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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

ServicesCultos

Your first Sunday at SementeSeu primeiro domingo na Semente

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.

Man with arms raised facing a stage with a glowing cross

What to expectO que esperar

Straight answers before you comeRespostas diretas antes de você vir

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.

Coffee being poured into a black mug

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.

Smiling toddlers playing at a church event

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

  1. 9:30

    Cafezinho and pão de queijoCafezinho e pão de queijo

    In the lobby. Grab a headset if you'd like English.No hall de entrada. Pegue um fone se quiser inglês.

  2. 10:00

    Worship beginsComeça o louvor

    Lucas and the band. Words on the screen in both languages.O Lucas e a banda. Letras no telão nas duas línguas.

  3. 10:40

    The messageA palavra

    Pastor Thiago or Pastora Renata, usually from the Gospels.Pastor Thiago ou Pastora Renata, quase sempre nos Evangelhos.

  4. 11:45

    Lunch downstairsAlmoço no subsolo

    $6 a plate, free for first-timers. Rice, beans and whatever the cell group on duty cooked.US$ 6 o prato, grátis para quem veio pela primeira vez. Arroz, feijão e o que a célula da vez cozinhou.

Every weekToda semana

The week at SementeA semana na Semente

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

  • 10:00 AM

    Sunday ServiceCulto de Domingo

    SanctuaryTemplo

    WorshipCulto
  • 6:00 PM

    Family ServiceCulto da Família

    SanctuaryTemplo

    WorshipCulto

TuesdayTerçaTodayHoje

  • 7:30–9:00 PM

    English classesAulas de inglês

    Rooms 2–5Salas 2 a 5 · Adults, four levelsAdultos, quatro níveis

    LearningEstudo

WednesdayQuartaTodayHoje

  • 8:00 PM

    Prayer serviceCulto de oração

    SanctuaryTemplo

    WorshipCulto

ThursdayQuintaTodayHoje

  • 6:00–8:00 PM

    Coat closetBazar de casacos

    BasementSubsolo

    NewcomersRecém-chegados
  • 7:30–9:00 PM

    English classesAulas de inglês

    Rooms 2–5Salas 2 a 5 · Adults, four levelsAdultos, quatro níveis

    LearningEstudo

FridaySextaTodayHoje

  • 7:30 PM

    Youth NightRede Jovem

    BasementSubsolo · Ages 13–2513 a 25 anos

    YouthJovens

SaturdaySábadoTodayHoje

  • 8:00 AM

    FutebolFutebol

    Bowditch Field

    SportEsporte
Waverly StConcord StHollis StIgreja SementeN↑400 ft

Find usComo chegar

The old furniture showroom on WaverlyA antiga loja de móveis da Waverly

118 Waverly St, Framingham, MA 01702
Get directionsVer rota
ParkingEstacionamento
Free lot behind the building, entrance on Hollis Street. Overflow on Waverly after 9 AM on Sundays.Estacionamento grátis atrás do prédio, entrada pela Hollis Street. Aos domingos, dá para parar na Waverly depois das 9h.
TransitTransporte
Framingham commuter rail station is four minutes away. MWRTA Route 2 stops at Waverly and Concord.A estação do trem de Framingham fica a quatro minutos. O ônibus MWRTA linha 2 para na Waverly com a Concord.
AccessAcessibilidade
Step-free from the back lot, lift to the basement hall, accessible restroom on both floors.Sem degraus pelos fundos, elevador para o subsolo e banheiro acessível nos dois andares.

QuestionsPerguntas

Things people ask Dona CidaO que perguntam para a Dona Cida

I don't speak English. Is that a problem?Não falo inglês. Tem problema?

Not at all. Everything happens in Portuguese first.Nenhum. Tudo acontece primeiro em português.

My husband doesn't speak Portuguese. Can he come?Meu marido não fala português. Ele pode vir?

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.

Are you connected to a church in Brazil?Vocês são ligados a alguma igreja no Brasil?

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.

Will you ask about my documents?Vão perguntar sobre meus documentos?

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.

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
© 2026 Igreja SementeWebsite by Greater Purpose Web

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

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