About Hope Equals

Hope Equals is a network of missions activists. We are North Americans supporting the reconciliation efforts of Israelis and Palestinians. We are about people. We foster hope. We strive for peace.

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Students Promote Peace Through Hope Equals

by Chris Meehan
A barbed-wire-topped barrier erected by the Israeli government snakes across the West Bank to separate Israelis from Palestinians. In some places it’s merely a fence; in others it’s a wall complete with guard towers. In still other places it separates the homes of Palestinians from the farms or businesses where they once worked.
When Micah Schuurman, a student at Calvin Theological Seminary, first encountered the wall on a recent trip to the West Bank, he was deeply troubled. It left him with a startling image.

Students seek social justice

TWU's International Social Justice Clubs are trying to raise awareness of the need for peace in the Middle East.
Langley Advance in the Friday, April 16, 2010
by Elisabeth Fallon

In the centre of Trinity Western University's Langley campus stands a makeshift wall, dappled with fluorescent graffiti and marked by one choice word: Hope.

Spend a Summer Abroad With Us

Hope Equals Learning and Service Trip

   We stay up on the latest news, we watch films, read books, attend conferences. But none of this compares to the experience of walking the land, meeting the people and hearing the stories.

'Christ at the Checkpoint' Conference Scheduled

Bethlehem Bible College, tucked into the city in which Jesus Christ was born, is sponsoring its first-ever international conference in hopes of drawing more attention to the issue of what the Bible has to say about who owns the land in that embattled part of the world.