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Semente
I just arrivedAcabei de chegar
HomeInícioServicesCultosJust arrivedChegueiGroupsCélulasEnglishInglêsGiveDízimos
Semente
HomeInícioServicesCultosJust arrivedChegueiGroupsCélulasEnglishInglêsGiveDízimos

118 Waverly St, Framingham, MA 01702

(555) 014-6610

contato@example.org

I just arrivedAcabei de chegar

Igreja Semente · Framingham since 2009Igreja Semente · Framingham desde 2009

A Brazilian church on Waverly Street, with the coffee already on.Uma igreja brasileira na Waverly Street, com o café já passado.

We worship in Portuguese with English through headsets, eat together after every service, and spend most of the week helping each other get settled in Massachusetts. Arrived last month? You're exactly who we're looking for.Cultuamos em português com tradução para o inglês nos fones, almoçamos juntos depois de todo culto e passamos boa parte da semana ajudando uns aos outros a se firmar em Massachusetts. Chegou mês passado? É você mesmo que a gente está esperando.

Come Sunday at 10Venha domingo às 10h New in the US? Start hereNovo nos EUA? Comece aqui
  • Woman raising her hand as a guitarist leads worship
    Sunday worshipCulto de domingoSun 10 AMDom 10h
  • Home-cooked dishes laid out buffet style
    Lunch after churchAlmoço depois do cultoSun 12 PMDom 12h
  • Boys in team uniforms playing soccer on a sunny day
    Saturday futebol at BowditchFutebol de sábado no BowditchSat 8 AMSáb 8h
  • Women friends in winter coats smiling on a city street
    First winter, first coatPrimeiro inverno, primeiro casacoCoat closet, ThuBazar de casacos, qui
  • Children sitting on steps listening during a church event
    Semente KidsSemente KidsSun 10 AMDom 10h
  • Attendees reading books during a gathering
    Wednesday prayerCulto de oraçãoWed 8 PMQua 20h
  • Grandparents with grandchildren at an outdoor gathering
    Home group in MarlboroughCélula em MarlboroughFri 8 PMSex 20h
  • Two coffee cups on a wooden cafe table
    Cafezinho at the doorCafezinho na portaSun 9:30 AMDom 9h30
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Qual idioma?Which language?

Português no púlpito, inglês no seu ouvidoPortuguese from the pulpit, English in your ear

A maioria de nós sonha em português. Nossos filhos respondem em inglês. Por isso todo culto de domingo é pregado em português com tradução ao vivo para o inglês, e os jovens se reúnem no idioma que sair primeiro.Most of us dream in Portuguese. Our kids answer in English. So every Sunday service is preached in Portuguese with live English interpretation, and the youth meet in whichever language comes out first.

Português

  • Domingos 10hSundays 10:00 AMCulto de DomingoSunday Service
  • Domingos 18hSundays 6:00 PMCulto da FamíliaFamily Service
  • Sextas 19h30Fridays 7:30 PMRede JovemYouth Night

English

  • Fridays 7:30 PMSextas 19h30Youth NightRede Jovem

InterpretationTradução

  • Sunday ServiceCulto de DomingoHeadsets, channel 1
Worship band with a wooden cross backdrop and silhouetted audience

Como funcionam os fonesHow the headsets work

Pegue um com a Dona Cida na mesa de recepção, coloque no canal 1 e sente onde quiser. A Débora traduz ao vivo da cabine ao lado da mesa de som. Deixe o fone na cadeira quando for almoçar.Pick one up from Dona Cida at the welcome table, turn it to channel 1 and sit anywhere. Débora interprets live from the booth by the sound desk. Leave it on your chair when you go to lunch.

Family of four standing together in plaid shirtsVolunteers sorting food and clothes at a donation center
Dona Cida sorts the coats by size so nobody has to dig. Kids' boots go on the bottom shelf.A Dona Cida separa os casacos por tamanho para ninguém precisar revirar. As botas de criança ficam na prateleira de baixo.

Just arrived?Acabou de chegar?

Your first New England winter shouldn't be lonely, or coldSeu primeiro inverno na Nova Inglaterra não precisa ser solitário, nem gelado

Every month a few families walk in the door who landed at Logan the week before. We remember that feeling. Most of us arrived with two suitcases and a cousin's phone number.Todo mês chegam algumas famílias que desembarcaram em Logan na semana anterior. A gente lembra dessa sensação. A maioria de nós chegou com duas malas e o telefone de um primo.

So we keep a coat closet in the basement, run English classes twice a week and will sit with you at the kitchen table to work out the bus, the school enrollment form and the next step.Por isso mantemos um bazar de casacos no subsolo, damos aulas de inglês duas vezes por semana e sentamos com você na mesa da cozinha para entender o ônibus, a matrícula da escola e o próximo passo.

