OUR MISSION
ADVANCING JOY FOR WEARY PEOPLE
BY PRACTICING JESUS’ PRESENCE IN COMMUNITY
Meet The Team
Reality Church Boston is led by a plurality of leaders. There are three primary teams of leaders: the church staff (pictured below), the leadership community, and the directional team. The leadership community includes our community group directors and Sunday team leaders—these men and women play an important role in the guidance and care of the church body. The directional team is a group of lay leaders who help represent the voice of the congregation and offer advice, insight, and feedback for RCB ministries and the overall direction of our church.
As a nonprofit, RCB also benefits from the leadership of our Board of Trustees.
Josh Wilson
Pastor
At age 10, Josh's family moved from rural Ohio to urban Moscow, Russia to plant a church. Growing up as a third-culture kid, helped foster in Josh a love of bridging barriers and a defining belief that God is on the move everywhere.
Before leading at Reality, Josh co-founded The Table Boston. He has served in urban churches in Chicago and Boston, holds a bachelor’s degree in Pastoral Ministry and two master’s degrees (M.Min, M.Div) focused on church planting and urban ministry in addition to being a Transformational Coach.
Josh is an extroverted nerd who is always up for a passionate conversation about life’s most pressing questions. He spends his free time drinking coffee, playing board games, organizing with neighbors, and striking up conversations with strangers on topics of theology, race, philosophy, social policy, ethics, and Boston Sports. He is at his best when he's helping to spark new imagination and connections to help Christians love their neighbors in the name of Jesus.
Connect with Josh via email!
Rashad Clemons
Pastor
Rashad hails from Los Angeles, California, but since the days of his youth, he fell in love with the cultural vibrancy and rich history of the East Coast.
He married a native of Brooklyn, Stacy, and together they have 4 boys. Rashad decided to follow Jesus at the age of 21. His journey began by attending Bible college in Pensacola, Florida where he received his Bachelor’s Degree in Bible. He then went on to attend the Haggard School of Theology in Azusa, California and completed a Master’s in Theology and Ethics.
His 15+ years in ministry include planting Trinity Grace Church Crown Heights in Brooklyn, NY which is now Reconcile Brooklyn. He was lead pastor at International Alliance Church and on the planting team for Sanctuary church in Providence, Rhode Island. He was also a youth pastor for Allegheny Center Alliance Church and a college campus pastor for the Coalition for Christian Outreach in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Rashad is an avid sports fan and enjoys traveling and finding all the local eateries to frequent and get to know his neighbors.
Connect with Rashad via email!
Aly Wilson
Associate Pastor
Aly grew up in beautiful Southern California right up until she moved to Boston in 2015. As a college student, God sparked in Aly a series of questions that set her on a quest for an expression of church that cared for both souls and societies.
In addition to serving as Associate Pastor at Reality, Aly works as a coach, spiritual director, and experience designer with Space to Thrive. Before serving at Reality, Aly helped co-found The Table Boston with her husband, Josh, and worked as Head of People & Culture for a social enterprise in Boston.
Before moving to Boston, Aly served on staff of a missions organization, studied Spiritual Formation & Soul Care at Talbot Seminary, and helped lead innovative missional communities in Long Beach & Fullerton, CA.
She is a certified Transformational Coach, Spiritual Director, and Enneagram Trainer. Aly is intuitive, discerning, and attuned to what’s happening below the surface in both individuals and communities. More than anything, Aly longs to see people experience the love of Jesus and have their identities recast in Him. Aly and her husband, Josh live in Dorchester with their daughter, Ava.
Connect with Aly via email!
Mandi Paszek
Community Engagement & Prayer Ministry
Mandi moved from the West Coast in 2013 and has been a part of the RCB community ever since. She previously attended Reality Los Angeles where she first joined their prayer team and also went on the Boston Prayer Tour in 2012. At the time, she had no idea that God would begin stirring her heart to join the church plant in Boston… but that’s exactly what happened!
At RCB, Mandi has served with prayer ministry and community groups, which helped develop her passion for building up God’s church. To this end, Mandi recently completed her Master’s degree in Spiritual Formation at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary. Mandi currently leads our Sunday hospitality team and prayer ministry, and she supports our Serve Teams, which seek to build community within RCB and to serve the communities around us.
