Sally Brickell
According to Newton Highlands Congregational Church (NHCC) custom, non-Communion summer services are typically planned and led by non-clergy members. The 2024 summer schedule is as follows: Worship at 10:00 a.m. Worship at 9:30 a.m. Evening worship at 6:00 p.m. Worship at 9:30 a.m. Worship at 10:00 a.m. The main office will be open for about 10 …
Judah Coffman managed printing, Marian Reynolds brought drinks, Diane Basemera served coffee, Lynn Shields sliced pizza, Rich Bryden managed technology, Yevgenia Semeina played piano. As happened in Stone Soup, Newton Highlands Congregational Church members and staffers put together the ingredients for a fact-filled Annual Meeting on Sunday, June 2, 2024. The event included a service …
Read moreIt all comes together at Annual Meeting on June 2, 2024
Members of the Newton Highlands Congregational Church Mission Committee met several times in June 2024 to decide which nonprofits to support with their remaining $8,000 budget. According to chair Kitty Rieske, they wanted to strike a balance between local organizations and international ones and to touch on the goals expressed in their mission statement (Feed …
Read moreMission Committee plans end-of-church-year donations
And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. Then He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” They immediately left their nets and followed Him. Matthew 4:18-20 This sounds …
Read moreJoin the Mission and Christian Education Committees for a fishing expedition!
We live in a world of continuous possibility. God continually invites us to go on through the veil of this world to the light. The Reverend Dr. Richard Chrisman The Reverend Dr. Richard Chrisman led the Newton Highlands Congregational Church (NHCC) worship service on Sunday, May 19, 2024. The Reverend Chrisman served as the long-term …
Marian Reynolds May 12, 2024 I love being able to walk to church. I joined the church in my early 50’s right in the middle of my life–not young, not old–ready to join my church family. I used to think I had to live life on my own, reinventing the wheel every day. Sunday by …
She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. She looks well to the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness. Proverbs 31: 26-27 The women of Newton Highlands Congregational Church (NHCC) were celebrated during fellowship time on Sunday, May 12, 2024. The special …
As part of continuing efforts to make Newton Highlands Congregational Church even more welcoming, in spring 2024 Misha Hill, chair of the Buildings & Grounds Committee, is overseeing repairs and upgrades to the lighting in the church sanctuary, narthex, and hallway. Some of the project’s goals are as follows: Mr. Hill supervised electrical repairs in …
The Annual Meeting of Newton Highlands Congregational Church (NHCC) will take place on Sunday, June 2, 2024, immediately after the worship service in the Great Hall. All NHCC members are asked to attend. Those who do not wish to attend in person will have the option to participate on Zoom. (Join Annual Meeting on Zoom.) …
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for …