  • Free winter coats, boots and gloves, Thursdays 6 to 8 PMCasacos, botas e luvas de graça, quintas das 18h às 20h
  • English classes, Tuesday and Thursday nightsAulas de inglês, terças e quintas à noite
  • Help with school enrollment and forms, in PortugueseAjuda com matrícula escolar e formulários, em português
  • A home group close to where you're livingUma célula perto de onde você mora
See the first-month guideVeja o guia do primeiro mês Donate a coatDoe um casaco

During the weekDurante a semana

Church happens between Sundays tooA igreja também acontece entre os domingos

Pick one. Show up once. Somebody will save you a seat next time.Escolha um. Venha uma vez. Na próxima, alguém guarda o seu lugar.

Weeknights · 9 townsDurante a semana · 9 cidades

Home groupsCélulas

Eight to fifteen people in a living room from Milford to Hudson. Bible, prayer and whatever someone baked.De oito a quinze pessoas numa sala de Milford a Hudson. Bíblia, oração e o que alguém tiver assado.

Find one near youAche uma perto de você
Women learning in a small community classroom

Tue & Thu · 7:30 PMTer e qui · 19h30

English classesAulas de inglês

Four levels, from 'hello, my name is' to job interviews. Free, and the teachers are volunteers from the neighborhood.Quatro níveis, do 'hello, my name is' à entrevista de emprego. De graça, com professores voluntários do bairro.

Sign up for a levelInscreva-se num nível
Female soccer players in motion during a game

Sat · 8 AM · Bowditch FieldSáb · 8h · Bowditch Field

Saturday futebolFutebol de sábado

Pickup games for men, women and teenagers. Wellington brings the cones and the pão de queijo.Pelada para homens, mulheres e adolescentes. O Wellington leva os cones e o pão de queijo.

Ask WellingtonFale com o Wellington
Two toddlers smiling and playing in a church nursery

Sun · 10 AM · Ages 2–11Dom · 10h · 2 a 11 anos

Semente KidsSemente Kids

Bible stories in both languages, crafts and a snack. Check-in by the side door takes two minutes.Histórias bíblicas nas duas línguas, atividades e lanche. O check-in na porta lateral leva dois minutos.

What kids doO que as crianças fazem
Volunteer in gloves packing canned goods into a donation box

Thu · 6–8 PM · BasementQui · 18h–20h · Subsolo

Coat closetBazar de casacos

Winter coats, boots, hats and gloves for anyone who needs them. Take what fits, no questions.Casacos, botas, gorros e luvas para quem precisar. Leve o que servir, sem perguntas.

What we needDo que precisamos
Every home groupTodas as células
Man holding up a seedling in a garden

Why we're called SementePor que Semente

It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth.É como um grão de mostarda que, quando se semeia na terra, é a menor de todas as sementes que há na terra.
Mark 4:31Marcos 4:31Read at our first service: eleven people in Pastor Thiago's apartment on Concord Street, March 2009Lido no primeiro culto: onze pessoas no apartamento do Pastor Thiago na Concord Street, março de 2009

CalendarAgenda

Coming upVem aí

OctOut17

Coat closet opens for the winterAbertura do bazar de casacos

6:00 PM18h · Basement hallSalão do subsolo

Bring the kids. Boots up to size 13 this year.Traga as crianças. Este ano tem bota até o número 13.

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OctOut25

Baptisms at Lake CochituateBatismos no Lago Cochituate

2:00 PM14h · Saxonville BeachSaxonville Beach

Nine people going into very cold water. Bring a towel and a thermos.Nove pessoas entrando numa água bem gelada. Traga toalha e garrafa térmica.

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NovNov8

Feijoada for missionsFeijoada missionária

12:30 PM12h30 · Basement hallSalão do subsolo

$15 a plate. Every dollar goes to the church plant in Governador Valadares.US$ 15 o prato. Todo o valor vai para a igreja em Governador Valadares.

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NovNov26

Thanksgiving, Brazilian styleAção de Graças, do nosso jeito

3:00 PM15h · Basement hallSalão do subsolo

Turkey, farofa and pavê. First Thanksgiving in the US? Sit with us.Peru, farofa e pavê. Primeiro Thanksgiving nos EUA? Senta com a gente.

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DecDez13

English class graduationFormatura do inglês

7:30 PM19h30 · SanctuaryTemplo

Thirty-one students finish a level. Certificates, cake and a lot of photos.Trinta e um alunos concluem um nível. Certificado, bolo e muita foto.

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Nothing in that category this month.

Sunday at 10. Coffee from 9:30.Domingo às 10h. Café a partir das 9h30.

Come straight from the night shift if that's what Sunday looks like for you. Nobody minds the work clothes.Pode vir direto do turno da noite, se o seu domingo é assim. Ninguém liga para a roupa de trabalho.

Come Sunday at 10Venha domingo às 10h Directions and parkingComo chegar e estacionar
Semente

An independent evangelical church started in an apartment on Concord Street in 2009. Portuguese first, English always welcome.Uma igreja evangélica independente que começou num apartamento da Concord Street em 2009. Português primeiro, inglês sempre bem-vindo.

