Aprende Language Lessons
Aprender means to learn in Spanish - Aprende! means Learn!. At Aprende we believe that whether you travel to distant lands or just around the corner learning another language is vital to understanding the world in which we live. Classes take place in convenient neighborhood locations and are enriched by Jamaica Plain's multicultural, urban setting. Highly competent, experienced instructors teach in a supportive, relaxed environment. Learn through experiential exercises and relevant arts and cultural activities to communicate with confidence and competence in your chosen new language.
Boston's Old Path Sangha
A lay Buddhist community inspired by the teaching of Vietnamese Zen monk, peace activist, and author, Thich Nhat Hanh, as well as by other teachers both within and outside the Buddhist tradition.
Iglesia Hispana Comunitaria
La Iglesia Hispana Comunitaria (antiguo nombre), fue fundada en año 1985 en Jamaica Plain. Después de muchos años de estar trabajando con la comunidad hispana de Boston y de tener varios pastores, la Iglesia entro en una etapa difícil y llego al punto de ser cerrada por un tiempo muy largo. Los pastores Cesar & Lisa De Paz vinieron en Septiembre del año 2000 desde Costa Rica para re-iniciar la obra aquí en Jamaica Plain. Una congregación que estaba prácticamente cerrada. Con mucho esfuerzo y dedicación, lograron levantar la iglesia hispana en Jamaica Plain. Los pastores tomaron un gran reto, por que nunca habían estado ni conocido el área. Sin embargo, trabajando fuertemente, poco a poco pudieron ir expandiendo su ministerio y ahora, La Iglesia Hispana de la Comunidad, es una Iglesia conocida a nivel nacional.
Jamaica Plain Yoga
Debbera Blackwell founded JP Yoga in 1994, and has taught thousands of classes over the past 12 years in a variety of settings. She obtained her first teaching certificate from theKripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, MA, and studied subsequently with many internationally known teachers including Patricia Walden, Rodney Yee, and John Schumacher.
Mosaic School
The Mosaic School is a small early childhood program that invites children from all families to learn, explore, question and bond. We believe that each child is unique, naturally curious and ready for independence. This step in their development is crucial to the way we approach our curriculum. We look at each group enrolled and find the needs of each student. All children learn in their own unique way. At The Mosaic School we will celebrate their need for autonomy but challenge and support their needs to be social. We feel learning can be fun, challenging and successful.
Sites for Places In & Around the Community:
Community Arts Advocates
A nonprofit arts organization cultivating ongoing fundamental relationships between artists and communities by celebrating self-expression as a basic human right essential for the healthy growth of youth, individuals and communities.
i.UCC
i.UCC was created to offer in web-based, interactive spiritual community to seekers for spiritual truth. Community is a place where you can find relationships. But it's more than that. It's a place where people can build together, create together, and grow together. Community isn't just a place to talk?though you'll discover soon enough that in the United Church of Christ we love to talk! A real-time daily prayer, "Prayer Chapel Live," is hosted seven nights a week at 9pm, EST. go to http://i.ucc.org/Default.aspx?tabid=165 to link directly to the chapel.
Jamaica Plain Gazette
The JP Gazette publishes information about Jamaica Plain and its residents. News runs the gamut in JP, with residents facing transportation, housing, green space, youth sports, youth activities, senior sections, arts and many other issues every year.
Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ
We are a gathering of 411 churches with over 90,000 members, making us the largest Protestant denomination in Massachusetts. Our roots go back to the Puritans and Pilgrims who founded this country, making us the Commonwealth's oldest denomination. The Massachusetts Conference is one of 39 regional bodies of the United Church of Christ , which has 6,100 churches and 1.4 million members.
United Church of Christ
Welcome to the United Church of Christ is a community of faith that seeks to respond to the Gospel of Jesus Christ in word and deed.