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The journey.

A Gospel Centered Discipleship Resource

The Journey is a gospel centered discipleship resource, designed to help a disciple maker develop mature and equipped followers of Christ, who will be able to do the same with others.

It has been designed and proven to be a resource that is helpful in the context of a local church that is implementing life-on-life missional discipleship.

The Journey: A Resource to Empower Multiplying Movements

Leader resources.

Each weekly unit has an accompanying leader guide, and an equipping video by Randy Pope, walking you through how he uses each lesson in his group.

3 Years of Content

The curriculum is broken out into three years (Red, Blue, or Green) that are available for individual purchase. The three years may be used in any order.

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Making & Training Disciples Life-on-Life

In these booklets, Randy Pope gives insights from years of personal disciple making and training experience to show that anyone can make and train disciples in our culture today.

Discipleship Foundations

A five-week guide to discipleship that helps. Learn the foundational principles for life-on-life Missional Discipleship.

The Journey curriculum is a gospel-centered resource for discipleship groups. Three full years of curriculum are available, and each year contains in-depth leader's guides and discipleship content to help disciple makers develop mature followers of Christ, who will be able to do the same with others.

The Answer – Putting An End to the Search for Life Satisfaction

Are you frustrated that your life lacks lasting satisfaction? In "The Answer," Randy Pope invites us to discover a greater purpose and more fulfilled life. This paperback book is an excellent resources for anyone looking to live a more satisfied life.

Life Issues Booklets

The Life Issues booklets are a perfect resource for anyone who is interested in investigating the claims of Christianity or is assisting others through that process. These 4 booklets explore the Gospel of John and are accompanied by helpful readings and questions about the Christian faith.

INsourcing: Bringing Discipleship Back to the Local Church

What are you doing to mature your people. Is it working? Learn how a wide-scale personal discipleship program is attainable for any church.  

A primer for Life-On-Life Discipleship

​Many pastors and leaders are slowly awakening to the reality that current models of ministry just aren’t working the way they had hoped they would. Randy’s journey as a pastor will encourage and invite you to consider the effectiveness and fruitfulness of your own church’s discipleship efforts.

Express Your Faith

Helping Others Investigate Christ

Express Your Faith is a method of effectively sharing your faith developed by Randy Pope, lead teaching pastor of Perimeter Church. Some of the essentials you will learn include how to

Transition a conversation from secular to spiritual

Help your friends investigate Christ

Provide discipleship resources for others to easily investigate Christ

Introduce others to Christ and help them begin to follow Him

Monthly Info Calls

Interested to learn more about our discipleship training process? Our monthly information calls are a convenient way to get your questions answered from the comfort of your home or office.

Calendar of Events

Whether you are part of a current discipleship cohort or looking to learn more, check out all of our live and virtual events to see where you can take the next step.

Discipleship Training Workshops

Exclusively for current discipleship cohorts, our workshops are multi-day gatherings where church leaders dive into deep discipleship lessons, share experiences, and develop their skills.

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Guide young readers to new heights

Learning to read is an excursion into the unknown. It's about meeting challenges head-on and gaining confidence with each victory. Preparing students for this voyage requires a program that lets teachers introduce the right discoveries at the right time. When things begin to line up, you can see confidence start to shine in students' eyes. Journeys is a comprehensive K-6 English language arts program. It provides an instructional system for reading both literature and informational texts, for acquiring foundational reading skills , and for developing mastery of speaking, listening and writing.

Meets new ESSA evidence standards

Promotes deep analysis of authentic texts, reaches 6.7 million students nationwide, a map for students on the path to literacy.

Journeys is built on a deep foundation of scientific research but treats students as young people who need to be encouraged—and to have fun. The result? An engaging learning experience that fits .

Sculpt lesson plans from scaffolded instruction and immerse students in small group sessions that fit like a glove.

Provide opportunities for thoughtful analysis and problem solving using texts that can be read and re-read for multiple purposes.

Prepare students for today’s rigorous standards—and the demands of next-generation assessments—with an approach to instruction that’s based on pioneering academic research.

See what Journeys has in store for your classroom.

Enrich the classroom with tools that foster a love of learning

To build confidence, students need flexible, individualized study. Journeys features complex anchor texts that challenge students, smart lesson plans that let teachers target the needs of all students, and assessments and digital tools that help track classroom progress.

