| World / USA / Kentucky / Louisville, 2 km from center | Coordinates: 38°14'1"N 85°44'17"W |
www.sojournchurch.com/
930 Mary Street
10:00 a.m. Sunday Morning Service
5:00 p.m. Sunday Evening Service
The word "sojourn" can mean several things. It can speak of a long journey or a temporary dwelling place. It has connotations of deliverance and redemption, of journeying from bondage and slavery to freedom. We named our church Sojourn for all these reasons. If life is a journey, then we want our journey to be marked most clearly by our destination; one opened up to us by the grace of God through his Son, Jesus. Our journey is one from death to life, from darkness and shadow into the Light.
We welcome anyone who longs for community, for healing, and for wholeness to join us in looking to Jesus and the way of life that he invites us into. Our home is not this world, but God has put us here, for this time, and in this place, and so we want to lock arms and journey together to see what he has in store.
God created the world. We, his creatures, rebelled, but God, in unfathomable grace, sent His Son, Jesus, as the sacrifice for our sins. Through faith in Jesus, we have been forgiven of our sins, welcomed as sons and daughters, and empowered by His Spirit to live lives which reflect his goodness and love. This is the Gospel. This is our core passion, from which all of our other desires and ministries flow.
We desire to see the Gospel transform everything – ourselves as individuals, our church, our city, and the world.
All churches are driven by something. Our Core Passions are the central values around which we unite as a church.
The Gospel
Because the Gospel changes everything. (Our central passion, from which the others flow)
"For I am not ashamed of the Gospel…" Romans 1:16
The Bible
Because the Bible is the source of our spirituality.
"These are the scriptures that testify about me. [Jesus]" John 5:39
The Church
Because the Church is God's new community, made possible by the Gospel.
"The church of God, which he bought with his own blood…" Acts 20:28
Loving Louisville
Because the Gospel changes our attitude towards our city and our world.
"The love of Christ compels us." 2 Cor. 5:14
Humility
Because the Gospel gives us an honest view of ourselves.
"God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble." 1 Peter 5:5
Prayer
Because we must.
"Lord, Teach us to Pray." Luke 11:1
Renewal
Because the Gospel renews our everyday lives. (homes, jobs, neighborhoods, education, politics, media and the arts)
Whatever you do, work hard, as for the Lord and not for men," Colossians 3:23
Sojourn began when a number of hungry souls began to talk and pray about a new church in the Highlands of Louisville. Longing for real community and a fresh expression of the Gospel, we hoped to see a church for the over-churched and un-churched.
September 2000 saw our first public services, with about 60 people attending. Most of the crowd was young, perhaps 18-25 years old, and many predicted we couldn't last. Despite that fear, we became self-supporting as of January 2002, and have grown to about 350 in attendance on Sundays as of Spring 2006, including a steadily expanding children's ministry.
Over the last five and a half years, we've built strong friendships, learned how to live in community with each other, and sought experienced the gospel personally, in our community groups, and in our large gatherings. For two and a half years, we ran a successful art gallery and music venue called Aslans How on Bardstown Road. We've recorded 3 CD's of original music, and we've successfully planted two churches in Louisville.
We've also seen new people coming to Christ; marriages healed and restored, and people finding community in the church who didn't have a place in the church before. In the words of many, coming to sojourn has been like coming home.
The years of challenges and accomplishments have brought us back again and again to the vision of our church, that is, our desire to see the Gospel transform everything – ourselves as individuals, our church, our city, and the world.
We’re currently in the process of renovating the old Isaac Shelby Elementary School at 930 Mary Street in Germantown. After 5 ½ years of using facilities that were rented or borrowed, we were gifted this building. Our hope is to renovate the building and make it the home of our worship services and children’s ministry, a new art gallery, a music venue for up to 200, a music venue for up to 500, and studio spaces. We want this building to be a blessing to the city of Louisville by being a resource for the arts, a place for conversations about commerce and the politics of our city, and most of all as a voice for the light, life, and hope of the Gospel.
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