Wherever you are on your spiritual journey, you are welcome at Emmanuel Church. No, really! Christians, Buddhists, Jews, agnostics, atheists, and label-avoiding seekers are among those who call Emmanuel home. For more than forty years we have engaged in a unique collaboration with the artists of Emmanuel Music, Inc.. And for the past five years, our deepening partnership with Central Reform Temple has transformed our two congregations into a kind of interfaith family.
Our building at 15 Newbury Street is home to an array of arts organizations, as well as a wide variety of programs that support people on the margins of society. We are proud to host the following organizations:
- AA and other 12-Step meetings
- Artists-in-Residence: Sara Peattie, puppeteer & Ted Southwick, woodcarver
- Back Alley Puppet Theater & Free Lending Library
- Back Bay Chorale: weekly rehearsals
- Boston Benevolent Chiropractic Clinic: serving people who are homeless or marginally housed
- Boston Gay Men’s Chorus: weekly rehearsals
- Boston Early Music Festival
- Calliope: weekly rehearsals
- Central Reform Temple (formerly Boston Jewish Spirit)
- Ecclesia Ministries (Boston Warm & Common Art)
- Emmanuel Music
- Ethos: weekly luncheon for LGBT seniors
- New England Watercolor Society gallery
- Safe Haven, a transitional shelter for women
- Spring of Boston Presbyterian Mission