We'd rather meet you in your city than wait for you to find ours. Here's everywhere we'll be this fall — and a word to text at each one so we can send you the good stuff.
Three days of music, German food, and a Kids Zone right outside our front door. Find the SOJO tent — we're the neighbors. Cabarrus Brewing Co., 329 McGill Ave NW
Union Street fills up with costumes and candy. Step into our 360° photobooth and we'll text you the video before you get home. Downtown Concord
Two miles down Church, Buffalo, and Union. Look for our float — and enter to win Cookies with Mr. & Mrs. Claus. Starts at Church St N & Lake Concord Rd
Saturday night, come sing. Candles, carols, hot coffee, and warm bread in your hands. Sunday, bring the kids back for free pictures with Santa. Gibson Mill · 325 McGill Ave NW
The whole Mill lights up — Santa, live music, the Lake Norman Big Band, a Kids Play Zone. Find the SOJO booth and say hello. Cabarrus Brewing Co. · 10am–8pm
Carolers in the atrium, candles in a dark room, and the oldest story we know told plainly. Bring everybody. SOJO Church · Gibson Mill
Every one of these takes real people handing out real things and looking real neighbors in the eye. You don't need a title. You need two hours and a willingness to say hello.
Two-hour shifts across three days. Hand out coffee, talk to neighbors, point people to the keyword.
Sign upRun the 360 booth, keep the line moving, get phones in hands. The most fun job on the list.
Sign upSeveral nights and Saturdays leading up to the parade. Cut, paint, wire, haul. Come to one night or come to them all.
Sign upEverybody walks — it is a 1.5 mile route. Hand out invites the whole way. We need 60 people minimum.
Sign upSing, pour coffee, pass out candles and warm bread, and welcome everybody who wanders up from the Market.
Sign upGreeters, photo line, check-in table, and the elves who keep a room full of kids happy.
Text SERVECarolers, candle handlers, door greeters, and parking. Four services, all hands.
Sign upNot sure where you fit? Text SERVE to 980-440-2850 and we'll find you a spot that fits your life — not the other way around.
Photo, video, or contest entry — on your phone in under a minute. That's the whole deal at the event.
A few days later, one question: can we pray for you? A real person reads the answer and writes back.
About church, about Jesus, about why we do this. Pastor Corey answers. Ask the hard one.
Then we stay in touch — lightly — and point you to the next thing. Reply STOP anytime and we're gone.
We're not out there collecting names. We're out there because we believe this city is worth loving, and because what we've found is too good to keep in a building.
You were made to be part of something bigger than yourself.
Not a trend. Not a hack somebody invented last year. Something ancient — older than this country, older than this city — that's been practiced and handed down and tested by ordinary people in every generation since.
It has held up under war, poverty, grief, and doubt. Tried and true. Millions of people have staked their lives on it and found it holds.
That's what we mean by life. Not a better version of your schedule. A Person, and a story you belong inside.
It's older than you think. And it still works. See what a Sunday looks like →The noise got so loud it killed our peace.
Notifications, outrage, comparison, the endless scroll. A world engineered to distract you from your own life. Most of us are exhausted and can't name why.
Here's what surprised us about Jesus: He isn't only interested in the big spiritual questions. He's interested in the nitty-gritty — your Tuesday, your marriage, your money, the conversation you've been avoiding. He goes there.
And then He does the thing nobody else can. He puts peace in your soul — not by removing the noise, but by anchoring you underneath it.
Quiet on the inside, even when it's loud out there. Can we pray for you? Text PRAY →You were made for something eternal.
Everyone is. Not everyone knows it. Most of what fills a life — the job, the house, the calendar — is real but temporary. It won't survive you.
But you were built to make something that lasts. To pour yourself into people and places where the results outlive your name on a building.
At SOJO you don't sit and watch that happen. You get sent — into your street, this city, the world. That's why we're at the parade and the tent and the tree lighting. A community with a cause.
Your one life was meant to leave a mark. Got a question about Jesus? Ask me →Tell us what's going on. Real people, real prayer. Nobody will knock on your door or put you on a list you can't leave.
Text PRAYAbout church, about Jesus, about the thing that's kept you away. It's Pastor Corey answering, not a bot. Ask the hard one.
Text QUESTIONGibson Mill, 325 McGill Ave NW. We'll tell you where to park, what to do with your kids, and who to look for at the door.
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