About Us

City Church Boston is a diverse community committed to helping each other live like Jesus. Our purpose is to grow together and serve each other, our city, and the nations.

Our Stories

Our Leaders

City Church values team-based ministry and servant leadership. Our leadership team guides the church and is responsible for the pastoral care of our community. Our Community Groups (CGs) and Ministries are led by men and women committed to learning to live like Jesus and helping others do the same. Meet some of our leaders below!

  • David W. Hill

    Team Leadership & Preaching and Teaching

  • Betsy Hill

    Evangelism & Kids

  • Paul McFarthing

    Community Groups & Finance

  • Abigail McFarthing

    Teaching & Worship

  • Miriam Osei

    Community Group Leader

  • Paul Osei

    Community Group Leader & Host

  • Israel Desta

    Community Group Leader

  • Keerthana Desta

    Community Group Leader

  • David Jackson

    Incarceration Ministry & Setup/Breakdown

  • Emilie Osman

    Community Group Leader

  • Siwar Osman

    Community Group Leader & A/V

  • John Krewson

    Worship

David W. Hill - Lead Pastor (Elder)

David W. Hill leads City Church’s leadership team and serves as the pastor and primary preacher for City Church. Raised in Boston, he has a unique vision to help others live like Jesus. He and his wife, Betsy, formed the team that planted City Church. They have four children and live in Hyde Park.

Paul McFarthing - Elder

Paul coaches community group leaders, provides pastoral care for members, teaches and mentors, and lives in Brighton with his wife, Abigail, and their five children.

OUR Values

  • Spirit & Truth

    We believe in both the work and gifts of the Holy Spirit today and in the final authority of Scripture.

  • Trinity & Community

    We are included in the love that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have for each other. That means church is a family and a team where every member contributes.

  • Grace & Lordship

    We accept one another on the basis of Christ’s grace not performance and help each other follow Jesus.

  • Local & Global

    We have a mission to share the gospel with and serve all people both locally and globally.

Part of A Global Movement

We are a part of a global family of churches called Newfrontiers. Newfrontiers is a growing group of apostolic leaders partnering together on global mission, joined by common values and beliefs, shared mission and genuine relationships. Newfrontiers was founded in the UK by Terry Virgo and today it consists of over 20000 churches, working in different spheres in over 70 nations.

In the United States, we partner with a Newfrontiers sphere of around 30+ churches that identify as Confluence Churches. For more information go to Confluencechurches.org.

Together we are on a mission to make disciples, train leaders, start churches, practice New Testament church life, and reach nations.  Newfrontiers emphasizes a vibrant life in the Spirit, Bible-based theology, the grace of God, and team based ministry.

Confluence Churches in Boston include Abundant Grace Church and our own.

Regions Beyond

City Church Boston is also committed to seeing churches planted beyond on our own city particularly in regions where people have not had an opportunity to hear the story of Jesus.  We currently have teams of people living like Jesus from our church in two cities in the Middle East and are working with Confluence Northeast on other global missions’ opportunities.

OUR History

Following God in Boston & Beyond

City Church was birthed out of a desire to see students and young professionals, who come from all over the world to study and work in Boston, meet Jesus.  We started out as a community group of three people in a living room in 2005.  In October of 2008, a core team of 20 people (many of whom were college students) launched “Fenway Church” with Sunday meetings at Church Restaurant and Club.  We grew as people that had never experienced God in a real way encountered Jesus for the first time.

In August 2013, we started a Sunday location in Allston at the Brighton Music Hall as God began to speak to us about adopting a vision for neighborhoods across the city of Boston not just the Fenway.  In 2014, we changed our name to City Church Boston to reflect this vision.

Throughout this journey, we have been a community that is committed to helping each other live like Jesus AND are real about our lives and our journeys. We are far from perfect and are not afraid of hard questions.  In fact, we ask lots of them.  We don't just meet at a venue on Sundays but in community groups during the week where we learn to help each other to live like Jesus in our neighborhoods and world.

In attempt to live like Jesus, we’ve followed his promptings to volunteer at various neighborhood non-profits across our city, serve in some of the most poverty stricken and dangerous countries in the world, and minister on college campuses.  We now have members living and ministering in several major Middle Eastern cities.

We've found that as we follow Jesus on his mission, we are empowered by His Spirit and joined with others on an incredible journey of redemption.  You are welcome to join City Church as its story continues to unfold.