Sally Brickell

After a short re-introduction to the Community Connection landscape master design project, Newton Highlands Congregational Church, UCC, members and friends walked around the church grounds on Sunday October 5, 2025. They used maps provided by consultants Karen Sebastian and David Nauss to jot down notes, ideas, and questions. The consultants will review and synthesize all …

Read moreCongregants tour grounds for Community Connection brainstorming

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” He replied, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you. Luke 17: 5-6 Congregants heard prayers in English and also in Danish, Japanese, Luganda, Ukrainian, Tagalog, Hebrew, and Swahili …

Read moreWorld Communion Sunday features diverse prayers

The Lord sets prisoners free, the Lord gives sight to the blind,the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down, the Lord loves the righteous. The Lord watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow,but he frustrates the ways of the wicked. Psalm 146: 7-9 Sometime-singers joined the choir at Newton Highlands Congregational Church, UCC, on Sunday, September 28, 2025, enriching the choral offerings. …

Read moreCommunity choir warms September 28 service

All are invited to a talk by Janet Singer Applefield, a child survivor of the Holocaust, author, notable speaker, and change agent, on Thursday, September 30, 2025, at 5:00 p.m., in Needham, MA. Ms. Singer Applefield was born in Poland. When she first arrived in the U.S. in 1947, her father asked her to write …

Read moreChild survivor of the Holocaust to speak on September 30, 5:00 p.m., in Needham