The Journey

Journey Kids City is now live!

Sunday, December 9, 2007, was an exciting day for our Tower Grove campus. After a year's worth of demolition, planning, and rebuilding, the old rectory building was finally ready for a new life as the home base for an exciting and growing children's ministry. Around 110 kids came and played with us on our first day in our new home!

With the launch of this new facility, we have made a number of improvements to our program. The facility itself will provide us a permanent, clean, dedicated space in which to work. Numerous Journey artists and workers have come together to give us a unique and exciting environment. We are developing a city theme throughout the building. There is more to come, but the St. Louis cityscape mural in the entry way and the brick streets running throughout the building (including a Journey Kids City manhole cover) help give it a hip and warm urban feel.

In addition to making the place look great, we are improving its functionality too. Parents were greeted on Sunday with brand new touch-screen sign in stations and a bar coded tag system. This system will provide for quick and efficient check in as well as increased security. Off the foyer, our new nursing mother's room was available (sound from the sermons will be piped in soon!) and in the basement we are outfitting our new multimedia room.

As we continue to improve our facility, we will add an art room, outfit a large activity room, add city themed murals throughout the classrooms, and buy new furniture for the classrooms.

As exciting as all this change is, the best part is that we get to pursue God's call on our ministry in a more focused way with fewer distractions: to engage our kids every week with an authentic, life-changing encounter with the gospel.

Want to see some cool pictures of the launch day?  Click here.