Hope Central Church is a diverse community of hope, learning and growing together in faith, love, and joy. With God's help, we seek to struggle together for God's peace and justice, to explore practices of Christian spirituality, and to serve our neighbors in greater Boston and beyond with open minds, open hands, and open hearts.

Open Minds

• With open minds, Hope reaches out to all of God's children. As an "Open and Affirming" congregation, everyone is welcome regardless of ethnic or racial heritage, gender, ability, sexual orientation, and economic or political status.
• With open minds, Hope reaches out to God with intellectual vitality and integrity, training women, men and children to be a priesthood of all believers. With imagination and curiosity, we seek God's Word and God's gift of a living faith.

Open Hands

• With open hands, Hope reaches out to serve all of God's children who suffer injustice, alienation, and indifference, so that all may live in dignity and comfort.
• With open hands, Hope reaches out to God, participating in God's generosity. Joyfully we seek to rearrange our time, talents, and finances to strengthen God's church, and to help bring about peace and justice in the world.

Open Hearts

• With open hearts, Hope reaches out to all of God's children by celebrating Christ's open invitation to the communion table. At Hope, the Eucharist is celebrated every week, and the open table is a powerful symbol of our deep commitment to Christian hospitality and unity.
• With open hearts, Hope reaches out to God in creative, dynamic, and uplifting worship. Through music and the arts, we seek to find new ways - and recover old ones - of worshiping God through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.