First off, let me begin by saying that my husband and I are not from San Diego we are from Dallas Texas. We moved to San Diego In November 2014 due to my husband being stationed out here for the Navy. We had always attended church back home so finding a new church for us in a new state was scary to me. The first thing we did when we got to San Diego, we were in our living room online looking up churches. The very first one my husband pulled up was 7SD. I took a look at all the pictures and it seemed like something we would like so we decided to check it out the following Sunday. As we pulled up we noticed it was much smaller than our last church back at home, but we were already there and wanted to give it a shot. The moment we walked up to the church we were greeted by so many nice people who worked for the church. Warm smiles on all the staffs faces, very helpful and kind each and everyone of them. After signing our 7 month old son in and getting his name tag, we walked into the nursery for our first time and the Lady Barbra who is over the nursery was the sweetest most caring lady I had ever met. She took our son and all my worry went away instantly. My husband and I grabbed some coffee they had out which also we both really liked because every Sunday they have free coffee and let me tell you, the coffee there is AMAZING! Here goes the covering of the tattoos as I'm beginning to walk in the door, but then I see lots of people with tattoos and piercings.. everyone was dressed very casual and nobody looked like they were there to judge. That was surprising walking into a church but that made me feel even more welcomed! We went to find some seats and the band there was just awesome! It was like a concert but even better than that because we got to be second row for free! After the songs we had a seat and a video started playing on the screens. What caught our attention was that before our pastor walked up, they made it clear that NO PERFECT PEOPLE ARE ALLOWED. It made me feel so much better to be there and much more at ease. After the video this real tall man walks on stage, pastor Jeremy. The message he spoke that day was incredible. He was fun, outgoing, hilarious, and not like your typical church pastors.
I loved that they gave you notes to write down, offered bibles to anyone who didn't bring one. It was amazing. Also when pastor said "it's not about a religion, it's about a relationship with God". That's when if hit me that this was the place for my family. Nothing like we have ever experienced before. My son did very good in the nursery, all of the staff in there were so sweet. and the church itself gave my husband and I the best feeling leaving to our car that day. The church is absolutely wonderful. We have been attending this church every Sunday since and our son is almost 2 now. Thank you 7SD for making your church our home. read more