Pages

  • HomeInício
  • ServicesCultos
  • Just arrivedCheguei
  • GroupsCélulas
  • EnglishInglês
  • GiveDízimos

Find usOnde estamos

  • 118 Waverly St, Framingham, MA 01702
  • (555) 014-6610
  • contato@example.org
  • Sun 10 AM and 6 PMDom 10h e 18h
  • Wed 8 PM prayerQua 20h oração
  • Tue & Thu 7:30 PM English classesTer e qui 19h30 inglês
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Design notes

Why Igreja Semente looks the way it does

A bilingual site for a Brazilian evangelical church whose real work happens between Sundays: helping families who arrived last month get warm, learn English and find a living room to belong in. Portuguese leads everywhere a member would look; English is never an afterthought.

Built for
Brazilian immigrants in MetroWest Boston, many recently arrived from Minas Gerais, plus their English-speaking kids and spouses.
Navigation
Floating dock. Navigation floats in a dock at the bottom of the screen, where thumbs and eyes already are.
Pages
Home, Services, Just arrived, Groups, English, Give
Hero
a short action form as the hero: the one thing most visitors came to do (request a ride, ask for help, register a child) can be done before they scroll, with reassurance beside it. Variants: a = headline, reassurance and a photo on the left with the form as a raised card on the right; b = a tall photo carrying the headline, with the form and reassurance on a plain panel beside it; c = headline beside a photo, then the form laid out as one horizontal booking bar; a headline over a slow, continuous strip of captioned photographs that visitors can also drag or scroll; it pauses on hover and focus, has a pause button, and stays still for people who prefer reduced motion. Variants: a = headline and lead side by side above a strip of mixed portrait and landscape photos; b = a giant headline beneath a strip whose photos step up and down; c = two strips moving in opposite directions with the headline between them

Typography

Epilogue at 800 carries the headlines. It has a slightly cut, storefront quality that suits a church in a former furniture showroom, and its accents (ã, ç, é) sit cleanly without crowding the line. DM Sans handles reading text because it stays crisp on the low-cost Android phones most new arrivals use.

Color

The palette comes from an açaí bowl: a deep purple brand color and a maracujá yellow accent. It says Brazil without reaching for the green and yellow of the flag, which every Brazilian business in Framingham already uses. Neutrals carry a faint violet bias so the page never feels gray.

Layout and navigation

Navigation lives in a floating dock at the bottom of the screen because this audience is almost entirely on phones, often one-handed on a bus. Six icons, labels in whichever language is chosen, and the nav action is the one thing a newcomer needs most: 'Acabei de chegar'.

The hero

The opening is a slow strip of photographs captioned with times: lunch, futebol, the coat closet, a home group. For people deciding whether a church is for them, seeing a normal week is more persuasive than any headline, and the strip pauses on touch and stays still for anyone who prefers reduced motion.

Calls to action

Each action names a real next step: 'I just arrived', 'Find a home group', 'Save a seat in English class', 'Give your tithe'. 'Dízimo' is the word these members use; 'donate' would sound like a charity appeal.

Photography

Real weekly scenes over stage shots: winter coats, food on the table, kids on the steps, futebol on a dry field. Faces are mixed, as Brazilian congregations are. Captions name places a member would recognise, like Bowditch Field and the basement hall.

Accessibility

Every string has a natural Portuguese version, and the language toggle remembers the choice. The FAQ says plainly that nobody will ask about immigration status, because fear is the biggest barrier for this audience. Contrast passes AA in both themes and the dock buttons are 48 pixels tall.

Type system

  • DisplayEpilogueA grotesque with a slightly hand-cut edge, heavy enough for a storefront sign on Waverly Street and clean with Portuguese accents.
  • TextDM SansLow-contrast and open, it reads well on the cheap Android phones most of our newcomers arrive with.

Colour and contrast

Every text pairing is checked against WCAG 2.2 in both themes.

Light theme

PairingSampleRatioWCAG
Body text on pageAa15.69:1AAA
Body text on cardsAa17.57:1AAA
Secondary textAa5.77:1AA
LinksAa9.92:1AAA
Button textAa11.12:1AAA
Accent label textAa6.41:1AA
Text on dark bandsAa15.69:1AAA
Muted text on dark bandsAa8.17:1AAA
Text on brand bandsAa11.12:1AAA
Muted text on brand bandsAa6.96:1AA

Dark theme

PairingSampleRatioWCAG
Body text on pageAa15.91:1AAA
Body text on cardsAa14.49:1AAA
Secondary textAa6.95:1AA
LinksAa9.04:1AAA
Button textAa9.11:1AAA
Accent label textAa11.07:1AAA
Text on dark bandsAa16.74:1AAA
Muted text on dark bandsAa8.33:1AAA
Text on brand bandsAa9.11:1AAA
Muted text on brand bandsAa5.55:1AA

Designed by Greater Purpose Web. Names, people and events are sample content.