Date & Time:
Sunday, November 9
8A, 9:30A, 11A, and 12:30PM
Location:
Soul City Church
1150 W Adams, Chicago
For fifteen years, we’ve been blown away by God’s faithfulness—transforming lives, impacting our city, and growing a community of people saying yes to Jesus. What began as a prayer and a dream has become a movement of transformation that continues to change lives. As we celebrate this milestone, our hearts are full of gratitude for all God has done and expectation for the greater things still to come. Join us as we celebrate this significant moment together.
The Story of Soul City Church
LAUNCH PARTY
Parties have been in our DNA from the very beginning. Pastors Jeanne and Jarrett gather a group of friends and prospective Soul City families at the Wit Hotel in downtown Chicago. For the first time the vision is shared publicly, and people are invited to join in prayer and participation in the vision of Soul City Church.
WEST LOOP WAREHOUSE
The Searls Family feels led by God to participate in making Soul City a reality. They generously make their property available rent-free for two years – an Only God miracle!
WORK & WORSHIP
The first group of Soul City volunteers come together to clear out and clean up the building in preparation for public gatherings to launch. They initiate a legacy of sacrificial serving that continues in our Soul City volunteers to this day.
LAUNCH DAY
With a Sunday night service, we open our doors to the city of Chicago. We worship together and introduce our mission of leading people into a transforming relationship with Jesus. Those gathered are invited to let God wreck their lives with His amazing love and grace.
FIRST CHRISTMAS STORE
We hold our very first Christmas Store to serve under-resourced friends and families on the west side of Chicago. Our church gathers new gifts, books, coats, and more and makes these items available at a greatly reduced price. This kicks of a meaningful partnership with Brown School that continues through the Back-to-School Bash and future Christmas Stores in years to come.
FIRST BAPTISM WEEKEND
Joel and Kate Miller are the first couple baptized at Soul City Church in a powerful demonstration of what transformation looks like in public. Hundreds and hundreds more would soon follow.
1150 W. ADAMS
At the two-year mark, steady growth allows us to put a down payment on our building. A faithful group of angel investors also purchase the land next to our church and move us to serve the city beyond our current capacity.
FOR THE LOVE
At our fifth anniversary, Soul City Church begins a faith raising adventure to build a transformation Center on the adjacent land. Together we pray and begin to build a space that is designed to love our community, this city, and the world.
TRANSFORMATION CENTER
Together we celebrate the completion of our new 780- seat auditorium and the beginning for the new ministry that will happen in and through this space. In our effort to be the church seven days a week, we also make these new facilities available to our community for a variety of small groups, events, recovery meetings, and more.
FIRST ALPHA COURSE
Alpha is introduced at Soul City with an 11-week course designed to create a space where people are excited to bring their friends for conversations about faith, life, and God. Our community responds with incredible enthusiasm. To date, more than 600 people have participated in Alpha.
WORLD VISION CHOSEN
Soul City Church pioneers a new child sponsorship relationship with World Vision. For the first time in World Vision's nearly 70-year history, the power to choose is in the hands of children. Kids in Malawi, Kenya, choose their sponsor from more than 650 Soul City Families that step up to be CHOSEN.
READY FOR MORE
The vision is shared for the next chapter of Soul City! To launch two new churches to the west and to the north. Due to the global pandemic, the vision was put on pause.
C O V I D
The Covid-19 pandemic disrupted church as usual for months, but it also provided an opportunity for creativity through daily prayer and worship on Instagram, a new type of online church service called Church Refresh, Zoom small groups, and Meals of Hope that were served to essential workers and people in need in our community.
REOPENING
After 11 months of online church, Soul City opened its doors again for weekly Sunday gatherings at 9am & 11am.
HOUSE OF HOPE OPENING
Soul City renovated the northwest side of its building to create a space for people inside our church and our greater community to walk alongside people when life is hard. The House of Hope offers resources, referrals, and relationships to anyone who is hurting. It has served almost 600 people since opening.
A FRESH VISION
Soul City Church announces a new five-year vision which includes launching a new Soul City Church in the Western Suburbs (somewhere from Oak Park to Oak Brook.) Together our church celebrates all that God has done and we declare that God is more than able to fulfill the vision that He's provided for the next five years.
GREATER THINGS LAUNCHES
The Greater Things campaign begins, inviting us to say YES to the greater work God wants to do in and through our lives. Together we step forward in faith, trusting Him for transformation that reaches far beyond ourselves.
A DOOR IS OPENED
After years of searching the Western Suburbs, God opened the door we'd prayed over for 15 years—right next to us. In April 2025, we signed a Letter of Intent for 125 S Racine. With our West Loop church at capacity, this expansion moves us toward reaching 5,000 people as we continue praying for the right Western Suburbs location.
KEYS IN HAND
What began as a prayer became reality as Soul City purchased the building at 125 S Racine in September 2025. No longer holding a letter of intent but the keys in our hands, we celebrate God’s provision to expand our West Loop church as part of the vision to reach 5,000 people between two churches.
