Staff Blog

Early Sunday morning, America experienced its worst mass-casualty shooting. If you’re anything like me, as more and more details about this tragedy unfolded in the media, you most likely experienced many different emotions: sadness, fear, anger, confusion, and frustration. It’s hard...

Harbor aspires to be a church community that actively Loves and Gives to those in need, and sometimes this means taking a trip far from New England. On June 22nd, some Harbor friends are following God's call by going on a mission's trip with Servants with Haiti to support pastor...

Harbor family, We're excited to share that Ally Moran will be joining our staff team as an intern this summer. A few weeks ago, she graduated from Gordon College (then promptly hopped on a two week road-trip with her friends to celebrate!).  Over the past few years, God has been...

  My daughter was confused this morning when we woke up to snow… And who can blame her? Yesterday was the first day of spring. I stood outside in my t-shirt (and pants, for those of you wondering) and grilled chicken on our deck. It was wonderful. We kicked the soccer ball around...

Harbor, Summing up the year that we’ve just experienced as a church is a challenging task. There have been some unexpected twists and turns along the way. The fact that I’m the one writing this letter is one plot twist I did not see coming back in January. 2015 was a year of...

You know what I’m talking about. You do something well, like getting a job promotion or making that slam dunk (metaphorically or literally) and someone says to you: “You are so talented!” or “That was amazing! How did you do that?”  I don’t know many...

I used to walk into church and sit right in the front row. I like to sit there so that I can sing worship really loud and not hear my own singing voice over our worship team's beautiful ensemble. (Lets just say your worship pastor did not marry me for my musical giftedness!) But over the past...

  For the last year, I’ve dropped my daughter off at daycare and driven along Pawtucket Boulevard, passing the beach at Heritage State Park and the UMass Lowell Boathouse before crossing the Rourke Bridge to come into the offices at Harbor. I was always in a rush to get into the...

Jeff Oakes here. I’ve been thinking a good deal lately, as I’m guessing you are too, about Jed’s departure from our church. I don’t enjoy change. I like it even less when it involves saying goodbye to a dear friend, colleague, and leader. I spent some time Monday helping...