page_title: Southeast Christian Church (Louisville, Kentucky)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Southeast Christian Church (Louisville, Kentucky) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Idleman
context_page_description: Southeast Christian Church is an evangelical megachurch of the Christian churches denomination based in Louisville, Kentucky. As of 2019, it is the fourth-largest church in the United States.
  On March 10, 2019, longtime Teaching Pastor, Kyle Idleman assumed senior leadership.
context_section_description: The church was established on July 1, 1962 as 53 members of the South Louisville Christian Church started a new church in the Hikes Point area. By 1998, the church had relocated to – and outgrown – numerous buildings until reaching its current location at 920 Blankenbaker Parkway in Louisville. Former Senior Minister Bob Russell retired in 2006 after 40 years of service.  He was succeeded as senior minister by Dave Stone, the longtime preaching associate at Southeast. 
  In February 2007, Southeast Christian officially released an announcement that it would establish a satellite church in Clark County, Indiana. With the establishment of a second location, Southeast became a multi-site church.  The breaking of the ground, by I-65 Exit 4 in Jeffersonville, Indiana, took place on August 12, 2007, and the church officially opened on April 12, 2009. On February 8, 2009, the church announced the plans for its third location. The Oldham County Campus, in Crestwood, Kentucky, held its first service in January 2011. In 2009, Southeast also opened up a new youth building called "The Block". On the weekend of June 30/July 1, 2012, the church announced that it would develop a fourth campus in southwest Jefferson County, near Dixie Highway (US 31W) and adjacent to the southwestern campus of Christian Academy of Louisville. This site was originally expected to open in fall 2013, but groundbreaking was delayed until February 2013; the new campus opened in time for Easter 2014. The next satellite campus was found in an old movie theatre in LaGrange, Kentucky in January 2017, making this the 5th campus to launch. In 2017, a satellite campus opened in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. The church also opened a campus in  Prospect, Kentucky in 2019. 
  In September of 2019, the church announced a campus in Shelby County, Kentucky would be built,  and in January of 2020, the church announced a campus in Bullitt County, Kentucky would be built. 
  In March of 2020 Southeast moved to virtual worship in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Services were held online for the proceeding weeks. The church’s campuses would eventually regather 4th of July weekend in-person while following CDC guidelines.
caption: Kyle Idleman, the church's leader since 2019
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