Student Experience

With the right combination of demanding materials and individualized instruction, Journeys offers students the types of challenges needed to mold them into stronger readers. It’s a recipe for the continued growth they’ll need to excel at today’s rigorous assessments, college, and beyond.

Student texts promote deep reading.

Anchor text reading instruction challenges students well beyond their first encounter. A special three-part routine guides students to grasp big ideas, then analyze short passages, and finally undertake independent close reading.

The Student eBook guides students to highlight and make notes about the answers and evidence they are learning to gather.

Trade Books provide a backdrop for project-based learning and give students the opportunity to apply what they have been learning to extended texts.

A wide range of texts meet all students at their level.

Journeys Leveled Readers for Guided Reading, by Irene Fountas, allow students to get individualized practice alongside the core coursework.

Complete solutions for Tier I, II, and III intervention to reinforce skills, scaffold instruction, and teach key foundational skills.

Strategic language support for English learners provides integrated support and scaffolds for every lesson, plus five days of additional instruction to develop language skills, all enabling ELs to engage with core instruction.

Teacher Experience

Students’ confidence grows when the challenges they face are the right size. Teachers should be given the tools to find the right fit. Journeys is designed to be that tool. 

Simple, flexible instruction allows teachers to shine.

Weekly lesson plans make it easy for teachers to design customized lessons, allowing them to spend more time teaching and less time planning.

A realistic approach to pacing allows teachers to focus on depth and rigor, giving the class more time with each text.

Digital tools, like our Interactive Focus Wall and Teacher eBook, simplify planning and enrich instruction.

Practical, powerful assessments keep teachers informed and students prepared.

A comprehensive assessment system (including weekly tests, benchmark assessments, and unit tests) gives teachers the tools they need to monitor student progress.

The online dashboard gives teachers visibility into the progress of their class, providing the insights they need to develop customized lesson plans.

Tech-enhanced questions like drag-and-drop and multi-select allow students to prepare for high-stakes assessment formats.

Journeys scope and sequences are plans teachers can trust. They provide a pedagogical sequence that’s developmentally appropriate and research-based. That way, as students embark on their literacy journey, a path is being charted for the skills and knowledge they’ll need down the road.

Journeys Scope & Sequence: Grades K-6

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Vocabulary readers, flashcards and in-the-moment digital tools fill classrooms with ways to build vocabulary along every step of the journey

Informational texts let students gain mastery over core academic vocabulary as well as domain-specific knowledge and words

Weekly grammar skill targets, supplemented with daily lessons, support students’ understanding of how English works  

A spelling scope and sequence designed by Shane Templeton builds students’ spelling skills

Deep-dives into text analysis give students the foundation they need to interpret texts from multiple angles and form insights

Student books and digital tools prompt students to mark up and annotate texts, allowing understanding to blossom into written form 

Team projects and class conversations guide students to develop critical listening skills and mastery of group communication

Presentations and collaborative work put students in a position to develop social awareness and speaking skills

Giving students confidence to write their own stories

Award-winning texts. A research-based method. There’s a reason it’s used everywhere: Journeys works.

HMH Professional Services helps teachers and administrators prepare to transition to a new program. As you implement Journeys , our team can partner with yours to make sure you start off on the right foot.

Research & Results

Designed using the science of literacy development.

Using the latest research on what makes literacy instruction effective, Journeys was designed to be a system that reliably turns students into confident readers and writers. An impressive collection of scientific studies shows how well it works.

Journeys outfits aspiring readers and writers with the skills they need to scale the challenges of today’s rigorous assessment demands. Explore the research that shows just how high those students can climb.

Journeys: A Research-Based Approach

Grades K - 5

With a "strong evidence" rating from evidenceforessa.org, Journeys has been proven to simply work . And when students’ futures are at stake, results are what matter.

ESSA Evidence Criteria for Journeys

Overview of how Journeys meets ESSA “STRONG” evidence criteria.

Journeys RCT Gold Standard Study

Journeys field study, journeys multi-year quasi-experimental study.

