First Baptist Church of Jamaica Plain

Before heading into the long Labor Day Weekend, please join us for the September 1 Vigil in Support of Black Lives Matter, with speaker Mark Scott, Director of the Division of Violence Prevention at the Boston Public Health Commission and President of the Board of Directors, Massachusetts Coalition to prevent gun violence. Following his remarks […]

The August Vigil in Support of Black Lives Matter will be held on Thursday evening, August 4 from 5:30 - 6:30 pm on the lawn of the First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain, 633 Centre St, JP. The Vigil in Support of Black Lives Matter in Jamaica Plain has taken place monthly on the first […]

The June Vigil in Support of Black Lives Matter will be held Thursday, June 2, 5:30-6:30 pm, at the First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain at 633 Centre Street. This month’s Vigil will be a remembrance of the 31 children and adults killed in the mass shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo, the latter an act […]

The May Vigil in Support of Black Lives Matter will be held on Thursday evening, May 5, from 5:30-6:30 pm on the lawn of the First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain, 633 Centre Street. We are pleased to welcome as our speaker Jamaica Plain resident Kathryn Hall, Ph.D, MPH, Deputy Director of the Boston Public […]

The April Vigil in Support of Black Lives Matter will be held on Thursday evening, April 7, from 5:30-6:30 pm on the lawn of the First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain, 633 Centre Street. Please join us as we welcome guest speaker Brenda Rodriguez-Andujar, Deputy Director of the Hyde Square Task Force, a JP organization […]

The March Vigil in Support of Black Lives Matter will be held on Thursday evening, March 3, from 5:30 - 6:30 pm on the lawn of the First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain, 633 Centre Street, JP. This month’s speaker is from the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute, a center of healing, teaching and learning […]

The February Vigil in Support of Black Lives Matter will be held Thursday, February 3, at 5:30 pm at the First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain, 633 Centre Street. There is no speaker this month, but everyone is invited to join us for a “call and response” reading of names of victims of racist violence […]

The December Vigil in Support of Black Lives Matter will be held Thursday evening, December 2, from 5:30 - 6:30 pm on the lawn of the First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain, 633 Centre Street. The guest speaker will be a community organizer from City Life/Vida Urbana, a grassroots community organization that has been a […]

The November Vigil in Support of Black Lives Matter will be held Thursday evening, November 4, from 5:30 - 6:30 pm on the lawn of the First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain, 633 Centre Street, with  civil rights champion and 36-year veteran of the MA State House the Honorable Byron Rushing as guest speaker. The […]