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Bridging Divides Across Christians for the Flourishing of the City

Gordon Conwell’s East Asian Christianity Conference

In recent decades, Christianity has witnessed meaningful expansion across East Asia, thoughtfully navigating persecution, cultural integration, and interreligious dialogue. The East Asian Christianity Conference aims to harness these experiences, offering a platform for comparative research and practical application in church ministry and mission.

Through this collaborative endeavor, prominent scholars from the East and West, church leaders, and front-line missionaries along with students and faculty from the Boston Theological Interreligious Consortium (BTI), will engage in critical discussions about Christianity’s place and promise in East Asia. The reimagination of Christian outreach and leadership will be informed by both academic research and practical ministry experiences. The conference will also include times of corporate worship and prayer.

The Gordon-Conwell East Asian Christianity Conference is sponsored by the Dao Feng & Angela Foundation and is pleased to partner with BTI, IMEC, and the Orlando Costas Consultation.

ReNEWed: An Afternoon of Worship and Renewal

Join us for an afternoon dedicated to renewing our relationship with God. “ReNEWed” is a time to reconnect, reflect, and refocus our hearts on his love and grace. ReNEWed will be a time of worship, prayer, and fellowship, to reflect and refocus our hearts.

Come experience a meaningful time of encouragement and leave feeling refreshed and renewed.

Route One Ministry – Boston Prayer Walk

Route One Ministry needs you!

Route One believes every woman has inherent value, and exploitation of any type is wrong, oppressive, and needs to be abolished. We believe that each woman is the expert on her journey; our role is to listen and navigate the road together. Each week our outreach teams in Springfield and Worcester reach 40 exploited women by entering strip clubs and building relationships with the women who work there.  And we are looking to start a team right here in Boston!

We will be launching our Boston Prayer Walk Team in March!

What is a Prayer Walk, you ask? Well, we here at Route One believe that prayer is powerful!  Before we step foot into a club, we cover the club, the dancers, and ourselves in prayer for months as we prepare for entry and spiritual battle.  You can play a vital part in this battle!

We need volunteers to come beside us the first three Mondays of every month as we take this step in faith.  Women and men can both partake in the Prayer Walk; but please keep in mind, only women can choose to continue once we are inside the club(s).  Starting March 3rd, we will meet in the lobby of 131 Dartmouth Street in Boston.  We will open the night with prayer and a short devotional before taking the train two stops over to Chinatown.  From there, we will pray in a group before we walk past the clubs and after we walk past – and silently to ourselves as we walk past.

I would love to touch base with anyone who has any questions via phone, Zoom, or even over coffee!  If you are a pastor or leader within your church, we are also willing to come and speak briefly to your congregation during or after church!

Debbie Caraballo – Director of Outreach (debbie@lovedbyrouteone.org)

Creatio ex Amore and the Mission of the Church Now

The St. Paul Center for Theology and Prayer announces an upcoming special event:

Creatio ex Amore and the Mission of the Church Now –  An online seminar with Bishop Dr. Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, Moderator of the World Council of Churches.

In this time of climate crisis, what difference does our faith make? How does our understanding of God, and the meaning of God’s creating work, ground and equip us to pray, serve, and act in this time? This seminar will deepen our capacity to preach and teach our claim that “God creates out of love,” and enliven us for working with our faith communities for God’s purposes.

Registrants may choose to explore advance readings, given below. They will also be invited to a follow-up conversation (on Saturday 25th January, 9-11am ET) hosted by the Rev. Dr. Kapya Kaoma, Rector of Christ Church, Waltham, author and theologian, expanding our grounding in this topic with wisdom from African Christian theology of creation.

This is an online only event, which will be hosted on Zoom. Full details, and the link to sign up to attend, can be found here: https://www.stpaulboston.org/bedford-strohm-event


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