About

Sojourn Network is a network of evangelical, reformed baptistic churches that covenant together to plant more and healthier churches. We are a network that exists to bring glory to God by being formed into his image and carrying out his marching orders - to make disciples of all nations, starting right here in North America.

God's plan to build his kingdom requires many networks and denominations - both small and large - to affirm, assess, train, fund, coach, lead, and renew church planters and existing churches to multiply themselves to reach people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Sojourn Network is a network that is made up of two types of churches: (1) Church Plants and (2) Strategic Partners.

To partner with us means that you believe what we believe - not only our doctrine, but also our DNA - and are all in, participating in our events, raising up new planters, all while intentionally and aggressively focusing on your local church.

To plant with us means that you believe in a planting model that encourages residencies, pastoral development, theological development, and immersion in a healthy local church prior to planting a new church.

What We Believe

While we whole-heartedly affirm the Gospel Coalition Confessional Statement, those who covenant with Sojourn Network hold a few additional beliefs and practices:

Sojourn Network churches are credo-baptists.
Sojourn Network churches emphasize the church gathered corporately each week.
Sojourn Network churches emphasize the church scattered, encouraging our individual members to live as Christians in their homes, work places, and places of rest, recreation, and need.
Sojourn Network churches treat the charismatic gifts with caution, but are not strict cessasionists.
Sojourn Network churches are led by qualified, male leadership and, thus, are complementarian.
Sojourn Network churches are renewal-driven churches. This means that we believe personal renewal spurs on church-wide renewal which leads to community renewal.
Sojourn Network churches believe in multiplying themselves through multiple models - additional campuses, church planting, and sending missionaries internationally.

We are currently in the process of finalizing our official document of our complete beliefs and practices that we will be releasing soon.

What We Offer

We believe that a vision is a picture of what could be, combined with the conviction that it must be. Therefore, having a vision is crucial for any organization to succeed and move forward. Sojourn Network's vision for planting healthy churches includes three primary facets:

Theological Vision

We call our theological vision North Star, which represents the big picture plan for how we intend to raise more and better leaders. We recognize that when a church is unclear about who they are, where they are to go, and what they are to do, an unhealthy pattern emerges. The fundamentals of our faith are assumed or ignored which results in an obsession with hype. Churches pursue the new- est fad and, in a short time, a church grows confused, exhausted and disinterested.

The desire at Sojourn Network is to combat hype and fad driven churches with sobriety. We affirm there is nothing new under the sun and so we continually return to our North Star vision:

Whole Vision (God's glory, our formation, and the Great Commission) takes a Whole Gospel (Kingdom, Cross, Grace) that transforms us as the Whole Church (servants, family, disciples, worshipers, witness) to take this gospel into the Whole World (location, vocation, recreation, restoration, multiplication), making into Whole People (head, heart, hands).

By defining the mission of Sojourn Network in a clear, holistic manner, young men can be developed into qualified leaders within our church and sent to not only start healthy churches but also to train and send men for themselves.

Organizational Vision

Organizationally, this theological vision sets the agenda for the nuts and bolts of Sojourn Network: 7 Components that find expression in 7 Venues.

We believe that offering these seven components and seven avenues are vital for the health and growth of your church. The 7 components that Sojourn Network offers are vision, training, assessing, coaching, multiplication, retreat, and funding. These elements help support the pastors and leaders of the local church.

In addition to the 7 components, Sojourn Network offers 7 avenues that helps support the vision and mission of the 7 components. These Sojourn Network avenues are the national conferences, regional cohorts, one-day conferences, personal coaching, annual pastor's retreat, and quarterly communication and through the local church.

These components and avenues play significant roles in the network to help train and equip healthy pastors and leaders.

Spiritual Vision

Spiritually, we want to use the theological and organizational visions to learn about our people - how their past informs their present and inevitably shapes their future. To do this, Sojourn Network uses three diagnostic tools to help pastors map out their past, present, and future.

We believe these three facets provide the necessary rungs from which our church planters and strategic partners can hang their own local visions for how to lead their churches into healthier, growing, and more mature places of gathered and scattered believers.

How To Join

Our desire is to partner with churches from across the world that share the same beliefs and vision for equipping and training men from within the local church to be sent our and plant more healthy churches. Below are are three three main ways one can join Sojourn Network:

The best and most efficient way to inform us that you are interested in joining Sojourn Network or would like to receive more information about Sojourn Network is by contacting us.