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history
Community of Faith Christian Fellowship is
a Christian church meeting in Brighton, a neighborhood in
Boston, Massachusetts. Our desire is to love God, to share
life and to proclaim Jesus.
In January 1998, Sean and Laura Richmond moved
to Boston and began 'scouting out the land' for a specific
location for a Boston church plant in association with Antioch
Ministries International. By May, the Richmonds had decided
on the neighborhood of Brighton. The rest of the team (Jeff
and Dorothy Abshire, Jeff Bianchi, Neil Hubacker, Audrey
Smith Berry and Julie McBrayer) moved to Boston in September,
and together they began to strategically pray. Holding weekly
prayer meetings in team members' homes, the group prayed
over the neighborhood and asked God to move.
By January 1999, Community of Faith Christian
Fellowship was incorporated in Massachusetts. The new church
began its first faithgroups
in February, and, in March 1999, they celebrated their first
public worship service at the Knights of Columbus Hall in
Brighton.
Sunday services moved to Alexander Hamilton
Elementary School in 2000, and then to Thomas Edison Middle
School in Brighton in 2001, as the church had outgrown the
elementary school facilities.
College
faithgroups began in Fall 2002, and in Spring 2003,
the Vine ministry
was established to reach the Boston singles' community.
Community of Faith
Training School (CFTS) was established in 2001 to train
future cell church planters, while equipping them in the
Word of God and stimulating them to grow in Christ-like
character.
Today, CFCF has grown to offer multiple faithgroups
for college students, singles, children and families, and
more than 200 people now attend the celebration
service on Sundays. CFTS has also continued to grow
and now has over 30 enrolled in the training school. Each
year many church members participate in overseas
mission trips, and a new youth ministry is beginning
to emerge.
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