• Festival of Praise June 9, 2013

    Join us for The Festival of Praise, a Charismatic prayer meeting, a gathering to serve the Lord through praise and worship, preaching and witnessing, fellowship and spiritual ministry. Sunday, June 9th, 2013, 2:30 to 4:30 pm at Koinonia Academy, 1040 Plainfield Ave, Plainfield, NJ.  

    Festival of Praise

  • A Recognized Private Association of the Faithful

    The People of Hope is a private association of the faithful that has been recognized by Archbishop John Meyers, Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey. The statutes of the People of Hope have been approved by Archbishop Meyers. He celebrated mass at the community school, Koinonia Academy, during his Pastoral Visit on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, June 10, 2006.

    A Recognized Private Association of the Faithful

  • Click here to see photos from the recent celebration of our 35th Anniversary.

    We were privileged to receive among our guests Bishop Bootkoski, Bishop Da Cunha, pastors of some of our parishes, and many more old and new friends!

    35th Anniversary Banquet Photos

  • Saint Paul’s Outreach – NJ

    Saint Paul’s Outreach is a Catholic ministry on college campuses across the United States that began in response to the Church’s call for a “new evangelization”. Many young people in The People of Hope are involved with Saint’s Paul’s Outreach at Seton Hall University in South Orange, NJ, where “SPO” runs retreats, small groups, men’s and women’s nights, and weekly “Spirit Nights.”

    Saint Paul’s Outreach – New Jersey

  • Retreats and Outreach

    In 1978, The People of Hope, together with Logos International Fellowship, ran a televised ecumenical rally in Giants Stadium, called “Jesus ’78″, that gathered over 58,000 people from more than 60 Christian denominations. Over the years The People of Hope has had many outreaches, including building communities in Europe, the US and Canada. Our young men and women frequently spend time in outreaches proclaiming the Lordship of Jesus.

    Retreats and Outreach

The People of Hope is a Catholic covenant community whose members have experienced a new outpouring of the Holy Spirit in their lives through the baptism in the Holy Spirit, and have embraced charismatic spirituality in addition to traditional Catholic devotions.

The People of Hope is a recognized private association of the faithful. Members reside and worship in several dioceses and various parishes throughout New Jersey.

We are a community who want to respond to the Lord Jesus Christ’s prayer to His Father on the night before He suffered, that all of His followers would be one, as He and the Father are one (John 17:21). As a result, we have covenanted ourselves to Him and to one another, in association with thousands of our fellow Catholics throughout the world.

Inspired by accounts in The Acts of the Apostles (2:44-47 and 4:32-35), we desire to imitate their way of life in today’s Catholic American culture. Our common life consists of prayer, worship, sharing of resources, and assisting one another, in order to attain the highest ideals of the gospel and Church teaching. Members pursue a living union with Christ through:

  • Regular prayer
  • Study of Sacred Scripture
  • Frequent participation in the sacraments, especially the Eucharist

Moreover, members strive for a relationship with one another characterized by active sacrificial love and a shared life as a basis of a life of mission. While it is the community’s covenant and way of life flowing from its statutes, teachings, and agreements that give it a certain amount of cohesion, it is love that binds our members together to participate in this particular expression of the gospel within the Catholic Church.