Hopeful Lutheran Church

Hopeful Lutheran Church was chartered on January 6, 1806. It was founded by a group of colonists from Virginia who settled in Boone County. In 1807, the first log church was built on an acre of donated land. Hopeful did not have a full-time pastor until October 1813 when Rev. William Carpenter (a Revolutionary War veteran) moved to Boone County to be the first Pastor.

While fires destroyed the first three structures, the current church building was finished in 1917 in Florence, Kentucky. This is  the  fourth  church  structure  on  the site serving the same Lutheran  congregation.

A group of  14  families associated with the Hebron Lutheran Church of Germanna,  Madison  Co. VA, settled  in  Boone  County in  1805. Family names included Hoffman, Rouse,  Tanner, Hanse,  Carpenter,  and  Zimmermann. Their descendants are well represented in the current population of Boone County. Hopeful Lutheran Church was  the  first Lutheran church in the county and its first regular pastor, William Carpenter, moved to the area in 1813.