy Father in Heaven through Jesus Christ, His Son.
Gracie-Belle
The Sacraments
Gracie-Belle
Gracie is one of our vocalists at New Hope Lutheran Church. Gracie loves her solo in our weekly "Final Blessing" song. She also likes to sing the "Song of Consecration" every week with her Dad, Pastor Bruce. The people of New Hope are so sweet and kind to embrace and be so supportive and positive toward Gracie. We encourage kids to participate in the Worship Services in various roles.
Let us not give up meeting together & encouraging each other
Psalm 121:1-2
I lift up my eyes to the hills.
From where does my help come?
My help comes from the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.
(This photo is of the Uintah "U" in Uintah, Utah.)
Acts 2:46-48
And day by day, attending worship together and breaking bread together, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved (paraphrase).
We place our hope in Him, Christ Jesus, our Lord and King.
The Cross of Christ
The Cross of Christ
The Cross of Christ
"But for me, may it never be that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world," Galatians 6:14.
"For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God,"
1st Corinthians 1:18.
Christ is King
The Cross of Christ
The Cross of Christ
"God has spoken to us by his Son, whom He appointed the Heir of all things, through Whom also He created the world. Christ is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of His nature, and He upholds the universe by the word of His power. After making purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high," excerpt Hebrews 1:1-3.
Saved by faith
The Cross of Christ
Saved by faith
" For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast," Ephesians 2:8-9.
For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith,”
Romans 1:17.