The Road Church is a Colorado Springs church led by Steve Holt in the current corpus, historically tied to a 2017 merger with Chapel Hills Church, currently operating with a named public-policy director and dedicated public-policy page, and repeatedly appearing in local reporting and retained sources around COVID restrictions, Hold the Line, Church Voter Guides adjacency, and Christian-right political mobilization.
In this repository, The Road matters as more than a church site. The current official pages present it as a church with a formal leadership roster, a branded public-policy ministry, and strong overlap with Steve Holt's broader ministry ecosystem. Older repo captures and later reporting then place the same institution inside public controversies over pandemic behavior, school-board and voter-guide mobilization, and Seven Mountains-adjacent rhetoric. The current corpus is strongest for The Road as an organizational hub; it is weaker for the church's precise legal structure and for direct primary records of every political act reported around it.
- Role or function: church, ministry hub, and public-policy-adjacent religious institution
- Scope: Colorado Springs religious, civic, and political-organizing environment
- Current official address layer in corpus:
2025 Parliament Dr., Colorado Springs, CO 80920, with The Road also publicly using PO Box 63386, Colorado Springs, CO 80962
- Current official leadership marker: Steve Holt is listed as senior pastor
- Current official public-policy marker: Amy Stephens is listed as
Public Policy Director
- Historical naming marker in current corpus: Holt's
2017 article says the merged church operated as The Road @ Chapel Hills
- Important context: the current source base supports a clear church-politics adjacency pattern, but not a settled legal or compliance judgment
- Steve Holt: Holt is the founding senior pastor and the main public face of the church in the current corpus.
¶ Evidence and source basis
- Steve Holt and The Road Church source cluster: main synthesis page combining official current pages, older raw captures, and outside controversy reporting.
- a locally retained article, dated 2026-04-14: current-source verification of homepage, about, leadership, public-policy, contact, Steve Holt Online, ProPublica nonprofit data for Worshipper And Warrior, and the current Chaim Goldman podcast result.
- a locally retained article from steveholtonline.org, captured 2026-04-06T00:36:51.140256-06:00, titled God’s Doing Something New: Church Mergers - Steve Holt Online: preserves the most direct historical source currently in the repo for the merger with Chapel Hills Church.
- a locally retained article from colorado-corp.com, captured 2026-04-06T00:36:51.140256-06:00, titled The Road - Colorado Company: preserves a non-official business-index lead showing the church's address layer and a possible Colorado entity record, but it should be treated cautiously.
- a locally retained article from coloradotimesrecorder.com, captured 2026-04-06T00:36:51.140256-06:00, titled 'Hold the Line' Energizes CO Springs Evangelicals Over LGBTQ Issues, Abortion and a locally retained article from Colorado Times Recorder, published 2022-05-24, titled Lamborn and Boebert ‘Hold the Line’ at CO Springs Event: preserve the event-hosting and political-rhetoric layer around
Hold the Line.
- a locally retained article from omny.fm, captured 2026-04-06T00:36:51.140256-06:00, titled Church Voter Guide - Crosswalk Colorado Springs - Omny.fm: preserves the current repo's direct Chaim Goldman / Church Voter Guides anchor relevant to The Road's broader political environment.
- The current corpus does not yet settle the church's most defensible current legal-entity record beyond church self-description, a non-official business-index lead, and the separate filing-grounded
Worshiper And Warrior nonprofit.
- The current corpus also does not yet preserve a direct first-party public-policy podcast or a direct District 49 board-meeting transcript showing Steve Holt speaking there.
Worshiper And Warrior clearly resolves to a filing-based nonprofit record, but EmpowerU.live and the broader The Road ministry stack remain only partially resolved in filing or corporate terms.
¶ Source access and local retention
Atlas Trace retains research captures and provenance records locally. Public originals, when available, appear in the Original links section below; internal archive paths and restricted materials are not public links. See Sources, access, and local retention.