Welcome to New Hope!
We are here to help you make some of the most important connections in life. You can become personally and intimately connected to Christ as you develop your spiritual life. You can become connected with this body of believers and develop relationships for a lifetime. You can become connected to the world beyond you through opportunities for service locally and around the globe. No matter at what point your life is now, get connected at New Hope and journey along with us to next level God has for your life.
~Pastor Doug Kelchner
Why we do church in one sentence…
New Hope exist to help each person here move from where they are now (point a) to where God wants them to be next (point b) in the process of achieving God’s purpose for their life.
Before you visit…
If you’ve never been to New Hope we encourage you to join us for a Sunday service. No matter how long it’s been since you have been in church or even if you’ve never been to church in your life, you’ll feel right at home here. As you plan your first visit to New Hope, click here for more information.
Where we worship…
Securing an appropriate home for a church plant is a challenging and ongoing process. Our ultimate goal is to own a permanent ministry facility. In the mean time the creative use of "leased" space has worked well for us.
Our congregation’s first meeting location was the banquet rooms of the Comfort Inn on Centerville Road here in Lancaster. Many churches have to be a "portable church" for years but we were blessed to only have to do this for our first six months.
For the next five years we were located in the Mountville Business Center where we renovated and occupied 3,400 square feet of space. We used this space to its maximum limits and enjoyed the sense of home that it provided at that stage of our journey.
In February 2005, we completed the build out of our current location and began conducting our services in the Village Center at Mountville. This is a newly constructed facility where we occupy 6,800 square feet of space. This location provides us with many enhanced opportunities for ministry.
Here is a slide show of our current location: