Jubilee Christian Church - Boston, MA - Megachurches on Waymarking.com

"When Bishop Gilbert Thompson preaches in the main hall of Jubilee Christian Church, a 1,250seat
room in a converted supermarket on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan, he stands so far out on the
forward edge of the purplecarpeted
stage that he typically has several inches of shoe leather
projecting over its lip into space. This seems like a posture that a veteran public speaker would
want to avoid, fraught as it is with possibilities for an anklespraining
pratfall. But Thompson, who
takes a little stroll now and again during his hourlong
sermon, returns to the edge of the stage or of
one of the steps leading up to it almost every time he comes to rest. Sometimes he leaves the front
half of one shoe hanging in thin air, sometimes the other, sometimes both. It gives him a sense of
momentum, even when he’s standing still.
A spare, upright, unlined man of 60, who looks 30 from a distance and not much older than that up
close, Thompson has a commanding presence, at once prophetic and managerial. While he insists
that he devotes his attention primarily to the kingdom to come, he’s on a roll these days right here
in the world of things. Thirtyfour
years after coming to Boston, the native Philadelphian has
emerged as a star congregation builder among local spiritual leaders, developing Jubilee, formerly
known as New Covenant, into a certified megachurch, one of only seven in the state and one of
only two black megachurches in all of New England.
Thompson’s main hall fills up for all three services on Sundays,
with parallel services for children in another room, which means 5,000 souls every week. The
number can reach as high as 7,000 on major Christian holidays, and Jubilee’s tracking of donations
shows that in 2005 more than 18,000 people gave at least $100."
Info from:By Carlo Rotella, Boston Magazine

Denomination: Christian Senior Pastor: G.A. Thompson, Bishop and Founder Average Weekly Attendance: 5000 Service Times: Sunday Service Times: 7:30am, 10:00am, 12:30pm Web Site: [Web Link] Phone Number: 617 689-8000 Address: 1500 Blue Hill Avenue Mattapan, MA USA 02126

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