Our Story

Christ Our Hope started when a small team of people came together to dream of what it could look like to plant a church in the Houston Heights, a historic neighborhood that was experiencing a resurgence in the city.

With a vision for church planting, loving the neighborhood, and reaching the large and diverse city of Houston with the gospel of Jesus Christ, Sojourn Community Church officially launched its first public worship gathering on October 10, 2010. A central component of Sojourn’s ministry philosophy was (and continues to be) the neighborhood parish—smaller expressions of the “church-as-family” that exist as geographically focused, missional communities of men, women, and children from different walks of life coming together to live lives marked by love for one another and love for neighbor.

A live band performs on stage in front of an audience. The stage has a red curtain backdrop, string lights, and two screens displaying lyrics. The audience stands, watching and participating, with some holding up hands in worship or applause.

Originally meeting at the Heights Church of Christ and then Fitzgerald’s, a now defunct live-music venue on the northeast corner of White Oak Drive and Studewood Street, we moved into the building that is now our children’s building in 2013. With the church quickly outgrowing that space—especially in the children’s area—we purchased the adjacent property and renovated it to become our new sanctuary and fellowship hall, with the first service taking place the week before the COVID-19 pandemic broke in 2020.

Brick building with "Sojourn" sign, featuring large windows and greenery.

With church planting as part of our DNA, we established a neighborhood parish in the nearby neighborhood of Montrose in 2012, which eventually became our first plant in 2013: Sojourn Montrose. With this multiplication, we became Sojourn Heights, establishing a naming convention for our fledgling network of churches called Sojourn Houston. Over the next 11 years, the network grew, planting or adding six more congregations in the city: Sojourn Galleria (2015), Sojourn Spring Branch (2016, no longer meeting), Sojourn East End (2018, no longer meeting), Sojourn Oak Forest (2021, now Oak Forest Anglican), and Sojourn Southside (2022, now Southside Fellowship). On December 31, 2024, the Sojourn Houston network dissolved, and in 2025 we reconstituted as Christ Our Hope Community Church. Although we have a different name and we gather in a different location than that original group of visionary Christians in 2010, our congregation has maintained the same love for God, the same love for the Heights neighborhood, and the same commitment to reach our pocket of this large, vibrant, and diverse city with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

A group of people, including adults and children, standing in pews at a church gathering.