In the News

The church downtown: Strategies for urban ministry

A feature story with Nanette Sawyer, Fourth Presbyterian Church alumnus. ...The key mark of the church for her is hospitality (her book on the topic, just out from Skylight Paths, is Hospitality: The Sacred Art). Her ministry is shaped by her experience at a little Presbyterian church in South Boston that welcomed her while she was a student at Harvard Divinity School. The church "made me feel safe and valuable and free to be honest and authentic—on the spiritual journey I was on," she recalls. So she now invites others. Read the article

Marathon Sunday Video Clip

Rev. Burns Stanfield runs the 111th Boston Marathon. Watch the Video Clip!

- The Boston Globe April, 2007

Church Breaks Old Barriers "They are children of Irish and Chinese, Puerto Rican and Vietnamese, Albanian and African descent...Here they are free to be kids, free to let their imaginations soar. " - Boston Herald August 10, 2005

Fourth Church Teens Take Five-Day Journey Through Civil Rights History "A group of teens from Fourth Church joined Rev. Burns Stanfield and youth Minister Rae Huang on a five-day journey through Georgia and Alabama to visit important sites in the Civil Rights Movement. " - South Boston Tribune October 19, 2006

Shamrock Award for Community Service Mayor Thomas M. Menino presented the award to Rev. Stanfield. Rev. Stanfield, a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Divinity School, has been instrumental to the revitalization of Fourth Presbyterian Church as an active center of worship and community fellowship. - South Boston Citizens' Association's 2001 Annual Evacuation Day Awards Banquet Mar 16, 2001

To the Rescue: Diaper Donors "...Diapers for the working poor at Southie's Fourth Presbyterian Church " - The Boston Globe April 5, 1995

The Arts Revive South Boston Church "Through a thriving arts program, that neither the public nor parochial schools in the community can match, Fourth Presbyterian has become a haven for youths." - The Boston Globe May 13, 1997

In Wake of Suicides, Mediators in Place "...One piece of Fourth Presbyterian's response to the suicide crisis of the late nineteen nineties." - The Boston Globe Dec 4, 1997

It's not all discord in South Boston. "...Neighbors, clergy and community activists have pointed to the [Fourth Church] music program as a symbol of integration that's been quietly miving forward for years." - The Patriot Ledger May 21, 1993