In September 2025, Hope Church will celebrate 50 years of serving the people of Greenwood Village and beyond as a chartered United Methodist Church. We started in a model home lent to the fledgling congregation as a meeting place. Reverend Dale McArthur, supported by Parker United Methodist Church, led Hope’s first meeting in July 1974. Soon after, Hope began meeting in Belleview Elementary School until we moved in 1979, to our current location on the southwest corner of Belleview and Dayton.
Hope’s first mission outreach sponsored a Vietnamese refugee family. Hope members supported the community during Pope John Paul II's visit to nearby Cherry Creek State Park for World Youth Day in 1993. Through the years, we sought to bless our neighbors of all ages and sponsored missions around the globe. Hope members helped establish Smoky Hill UMC, created the South Metro Medical Equipment Loan Closet, and following in the footsteps of our beloved sister, Ann Fort, continue to send mission teams to Kenya, and helped establish Chuka church there. In recent years, Hope helped plant a new worship community, The Land, in rapidly developing southeast Aurora.
Hope’s facilities expanded dramatically over the past 45 years with the construction of our 500-person sanctuary in 1984, another expansion for offices and classrooms in 1998, and in 2000, the addition of a Memorial Garden where cremated remains are laid to rest on the grounds where the deceased and their families worshipped through the years.
Known for its Parents’ Day Out Preschool and a wonderful music department, Hope lives into its mission by providing a welcoming and safe environment for all. Today, our facility not only supports our worshipping community to nurture children and adults of faith, but Hope is a community center hosting various events and groups. We look forward to the next fifty years of Hope United Methodist Church, where hope changes lives.