Nurturing Relational Connections Across Boston's Christian Community
Our church will be gathering together to help clean up Codman Park. We would love to have others in the area come and join us!
Name of Church/Community Group: Global Ministries Christian Center
Project time:10:00am to 3:00pm
Project Location (Address): 6 Codman Park, Boston, MA
Number of Volunteers You Will Bring (Approximate): 10
Do You Need More Volunteers?: Yes
Name: Bruce Wall
Email: bruce@grace.org
Phone: (617) 282-7794
Our church will be building relationships with our friends who are living on the street. We will go out in pairs to hear the stories of each individual, in hopes that we can better understand the cycle of poverty within the Harvard Square area. When appropriate, we will also share information about resources and programs in the area for food, housing, and jobs, in hopes that we can help our friends to receive all that they need. We eagerly invite other Christians and churches in the Cambridge area to join us in this afternoon!
Name of Church/Community Group: Journey Church
Project Time:1:00 to 3:30pm
Project Location (Address): Meet at 1:00pm in the Journey Church Office, basement of First Church Cambridge, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge. The outreach itself will take place in Harvard Square
Number of Volunteers You Will Bring (Approximate): 10
Do You Need More Volunteers?: Yes
Name: Kelly Steinhaus
Email: kelly@jcboston.org
Phone: (928) 600-3236
We have recently formed this church/school partnership and will be working with the school to clean up the area and paint. Come and serve with us!
Name of Church/Community Group: Symphony Church
Project Location (Address): 40 Armington Street, Allston, MA 02134
Number of Volunteers You Will Bring (Approximate): 50
Do You Need More Volunteers?: No
Name: Shan
Email: shan.gian@gmail.com
Phone: (215) 817-5521
God has already done so much through these 10 Days of Prayer!
UniteBoston seeks to be an answer to Jesus’ prayer in John 17 “that we would be one.” We believe that our part in this “oneness” is to nurture relational connections throughout the diversity of Boston’s Christian community.
At the center of Christian unity is the agape love that God has for us and that we have for one another. As each of us step outside our comfort zones to become more aware of the various cultures and Christian traditions in our city, we develop stronger relational connections, cultivating mutual respect and honor for the incredible diversity within the people of God in Boston.
Check out these testimonies to see all that God is doing to bring together His church in the city:
Day 1: Healing Miracle in Prayer Room
Night 3: Experiencing the Orthodox Faith – Changed Perspectives!
Night 4: Worship with our Deaf Brothers and Sisters
Day 5: Answered Prayer: Testimony from Prayer Room
Night 6: Changing Perspectives from 10 Days Catholic Gathering
Night 7: Photo from Orthodox Gathering
Night 8: Taize Prayer in MIT Chapel
Night 8: Food and Fellowship with the MIT Lutheran/Episcopal Ministry
Night 9: Passionate Worship with Symphony and City Church
Night 10: Embracing our Common Identity in Christ
At this gathering, we each placed our name tags with our individual identities at the foot of the cross, so that we were better able to embrace one another as brothers and sisters in Christ:
Reflection – Aaron’s Story
Aaron shares how listening to a sermon by an Episcopal priest reshaped his perspective of the Christian church
For He himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility… His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. (Ephesians 2:14-16)
Praise God for the inseverable and eternal peace that is revealed as we all gaze at Christ’s sacrificial work on the cross!
Hello friends from UniteBoston!
With 10 Days this year, I really want to encourage you to consider pausing everything in order to seek Jesus.
Now, I know that is a tall order, with everything we have going on in our lives. But as UniteBoston, we really have to take the lead in this. Seriously, let’s make it a priority to clear our calendars and seek God together!
How would God respond if a city sought Him in this way? And how would God respond to you if you took up that invitation?
One of the things that I know about Jesus is that He responds to whatever part of my heart that I give to him. He is worthy of us devoting our whole schedules and our entire lives to Him.
The question is: How does God want you to spend these ten days?
Here are some ideas:
Every year I hear people say how they wished they could have attended other evenings, and how next year they want to participate more fully. So, today is the day, the time is now!
May God’s peace be upon our city as we seek Him,
Kelly Steinhaus
UniteBoston Team Leader
