If you've clicked on this page, chances are you're searching for something. Maybe it's community. Maybe it's a different kind of faith experience. Maybe you're just curious about what a church like ours even looks like.
What you’ll find here:
• Intellectual honesty about scripture, faith, and life. • Authentic community where you can fully be yourself. • Progressive theology that challenges harmful interpretations and offers hope instead of shame. Space for questions without judgment.
What happens here:
Sunday gatherings are at 10:30 AM and last about one hour and 15 minutes. You'll find a casual atmosphere, good music, teaching that makes you think, and people who are genuinely glad you're there. No pressure to give money, join anything, or come back if it's not your thing, though we hope it will be.
Want to connect before you visit? Send us a message. We'd love to hear from you.
How we got here:
The Southeast Project began in an apartment living room in 2011 when our founding pastor, Ryan, and his wife, Jill, gathered a group of friends together and dreamed about a new kind of church in the city of Indianapolis. Having graduated from Franklin Central High School, on the southeast side of Indy, starting Southeast was all about coming home helping people looking for a new kind of church find a place to belong. A lot of the focus early on was about helping people find a church after they had given up on the idea of church.
A lot of people today talk about this as deconstructing faith. Language changes, but the need for a different kind of church, one that redefines church continues to be a need. For a long time church has been defined with words like anti-science, judgmental, and political. There’s got to be a better way to be the church.
That desire to find a better way to be the church drove us in the beginning and continues to drive us today. What if we can reconstruct our faith and redefine the word church with words like family, goodness, and love? This vision continues to shape everything we do by reconstructing faith in a way that feels both honest and hopeful.
Our journey has taken us from that original living room to a bar, then a conference center, a theater, and now a school. But wherever we gather, the heart remains the same: creating a home where everyone is welcome to explore the way of Jesus.
Your story starts here:
Maybe you've been hurt by church. Maybe you have questions nobody let you ask. Maybe you're tired of pretending you have to have it all figured out. We get it, and that is why we started with one goal: to create the kind of church where people who gave up on church can find their people and reimagine their faith.