Since Journey first started, we have been working on a strategy to help us fulfill our mission.  Like most churches, we have worship, children’s and youth ministry, small groups, outreach events, etc.  But we have also gone the next step to look at an overall church strategy that helps us ask the question, “Why?”  Why do we offer some ministries and not others?  How do all of our ministries fit together?  This has been our process of “rethinking church.”

“Rethinking church" isn’t just some catchy phrase or tagline. It is a philosophy of ministry that causes us to take a bold and serious look at the way we do church. There are many different kinds of churches doing many kinds of ministries but we realized that we wanted to do a few ministries and do them well.

Our precept for ministry is biblically based, not that we don’t address a contemporary culture with contemporary problems; we do. But we find in God’s Word a foundational approach to help society through the church. We think that this is what the church should be doing.

  We have identified four key areas of life change:

Connect 

Grow 

Serve

Reach

When people come to Journey we want them to grow in their relationshipwith Christ and others, get connected to meaningful service, grow deeper in their faith through discipleship, and reach out to others in the community and world.