Southeast Christian Church opening its 8th campus in Louisville

Southeast Christian Church, which in 2016 was ranked the 7th largest church in America, announced Tuesday it will open an 8th campus in Louisville this fall. 

The new location will be adjacent to its Blankenbaker campus and will be "The Chapel In The Woods" at 1401 Moser Road. 

It'll seat 400 people and has "additional space designed for opportunities to host activities and gatherings."

The campus pastor will be Murphy Belding, a church statement said. Belding has been on Southeast's staff for 20 years and has been a senior adults pastor since 2015. He said in the church's statement he's "really excited" to be the campus pastor at the new location. 

"Murphy is committed and incredibly invested in the lives of our senior adults and has a real passion for showing and sharing the love of Jesus throughout our community," the church's statement said. 

"We’ve built a beautiful facility across the street from our Blankenbaker Campus and everything from the architecture to the parking lot makes this an incredible facility for our senior adults to connect and worship through hymns and classic worship and more importantly it’s a facility where unchurched and unbelieving seniors can find and follow Jesus,” said Senior Pastor Kyle Idleman in a statement from the church. 

Southeast currently has campuses at:   

• Blankenbaker Parkway in Louisville
• Crestwood Station in Oldham County
• Charlestown New Albany Road in Southern Indiana
• Saint Andrews Church Road in Southwest Jefferson County
• Oldham Plaza on South First Street in La Grange
• North Dixie Avenue in Elizabethtown
• River Valley in Goshen

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