About Sojourners.

Sojourners Church is a church plant of the Assemblies of God, Northern California / Nevada District. The plant project was approved Nov. 21, 2003 and first met Nov. 27. We became a district-affiliated church on Jan. 27, 2004.

The church was founded by pastors Dr. Brian Kelly, Dr. Willy Snow, Joseph Childs, and Dr. Chris Smith. They recognized the need for an Assemblies church in Scotts Valley, California—particularly since Bethany University, an Assemblies-affiliated college, is in the area, and since Scotts Valley used to be the location of the Northern California/Nevada District headquarters. Scotts Valley is also a largely unchurched area, with currently only nine churches within a population of 11,385 (as of the 2000 census).

We of Sojourners Church wish to attract, develop, and empower a congregation to reach out to the residents of Scotts Valley and Santa Cruz county with a clear and accurate vision of God’s nature and love, as expressed by the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and confirmed by the Holy Spirit’s working in our lives. As strangers and aliens in this world (1 Peter 1:17, 2:11)—or sojourners, as we put it—we travel through this life eagerly anticipating the next. Yet while here on earth, we want to partner with God in grace-filled ways to extend His family in our communities. We embrace an adventurous journey, in which we will discover God’s presence already at work in us, and in others.