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WHO WE ARE
Hope Community Church-Hickory was our church plant that launched in December of 2022, in Hickory, North Carolina. For our first two years, we met in the Highland Recreation Center. However the Lord has moved and opened the door to a church merger with our brothers and sister at East Hickory Church. Starting in 2025 we will now be worshipping together as Hope Hickory Church located at 130 16th St SE, Hickory, NC. Our church hopes to live out our core values of giving hope, creating community, and being the church.
The story of this church goes back to 1939 when cottage prayer meetings were held in the Shufford Mills community. Over time those first meetings led to gatherings on Sundays for Sunday School classes. Highland Baptist Church recognized the potential for establishing a church in the community. East Hickory Baptist Church was officially launched on July 7th 1940. From those simple beginnings a gospel witness was established and a church grew.
84 years later, the Lord is still not done with this place. He brought together a young and growing church plant without a home and a long standing body of believers to come together for the sake of the furthering of the Gospel.
GIVE HOPE
CREATE COMMUNITY
BE THE
CHURCH
The biblical definition of Hope is: "a confident expectation."
What every human being needs in this life more than anything else is the confidence, hope, and assurance of salvation that only comes through Faith in Jesus Christ. (Eph. 2:8-9). We also know from scripture that "Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God." (Rom. 10:17) Therefore, if we are dedicated to giving Hope we must have a devotion to the Word of God and faithfully preach and teach His Word.
If we are to effectively serve and reach a community, we must first be able to serve each other within the church family. We never want the church to be merely a formal Sunday Morning gathering, but a community of believers that does life together. That looks like meeting together throughout the week for smaller bible studies, gathering for meals, attending each other's children's ball games, being there for each other in crisis, etc.
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(Gal. 3:28) The church should be a place where every man, woman, and child should be treated as family.
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(Matt. 5:14) If we are to be the light of the world, the church must be a beacon of unity in the midst of a divided world.
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(John 13:34-35) If we loved one another the way that He loved us...
We are a body that is found in the Word of God and united as a community. We can then effectively "Be the Church" and serve and reach our city. If what happens in our churches on Sunday mornings stays in our churches on Sunday Mornings, we're failing. We will always look for ways to serve our community, our schools, and the families and students of Catawba County as the Lord leads and opens doors.
Get in Touch
Service | 10 am
Location | 130 16th St SE. Hickory, NC
(828) 328-9507