
ArrivalChegada
Use the glass doors on Waverly Street. Dona Cida is at the welcome table with coffee and the headsets.Entre pelas portas de vidro da Waverly Street. A Dona Cida fica na recepção com o café e os fones.
ServicesCultos
About an hour and forty-five minutes, in Portuguese with English in your ear, and lunch downstairs afterwards. Here's how it goes.Mais ou menos uma hora e quarenta e cinco, em português com inglês no fone, e almoço no subsolo depois. Funciona assim.

What to expectO que esperar
Nobody will ask you to stand up, fill in a card or give anything.Ninguém vai pedir para você se levantar, preencher ficha ou dar nada.

ArrivalChegada
Use the glass doors on Waverly Street. Dona Cida is at the welcome table with coffee and the headsets.Entre pelas portas de vidro da Waverly Street. A Dona Cida fica na recepção com o café e os fones.
ParkingEstacionamento
Free lot behind the building, entrance on Hollis Street. The commuter rail station is a four-minute walk.Estacionamento grátis atrás do prédio, entrada pela Hollis Street. A estação do trem fica a quatro minutos a pé.

KidsCrianças
Ages 2 to 11 go to Semente Kids after the first song. Check-in is at the side door.Crianças de 2 a 11 anos vão para o Semente Kids depois do primeiro louvor. O check-in é na porta lateral.
LengthDuração
About 1 hour 45: forty minutes of worship, a forty-minute message, prayer at the front for anyone who wants it.Cerca de 1h45: quarenta minutos de louvor, quarenta de palavra e oração na frente para quem quiser.
DressRoupa
Some come in their Sunday best, some straight from a cleaning shift. Both are right.Tem gente que vem bem arrumada e tem gente que vem direto da faxina. Os dois estão certos.
AccessAcessibilidade
Step-free from the back lot. The basement hall has a lift; ask anyone in a green lanyard.Sem degraus pela entrada dos fundos. O salão do subsolo tem elevador; peça a quem estiver de crachá verde.
Your Sunday, hour by hourSeu domingo, hora a hora
In the lobby. Grab a headset if you'd like English.No hall de entrada. Pegue um fone se quiser inglês.
Lucas and the band. Words on the screen in both languages.O Lucas e a banda. Letras no telão nas duas línguas.
Pastor Thiago or Pastora Renata, usually from the Gospels.Pastor Thiago ou Pastora Renata, quase sempre nos Evangelhos.
$6 a plate, free for first-timers. Rice, beans and whatever the cell group on duty cooked.US$ 6 o prato, grátis para quem veio pela primeira vez. Arroz, feijão e o que a célula da vez cozinhou.
Every weekToda semana
All of it is free. Come to any of it before you come on a Sunday, if that's easier.Tudo é de graça. Pode vir a qualquer um antes do domingo, se for mais fácil.
SundayDomingoTodayHoje
SanctuaryTemplo
SanctuaryTemplo
TuesdayTerçaTodayHoje
Rooms 2–5Salas 2 a 5 · Adults, four levelsAdultos, quatro níveis
WednesdayQuartaTodayHoje
SanctuaryTemplo
ThursdayQuintaTodayHoje
BasementSubsolo
Rooms 2–5Salas 2 a 5 · Adults, four levelsAdultos, quatro níveis
FridaySextaTodayHoje
BasementSubsolo · Ages 13–2513 a 25 anos
SaturdaySábadoTodayHoje
Bowditch Field
Find usComo chegar
QuestionsPerguntas
Not at all. Everything happens in Portuguese first.Nenhum. Tudo acontece primeiro em português.
Yes. Grab him a headset at the welcome table. About thirty people use them every Sunday.Pode. Pegue um fone para ele na recepção. Umas trinta pessoas usam todo domingo.
We're an independent evangelical church. We partner with a congregation in Governador Valadares and send a team there every July.Somos uma igreja evangélica independente. Temos parceria com uma igreja em Governador Valadares e mandamos uma equipe para lá todo mês de julho.
No. We never ask about immigration status, at church, in class or at the coat closet.Não. Nunca perguntamos sobre situação imigratória, nem no culto, nem na aula, nem no bazar.
Design notes
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Every text pairing is checked against WCAG 2.2 in both themes.
| Pairing | Sample | Ratio | WCAG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body text on page | Aa | 15.69:1 | AAA |
| Body text on cards | Aa | 17.57:1 | AAA |
| Secondary text | Aa | 5.77:1 | AA |
| Links | Aa | 9.92:1 | AAA |
| Button text | Aa | 11.12:1 | AAA |
| Accent label text | Aa | 6.41:1 | AA |
| Text on dark bands | Aa | 15.69:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on dark bands | Aa | 8.17:1 | AAA |
| Text on brand bands | Aa | 11.12:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on brand bands | Aa | 6.96:1 | AA |
| Pairing | Sample | Ratio | WCAG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body text on page | Aa | 15.91:1 | AAA |
| Body text on cards | Aa | 14.49:1 | AAA |
| Secondary text | Aa | 6.95:1 | AA |
| Links | Aa | 9.04:1 | AAA |
| Button text | Aa | 9.11:1 | AAA |
| Accent label text | Aa | 11.07:1 | AAA |
| Text on dark bands | Aa | 16.74:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on dark bands | Aa | 8.33:1 | AAA |
| Text on brand bands | Aa | 9.11:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on brand bands | Aa | 5.55:1 | AA |
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