Ecclesia Ministries - common cathedral

City Reach this weekend April 5-6!
The CityReach staff is looking forward to welcoming youth and their leaders from 5 local churches for an overnight experience. (registration is closed)

Warm Clothes will be available tomorrow morning April 6th 9-12
If you or you know anyone in need of warm clothes join us!

Hello Friends! Come and join the common cathedral Team this Sunday for Winter Walk 2024! Walk with us in person or virtually, and know that as always your support matters to us and making your donation here will make a difference!

Winter Walk 2024 - Boston We are raising awareness and funds toward an end to homelessness in Greater Boston. Please join us, donate, and learn more!

It was a cold afternoon on the common for lunch and worship, but for those who gathered we were able to receive the abundant hospitality of the Church of the Advent from Medfield, with bags of sandwiches and snacks, warm hats and gloves too. We were also inspired by many prayers offered and the joy of hearing Richard preach!

Hello Friends, it's time for the annual Winter Walk. This is an amazing organization that supports common cathedral as well as many other service providers working to end homelessness in Boston. Please join our team on February 11th to help us meet our fund raising goal. Click on the link below to register and join our team. Every dollar helps to end homelessness in our city.

Winter Walk 2024 - Boston Winter Walk 2024 is our 8th annual event raising awareness and funds toward an end to homelessness in Greater Boston.

As the first Common Art of the month we celebrated this month’s birthdays with cupcakes! 🎉 We had a mosaic workshop as we do every first and third Wednesday of the month. This week the focus was mosaic holiday ornaments. We also continued working with dried flower arrangements. Finally we said goodbye to our two Fall semester interns Charlotte and Sam. Reverend Tamar wore her blinged collar today😸

This weekly art program offers space, art materials, and supportive relationships to encourage individuals experiencing homelessness and poverty to learn, engage, and connect in community. common art promotes access to the arts by providing opportunities and resources that facilitate creative expression.

This collaborative initiative of churches across the city provides a place of warmth and welcome during the day for Boston’s homeless population. Hosted at Emmanuel Church on Newbury Street, the Boston Warm day shelter provides respite, rest, and recreation as well as a safe place to store belongings for people in search of jobs and apartments. Volunteers help by preparing lunches to be delivered to the day shelter.

WAYS TO HELP:
We are requesting support in making and dropping off pre-made sandwiches.

To donate food sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0c4aafa829aaf94-common

A little music this past Sunday service 😊

CityReach is an overnight urban outreach program begun in March 1996 for youth (with accompanying adults), young adults, and college students from churches of any denomination. The program gives these young people the opportunity to learn first hand about homelessness from people who have experienced it. During the 20 hour session, participants join CityReach staff in street ministry and offer hospitality, food and clothing. This is followed by times of sharing and reflection.

The program starts on Friday evening and ends on the following Saturday afternoon. Participants arrive at 7 p.m. Friday night, and are addressed by staff who are experiencing, or have experienced, homelessness. They walk through the city guided by members of common cathedral and end the evening with a simple worship service. Participants sleep at a local church. On Saturday morning participants offer clothing that they have collected and a simple meal to unhoused guests who come to "shop" for clothing from among the donated items. Participants form teams for street outreach, taking sandwiches and clothes to people at South Station, Copley Square, Boston's waterfront and other sites. All then eat lunch and reflect together about their experiences in light of the Gospel, write a prayer, and talk about next steps for them personally and/or as a group. Housed participants prepare to present their experiences to their home congregations.

2023 - 2024 Dates

November 17th - 18th, 2023 [REGISTRATION CLOSED]
December 1st - 2nd, 2023 [REGISTRATION CLOSED]
January 12th - 13th, 2024
January 26th - 27th, 2024
February 23rd - 24th, 2024
March 15th - 16th, 2024
April 5th - 6th, 2024
May 10th - 11th, 2024

Can We Talk is a monthly program which offers a consistent, structured opportunity for our community to receive peer-to-peer encouragement along their journey towards healing.
Staff and community trained and equipped to facilitate and provide creative opportunities of expression engage a diverse group of active community member participants. Our goal is to engage with each person and to utilize methods of trauma-informed care through storytelling to empower our community for impactful positive change.

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Hope to see you there!

This past Common Art we had a portrait drawing workshop. made star earrings and will be selling them at the craft fair this Saturday at the Old South Church along with other community members art. A post will be made with more information about that. We look forward to seeing you there! We also had a table making art with dried flowers.

This weekly art program offers space, art materials, and supportive relationships to encourage individuals experiencing homelessness and poverty to learn, engage, and connect in community. common art promotes access to the arts by providing opportunities and resources that facilitate creative expression.

This past Boston Warm we made a new sign! We had oatmeal with cinnamon and apples

This collaborative initiative of churches across the city provides a place of warmth and welcome during the day for Boston’s homeless population. Hosted at Emmanuel Church on Newbury Street, the Boston Warm day shelter provides respite, rest, and recreation as well as a safe place to store belongings for people in search of jobs and apartments. Volunteers help by preparing lunches to be delivered to the day shelter.

WAYS TO HELP:
We are requesting support in making and dropping off pre-made sandwiches.

To donate food sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0c4aafa829aaf94-common

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What great sunny weather we had this past Sunday service!

CityReach is an overnight urban outreach program begun in March 1996 for youth (with accompanying adults), young adults, and college students from churches of any denomination. The program gives these young people the opportunity to learn first hand about homelessness from people who have experienced it. During the 20 hour session, participants join CityReach staff in street ministry and offer hospitality, food and clothing. This is followed by times of sharing and reflection.

