The Thriving Initiative is a 3-year pastor and laity driven program designed to help us reflect and build on who we are, where we are and what our current context is asking of our ministry.
4 KEY AIMS
1 Provide support and resources that will help a cohort of Black churches in Boston get perspective on their mission and operations and transition into their next phase of ministry
2 Convene an action-oriented learning community that will help partnering churches effectively navigate Boston’s changing social and cultural landscapes and work together to develop ministry practices that are more deeply rooted in the needs of Boston’s Black community
3 Share our stories so other Black churches in the city can learn from them
4 Help the entire Black Church ecosystem in Greater Boston to thrive
Thriving Congregations
Apostolic Church LAWNA, Dorchester
Pastor Bisi Asere
Free Pentecostal Church of God, Dorchester
Pastor Jean Louis
Grant African Methodist Episcopal Church, Roxbury
Rev. Pedro Castor, Jr.
Greater Love Tabernacle Church, Dorchester
Bishop William E. Dickerson, II
Haitian Church of the Nazarene- Friends of the Humble, Mattapan
Rev. Dr. Zephir Pierre- Louis
Mount of Olives Evangelical Baptist Church, Hyde Park
Rev. Dr. Joel Piton
New Hope Baptist Church, Hyde Park
Rev. Kenneth Simms
Second Church in Dorchester, Dorchester
Rev. Dr. Victor Price
Southern Baptist Church, Roxbury
Rev. James M. Harrison, Jr.
Twelfth Baptist Church, Roxbury
Rev. Willie Bodrick, II
“We can sit down and identify all the different problems and say that there are no solutions to these problems and be content with that, or, we can say, it might look impossible but if we put our heads together we can come up with some solutions.”
Pastor James Harrison at home in the Spirit, R9 Foto