Grades 3 and 5

Journeys Full-Year Research Study

2016 - 2017

To build Journeys , HMH ® worked with the brightest minds in literacy. Assembling a team of authors and consultants across every key area in the field of literacy, we put together an English language arts program that anticipates teaching needs and equips students to succeed.

Dr. MaryEllen Vogt

Distinguished Professor Emerita, Education, California State University, Long Beach; Journeys Program Consultant

Dr. Martha C. Hougen

National Consultant, Presenter, Researcher, and Author

HMH Author and Associate Director, California Reading & Literature Project at UCLA

Erik Palmer

Program Consultant, Into Reading and Into Literature

Dr. Shane Templeton

Foundation Professor Emeritus, Literacy Studies, University of Nevada, Reno; Into Reading Program Author

Dr. Sheila W. Valencia

Professor, Language, Literacy, and Culture, University of Washington; Journeys Program Consultant

Irene Fountas

Director, Literacy Collaborative, Lesley University; Language Arts consultant; Journeys Special Consultant

News & Events

The program authors behind Journeys want to continue the conversation about literacy instruction. Read what they’ve been thinking and stay up to date with the latest news and scholarship.

The Bad Habits of Good Readers

Carol Jago, HMH author and program consultant, makes the case for the seemingly bad habits avid readers possess. 

November 30, 2017

Reading Is More Than Fundamental

HMH’s Kristi James shares what ideal literacy engagement in an early childhood classroom would look like and how teachers can realize this goal and promote it outside of their classrooms as well.

Dr. Kristi James

November 20, 2017

A Guide to Engaging, Effective Instruction in Phonics, Spelling, and Vocabulary

In advance of the final fall 2017 Leadership Talk, literacy thought leader Dr. Shane Templeton previews his presentation on differentiating word study instruction.

October 20, 2017

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The Journey web app is fully featured. Pick up where you left off, archive old courses, take notes, highlight, and answer questions from any device, even offline!

You can generate a PDF of every Unit, even if you have customized the curriculum. We love our app, but we value options too. Print it out, or use it on your own PDF software.

The original Blue, Green, and Red years of The Journey serve as your starting point when customizing your Journey curriculum in the app.

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The Answer and Life Issues booklets are part of the original curriculum and are not included in this purchase. If you are using the original Blue, Green, or Red, you will want to use these each year as your group becomes more missional. You can purchase them using the links provided.

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Setting up the Journey Web App for your church is easy and free. Upon checkout, you will receive a Church Admin account, a unique Church PIN, and full access to begin customizing your Journey curriculum.

Users are added to your Church’s account by using your Church PIN and paying for a one-year license. Churches should only create one Church Admin account and then share their unique PIN with their congregation.

Church Admin Features

• Unique Church PIN that ties your members to your church
• Full access to customize or write your own curriculum
• Future content and features updates
• Manage users and groups
• APIs to connect your data to your CRM

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Users need to purchase a license.

Go to the Journey Web App ( app.thejourneycurriculum.com ). Add your email, and enter your Church’s PIN to get started!

A one-year User License is $35.

Journey in Print

Are you looking for the original, spiral-bound Journeys? Remember, if you just like paper and pencil you can download and print custom Journeys using The Journey Online . Still want the original Journey? Click the button below.

Note: The original Journey is also available as a PDF in Chinese or Spanish.

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All of our curricula and training models are grounded in family systems thinking. The focus is on the strengths and resiliencies of families, and recognizes the importance of instilling a sense of hope and possibility, even in the face of sometimes severe pathologies and destructive behavior.

Parenting Journey Curricula

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The Parenting Journey Model

Parenting Journey curricula are developed by family systems therapists and counselors. These professionals are trained in counseling techniques and are accustomed to raising more questions than they answer. In practice this means that exercises are developed, questions asked, and comments made, all of which put more emphasis on what the group member is feeling, thinking, and choosing to do rather than imparting information and advice.

The Parenting Journey model digs deeply into people’s personal stories. The group facilitator is both counselor and educator, and he or she establishes a safe atmosphere with supportive limits 
in which parents can express themselves and integrate their emotional experiences with their cognitive understanding. Sharing strategic personal experiences, the group facilitator uses him or herself as a role model for handling emotions and relationships, increasing the sense of commonality that is so important to many parents who may feel isolated. It is this approach that engages all parents without judgment and invites them to explore their own styles and values.

