Customer story · Where OnArk began
Journey Church

America's #1 fastest-growing church.

Outreach Magazine's 2025 list. Built on OnArk since day one.

On OnArk since 2020
#1Fastest-growing church in America, 2025.
7,000+Unique people through Journey's OnArk classes. And counting.
10,000+Check-ins through OnArk since 2020.
The problem

We couldn't meet in person. Every class had to move online.

COVID closed the buildings. Journey had a working pathway — new member class, leader onboarding, small group leadership, baptism class — and Sunday after Sunday, people moved through it. Then they couldn't.

The tools at hand weren't built for this. Zoom worked for a meeting, not a self-paced class. Google Forms collected answers but lost the person on the other end. Email reminders didn't know who finished what. The pathway that had powered the whole next-steps strategy went dark.

We needed something that could run a real church class from start to finish — without a facilitator in the room, without a Zoom link, without losing anyone in the gap between Sunday and the next step. So we built it.

What runs on OnArk at Journey

Four mission-critical pathways.

Every new member, every leader, every baptism candidate, every small-group host at Journey moves through one of these four pathways on OnArk.

New member class
Leader onboarding
Small group leadership
Baptism class
The result

A growth track that scales as fast as the church.

In the years since, Journey has been recognized as the #1 fastest-growing church in America. Their next-steps pathway has processed over 7,000 unique people and 10,000+ check-ins — every class still running on the platform that was built when the buildings were closed.

And OnArk has grown alongside them. Every feature we've built was tested at Journey first. Every workflow was pressure-tested against a real Sunday-morning crowd before we shipped it to anyone else.

That's why OnArk works.

Now

Your church is next.

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