Hope Central Church - Boston, MA

Hope Central Church is a dynamic, spirited, progressive, inclusive Christian faith community that strives to live deeply into God's peace and justice, and reaches out to Boston and the world with "open minds, open hands, and open hearts."

We invite you to join us. You just might find a place to practice your spirituality, a church that will encourage you to explore the beauty and poetry of the Christian tradition, and a community working together for justice and peace.

An intentionally, radically welcoming congregation, Hope Central begins every church service with these words:

Welcome to all who have no church home, need strength, want to follow Christ, have doubts, or do not believe.

Welcome to new visitors and to old friends. Welcome to grandparents, to mothers, fathers, and single people. Welcome to people of all colors, cultures, abilities, and sexual orientations, to old and young, to believers and questioners - and welcome to questioning believers.

Welcome to everyone... we are all invited to live into God's love, peace, and justice.

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Sundays 10:30 and 5:30

You are warmly invited to join us for worship, any Sunday at 10:30 a.m. or 5:30 p.m. Read more here about what to expect when you visit. For children we offer church school during the 10:30 service and child care during the 5:30 service.

Hope Church and Central Congregational Church merged earlier this year to form Hope Central Church.

You can find us at 85-87 Seaverns Ave. in Jamaica Plain (just a 2-minute walk from the T, Orange Line, Green St. station).

Here's an article on our merger from the JP Gazette.

Sundays at Hope Central

Join us for church, every Sunday at 10:30 a.m. or 5:30 p.m. This coming Sunday 9/5, we'll have our main service at 10:30 a.m., and it will be "Joke Sunday."  At 5:30 p.m., we'll have a small lay-led service led by Jeanne Lucas, John Brock, and Vanessa Morris. Also coming up:  special Cape Verdean music at the 10:30 service on 9/12, and our "Rally Sunday" on 9/19.

Tuesday night 8/31: Book group

Our book group will meet for dinner and discussion on 8/31 at 6 p.m. in Keltie Chapel. Please bring a dish to share. A discussion of Barbara Brown Taylor's An Altar in the World will follow.

New pastor: Rev. Laura Ruth Jarrett

Hope Central Church welcomes Rev. Laura Ruth Jarrett as pastor. Find out about her on this page, read her weekly sermons online.and come to her "office hours" at J.P. Licks, any Thursday (starting 9/9) between 4:30 and 6:00 p.m.

Worship participation

Worship at Hope Central Church is special for many in part because of the organic way the community participates in creating it and so you too are invited to sign up and join in creating worship. Your involvement will be a gift to all.You can read more about the various participation roles and even sign up online.