About

The name TravelBlog is a play on the name of our church family: Sojourn Community Church.  A sojourn is a trek, a quest.  A journey from bondage to freedom, from darkness to light, made possible by the grace of God through His Son, Jesus Christ.

Like the ancient children of Israel, like the writers of the gospel, Acts and the epistles, we tell the story of God’s work in our lives as we travel.

Pastors’ Blog

The Pastors’ Blog is the first of our “blogs within a blog.”  The Sojourn Executive Pastor team drives the content and vision in the Pastors’ Blog:

Lead Pastor Daniel Montgomery

Executive Pastor Bryce Butler

Worship & Arts Pastor Mike Cosper

Other Sojourn elders, pastoral assistants, and Director of Communications Bobby Gilles occasionally update the Pastors’ Blog with reports of gospel transformation, and updates on the elders’ vision for Sojourn Community Church.

Stories From The Road

You’ll find a lot of stories in the Sojourn Community.  Stories From The Road documents many of these stories.  Here you’ll find photo blogs from Sojourn events, baptism testimonies from Sojourners, “Getting Ready For Sunday” (a weekly feature that will let you know about the scripture text our pastor will preach from at the next Sojourn Gathered, the songs we’ll sing, and other details on the upcoming service) and more.

The Sojourn Blogosphere

The Sojourn leaders like blogs.  Blogs are a great way to communicate what’s going on in the children’s ministry, worship arts, ministries of mercy and renewal and other areas.  They’re also a great way to give you a chance to comment on posts and interact with ministry leaders.  But we recognize that it can get a little confusing to remember all the Sojourn blogs that are out there.

If this is how you feel, then just think of TravelBlog as your daily Sojourn newspaper — your one-stop-shop for all things Sojourn in the blogosphere.  You’ll find a section heading for every Sojourn blog, along with the headline and lead paragraph of the latest post from each blog — all within the main page of TravelBlog.  Click on the post you’d like to read … it’s like picking up a different section of the newspaper.

Other Cool Stuff:

At the top of the screen you’ll find a media bar.  Hover over it to find a drop down menu of every Sojourn website, starting with our home site, sojournchurch.com.  Click on any website to go there.

Also, click on the RSS button at the top of the page to subscribe to the Pastors’ Blog and Stories From The Road feeds.  And the Twitter and Facebook icons will take you to the Sojourn Church pages on those respective social media sites.

Also, each time you come to TravelBlog or refresh the page, you’ll see a different “Featured Resource” on the right-side of the page.  From there you can buy our worship music CDs and our children’s book, Pastor Daddy.

Social Media Icons

Click on our Social Media icons at the top-right of the page to subscribe to this blog via RSS or email, to see the Sojourn Twitter and Facebook pages, or to get our podcast. Icons provided by paulrobertlloyd.com.

Commenting Policy

We love comments, and want you to tell us your thoughts often and to interact with our bloggers.  Just some common sense guidelines:

No ad hominem attacks.  Be respectful of the blogger as well as your fellow readers.  Different opinions and ideas are fine, but mean-spirited, condescending attacks, name-calling  and insults will not be tolerated.  We’ll simply remove the comment.

No profanity-laced comments or sexually-explicit material.

No thread-hijacking.  Keep comments related to the subject of the post.

No commenting that could generally or reasonably be interpreted as constituting a flame war.  If you’re unfamiliar with the term, either read the definition at the link or … let’s all be civil and courteous to one another.

To our non-Christian friends:  Welcome.  We’re glad you’re here.  We publish most comments we receive, but please understand that we don’t feel like it makes for an interesting blog if we publish repeated comments from the same person that basically say “God isn’t real,” or “Your value system is nonsense” or related things.  We totally respect your right to feel the way you do, but it serves no purpose (including your own, believe it or not) to pepper all of our blog posts with comments from one or two people that all say the same thing.  It’s just not interesting.  If you’re honestly searching for answers, our pastors would be glad to speak with you.