About Us

Seven Mile Road is a brand new church that is just getting started for the glory of God and for the good of Philadelphia. Here’s what that means.

We’re about Jesus. Maybe you’ve tried religion and it’s left you empty. Maybe you think that religion often does more harm than good. Maybe you think that religion often produces hypocrites. We agree. That’s why we don’t want to be about religion. We want to be about Jesus. At first that may sound like the same thing, but it’s not. We want to center our lives not on what we do to reach God, but on what He has done to reach us. And so we find ourselves drawn to Jesus. We find ourselves receiving the incredible grace of God and longing for Jesus and His gospel to shape everything about who we are and who we are becoming.

We’re a Church. Perhaps you grew up going to church your whole life. Been there, done that. Or maybe you’ve never been to one before. Either way, what if church wasn’t a place you went?  What if it wasn’t about a religious thing you did once a week? What if it was something different altogether?  At Seven Mile, we’re trying to remember that we don’t go to church; we are the church. Church is a community, a people, who are receiving the grace of God and being unified by the person and work of Jesus. And so Seven Mile Road is a community of people – imperfect people – who are discovering the good news of Jesus together.  We’re all at different points on our spiritual journey, but we’re trying to take the journey together.

We’re for Philadelphia.  We love our city.  More importantly, we believe that God loves it too.  Our deep hope is to see men and women transformed by the gospel of Christ and sent on mission to love and serve their world as Jesus did.  For us that begins right here at home.  Amidst all the richness and beauty of Philadelphia, there is a great deal of brokenness and pain.  We’re seeking to engage that reality with the message and mercy of Christ. We long to be an agent of redemption and renewal in our city.  At the same time, our concern extends beyond our region as well.  We sense that God has called us to participate in the larger redemptive work that He is doing in the world.  So our passion is seeing the gospel transform everything – our lives, our church, our city, and our world.