About Us

Good Hope Baptist Church is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, the South Carolina Baptist Convention, and the Ridge Baptist Association. 

Mission Statement

Good Hope Baptist Church seeks to empower families to become committed disciples of Christ. We strive to accomplish this through engaging worship, empowering discipleship, encouraging evangelism, and embracing fellowship.   

What We Believe

We follow the Baptist Faith and Message of the Southern Baptist Convention.

History

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Baptist pastors began planting churches all over a young nation from the coast of the Atlantic Ocean onward west.  Near what was known as Old Charleston Road (presently, Red Hawk Drive) a small group of Baptists were gathered by Christley Davis, William Eddings, and Henry King.  In 1804, approximately 90 years before the formation of Saluda County, the name given to the newly established church would be heard throughout the land as “Good Hope.”  The first services began under a brush arbor and later a little log cabin.  The next structure would become a small, framed building near where the current church sits off Highway 178.  In the 1850s, a new structure was erected and served as a meeting place for the members.  Nearly a hundred years later, on January 1, 1953, the lumber of the church building was torn down and used to construct the current brick building which was finished in October of the same year.  Throughout the rich history of Good Hope, we have and continue to empower disciples for Jesus through missions, worship, and fellowship.