For the city… For His glory.
EMMANUEL GOSPEL CENTER
Emmanuel Gospel Center (EGC) is a nonprofit Christian organization dedicated to supporting the work of passionate individuals, ministries, and organizations seeking to positively impact critical issues in the city. Our collaborative approach aims to create a more equitable, connected, and thriving community for all Bostonians.
When you collaborate with EGC, you gain access to a wealth of resources designed to amplify your impact. Our team works with you to gain an in-depth understanding of Boston's local complexities and offers opportunities to build valuable relationships with individuals and organizations who share your passion. We provide tailored support to help you identify sustainable solutions and to share your cause's story within the broader context of Boston's vibrant community.
Using an 'applied research' model, EGC integrates timeless biblical wisdom with local cultural knowledge. This approach provides methods and tools to help you learn about local complexities and discover opportunities for effective and sustainable action. With services including coaching, supporting the growth of new ministries, facilitating collaborations, media-based storytelling, and more, EGC is ready to support you at any stage of your project, empowering you to make a lasting difference in the issues and communities you care about.
Dear friend,
We believe this is a pivotal moment for the Church in Boston. Our neighborhoods are changing, the needs are complex, and yet the Spirit is stirring fresh insight and imagination. At EGC, our role is to help the Church see clearly, act courageously, and seek the shalom of our city in ways that are faithful and sustainable.
This isn’t something we carry alone. You are already living it—in the ways you pray for your neighbors, serve in your community, lead in your congregation, or show up faithfully where God has placed you. Together, as fellow seekers of shalom, we are cultivating spaces where new ideas take root, where leaders are strengthened, and where the Gospel is lived out in tangible ways.
Thank you for your prayers, partnership, and support. The journey ahead is full of promise. With gratitude for the many ways you walk this path, we look forward to what God is unfolding—one story, one initiative, one act of faith at a time.
For the city, for His glory.
Stacie Mickelson
Executive Director of EGC
Church Landscape Review
Boston has been a prime destination for church planters for decades. Many come eager to know what works, but most of the church-planting studies they look to focus on a single denomination or network. In the 2025 Church Landscape Review, EGC’s Applied Research team not only surveyed a diverse group of churches, they learned from them over a long period of time.
In 2014, EGC identified 100 new church plants in the Greater Boston area and interviewed the pastors of almost half of them. A decade later, we revisited many of the church leaders of the original study to understand how the church landscape in Boston had shifted.
“What was most surprising about what we found was that churches redefined what it meant to be a congregation. Churches innovated what it meant to be the hands and feet of Christ all across our city.”
In addition to a video, podcast, and story book, the study includes reports on demographic and leadership shifts, sustainability, ministry opportunities for evangelism and outreach,and more. We pray you find encouragement, insight and inspiration as you learn about this movement of God through the local church.
Learn more at egc.org/churchlandscapereview.
Supporting Our Immigrant Neighbors
As we walk alongside Christian leaders seeking the shalom of the city, we witness God working through them to see His kingdom come.
For several years, Sarah Blumenshine, Director of Intercultural Ministries, has been partnering with Agencia ALPHA, an organization committed to serving immigrants through legal aid, citizenship assistance and community organizing. In the current climate of uncertainty and often fear, this relationship has become even more vital. We have been honored to support this organization through collaborative grant writing, production assistance, strategic planning, and prayer partnership.
The 200-plus churches serving immigrant communities in Boston are deeply distressed by the nation’s current approach to the issue of immigration. When one part of the body suffers, every part suffers with it. So we stand in solidarity with Agencia ALPHA as they advance the well-being of strangers in a country not their own for reasons often beyond their control.
Learn more at agenciaalpha.org.
“In the face of so much controversy and political turmoil, what the Church is called to do is to express compassion, respect people’s dignity regardless of where they come from, and a genuine desire to see people as they are—made in the image of God.”
Highlights from EGC Inititiaves
Testimonials from EGC Partners
Financial Health
Our FY25 numbers will be posted upon completion of our annual audit.
Our Principles of Ministry
We seek the Lord's leading and timing in making ministry decisions.
We seek to build relationships with those to whom and with whom we minister.
We seek to build the Kingdom of God in Boston, not just an individual, group, church or ministry (including our own).
We seek long-term results.
We draw on the resources that the Lord provides and we are confident that God will provide the people and the resources to do his work. We choose to take a fiscally conservative approach, and strive to maintain high standards of fiscal management.
Statement of Faith
The Board and staff of EGC do our best to love and serve Jesus. EGC subscribes to the historic Apostles' Creed, and our convictions are further informed by the Lausanne Covenant.