Parenting Journey Facilitator Trainings

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Parenting Journey is currently offering facilitator training for the following curricula:

Parenting Journey I This 12-session, introductory curriculum is designed to help parents increase their self-care practices, raise awareness of past and present factors that influence their parenting styles, enhance their parenting skills, and utilize their strengths to support their children and build nurturing family relationships. This program focuses on adult development and the emotional understanding of their role as a parent, thus filling a void created by traditional parenting classes which often focus on child development and disciplinary techniques.

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Parenting Journey II This 12-session program offers parents an opportunity to utilize the skills and new insights they gained in Parenting Journey I. As the journey continues, parents re-direct their focus away from their past experiences of being parented and begin to examine their lives in the “here and now.” This includes identifying self-sabotaging behavior and proactively setting goals and making plans for themselves and their family’s future. At the end of Parenting Journey II, parents leave with a clear plan that includes the steps necessary to reach their personal goals.

Parenting in America Parenting in America is a 12-session curriculum in which Haitian and Latino parents respectively share their immigration experiences, honor their cultural strengths, and use new strategies to confront the challenges of adapting to life in the United States and raising children in between two cultures. The curriculum addresses such topics as the balance of power in the family; learning to navigate systems and connect with resources that are important to, or can improve, their lives; and staying healthy in a stressful environment.

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Parenting Journey in Recovery This 14-session program is designed to empower parents and caregivers who have a history of addiction and who want to spur confidence and optimism in a successful recovery, improve parenting skills, and set goals for the future. This includes identifying behaviors related to addiction and creating a new path that involves personal recovery, accountability, positive actions, and hard work.

“The Description of Parenting Journey goes beyond words. It’s nurturing, fulfilling, informative, and fun. The facilitators are compassionate and understanding. Parenting Journey is a life changing experience.”

– Gloria Heckstall, Family Advocate, ABCD Roxbury Head Start

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A Gospel-Centered Resource for Discipleship

The Journey is a proven discipleship curriculum that will help you develop mature and equipped followers of Christ .

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The content of The Journey  is based on truths found in the Bible. Each section is rooted in the scriptures and will lead you to study the bible on your own. We believe that a firm understanding and application of the Bible is foundational for every Christian.

The curriculum is built so that you are putting the things that you learn into practice each week. You will develop habits and learn to use tools that will aide in your spiritual walk for years to come. The Journey is also specifically designed so that as you grow you can use it to help others mature as well.

The topics in The Journey are designed to address what is most crucial to the foundational development of a christian. The curriculum is not designed to  simply address knowledge, but to help people take real steps towards applying the Word of God to their lives. As you experience the material The Journey will help you to shape your understanding, motivations, and applications of Biblical truths in many areas of life.

The Journey is structured to give you the necessary tools and skills to effectively share the gospel with others. Throughout the course of study you will have the opportunity to take baby steps towards effectively communicating the gospel with the lost where you live, work, and play.

What is The Journey?

The Journey is a Gospel centered resource for discipleship that is designed to help a disciple maker develop mature and equipped followers of Christ, who will be able to do the same with others.

The material is designed to be used over one year in a discipleship group setting. There are three different years of material identified as Green, Red, and Blue. With a subscription to one year of the curriculum you will have access to a downloadable PDF and other digital resources for one year.

The digital files include a mixed media offering of written, audio, and video materials.

What topics are covered in The Journey?

The topics covered in The Journey have been selected because of their foundational importance in developing a mature and equipped follower of Christ. View an overview of the three years of curriculum here.

How do I get the most out of The Journey?

The Journey was written in a way that requires group members to study each lesson outside of the group time before attending the group. During the group, leaders do not simply go through each question, but they seek to draw out what God has been doing in the lives of the group members as they’ve studied on their own. Remember, the Journey is not discipleship, but it is an incredible tool for life-on-life missional discipleship. The author’s video below will explain in greater detail.

What is life-on-life missional discipleship?

Life-on-life missional discipleship is laboring in the lives of a few with the intention of imparting one’s life, God’s Word and the gospel in such a way as to see them become mature and equipped followers of Christ, committed to doing the same in the lives of others.

