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Mar 11 2025

Gala For Life

Join us for an inspiring evening at the Boston Center for Pregnancy Choices Annual Gala, our premier fundraising event dedicated to supporting life-affirming services for women and families in our community. This special night will bring together donors, advocates, and community leaders to celebrate the impact of pregnancy counseling, parenting education, material assistance, and post-abortion healing programs.

We are honored to welcome Terry Beatley as our guest speaker. Terry is the founder and president of the Hosea Initiative, a passionate pro-life speaker, and the author of What If We’ve Been Wrong?, which shares the powerful conversion story of Dr. Bernard Nathanson—a former abortion industry leader turned pro-life advocate. Through her work, she educates and inspires audiences to uphold the dignity of life and carry forward Dr. Nathanson’s message of truth and healing.

The evening will feature a beautiful dinner, powerful testimonies, and opportunities to partner with us in making a lasting impact. Your presence and support help sustain the vital work of BCPC in offering hope, help, and life-affirming choices to those in need.

✨ Early Bird Special: Register before April 16th to receive a discounted rate of $100 per ticket!

We look forward to celebrating with you!

#LifeIsSacred #DignityOfLife #CreatedWithPurpose #PostAbortionHealing #ChooseLife #StudentsForLife

Written by Andrew Walker · Tagged: fruits of the spirit, fundraising, gathering, god in my city, godinthebrokenness, healing, love thy neighbor, ministry

Oct 23 2023

Sundance Award Winning Documentary BEYOND UTOPIA

Sundance audience award-winning BEYOND UTOPIA is a powerful documentary of a South Korean pastor working with an underground network to help defectors escape from the horrific regime in North Korea. Made up primarily of first-hand iPhone footage, the film follows two families as they make the treacherous journey to freedom. Watch the trailer  here.

The film is screening next Monday and Tuesday, October 23-24 at theaters throughout greater Boston. Our prayer is that as many people would not only watch the film, but see it with their faith groups and friends to be able to process and respond together. To that end, we have created a FREE Faith Discussion Guide for everyone.

Please go to the Fathom website to watch the trailer and to buy tickets for this special two-day only event!

Written by Andrew Walker · Tagged: @justiceboston, godinthebrokenness, helping that helps, jesusatwork, missions, persecuted

Dec 10 2019

Lessons & Carols

Come enjoy this festival service in which we together anticipate the birth of our Savior. The Christmas story is told through nine Scripture lessons, and is accompanied by beautiful choral and classical music, led by the Choir of Christ Redeemer and the Seraphim Choir. A reception will follow in the parish hall.

Written by Andrew Walker · Tagged: advent, candle, Christmas, godinthebrokenness, jesusshines

Oct 21 2019

Greening Your Parish: Answering the Cry of the Earth, the Cry of the Poor

Find out how to promote the principles of Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si’ in the your parish.

Keynote: Words Matter: Communicating Climate Change to Save Our Common Home.(John Anderson, Former Director of Education at New England Aquarium)

Breakout sessions on:  forming Creation Care Teams, praying in the spirit of Laudato Si’, energy efficiency and solar for parish and home, politics and policy for clean energy and environmental justice.

Learn about the Faith Science Alliance (started by Cardinal O’Malley), and the Global Catholic Climate Movement , which mobilizes Catholics around the world

Sponsored by the Boston Catholic Climate Movement.  For more information and for free registration: https://tinyurl.com/greening-19-register

Written by Andrew Walker · Tagged: archdiocese of boston, boston, catholic, christian witness, community, ecumenical, faith, godinthebrokenness, jesusatwork, Life Together, pope francis

Aug 01 2014

Crossroads of Peace in Boston’s Back Bay

For the past five months, the UniteBoston Reps have been engaging in various activities to listen and learn from their communities. These past four weeks, each rep will be writing a brief blog to share their findings with the Greater Boston Christian community. This week, Andrew Walker, UB Rep in the Back Bay, shares his insights.

