Boston Missions

🚀 Boston Missions Update – September 2025
God is moving in Boston! 🙌
73 baptized
46 filled with the Holy Ghost
Danvers averaging 90 in weekly attendance
Preaching points in Gloucester & Plymouth
New Bible studies launching this fall
Every number is more than a statistic — it’s a life forever changed. Together, we are seeing lives changed, churches planted, and Heaven impacted across Greater Boston. 💙
📖 Read the full update here👇

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Join us in prayer for our second church plant. We will be launching a new church plant in Jamaica Plain, one way you can help is through prayer. Be in prayer for our first interest gathering July 1st and for a building for the new church plant.

We are so happy for this beautiful lady who received the Holy Ghost! His Spirit’s moving!

34,589 students attend Boston University each year. It has students from more than 100 countries and all 50 states. Revival at Boston University is revival around the world. Today we spent the afternoon praying for the incoming students and faculty that will be arriving this September. We believe there is going to be an out pouring on campus. The second to last photo is outside their science center and is titled “Explosion”. Pray with us for a Holy Ghost explosion at Boston University!!

We are so excited to have our first Bible study and baptism today! There’s a new name written down in glory!

Meet our launch team!
Matt and Joleen Halstrom: We first felt the call to Boston in 2018. As the Baumann’s began to tell us that they were feeling called to Boston, my wife and I both knew without talking to each other that we were going to be going with them. We spent the next several months praying, and talking to them as our pastor. We first came to visit Boston over Easter in 2019. As we walked the streets praying and feeling our way through this calling, we began to feel like we absolutely had to come.
We started asking God to verify this calling through several tests. We asked Him to call our 5 children to Boston as well as us, as we felt it was important to include them in the decision process. When we told them how we were feeling called to Boston, we asked them all to pray about what they felt God was telling them. Over the next several days, all 5 came to us separately and said that while they were not happy to leave their friends and the church they grew up in, but felt that God wanted us to go.
In the summer of 2020, we began to feel it was the time. We needed a lot of things to line up if this was going to happen. Right in the middle of the pandemic, I was able to get a job half way across the state that met our prayerful requirements exactly. I arrived in Boston on July 3rd to start my new job, with the family to follow in about a month, after getting a place to live.
We quickly found a house, and as the closing date approached we rented out our home in Minnesota and made our way to Boston, finally!
My family arrived on October 8th and we found a one bedroom hotel room for a week until closing. A couple of days before closing our realtor called to tell us the septic system did not pass inspection and the seller was refusing to fix it. We finally found the right house after two months of living with our family of seven in a hotel room. It was worth every challenge, every thing that God led us through, to bring us here to be part of the great revival that He has for Boston!

We stand on the shoulders of giants as we try to fill the shoes of those who have gone on before us in this beautiful city!

Today we say goodbye to Minnesota and drive 1,540 miles to our new home. Emotional goodbyes, hopeful expectation, wonder at this new life God has called us to have filled the past few weeks. As we start on this journey, we anticipate the miraculous!