Highview Baptist Church (Louisville, Kentucky)

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Highview Baptist Church is a multi-site megachurch based in Louisville, Kentucky. It is affiliated with the Kentucky Baptist Convention and Southern Baptist Convention.

The church has multiple campuses located throughout metro Louisville. As of 2007, the campuses include the East Campus on Shelbyville Road; the Fegenbush Campus (the main location) on Fegenbush Lane, which also is home of the Hispanic Campus; the Indiana Campus, which meets at Silver Creek Middle School in Sellersburg, Indiana; the Spencer County Campus, which meets at Spencer County Elementary School in Taylorsville; and the Valley Station Campus in the southwestern part of Jefferson County.

The church sponsors Whitefield Academy, founded in 1976 as Highview Baptist Christian School.

Dr. Kevin Ezell is the senior pastor.

Former Jefferson County Judge/Executive Rebecca Jackson has served as a community liaison and director of senior citizens programs for the church. [1]

[edit] Justice Sunday

The church was the focus of national attention in April 2005 when it hosted Justice Sunday, a rally where politically-active conservative Evangelical Christians gathered to protest efforts by the United States Senate to filibuster conservative-leaning candidates for judgeships in the federal courts. The event attracted leading members of the conservative Christian movement, including James Dobson and R. Albert Mohler, Jr. The event was widely covered by the news media, and also was protested by critics of the movement. It was the first of three such events to date, with the others held in Nashville, Tennessee and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.