2024 at The Journey: 
The Year in Pictures

This fall The Journey celebrated 22 years as a church in New York City. We’ve got so much to be thankful for.  Thank you for all you do – for praying, giving, serving, and inviting your friends. You make The Journey a special place to be!

The Journey meets for services every Sunday at 10:00am & 11:30am in Times Square at the spacious AMC Empire 25 Theater. Our in-person attendance has more than doubled in 2024! Go God!

In 2024 we baptized 239 people as a church. In the history of The Journey, over 3,600 people have taken the step of obedience! It’s incredible to think about the thousands of lives impacted by Jesus Christ through our church. Thank you God for using us!

82 people were baptized at our Annual Beach Baptism in July.  At our Comeback Beach Baptism, 18 people were baptized. What a memorable summer!

In 2024 we took our annual mission trip to South Africa to serve the at-risk children served by Hope Schools. Through your giving to the Forward in Faith Special Offering, we are able to support this incredible ministry financially as well.

The Journey kicked off our Forward in Faith Special Offering in November with the God-sized goal of $297,00, doubling our ministry impact in our CHURCH, in our CITY, in our COUNTRY, and in our WORLD.  You can read more about and give to the Forward in Faith Special Offering here:
www.JourneyNYC.com/Forward

In May, we hosted our Afternoon of Prayer, Healing, & Hope. It was a powerful afternoon as we packed the Faith & Life Center with our loved ones, lifting each other in prayer.

Journey volunteer teams serve Free Lunch in the Park to the less fortunate on the Lower East Side through Graffiti Community Ministries.  We had volunteer teams serving with Graffiti monthly in 2024!

This fall during our Sunday services & in our Growth Groups, we discovered a Biblical process for how to breakthrough the problems and obstacles holding you back.

PLUS: Over 600 people were a part of a Growth Group either in the Spring, Summer or Fall semesters of 2024.

What a year in Journey Kidz! The number of families being reached for Christ is growing, and God has more than doubled our Kidz Team in the past year. From 3 different Child Dedication Sundays, to our Fall Festival, to our special Family Nights, to the engaging and age-appropriate Bible lessons being taught each Sunday – our Journey Kidz Team is impacting the next generation for Jesus!

We have seen incredible growth in our Youth Ministry this year - praise God! Every Wednesday, an incredible group of teens meet at our Faith & Life Center to engage God's Word together, serve, together, fellowship together, and grow together.

Growth Groups are the heartbeat of The Journey – and this fall we had over 600 people plugged into one of our Breakthrough Growth Groups. There’s no better place to meet great people, learn about the Bible, and go deeper in your faith. Sign ups for our Spring Growth Groups begin this month!

Every month Journey volunteers were serving meals and giving toiletries and other supplies to the homeless in NYC through the Relief Bus in the South Bronx and East Harlem.

Over 100 people took part in our Walk Thru the Bible - Old Testament LIVE seminars! Together, we learned how to dig into the full story of the Old Testament from beginning to end in fun & engaging ways.

Thanks to the generosity of a member in our church, we were able to bless 25 families with a turkey this Thanksgiving! Another member was so moved by this act of generosity, that we were also able to bless an additional 15 families with Amazon gift cards this Christmas. So many lives were blessed by The Journey's generosity!

The Journey’s Worship Arts Team has taken it to the next level in leading our worship services every weekend in Times Square. Plus, they have put together some incredible creative pieces just for Church Online. There’s a place for you on our Worship Arts Team!

The Journey has seen a great group of individuals commit to making The Journey their church home by taking one of our 5 Membership Class 101's in 2024!

In December, The Journey prepped and delivered Christmas presents to every inmate at Rikers Island Prison. We gave 7,200 pairs of socks and 200 copies of Unshakable. Your giving to the Forward in Faith Special Offering helps us show God’s love in some incredible ways!

Started by a former KGB agent whose life was radically transformed by Jesus – the Moscow Seminary has a goal of training new pastors to start churches in all of the nations of the former Soviet Union. You can support this ministry by your giving to the Forward in Faith Special Offering.

In August our church donated enough school supplies to help less fortunate inner-city families on the Lower East Side be prepared for the beginning of the school year. Nearly 1 in 5 NYC children live in poverty.

At The Journey, we love showing God’s love to New Yorkers in practical ways through servant evangelism. In 2024, we showed God’s love by serving people with granola bars and invites to Easter, God on Film and the Breakthrough: Discovering God's Power for My Problems teaching series.  Expect to see more opportunities to serve our city in this way in 2025!

In March over 60 women gathered at The Journey’s Faith & Life Center for a weekend of personal connection and spiritual growth.