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December 2021
Something New – Community Celebration and Album Concert
Join Caleb McCoy & friends as he performs his album, Render Unto Caesar. Caleb McCoy welcomes you alongside some amazing leaders in the city as we celebrate SOMETHING NEW! A new album, new community initiatives, and new and practical ways to get educated and get involved with restorative work in Boston. There will be a concert, networking and appetizers, and voices from the city who will edify and encourage us to get involved in different areas of civic engagement. This event…
Find out more »Amy Grant & Michael W. Smith Christmas
Multi-platinum, GRAMMY winners Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith will reunite to co-bill their popular Christmas tour this upcoming holiday season. After not being able to celebrate the holiday season last year on the road, they are excited to bring the merriment with Balsam Hill on Saturday, December 4th at the Tsongas Center in Lowell, MA. Get your ticket here: www.tsongascenter.com
Find out more »Color of Compromise Book Study
Join us Monday nights online 7:30-9 pm starting November 1st for a conversation focused on the history and legacy of racial injustice in our nation and the church using Jemar Tisby's Color of Compromise as our guide. As we work to understand the past and share our own experiences and stories we will look for ways we can engage with the work of dismantling our own prejudices and the systems of injustice we find around us.
Find out more »Candlelit Taizé Service of Prayer
Needing a gentle, mid-week pause? Join us for a candle-lit Taizé service of prayer, where we search for communion with God through community prayer, song, and silence. All peoples and faith traditions welcome. Gather with your Cambridge neighbors to pray, sing and find a bit of silence in the midst of all the noise. The Taizé service is music-centric, using contemporary chants with short texts that are sung again and again, inviting individuals to meditate on the texts, deepen into…
Find out more »LCA: IN-SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE
Choosing the right school for your child has never been more important. At LCA, we’re doing things differently — partnering with parents and cultivating the whole person with: Excellent Academics, Complete Commitment to Faith, and Well-rounded Co-Curriculars. Join us for our December In-School Open House and see how we invest in students becoming lifelong learners and faithful leaders.
Find out more »The Ancient Worldview and Creation
What was the worldview of the ancient Hebrew and Christian Scriptures? What can science learn from it? Join a conversation with Dr. John ZuHone, astrophysicist, as he discusses how the creation worldview of ancient Biblical writers and church fathers differs from our own, and what implications this has for current scientists. Seminar, interaction, and small-group discussion. Register HERE.
Find out more »GBH’s A Christmas Celtic Sojourn
In 2021, A Christmas Celtic Sojourn will be both live on-stage and virtual for you to enjoy. Our goal is to be there for you again this holiday season as we reemerge. We will sing together our familiar songs, and as always, introduce new traditional material. Live performances this year are limited, so tickets will be at a premium. We will open on December 14th with two shows at the Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport followed by just five…
Find out more »INVASION
This is a Christmas night of worship and celebration where many greater Boston church will come together to lift up the name of Jesus. There will be worship, dance, spoken word, some of Boston's biggest Christian Hip Hop artists, and pizza party that follows the show. Join us as we celebrate our Lord's humble INVASION into our dark work as a baby in a manger. Get you ticket HERE!
Find out more »A Byzantine Christmas in Somerville
Dormition of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Church will present Psaltikon’s A Byzantine Christmas at the church 7pm Saturday, December 18, 2021. Now in its tenth year, A Byzantine Christmas is the Greek vocal ensemble’s annual holiday and heritage-themed offering of traditional Greek sacred music, kalanda (carols), and readings. St. Catherine’s Philoptochos Society co-sponsors the event. A wine and cheese reception will follow the performance. Internationally-recognized performer and scholar Dr. Spyridon Antonopoulos will lead an ensemble of acclaimed singers and…
Find out more »Black Nativity
Black Nativity, a cherished fifty-one year tradition in Boston, is again offered as a Christmas gift from the city’s black community to all people of “good will.” Produced by the National Center of Afro-American Artists (NCAAA) since 1970, its cast of more than seventy-five children and adults never fails to lift our hearts and spirits as beautiful voices rise in praise and joy. Tens of thousands have seen Black Nativity and have come to love its energetic, gospel music and its dramatic dance. Boston’s Black Nativity,…
Find out more »Ebenezer Scrooge: A Christmas Carol
This December 2021 New Life Fine Arts Musical Theater presents an original musical adaptation "Ebenezer Scrooge: A Christmas Carol" at the Groton Dunstable Performing Arts Center, 344 Main St. Groton, MA. (Use 343 Main St for GPS directions) Eight Performances: December 10-19 Evenings at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 10, 11, 17, 18 Matinees at 2:30 p.m. Dec. 11, 12, 18, 19 Tickets will be available soon so stay tuned for online ordering, more details and special pricing offers. New Life Fine…
Find out more »January 2022
Christmas & New Years Day with the Homeless
Volunteer with others from several Boston Area Churches on Christmas and New Years Day. Join us to feed, clothe, and share the love of Jesus with the homeless this Christmas and New Years morning.
