We do not have much history on Hopewell  Methodist.  Below is what is found in the SGA Methodist Archives and a local history.  If anyone has any additional history to add, please contact us at info@hrcga.org.

According to legend, Hopewell got its name when a traveler passing by on a horse chatted with members working on the first church, and when the traveler was leaving he “hoped them well on their building”.  After traveler left, the workers suggested the name of Hopewell for the church.   The first church was constructed of logs harvested from the local forests in 1842.  A second Hopewell Church was built on the present site but was destroyed by fire.  The church you see here is the third on built on this site, sometime after the Civil War.  We would estimate that date to be in the 1870s.  Mr. Putnam Stevens. a devout Methodist and wealthy planter, took a leading role in building the church.  Lights replace kerosene lamps in 1938 and gas heaters replaces the potbellied wood stove in the 1950s, and the pew partition that has separated ladies and gentlemen through the years was removed.  

1982 Membership: 159