History

Although we opened our doors in September 2006, our history is a lot older than that. Two thirds of our initial members were living in Frederick County when we started, but they had been making a long commute south as members of Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, some of them for many years. For well over a decade, it had been their desire and the desire of the pastors at Covenant Life to begin a church in Frederick. Many of our members had invited friends and neighbors for years to CLC, but their invitations were not accepted because of the distance. In July 2006, it was the joy of Covenant Life to send 76 of its adult members to start what is now Sovereign Grace Church of Frederick.