Creche

Creche creates faith-rooted, mixed-income intentional communities

25/05/2026

It finally happened. 🏠✨

On Saturday, the founding members of Jubilee House moved in - years of planning, fundraising, construction, and dreaming made real in a single moving day.

And because Creche is a network, they didn’t move in alone. Members from three other Creche houses showed up to assemble furniture, set up appliances, clean upholstery, and do whatever it took to make the day a success!

This is what it looks like when community isn’t just a word. Welcome home, Jubilee House. 🙏

15/04/2026

We’re honored to be featured in Faith & Leadership, the journal of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity School! 🎉 https://faithandleadership.com/religious-institutions-and-spiritual-innovators-need-each-other

In the article, Danielle Goldstone argues that religious institutions and spiritual innovators need each other and uses Creche as an example of what that symbiosis can look like in practice: each of our houses connected to a local congregation, with real benefits flowing in both directions.

That’s exactly the kind of community we’re trying to build. 🏠✝️

02/04/2026

Holy Week is the busiest week of the year for clergy. Nobody has a spare hour. And yet the Blessing of the Oils never fails to be a genuine joy. 🙏

This is the day Episcopal clergy gather to renew their ordination vows and receive the holy oils we’ll carry into the coming year: for healing, for anointing, for blessing. Creche was well represented, with board members Michael Thompson and Edwin Johnson, the convener of our partner the Allston Abbey, Isaac Martinez, and the rector of our partner Emmanuel Church, Pam Werntz.

The work of building beloved community takes a whole network. So grateful for these people.

19/03/2026

Sunday vibes with the Trinity House crew. 🙏✨

This is one of our favorite groups of humans… but we have bittersweet news. Two of our beloved members, Jessica and Emma, are graduating and moving on to their next adventures. We couldn’t be prouder, and we’ll miss them terribly.

Which means Trinity House has two spots opening up! Are you a student looking for affordable, faith-rooted intentional community in the Boston area? We’d love to hear from you. 🏠

16/03/2026

Jubilee House is taking shape. 🏠✨

Drywall and plaster are going up, and suddenly you can really feel it: the rooms, the light, the life that’s going to happen here. What was framing and subfloor is becoming a home.

We’re so close. Stay tuned. 🙏

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09/03/2026

We are so intensely proud of Creche member Rev Dorie Goehring, a PhD candidate in comparative theology at Boston College and a priest in our diocese. Dorie was a major contributor to a national effort by The Episcopal Church to identify and correct the ways our Holy Week liturgies perpetuate anti-Judaism, offering new liturgies that preserve theological and historical integrity while reducing harm to our Jewish friends and neighbors. And as if that weren’t enough, she’s just been named to the Bishop’s Commission on Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations! 🎉

Although Creche is a Christian community, we have welcomed non-Christian members since our founding. (And two of our five houses currently have Jewish members!) Confronting the ways our tradition has perpetuated anti-Judaism is desperately important, long-overdue work, and we’re grateful to Dorie and her teammates: Dan Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Sarah Neumann, Kate Ekrem, and Elise Feyerherm. 🙏✡️✝️

02/03/2026

Just some neighbors enjoying the Emmanuel House community garden. This is a four-season ministry to the neighborhood. 🐾

27/02/2026

Iconic scenes from the Emmanuel House: Cosmo and Vincent surveying the neighborhood, because we’re invested in the places we’re rooted. R making latkes, because Creche celebrates pluralism. Lisa lounging in the common space, because rest can be communal too. This is what faith-rooted intentional community looks like. 🏠✨

21/02/2026

We’d love to say our community garden has become such a thriving ecological haven that it’s now attracting apex predators… but the truth is a little more Allston than that.

This juvenile Cooper’s hawk showed up for the same reason many urban raptors do: our neighborhood’s very healthy rat population. Not exactly the romantic nature story we might script, but still a vivid reminder that even in the middle of the city, life is layered, dynamic, and a little wild.

Moments like this feel like urban magic. A flash of feathers over a chain-link fence, the reminder that we share this place with creatures adapting alongside us, finding food, shelter, and survival wherever they can.

We’re still proud that our gardens, yards, and shared spaces make room for more than just people. And if that means the occasional hawk keeping watch over the neighborhood? We’ll call that part of the ecosystem, too. 🦅

13/02/2026

Stopped by Trinity House and was greeted by this whiteboard: a welcome message, a chore chart, and the quiet infrastructure of shared life.

Caring for a common space is one of the hardest parts of intentional community. Every household finds its own way to do it, but it always comes down to the same things: communication, accountability, and a commitment to one another’s well-being.

I’m so proud of Trinity House and the rhythms of mutual care they’ve built together. This is the kind of everyday faithfulness that makes community durable.

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