I am pleased and honored to announce that I have been asked to be one of the founding board members for Triumph Community Development Corporation. Journey Church will be partnering with Pastor Moses and his team to help make a difference in the inner city in Jacksonville.

If you are reading this and not fully aware of the challenges facing Jacksonville, they are big we rank first in the state in murders per capita, divorce rate per capita, unwed mothers, and more. Violence plagues our streets and Pastor Moses has been doing the leg work to change the future of the children in the area surrounding their facility.

We are excited and pleased to announce that this Thursday Evening Mayor John Peyton and Sherriff John Rutherford as well as many members of the Jacksonville City Council will be in attendance at 6pm on this Thursday Night at the Hyatt Regency Downtown. I would like to invite you to join us for this important event. for more information and details feel free to email me directly ejaffe@journeychurch.org

Help us turn the destiny of this city around!

Our church birthday is today and last year at this time we wrote our first missions check to www.searmarkranch.com

They are now open and impacting lives.

Journey – thanks for giving!

From Fred Meiners, executive director of Seamark…

This is Vivian and Harlee representing all our children with the first fruits of the garden.  The children sowed the seeds, weeded the rows, and reaped the harvest.  (They even installed the irrigation system.)  Then we were able to share the first fruits with the Olde Farm, a local food distribution ministry.  We appreciate their help, and we are blessed to be able to share fresh produce with them. 

Hello blog readers, this coming Saturday Night June 7th is a big night for Journey Church as we will be Celebrating our 1 year anniversary as a church. We would love for you to be in attendance and would love for you to invite your friends.

Come out and enjoy some time in God’s presence.

We will also be kicking off a new series called Jonah, so if you would like a little homework you have 4 days leading into the service starting tomorrow, read and meditate on a chapter a day of Jonah!

At Journey Church we are firmly committed to making a difference missionally in terms of local, national, and international outreach. We are a suburban church, but are learning each day how to get our feet wet by engaging in ministry work outside of the walls of the church, particularly to those who are hurting in our city.

That being said, start praying and mark your calendars for May 10th as we will be joining with Pastor Moses Criswell from Triumph Ministries to help him with a Spring CLothing Outreach on Jacksonville’s North Side. Bring in your new or lightly used spring clothes between now and may 3rd bundled by size, with a particular emphasis on kids and plan to join us that day and be JEsus’ hands and feet in Jacksonville.

check out this article: http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/022608/pat_251015787.shtml

To learn more about social ministries and how you can engage, pick up the book below and also plan on being in attendance for our upcoming message series "THe Least of these" coming soon!

For some time now we have been talking about having the courage to walk across the room and invite someone to join you in church. This is the day to do it. The church has been praying specifically for you and specifically for those who you are planning to invite and we believe they are going to say yes to your invitation and yes to Jesus this weekend.

So Pray, and then boldly invite them to join you. In addition to that, hit up your address book with an email or some phone calls and encourage them to join you Saturday Night and/or Sunday morning for the sunrise service.

If you want a creative electronic invitation tool click here:

http://www.journeychurch.org/SimplyInvite/tabid/92/Default.aspx

But with everything in me, I just encourage you – do it, walk across the room. God will prevail!