We are called to bring God’s love to bear on the brokenness of the World
When Jesus returns, we will feast with Him at the Great Banquet…. until then, we are hosting foretastes on folding tables all over the place!
The Street Church, City Hall
Every Saturday we gather on the steps of City Hall in downtown Hartford for The Street Church. What began as an appendage to an existing group turned into what we affectionatly call…
The most beautiful church in the city
We gather for a full worship service where we preach the Gospel, come to the Lord’s Table and then pray for one another. Then we share a full meal together and offer much needed personal items such as hygiene products and underwear.
We have addiction counselors with us, and social workers. Great ears to listen to full stories and compassionate friends to welcome all in
Mobile Underwear Shop
…where we first started out. After talking with many on the streets and serving the homeless we learned what was needed but not given was underwear…there are many reasons for this but we learned how to do it well, serving over 4,000 each year. We offer the right size and choice - all with dignity.
loving up on friends
Assisted Living community churches
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
James 1:27
While I was in seminary I was walking past a nursing home while working on my Greek flash cards. I heard a “go in and visit” from the Holy Spirit, to which I shot back “I’m too busy learning Greek!”
They are why you are learning Greek. Go in.
Twenty-one years later I am still visiting the widows and orphans in the nursing homes. Our team planted churches in eight communities ranging from fully-independent living to secure memory units. We believe the promise from God that He would never leave us nor forsake us, and it is our honor and privilege to Shepard this flock through these latter days. We sing, pray, worship, break open the Word of God and laugh… a LOT!
Speaking at summer camp in Poland with Faith2Faith ministries
empowering and releasing the generations
The Street Church has a special love for releasing young believers into the movement of God with the gifts they have been given. Hands-on discipleship in an apprenticeship posture helps them form ears to hear and eyes to see so that the can partner with the movement of the Holy Spirit.
We work with schools and youth groups all year long and welcome summer youth and interns.
Street Ministry in the heart of Ukraine during the war with Russia
circuit riding…my greatest passion
““How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!” ”
Sharing the Great Story is Bryan’s greatest passion, it is what wakes him up in the morning. Having cut his teeth as the Area Director with Young Life in Simsbury, CT to being ordained and sent from Tabora, Tanzania, Bryan has preached the Good News litteraly on highways and byways in the red-dirt of East Africa, the sand of West Africa, Poland, and across the states. The running joke with his wife is both he and the dog are up to date on shots so he can go anywhere when called too.