The program starts on Friday evening and ends on the following Saturday afternoon. Participants arrive at 7 p.m. Friday night, and are addressed by staff who are experiencing, or have experienced, homelessness. They walk through the city guided by members of common cathedral and end the evening with a simple worship service. Participants sleep at a local church. On Saturday morning participants offer clothing that they have collected and a simple meal to unhoused guests who come to "shop" for clothing from among the donated items. Participants form teams for street outreach, taking sandwiches and clothes to people at South Station, Copley Square, Boston's waterfront and other sites. All then eat lunch and reflect together about their experiences in light of the Gospel, write a prayer, and talk about next steps for them personally and/or as a group. Housed participants prepare to present their experiences to their home congregations.

2023 - 2024 Dates

November 17th - 18th, 2023 [REGISTRATION CLOSED]
December 1st - 2nd, 2023 [REGISTRATION CLOSED]
January 12th - 13th, 2024
January 26th - 27th, 2024
February 23rd - 24th, 2024
March 15th - 16th, 2024
April 5th - 6th, 2024
May 10th - 11th, 2024

Help us dismantle the stigmas surrounding homelessness!
A gift to the Winter Walk goes directly toward expanding our reach and sharing more stories as we all have so much to learn from those who are experiencing homelessness themselves.
A gift could go toward a stipend for a community member to speak with youth, community groups, or companies as the work they are doing should always be fairly compensated.
Winterwalk.org

What eventful and bittersweet Common Art. This past Wednesday we celebrated our beloved community member Sierra. She will be leaving our community but is continuing to serve the unhoused community. We had cupcakes and invited community members to share affirmations about Sierra as we bid her farewell. We also had a water color and black out poetry workshop. You will be missed Sierra!

As the first Wednesday of the month we celebrated October birthdays with cupcakes from
Delicious as always!

Our volunteers led a paint-along and black out poetry sessions. We will be doing more peer led workshops in the future!

This weekly art program offers space, art materials, and supportive relationships to encourage individuals experiencing homelessness and poverty to learn, engage, and connect in community. common art promotes access to the arts by providing opportunities and resources that facilitate creative expression.

This collaborative initiative of churches across the city provides a place of warmth and welcome during the day for Boston’s homeless population. Hosted at Emmanuel Church on Newbury Street, the Boston Warm day shelter provides respite, rest, and recreation as well as a safe place to store belongings for people in search of jobs and apartments. Volunteers help by preparing lunches to be delivered to the day shelter.

WAYS TO HELP:
We are requesting support in making and dropping off pre-made sandwiches.

To donate food sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0c4aafa829aaf94-common

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This past Monday we had Pie, blueberry loaf and Mac n cheese for lunch. We were so grateful for for stopping by and sharing some delicious food!

We provided provide warm clothes for the upcoming cold weather and are always grateful for donations.

This collaborative initiative of churches across the city provides a place of warmth and welcome during the day for Boston’s homeless population. Hosted at Emmanuel Church on Newbury Street, the Boston Warm day shelter provides respite, rest, and recreation as well as a safe place to store belongings for people in search of jobs and apartments. Volunteers help by preparing lunches to be delivered to the day shelter.

WAYS TO HELP:
We are requesting support in making and dropping off pre-made sandwiches.

To donate food sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0c4aafa829aaf94-common

Our Visiting group this week was from Christ church in Andover.
Richie led the reflection for us. The weather was cool and we had some rain so service was held under the portico of Cathedral Church of St Paul.

This week we painted pumpkins! Don’t worry about missing out, we will be doing more again next week. Have a happy Halloween 🎃 👻

This weekly art program offers space, art materials, and supportive relationships to encourage individuals experiencing homelessness and poverty to learn, engage, and connect in community. common art promotes access to the arts by providing opportunities and resources that facilitate creative expression. We start every program off with a brief service.

This past Monday we had Pie and sandwiches to eat. We also provided hand warmers and hats for the upcoming weather.

This collaborative initiative of churches across the city provides a place of warmth and welcome during the day for Boston’s homeless population. Hosted at Emmanuel Church on Newbury Street, the Boston Warm day shelter provides respite, rest, and recreation as well as a safe place to store belongings for people in search of jobs and apartments. Volunteers help by preparing lunches to be delivered to the day shelter.

WAYS TO HELP:
We are requesting support in making and dropping off pre-made sandwiches.

To donate food sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0c4aafa829aaf94-common

This week we were joined by the Old South Church

Contact Sierra at [email protected] or use the Contact Us page to plan a Sunday visit.

This week we continued to start our day with the universal Peace Prayer. Some of us were inspired by the fall weather. Next week join us for painting pumpkins! 🎃

This weekly art program offers space, art materials, and supportive relationships to encourage individuals experiencing homelessness and poverty to learn, engage, and connect in community. common art promotes access to the arts by providing opportunities and resources that facilitate creative expression.

Monday Boston Warm is back!

This collaborative initiative of churches across the city provides a place of warmth and welcome during the day for Boston’s homeless population. Hosted at Emmanuel Church on Newbury Street, the Boston Warm day shelter provides respite, rest, and recreation as well as a consistent place to meet with case workers who aid in the search of jobs and apartments. Volunteers help by preparing lunches to be delivered to the day shelter.

WAYS TO HELP:
We are requesting support in making and dropping off pre-made sandwiches.

To donate food sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0c4aafa829aaf94-common