Mike Cooper

Today in class I have learned about how churches choose where to plant a church. A clergy could decide to plant a church in any city of America through demographics. One tool that will help in finding a city's demographics is through First View TM and Percept.

The city that the class looked at concerning demographics was the borough of Pottstown.
An example of outreaches to the community a local body of Christ, or local church, could do to impact the community is to open a cafe' or recreational center.

Tonight we had a guest speaker come in and speak to the class. The speaker, Mike Cooper, is the senior pastor of The Journey Church in the borough of Queens, New York. Larry Osborne, "Dirty Little Secrets", and "Deep and Wide", and "101rules pastors need to know" just to name of few are some of the books that Pastor Cooper has his leaders read together.

2002 -2006 VFCC alumni, Youth Pastor for two years at Park View Assembly in Delaware, and Youth Pastor for four years in Glass Borough New Jersey.

Dr Dippold was one Pastor Cooper's profound professors at VFCC that really blessed his life and now his ministry in New York.

A few quotes from Pastor Cooper are: "show me your friends I will show you your future."Another quote, "Work hard and just see it through and whatever you do God will bless it." Here is another good quote, "It is what you make it". - Mike Cooper.

A few good outreaches that he and his church has done are handing out tracks with granola bars attached to it."
Another type of outreach is paying Google web time to have the website for "The Journey Church" pop up whenever anyone searches for churches in New York.

I have learned that you have to find a community and target a particular group of people. The question is "who are you reaching?".

Eight-three people were baptized last summer for "The Journey Church". That is impressive and God bless them for the work that they do to outreach and to impact their community.

Last final words, "The Journey Church" is hosting a summer internship over the summer. www.JourneyLeadership.com