Concord, North Carolina · Sundays 9 & 11am
You were
Made for
more
You were made to know Life and have it abundantly, grow in peace with God and people, and go in your anointed purpose to help bring heaven to earth.
November & December at Gibson Mill
Come home for Christmas
A parade, a market, a tree lighting, Santa, carols by candlelight and warm bread in your hands — all of it in one old cotton mill on McGill Avenue. Bring everybody.
- Sat Nov 21Christmas Parade
- Sat Nov 28Carols, Candles & Coffee
- Sun Nov 29Santa at SOJO
- Dec 11 & 13Candlelight Services
- Thu Dec 24Christmas Eve · 6pm
Wednesdays · 6:30–8:00pm · Gibson Mill
Wednesday night
Bible study
For most of my life I treated the first chapters of Genesis like a hallway — the part you walk through fast to get to where the real story happens. I was wrong about that.
Genesis 1–12 wasn’t handed to people with good coffee and a study Bible. It was handed to former slaves standing in a desert. And the first thing God gives them isn’t a rule. It’s a story — this is how the world began, this is who ordered it, and this is who you are in it. Because the world they came out of had a story too, and in that one, they were labor.
We’re walking through Genesis 1–12 slowly, over the coming months. Bring a Bible and bring your questions — especially the ones you’ve been told not to ask.
— PC and PD
Started October 21. Jump in any Wednesday — we recap before we go on.
Two minutes
Meet SOJO
before you
walk in
Press play. It is the fastest way to find out whether this is your kind of church without giving up a Sunday to find out.
You will hear what we are about, see the people you would be sitting next to, and know what Sunday morning actually feels like before you ever park the car.
Where to go next
Four steps,
in order
1 · Come for the first time
Show up on a Sunday. That is the entire first step — no sign-up, no dressing up, no knowing anybody.
Plan a visit →
2 · Try 5
Five Sundays. Not to size up a stage — to meet the people. That is the part that actually changes anything.
Why five →
3 · Come to Discover SOJO
Last Sunday of every month, right after second service. A real meal, childcare, and every question you have got.
Lunch is on us →
4 · Attend Discover More
A three-week virtual class on basic doctrine and discipleship. What we believe, and what following Jesus actually looks like.
All about Discover More →From last Sunday
Hear the
latest message
Updates itself every week. Whatever we said on Sunday is right here by Monday.
The next chapter
We're
home
Same family. Same mission. A room twice the size — and on September 6 we filled it.
First Sunday at the Kettle Room · September 6, 2026.
First things first
We're glad
you're here
You don't have to dress up. You don't have to know anybody. You don't have to have your life figured out, your questions answered, or your past cleaned up.
SOJO started in Corey and Betsy Alley's living room in 2017 with a simple conviction: a church shouldn't exist for itself. If we closed our doors tomorrow, our city should miss us — not just the people who show up on Sunday.
Seven years of Sundays later, that is still the whole thing. We are a community with a cause — and the cause is people. Helping them know life, grow in peace, and go in purpose.
Our story →
Fresh out of the tank · SOJO Church
Try five
Give us five
Sundays
Not to size up a stage. To meet the people.
One visit tells you whether you like the music. Five tells you whether these are your people — and that's the part that actually changes anything. Church is more than a moment on a stage. It's a community you grow into.
Our hope isn't that SOJO becomes a place you attend. It's that it becomes a place that feels like home.
SOJO Swag
You're a walking
front door
A shirt is a small thing. It’s also the only sermon most people in Concord will read on a Tuesday.
Tees in nine colorways · hats · drinkware · tote · notebook · polo. Every dollar over cost goes back into the room at Gibson Mill.
Find us Sunday
The Kettle Room at Gibson Mill
325 McGill Ave NW, Suite 148
Concord, NC 28027
Sundays at 9:00 & 11:00am
Gibson Mill · Concord, NC