Abiding Hope at Redstone, a worshipping community new to Highlands Ranch, is launching Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, at 8 p.m. at Redstone Elementary School, 9970 Glenstone Circle.

Your new neighbors are ready to graciously welcome you in love, joy and peace to join us in celebrating the birth of Jesus and a God whose hope never quits!

After Christmas Eve, the community will gather weekly for worship at Redstone Elementary at 9:30 a.m., beginning Jan. 6, 2008.

We invite you to come and join us...where ALL are accepted and embraced, and where walking together is a way of life.

For more information, go to www.abidinghopeatredstone.org.

Abiding Hope at Redstone is an expression of Abiding Hope Lutheran Church in Littleton, which is observing the gathering of some 70 worshippers in a borrowed space 20 years ago that grew into the present mission-focused congregation of more than 2,000.

Abiding Hope has enhanced the lives of countless people from the Littleton community and greater Denver to places like Haiti, where it supports many initiatives run by Haitians themselves through its Haitian Timoun (children's) Foundation, and India, where it recently helped its sister congregation, Abiding Hope Nellore, celebrate the first anniversary of its building's dedication.

Abiding Hope Nellore, in turn, in partnership with Littleton's Abiding Hope, has helped establish another congregation and building in an area nearby that had no Christian house of worship.

Littleton's Abiding Hope has also trained and sent pastors and church leaders to places all over this continent.