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Soren & Ever Johnson Position: Co-Directors Diocese: Arlington, VA Region: 04 Office / Organization Name: Trinity House Community Website: http://www.trinityhousecommunity.org

Contact Info Email: sjohnson@trinityhousecommunity.org Phone: 703-669-2807 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 713 Leesburg, Virginia United States 20178

About Soren & Ever Johnson The Trinity House Community inspires families to make home a taste of heaven for the renewal of faith and culture. The non-profit ministry was founded in 2006 as the John Paul II Fellowship by Soren and Ever Johnson. The Johnsons had seen that self-centered, impersonal lifestyles were on the rise everywhere, causing profound unhappiness, making the practice of an other-centered faith seem irrelevant, and creating a toxic culture. Meanwhile, the Johnson’s own experience of beautiful and fulfilling Christian community and culture was telling them things don’t have to be this way. So, in response to Pope St. John Paul the Great’s call to bring the riches of the faith into the public square, the Johnsons started holding events in parishes around the Washington, DC, area, growing a community of Christians who wanted to help renew faith and culture. While mostly Catholics, the Community also has many beloved Protestant and Eastern Orthodox family, friends, collaborators, and supporters. In 2014, the Community took their mission to the public with Trinity House Cafe + Market on the corner of Church & Market Streets in historic downtown Leesburg, Virginia. Trinity House is the Community’s public model of a Christian home, a little taste of heaven to share with neighbors. In 2015, a group of local families formed to encourage each other in the Trinity House way of life. In 2019, the Trinity House Community began offering the Heaven in Your Home Workshop and other tools to inspire and equip families. Now, Trinity House Community is poised to offer a parish-based model of formation for the entire family. Learn more about Trinity House Community Groups at www.trinityhousecommunity.org/subscription How does a family make home a little taste of heaven? For starters, the family is a communion of persons just like the Holy Trinity, so it’s already very close to entering into divine life! Heaven is living with God — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — and with his saints, especially our Blessed Mother Mary. To live with God, the family must follow His one-another-centered way of life, which Our Lord Jesus makes possible. By cultivating a life of putting one another first, the family home becomes a little taste of heaven! You can learn much more about participating in the life of heaven now by watching or attending the Heaven in Your Home Workshop! After the workshop, follow the weekly Heaven in Your Home Letters and attend the monthly gatherings, in person or by livestream, to be encouraged by other families who are working to build up their own Trinity Houses. Join in and make your own home into a little taste of heaven to share with family, friends, and neighbors! Soren Johnson founded the Trinity House Community with his wife, Ever. Soren has over 20 years of leadership experience, including teaching and communications positions at Catholic secondary and university levels, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Diocese of Arlington. From 2008-2011, he served as Senior Vice President at Prison Fellowship International, and from 2004-2008 and 2011-2019 as Director of Communications and Director of Evangelization for the Diocese of Arlington. He previously lived abroad in Russia, the Czech Republic, and Israel, and is conversant in Russian and Spanish. Soren holds a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and an M.A. in Theology from St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary. He has been published in the Washington Post, Richmond Times Dispatch, Chicago Tribune, and Columbia. He writes regularly for the Arlington Catholic Herald, and has extensive media and public speaking experience. Born and raised in West Chicago, IL, he now enjoys family life with Ever and their children in Leesburg, Virginia. Ever Johnson, a mother of five, is co-founder of Trinity House Community and Manager of Trinity House Café. Previously, she worked for ten years as George Weigel’s Research Assistant at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC. At EPPC, she assisted with research and translations for Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II and organized the Tertio Millennio Seminar in Krakow, Poland. Ever holds a B.A. in Government from the University of Texas at Austin, an M.A. in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies, and an M.A. in Theology from the Dominican House of Studies. During and after college, she worked four sessions of the Texas State Legislature and at the American Embassy in Reykjavik, Iceland. She also lived abroad in Denmark, France, and Italy, where she interned at the Vatican, and is conversant in French and Italian. She has been published in Magnificat, the National Catholic Register, the Arlington Catholic Herald, and given many talks. Ever was raised in a large Catholic family of restaurateurs in Fort Worth, TX, and loves bringing their spirit of hospitality to life at her family’s 1820s home in the country south of Leesburg.

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