New Hope Primitive Baptist Church was constituted in July 1830 with Wilson Conner, David Wood, and Jordan Baker officiating in the presbytery. Minutes for the church's first 12 years were lost, so there is no record of charter members, but the church roll of March 5, 1842, lists 53 members, many of them pioneers of this section. At New Hope Church, a division in the Primitive Baptist denomination occurred when some members withdrew and formed a Missionary Baptist Church. The Rev. Richard M. Tucker was the first recorded pastor in 1842, and George R. Reid was clerk in 1842.