The New Hope Baptist Church records collection contains organizational documents, audio/visual material, scrapbooks, photos, letters, press clippings, and church publications. Though the Church began in 1934, the bulk of this collection is from the mid-1950s through the early 2000s. The collection offers insight into the African American community in Grand Rapids during this time period and how the community interacts with the larger Grand Rapids society. There are various formats included in the collection in addition to paper records including cassette, VHS tapes, CDs, and floppy disks. The materials on the floppy disk have been migrated to a digital archive and are accessible. The scrapbooks are large and fragile and many pages have seperated from their original bindings and are stored in folders. The collection includes labeled member photographs as well as unidentified photos especially from the 1970s and 1980s.