Connect with Mandi via email!
Learn more about the individuals and organizations rcb is partnering with to pursue god’s Kingdom work.
In April 2023, Reality Church Boston and The Table officially joined together as one church community. Reality Boston has been advancing joy in the city since 2012, and The Table has been training people to live and love like Jesus in Dorchester since 2019. By linking arms, we create a stronger, more diverse, and more vibrant expression of the church that can better advance joy, equip our community, and extend Jesus’ love in our city.
Click on the link below to learn more about the church merger process, and the stage our community is in now.
Family of Churches
Reality Church Boston is part of the larger Reality family of churches, which includes churches both in the US and abroad. The Reality family is passionate, not about planting many churches, but about planting healthy churches. We recognize that Jesus is the one who builds the church (Matt 16:18) and therefore we consider it a privilege to partner with him in this mission of planting churches. As a part of this mission, Reality Church Boston was planted in September 2012 and continues to partner with the rest of the Reality family in planting churches both locally and globally.
Beliefs
Reality Church of Boston is a non-denominational church that believes in the complete authority of the Christian scriptures for our life and practice. We hold to the historic teachings of Christian orthodoxy as articulated in the Apostles Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Lausanne Covenant. See additional summaries below.
GOOD WORKS
Good works do not and cannot make us acceptable to God (Ephesians 2:8-9) but are the natural outcome of authentic faith in Jesus (James 2:17). We become more fully human—the very best and most healthy version of ourselves—to the degree that we follow God’s loving commands. His commands, properly understood, are neither limiting nor oppressive but life-giving. Obedience to God’s commands is an essential prerequisite for true human flourishing.
THE CHURCH
The Church is the family of God and consists of those who place their functional trust (faith) in Jesus. God wants all members of His worldwide Church, together with their children, to be active in a local church which meets regularly to worship God, serve each other, and be a life-giving presence in their local community and world (Acts 2:42-47; Hebrews 10:24-25).
THE GOSPEL
The Gospel is the good news that God himself, the Creator, has come to rescue us from sin and restore all things in and through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ on our behalf.
RESTORATION
Restoration between God and people (also called “salvation”) happens when the Holy Spirit gives people a new heart, leading and enabling them to trust in Jesus alone for salvation (John 1:12-13). Because God loves His creation, He will also restore the entire universe to a condition of beauty, rest, joy, perfection, and freedom (Romans 8:18-30). God’s world, which began as a promising Garden (Genesis 1:27-31), will find its fulfillment in a perfected, life-giving City in which there will be no more death, mourning, crying, or pain (Revelation 21:1-8).
GOD
God is one (Mark 12:29) yet mysteriously exists in three Persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) who are to be equally loved, honored, and surrendered to (Matthew 28:19).
JESUS CHRIST
Jesus Christ is fully God and fully human. He is the sole Mediator, risen from the grave, who is able to restore the broken relationship and the resulting alienation between God and people (John 14:6; Acts 4:12).
THE HOLY SPIRIT
The Holy Spirit is God, the third Person of the Trinity. He is alive and active. He indwells and fills followers of Christ, working in unison with the Word of God to guide them in all truth. He is the power that enables Christians to live as new creations in Christ and empowers believers for service (John 16:7-14; Galatians 5:22-23; Ephesians 6:17).
THE BIBLE
The Bible is the inspired word of God. It is without error in its original manuscripts and contains everything we need to know about having a right relationship with God and our fellow human beings. The Bible is the basis for all of our essential beliefs (2 Timothy 3:16-17).
PEOPLE
People are created by God and in the image of God (Genesis 1:27). On this basis, all people must be treated with dignity, honor, love, and respect (James 3:9-10). At the same time, in their quest for independence and the centrality of self, all people begin their lives alienated from God, and in this condition are without hope and under judgment, a condition that can only be cured through God’s loving, gracious, and saving intervention (Romans 6:23; Ephesians 2:1). As the image of God, we are most alive when our trust, affections, and allegiances center on Him.