What We Believe

We exist to help religious and irreligious people become gospel people.

We want EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE to EXPERIENCE the gospel.

At the heart of what we believe is the gospel, which is the good news of Jesus. We believe that Jesus (as the second person of the Trinity) came into the world to inaugurate the kingdom of God. We believe that he lived a sinless life and died the death of a sinner on our behalf. Through our trust in Christ, we are made right with God and formed into a community to follow him.

We have 3 values that we try to emphasize in every one of our ministries:

  1. Sound Doctrine - We want everything we do to be scripturally sound and theologically informed. You can see our statement of belief for a more detailed look at our theology.

  2. Gospel Culture - Your culture as a church is almost as important as your doctrine. We want our doctrine to create a “gospel culture” where we live out the good news of Jesus with one another. Our gospel culture is defined by our community commitments that you can find below.

  3. Multi-Ethnicity - We want to intentionally reach people from different ethnicities in the Somerville area. Our church is made up of people from all over the world and we want to be place where people from different backgrounds can live in community together.

What we do:

We’re an intentionally simple church where we prayerfully follow Jesus by living our ordinary lives with gospel intentionality. There are 3 things that we do:

  1. Gather together for worship.

  2. Live together in community.

  3. Serve together on mission.

We have 10 community commitments that we hold as a church:

1) We start with what’s right, not what’s wrong.
2) We emphasize what’s right, not what’s wrong.
3) We remember what’s right as we work on what’s wrong.
4) It’s OK to not be OK.
5) We celebrate confession, we don’t cringe.
6) We build up, we don’t beat up.
7) One degree of change is still change and worth celebrating.
8) We speak Good News then good advice.
9) Everybody is a somebody.
10) Community requires commitment before certainty.

If you want a deeper dive into our theological positions, feel free to check out our statement of faith:

Our Story

City on a Hill Somerville launched on Easter 2018 as the union of Redeemer Church in Somerville and some members from City on a Hill Church in Brookline. Before that date, Redeemer had been going for about 4 years and was meeting in our current building at 404 Broadway. Redeemer had strategically partnered with City on a Hill over the years by preaching sermon series together and doing joint services. Pastor Fletcher shifted from Executive Pastor in Brookline to Lead Pastor in Somerville in August 2018 when Pastor Claude Atcho and his family moved to Memphis to pursue a ministry opportunity.

All CoaH Churches are local and autonomous churches that network together to advance the gospel in Boston and beyond. We are financially independent but supportive of each other and collaborate wherever we can do best serve each other and the city.