New Hope Free Will Baptist Church

New Hope church members circa 1900

Rev. James Powell served as first pastor of New Hope

New Hope FWB Church Sanctuary 1950s. The building was constructed in 1917 and replaced circa 1960s.

New Hope members Nellie Ruth Miles, Katie Hughes, Pastor Alfred E. Miles, Archie Powell, Blondell Stone, Earline Powell, and Elsie Powell

New Hope Free Will Baptist Church of the Pentecostal Faith is located on New Hope Road in the Possum Fork community.  The land for the church was donated by Norman Stone and Mattie Powell, with James Napoleon Powell serving as the first pastor. The church met at a home in Possum Fork in 1900. A sanctuary was completed in 1917.

New Hope Church is listed in the 1930 Minutes of the Eastern Conference of the Original Free Will Baptist Church of South Carolina. The Delegates were D. W. Stone and M. J. Powell.