Signal Mountain resident Josh Davis spent 2011 visiting and writing about 50 local churches. He is now developing a searchable online database to help people find a local church that appeals to them.In 2011, Signal Mountain resident Josh Davis decided to pick 50 churches in the Chattanooga area and attend a different one every Sunday, writing about each one on his blog, churchsurfer.org.
Davis got the idea for the blog after he and his wife moved nine times within a six-year period.
“Every time, we had to find a new church,” he said, which was difficult when they had no family or friends in the areas to which they moved. “I thought, ‘There has to be a better way.'”
Davis chose a variety of churches from different denominations and congregations composed of different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds.
He also spent a lot of time on the blog, too much for it to be sustainable.