John's Journey 1 Mile Walk/5k

Event Start Time: 8:30 AM 
Run/Walk Start Time: 9:30 AM
Event Concludes: 12:00 PM

John’s Journey is back for year three, and this year feels especially meaningful.

John is now two years out from his heart transplant, and we are incredibly grateful to share that he is doing great. He is growing stronger, living life, and continuing to remind everyone around him what courage, resilience, and hope can look like.

When John’s Journey first began, it was rooted in gratitude. Gratitude for the doctors, nurses, therapists, specialists, family, friends, and community who carried us through the hardest season of our lives. What started as a way to give back has grown into something bigger than we ever imagined.

Over the past two years, because of our sponsors, supporters, walkers, runners, volunteers, family, friends, and local businesses, John’s Journey has helped donate more than $20,000 to support children awaiting transplant at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. And last year, it gave us the opportunity to use a portion of the donations to support a local family facing their own challenging medical journey.

That impact matters.

That is what John’s Journey is really about.

It is about taking the love, prayers, meals, messages, generosity, and support that were poured into our family and passing them forward. It is about showing another family that they are not alone. It is about turning gratitude into action.

As we prepare for the third annual John’s Journey 1 Mile Walk / 5K, we are asking our community to join us again.

Whether you register, donate, sponsor, volunteer, or simply share the event, you are helping continue a mission that has already made a real difference.

Thank you to every sponsor who has stood behind this event. Thank you to every person who has walked, run, donated, prayed, shared, or encouraged us. And thank you for helping make John’s Journey something far bigger than one family’s story.

John is doing great.  

Our gratitude is deep.  

And the journey continues.

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