Hartford Street Presbyterian Church

weekly groups and gatherings

Youth Group

Our young people, from 7th to 12th grade, meet on Zoom for fellowship, fun and faith discussions, guided by two youthful adults from our congregation.

We are hiring a Youth Coordinator!

Hartford Street Presbyterian Church and Shekinah Presbiteriana seek a motivated, fun-loving, and spiritual individual to serve as youth coordinator. This person shall at minimum have primary responsibility for leading the combined youth group of the two congregations, with support from the pastor and Christian Education committee.

Responsibilities include:

• Planning and leading a weekly 1-hour meeting of the youth group.

• Assist in organizing and developing program support for a minimum of two mission events for the youth group. Examples of past mission work by the youth are an overnight at City Reach/Cathedral on the Common, participating in the 30-hour Famine, participating in the Walk for Hunger, volunteering at A Place to Turn, and work camp trips.

• Meet weekly with HSPC’s pastor and as needed with Shekinah’s pastor.

• Report quarterly to the Christian Education committee.

• Draft an annual report to be submitted to Boston Presbytery.

• Attend worship at least once a month at both HSPC and Shekinah.

Requirements and expectations:

• An ongoing, active faith practice in the Reformed Protestant tradition.

• Ability to work 10 hours a week. The required worship attendance once a month can be included as hours worked. For extended mission events such as a work camp, the youth coordinator will be expected to participate fully but will not be expected to work a full slate of hours that month outside of of the mission trip. HSPC will cover any mission-related costs expected to be paid by the Youth Coordinator.

• A love of working with youth aged 13 to 18.

• Must be over 18 and must pass a background check.

• Must have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19

• Must possess strong written and oral communications skills.

• Proven ability to plan and lead age-appropriate, Biblically-driven youth meetings.

• Proven ability to coordinate with adult volunteers for support.

• A valid driver’s license and a working vehicle.

• The ideal candidate will have been previously active in youth ministry in some capacity. An interest in continuing on in youth ministry also a plus.

• Experience as a counselor at a youth camp, childcare, or church camp a plus.

• Conversational Portuguese a plus.

• It is okay to be enrolled in a degree program.

This job will run from January 2022 until the end of August 2022. The employee will not be expected to work on federal holidays. The salary is $15.60 an hour. The employee will receive paid vacation accrued at the rate of 1 day per week, up to 10 paid vacation days total. There is the potential for the position to carry over into a second year, running from September 2022 until August 2023.

Holy Halftime, mondays, 8pm

Named because our first meetings happened before Monday Night Football, this group meets at the homes of group members throughout the year. We discuss readings and video on topics of interest to modern Christians. Among recent studies were “What’s So Amazing about Grace?” by Philip Yancey, “Enough,” by Rev. Adam Hamilton, and “The Language of God”, by Francis Collins. We are currently reading “When I Was a Child I Read Books,” by Marilynne Robinson.

Wednesday Night bible Study, 7pm

Join us for a series on the Revelation of John (a victory lap of our reading the whole Bible in 96 Days). Come with questions, curiosities, and your imagination!

Healing Prayer

This group studies the Biblical basis for healing prayer ministry within the church. Volunteers from this class assist with healing prayer during each Sunday morning service.

Words from the Intercessors

God Has Everything To Do With Prayer
Christ is all. We are complete in Him. He is the answer to every need, the perfect Savior. He needs no decoration to heighten His beauty, no prop to increase His stability, and no girding to perfect His strength. Who can gild refined gold, whiten the snow, perfume the rose or heighten the colors of the summer sunset? Who will prop the mountains or help the great deep? It is not Christ and philosophy, nor Christ and money, nor civilization, nor diplomacy, nor science, nor organization. It is Christ alone. He trod the winepress alone. His own arm brought salvation. He is enough. He is the comfort, the strength, the wisdom, the righteousness, the sanctification of all man. — C. L. CHILTON.

Excerpt taken from the book “The Reality of Prayer” by E.M. Bounds