Storefront Church

New York has a rich and diverse history of faith communities. Though these traditions exist, many choose not to engage. 

But why should we? In a city as demanding as ours, we are forced to face questions of ourselves and the world around us that we have never asked before. 

Storefront Church exists to be a community of New Yorkers growing in our love for God and our neighbors.

  • David Plant

    PASTOR

  • Antia Coach

    WORSHIP DIRECTOR

  • Sean Davis

    PASTORAL RESIDENT

  • Kristen Phelps

    FAMILY MINISTRY DIRECTOR

  • Katie Ellis

    PROGRAM DIRECTOR, NEIGHBOR

Elders

Sungjoo Choi 

Ryan Frater

Justin Sealy

Chet Mancini

Deacons

Christa Lou Hilt

Hwan Chung

Our Mission

We exist to be a neighborhood expression of God’s love to the communities along the High Line.

As followers of Jesus Christ, we celebrate the image of God in everyone and seek to make the gospel of Jesus radically accessible to all. Come and consider the God who loves across differences and promises to renew all things.

What We Believe

God

God can be known and desires to know us. He is One, yet mysteriously exists eternally in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Each is to be esteemed, adored, and worshiped. 

The Bible

We love and look to the Bible as God’s inspired word. The scriptures of the Old and New Testament are life-giving, have been vetted, and we trust them. Not a morality tale, the Bible conveys everything one needs to have a right relationship with God and neighbor. 

The Human Condition

Though created in God’s image, mankind has chosen to be its own god. Because of this, we are profoundly beautiful and broken at the same time. Humanity needs a restoration that we cannot achieve on our own.

Jesus, Lord and Savior

As fully God and fully man, Jesus is the “good news” we proclaim. As mediator between God and humanity, he alone restores our estrangement to God and alienation from one another. More so, by his life and work on the cross Jesus redeems our past, renews our present, and restores our future. 

The Church

The Church is not a building but a diverse people united in Jesus Christ. Born of the Father’s love, we gather to worship, and are re-oriented as individuals and as a community towards Him, so that we move out in love, to love those around us. As modern people, we affirm the ancient creeds of the historic Christian faith, in particular, the Apostles and Nicene Creeds.

Gospel Implications

We believe the gospel has both personal and cosmic implications. God has come in Christ to redeem mankind and renew all of Creation. Therefore, as followers of Jesus, we are called to live out His work through our work, stand for justice and reconciliation, center the voices of the most vulnerable, and walk along side those who are marginalized and oppressed.