Boston
Overview Video
From the Boston CP Center site, this 15-minute video features Joe Souza and more than a dozen church planters who are taking Boston back for the Gospel.
Church Planter Links
- Joe Souza church planter and NAMB / BCNE Church planting strategist
- Boston CP Center (videos with 12 different Boston church planters)
- Redemption Hill Church (Tanner Turley)
- Mosaic Church Boston (Jan Vezikov)
Quick Facts
Population: 6.4 million
Founded: 1630
Neighborhoods: Allston/Brighton, Back Bay, Bay Village, Beacon Hill, Charlestown, Chinatown/Leather District, Dorchester, Downtown/Financial District, East Boston, Fenway/Kenmore, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Mattapan, Mission Hill, North End, Roslindale, Roxbury, South Boston, South End, West End, and West Roxbury
Landmarks: New State House, Paul Revere House, Bunker Hill Monument, Beacon Hill, Boston Tea Party Ship & Museum, New England Holocaust Memorial, Boston African American National Historic Site, Old North Church, Old South Church in Boston, PRO SPORTS: Red Sox, Celtics, Patriots, Bruins, Revolution
Notable Colleges: Harvard, Northeastern, Boston College, MIT, Tufts University, Boston University, University of Massachusetts
Overview
Boston is the capital of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. It is the unofficial capital of and largest city in New England. Boston is one of the oldest and most culturally significant cities in the United States. Its economy is based on higher education, research, health care, finance, and technology, principally biotechnology. Groups like the Irish and Italians moved into the city in the 1820s and brought with them Roman Catholicism. (This trend of immigration continued throughout the 1800s - most famously when the Potato Famine hit Ireland.) Currently, Catholics make up Boston's largest religious community. Its nickname “The City on a Hill” came from original Massachusetts Bay Colony's governor John Winthrop's goal to create the biblical "City on a Hill."