In September, 2005 The River began as a new church in Kalamazoo, Michigan with a call to reach far-from-Christ and hurting people for the Kingdom of God. We often say at The River,  “If you’ve got a pulse, you’ve got issues.”  Brokenness is part of life, and we want to walk through that together. The River exists for people to have a community to belong to: people to celebrate with, people to cry with and people to grow with.  Our hope is that we all would believe in Jesus and the transforming power of His love and become everything that He intends for us to be for His glory and our joy.