Our Story

In 1974, Neighborhood Church of Greenwich Village began meeting in a small storefront building on Bleecker Street. For many decades, we were truly a “neighborhood” church, with most of our people living within walking distance of our meeting place.

As NYC has changed over the decades, so has Neighborhood Church. We have outgrown our storefront building and now worship in Chelsea at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church (315 W. 22nd Street). But we remain active in the Village by regularly hosting art exhibitions and jazz shows, NYU campus ministries, and our own prayer meetings, small groups, and community socials there.

Two different young church plants now worship in our space on Sunday mornings and afternoons. We are committed to being generous with what God has given to us so that it might become a means of grace to others. 

The members of our community now come from all five boroughs of NYC and from NJ. In that sense, we aren’t as much of a “neighborhood” church these days, but more of a “city center” church. Nevertheless we still share the dearest desires of our namesake to love our neighborhoods and our neighbors there deeply and creatively with the same self-giving love that we have experienced in Jesus.

We want to know one another intimately within our community, slowing down to do life together in a city that is as busy and fast paced and lonely as ever. All of this flows out of our heart to know and love the God who has created us and redeemed us in Jesus.