The River of Life Christian Church in New York joined the River of Life family in May 2001, and follows the vision of the mother church - through praise and worship, Holy Spirit renewal, cell church, and glocal impact to build a glorious church. Under the leadership of Pastor Ruth Lin, the church has experienced stable growth. In addition to ministries in Mandarin, English, youth and children pastoral zones, the church also has a community service center, mission center, and church building ministry. 

The Mission department, under the leadership of the Holy Spirit, has plans to expand various mission work and short-term mission areas. They even hope to bring the gospel to the unreached minority peoples. The church also places great importance on the outreach to care for the community and proactively promotes community service. They regularly host various community seminars to serve the Chinese community, especially for the new immigrants, to help them solve work, school life, legal, health and fitness, family and human relations issues, and through these to introduce them to the gospel. In 2019, the church building ministry was successfully completed under the leadership of God, and in December of the same year, Pastor Tong presided over the new church thanksgiving dedication ceremony. After more than two years of the global epidemic, the various ministries of the church have been protected by God. Not only the BOOK & CAFE plan was restarted in July 2021, but also the after-school counseling ministry was started. The vision of the church in 2024 is to equip the saints to enter abundance. The church vision for 2025 is to exalt Christ and expand the Kingdom of God. The church discovered that most of the Chinese who came to the United States were engaged in the "service industry" and that the brothers and sisters' weekend was mostly on Monday. Therefore, the church began "Monday Worship" in the hope of expanding the scope of the church's services.