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SEPTEMBER
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August 2026
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July 2026
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June 2026
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May 2026
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April 2026
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OCtober 22, 2025
We have a building Permit
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July 10, 2025
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June 28, 2025
Liberty game day
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May 21, 2025
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April 5, 2025
second community
egg hunt at liberty
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February 27, 2025
Buildout Design Approved
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December 9, 2024
Virginia Department of Historic Resources Approval
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December 3, 2024
We have chairs
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July 3, 2024
Lease was signed
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April 6, 2024
first community
egg hunt at liberty
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December 7, 2013
Second tour of the chapel
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NOvember 18, 2012
Prayer at the Chapel
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December 8, 2012
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SOUTH COUNTY CHURCH's Chapel history
On July 3, 2024, we signed the lease for the former Lorton prison chapel—a monumental day in the life of South County Church! After years of praying, waiting, planning, and working, we are excited to now call this historic building our church home. We are incredibly thankful for everyone whose prayers, encouragement, generosity, and hard work helped make this possible.
Affectionately known as Liberty Chapel, our approximately 20,000-square-foot building is located at 8475 Reformatory Way in Lorton, Virginia. It is a place we had been watching and praying for since 2011, and we are grateful to finally be worshiping and serving our community here.
Liberty Chapel gives us the space to support our current ministries while making room for future growth. Our vision reaches beyond our regular church programs. We look forward to creating a safe and welcoming place where students can gather before and after school to have fun, receive tutoring, build meaningful relationships, and be mentored in a caring environment.
We are excited about all God is doing and look forward with great anticipation to everything still ahead!
Ways you can be a part
Prayer 🙏
Please continue praying for the Chapel and for everything God is doing in and through our new church home. Pray that every person who walks through the doors will feel welcomed, experience God’s love, and find freedom in Christ.
We are grateful for God’s faithfulness in bringing us here, and we are excited to see how He will continue using this building to bless our church family and community.
Join a Team 👥
Now that we are in the Chapel, there are many opportunities to get involved and help make SCC a place where everyone feels at home.
We would love for you to join one of our teams and use your gifts to serve others. Explore the available teams and sign up for the area where you would like to serve:
Ways to Serve at SCC Together, we can make the Chapel a welcoming place where God’s love is on full display!
Give Financially 💝
We are thankful to be in the Chapel! As we continue making this building our church home, there are still ongoing, expected, and unexpected expenses.
If you call SCC your church home and are not currently giving, we invite you to take a step of faith by following the Lord in tithing—giving 10% of your income to God’s work through SCC.
If you are already tithing or are a friend of SCC, please prayerfully consider giving an offering above your tithe to support all that God is doing through our church family.
There are several ways you can give:
- 💻 Give online: Click here to give securely online.
- 📱 Text to give: Text GIVE to 833-226-7990.
- ✉️ Mail a check: South County Church, 8475 Reformatory Way, Lorton, VA 22079
Thank you for your generosity and faithfulness. God is doing something special at Liberty Chapel, and your giving helps make it possible!
Building Committee
Chris Call
Desi Cullen
Chris Call
Martin Jacobs
John Albanese
Stephen Little (not pictured)
Lorton Prison Chapel History
Built from 1958-1961
20,000 square feet of space includes a mezzanine and a basement
The L-shaped walls are about 25 feet tall and 60 feet long
Lorton History: A Cross for Prisoners
Patch, April 22, 2011
Time Magazine, September 22, 1961
Church is Designed by Atheist and Built by Criminals
The Citizen-Advertiser, Auburn NY, October 1961
Lifers Program in the Chapel, Marion Barry Visits
In the 1960s, Prison Chaplains Created
a Star Studded Music Festival at Lorton Reformatory
Lorton Reformatory Ariel View
Friday, Sept. 22, 1961 (TIME excerpt)
Dedicated last week was a new chapel that was designed by a professional forger, decorated by a two-man team composed of a thief and a murderer, and built by laborers on a wage scale that ranged from $1.20 to $7.70 a month. Its 1,000-odd congregation: inmates of the District of Columbia Reformatory (for men) at Lorton. Va. The chapel is interdenominational, designed so that Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish services, each seating as many as 500, may be held simultaneously or thrown together in one big, 1,200-capacity. But the man behind it is the prison’s senior Catholic chaplain, Father Carl J. Breitfeller
