Our Winter Menu 2025 shares the story of God’s work in the Southside community and within Vigilant Hope this past year. In 2025, we have rooted ourselves in Jeremiah 29:4–7, where God calls the exiled Israelites to build, plant, and settle in a foreign land. Though far from home and the temple, the Israelites are instructed to seek the welfare of the city where they have been sent—for in its welfare, they will find their own. As we step into 2026, Vigilant Hope is building off Jeremiah 29 and now turns to Matthew 5:9. In Jesus’s first sermon, He unveils His subversive, upside-down Kingdom, beginning with the Beatitudes—the blessings that redefine who is honored in the Kingdom of God. Among them, He proclaims that peacemakers are blessed and will be called children of God.

Vigilant Hope has long pointed toward this Kingdom, where shalom—wholeness, peace, and flourishing—takes root within us and within our neighborhoods. We are mindful that Jesus said peacemakers, not peacekeepers. Peacemaking requires movement, presence, and participation. As we embrace this call, we seek to root ourselves in Jesus’s vision of a world where the last are finally first.

We believe that everything and anyone can be used to tell stories, even a beverage menu. As you sip through our winter drinks, we hope you can taste, hear, experience, and feel invited in to our story at Vigilant Hope.