Find out more »“How to start an English Class” workshop for churches and non-profit orgs
We want to see churches and Christian non-profits start English classes here in Boston and beyond. Below, we have communicated our vision for multiplication to your church or ministry, so you can present it to your leadership. INTRODUCTORY TRAINING: WHAT: Boston is a city filled with immigrant neighborhoods. Truly the nations are here!! Over the last three years, Youth With A Mission Boston has pioneered an ESL, but see that the nations can't be reached without multiplication. In our city,…
Find out more »Dwelling Place: Soaking Prayer Gathering
We are living in challenging times, and we need to draw close to the Lord more then ever before. Dwelling Place: Soaking Prayer Gathering will provide an opportunity for you to simply rest in God's presence; allowing Him to fill you with what you need. Join Psalmist, Michael Dottin as he leads this musical journey. Be refreshed, be healed, find hope and peace. The gathering will take place every Second Sunday of the month on YouTube. My soul has become…
Find out more »Trauma Healing Information Session for Leaders
Today’s news is full of trauma - COVID-19, fear of sickness and death; racial tension, protests, and the ongoing struggle for justice; rampant unemployment, the opiod crisis, political division and hostility and so much more. Trauma is any deep wound in the mind and heart. It can affect anyone, and can take a long time to heal. Trauma knows no boundaries of nationality, gender, age, social class, or race. We live in a fallen world and groan inwardly from the…
Find out more »Faithful Friendships: Spiritual Formation in Light of Racial Justice and Equity
Do you long for true relational healing? What does God call us to be and do when there is so much hurt and brokenness? How can we be part of the healing process? Because we live in a fallen world, we are infected and affected by that fallenness both individually and through our institutions. We have all been affected by the sin of discrimination and need relational healing and forgiveness. As followers of Jesus Christ, we are called to love God…
Find out more »English Class
Aprende Inglés! Apprendre l'anglais! Aprenda inglês! Aprann Anglè! अंग्रेजी सीखें 学英语 ENGLISH CLASS - IN PERSON AVAILABLE CLASS LEVELS: BEGINNER OR INTERMEDIATE CLASSES. WHEN: WEDNESDAY NIGHT 7PM COST: $10/CLASS, OR $100 FOR 12 WEEKS. LOCATION: 31 COLLEGE AVE SOMERVILLE, MA 02144 ENGLISH CLASS - ONLINE WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU JOIN OUR ENGLISH CLASS! WHEN: MONDAY EVENINGS AT 5 PM COST: THE COST OF THIS SCHOOL IS FREE, BUT WE ASK THAT YOU WOULD CONSIDER MAKING A $100 DONATION…
Find out more »Monthly Christian Singles Events, 20’s, 30’s & 40’s
From monthly in-person hang-outs...to bi-weekly Zoom game nights & conversations with Christian singles throughout Greater Boston...and other special events, come out and be a part of Christian Single Volunteers - Boston / Single Socials! We have bi-weekly meetups on Zoom on the second & fourth Thursday evenings of each month from 8:00pm-9:30pm. We also have monthly in-person meet-ups where we have fun raising money for local Charities. For more information, click here or email Rebekah at singlesocialsboston@gmail.com
Find out more »A Long Repentance discussion group
This January - February 2022, Mako Nagasawa will be leading a new cohort of discussions in A Long Repentance, about how Christian heresies influence our American racial and political climate, and what we can do about it! People talk about issues of race and justice in the United States as issues of ‘justice and injustice.’ Sometimes we launch into debates about ‘the proper role of government.’ But that is not the original framework from which these issues were asked and…
Find out more »Documentary on the History of Racism in Boston
As a new year begins, many of us are making resolutions, not the least of which include working toward racial healing, justice, and reconciliation in our communities. That said, we can't know how to nurture transformation more effectively until we better understand the history that shapes our racial climate today. You can learn more about Boston's racial history by watching the award-winning documentary, A Reckoning in Boston, on PBS on January 17th, 2022 at 10 pm. This documentary was birthed…
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