Park Grove Alliance Church began as a home Bible study with three families and Pastor Paul Radford in 1969.  In October of 1969, our present 5 ½ acre site, plus the former parsonage, as well as a second parsonage were available as a package deal for $72,500. Through some financial miracles, God provided enough financial support so the deal could be made.  January 4, 1970 was the date of our first public worship service.  In June of 1973 the lower level of our current building was completed, and we finished the upper level in 1986. We changed our name to Hope Community Church in 1996.

No doubt we rejoice in what the Lord has done in our past, but we must also prepare ourselves for what the Lord wants to accomplish in the days ahead.  Listen to what the Lord told His people, through the prophet Isaiah, (43:16-19) when he was calling them to a renewed vision of who they were, and what He was going to do in and through them as a people … “This is what the LORD says-- he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, who drew out the chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together, and they lay there, never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a wick: "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.”

Indeed, the Lord has done some incredible things in the life of His church in our nearly 40 years of ministry.  He has raised up and sent out missionaries, pastors and Christian workers.  We have evangelized and trained hundreds of people who love God, and are living for Him every day.  We have given hundreds of thousands of dollars to support missionaries in foreign lands.  And we have witnessed many miraculous events by the hand of God.  It would be wrong if we did not celebrate these things.  But it would be just as wrong to be satisfied with these things.  Our God is capable of, and willing to do so much more.  Therefore, in a spirit of renewed hope … we choose not to dwell on the past for God is doing a new thing!