We dream of having every community in Boston connected with a UB Rep! UB Rep Cohorts begin in October and finish in May. If you’re interested in being a UB Rep in your community, email Kelly Steinhaus, kelly@uniteboston.com

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When I think of Back Bay, two symbols come to mind that help me capture the character of this neighborhood: a pen and a wagon wheel. The pen represents learning and the pursuits that require a high level of literacy. Most of the activities that are evident in the Back Bay, from commerce to the various trades and occupations require learning and literacy as basic preconditions.

The wagon wheel brings to mind travel; and the Back Bay is certainly a hub of travel with Back Bay Station serving as a major gateway bringing people into the city and sending them to destinations within the region and beyond. Numerous hotels and restaurants provide hospitality for these travelers as well as those calling this home. And a healthy selection of shops along Boylston and Newbury Street attract shoppers from near and far.

For the most part, the resident population in Back Bay are those who can afford the high real estate prices, which consists of people with professional or highly technical training who hold jobs in the near vicinity. Among them are many families, as well as many with no close family ties.

The churches in the Back Bay are mostly examples of “traditional mainstream” denominations. Their congregations draw from the immediate neighborhoods, but also among them are some who come from surrounding schools as well some who commute to church, just as they commute to work sites in the Back Bay. But there are also a few more recent church planting efforts. The CityLife Presbyterian Church and Renewal Church are two examples of growing fellowships whose leaders speak with great excitement about praying and working for renewal in the city guided by the Spirit of Christ. They seem to be reaching mostly students and young working folks.

So one might gain an impression of the Back Bay being a crossroads offering comfortable domesticity as well as lively commercial and entertainment activity. But there is also in the Back Bay a confrontation with a less comfortable contrast: In 2013 the celebration of cosmopolitan expansiveness that is so much a part of the Boston Marathon and so appropriate to the character of the Back Bay was shattered by the explosion of two bombs. We witnessed and marveled at heroic interventions by so many first responders. In the following weeks admirable efforts were launched in aid of the casualties and their families. All of Boston’s citizens rightly drew encouragement from these acts and efforts. And then, four months later a young man was shot to death on Boylston Str., just across from Trinity Church. This event was not completely over looked by local media, but it got nowhere near the attention of the Marathon Bombing. That young man’s mother has asked us to consider, was the loss of her son any less tragic? Similarly, leaders in other Boston neighborhoods have asked us to consider, of the more than 300 shootings in other parts of the city, over the past ten years, are they any less tragic that they are deserving of so much less attention?

As I consider the question that we are all addressing, what’s God doing among us, this contrast weighs heavily on my heart. But I am not without encouragement.

At First Lutheran Church in Boston, my home congregation on Berkeley Street, I was invited this spring to present 3 sessions of instruction in Biblical Peacemaking during Sunday Morning Adult Bible study. I was pleasantly surprised at how well received it was. Three sessions grew into five sessions and there were more participants at the last session than at the first. I was especially delighted to observe that the sessions included allot of discussion and many thoughtful and penetrative questions were raised and debated. Perhaps most encouraging was the readiness of participants to consider the consequences of avoidance of difficult questions; how the patterns of avoidance hinder discussion when important issues like budget need to be addressed.

Participants in the congregation at First Lutheran are in many ways similar to the folks in the immediate neighborhood. Some are families, some are single, many are students. And we are blessed by much cultural diversity. Career interests are similar. Economic goals are similar. So I don’t consider it too much of a stretch of imagination to suppose that the thoughtful interest in Biblical Peacemaking I was surprised by at First Lutheran might imply that a similar interest exists in the larger community.

God is working among us and we’ll see the benefits when we listen to Him and to one another.

Written by jasonjclement · Categorized: Blog · Tagged: back bay, boston marathon, community exeg, community transformation, godinthebrokenness, jesus in the city, newbury street, peace, peacemaking, shalom, testimony, uniteboston


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