How is The Journey structured?

Each weekly unit is structured in a T.E.A.M.S. format, incorporating each of the following elements.  T.E.A.M.S. stands for T ruth, E quipping, A ccountability, M ission and S upplication.

• T ruth – This is the Bible.  God’s word is the foundation for each unit.
• E quipping – Massaging the truth until it becomes understandable and useable.
• A ccountability – Involves the “one anothering” of Scripture.  Both “encouraging one another towards love and good deeds” as well as lovingly confronting sin in one anothers lives to bring about gospel-motivated transformation.
• M ission – Taking on the mission of Jesus to seek and to save the lost in ministries of both word and deed, explaining the gospel and meeting people’s needs.
• S upplication – Praying for each other and with each other; learning how and why we praying while also experiencing the impact of prayer in the world and in our lives.

What is included when I purchase one year of The Journey?

• Digital Download of 28 weekly units each following the T.E.A.M.S. structure.
• Additional messages and materials that will help to address specific issues more deeply
• A practical guide for developing a habit for personal worship
• Suggested verses for your groups scripture memory focus
• Tools to help you clarify and communicate your personal faith Journey
• Missional assignments to move you and your group towards sharing the Gospel
• Weekly resources for leaders to provide equipping as you use the materials

Which color should I start on?

The Journey has been designed so that it can be used in any order (Red/Blue/Green). Most importantly you should be sure you are purchasing the same color as the rest of your discipleship group and/or church. However, the majority of users this year will be using Green. If your group or your church is able to start this year with Green, you will have an enhanced experience by being in a larger community of users focusing on this content this year.

Who should purchase The Answer and Life Issues Books?

Over the course of the year, your Journey group will work to become more missional. The Answer and the Life Issues Books are tools that you will use to help you share your faith with others. We hope that each year, you will have had the opportunity to engage with others over the Gospel with these tools. If that is the case, you will need additional copies next year.

Who wrote The Journey?

The Journey was written by Randy Pope , the founding  pastor of Perimeter Church and Life on Life Ministries.  The Journey is distributed by Life on Life Ministries – to learn more about Life on Life visit the organization’s website here .

A Journey experience leads to:

Personal worship & spiritual maturity.

► Play Chuck’s Story

Connecting Hearts Through Relationships

► Play Kelly’s Story

Foundations For Life’s Trials & Tribulations

► Play George’s Story

To allow you to get a feel for The Journey before making a purchase, we have developed a Sample Pack that will give you a feeling for how each Section and weekly Unit will be. In the Sample Pack, you will get two sample weekly Units, and an overview sheet showing a 3 year overview of the entire curriculum.

Purchase The Journey

Ready to purchase a year of The Journey? Click the button to the right to make your purchase and get access to the PDF and weekly materials. After purchase you will receive an email with links to all your materials.

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Frequently asked questions.

How do I access my materials?

Once you purchase a year of The Journey you will be redirected to a confirmation page that will include your receipt and all of the link necessary to download your curriculum. Additionally, you will receive an email with instructions for downloading your PDF copy. The PDF includes links to all the Unit assignments and leader materials. Your purchase will give you access these materials for one year.

I have used the Journey before. Is the content different?

No, the content of The Journey has stayed the same regardless of design. The layout and aesthetics have been updated. If you have older materials you will be able to use them alongside anyone with newer materials.

Can I purchase multiple copies?

Yes. If you are a small group leader or are purchasing for a church, you can purchase multiple copies to cover the number of people that will be using the material each year. So that we can continue to offer The Journey at an affordable price please pay for each person using the materials.

Why are there multiple designs?

This year we have redesigned the Green Year of The Journey. By late fall of 2017, the design of the Red and Blue years will also be updated. If you purchase the Red or Blue year before then, you will receive The Journey in its classic design. Upon the release of the updated design you will have the option to download newly designed materials. The content in the redesigned materials has not been changed. Only the layout and the aesthetics have been updated. If you continue to use the classic design of The Journey, you will encounter the same truths, but because of the layout the page numbering will be different from other members of your group who are using the updated version.

Can I purchase a physical copy of the material?

We are not currently offering The Journey as a pre-printed material. However, if you are interested in a print option please click here to fill out this form and we will be in touch.

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