CE: Support Helpful Heifer Honeybees Drive in January

Support the Christian Education Committee’s Helpful Heifer Honeybees Drive in January 2025! Check out the “Buzzing Bees” chart in the Newton Highlands Congregational Church parlor. For each $1 bill donated, a bee will be added to the chart! Heifer International beekeeping kits include supplies and training. Children and youth will learn about a group of women …

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CE: Reflection, anticipation, and preparation in December

The God who comes to us announces the preparations of Advent, the gift of Christmas, and the revealing of Epiphany. But this is not a God who comes in just one way, or at one time, or through one experience. How might children and youth relate to the real Christmas story? How does that story …

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Youth sandwich making highlighted in Fig City News

Monthly sandwich making by the children and youth of Newton Highlands Congregational Church was featured in a November 17, 2024, article in Fig City News about ways Newtonians are helping the clients of the Community Day Center of Waltham. Fig City student reporter Grace Yang interviewed Director of Christian Education Wendy Donnell; Ms. Donnell, who …

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CE: November is a time to be grateful, serve, and rake leaves

Being thankful for what we have should be our attitude every day! At our church we are thankful that we can provide healthy sandwiches for the Community Day Center of Waltham, paint cards for hurricane survivors, and make delicious homemade pumpkins pies to feed others. We will also help by raking up the church leaves! Thank …

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Invitation to gala for Community Day Center of Waltham

Wendy Donnell supports NHCC mission partner

Director of Christian Education Ms. Wendy Donnell attended the Fall Gala for the Community Day Center of Waltham on September 26, 2024, as part of her continuing support for this mission partner of Newton Highlands Congregational Church (NHCC). Mayor Jeanette McCarthy attended the event along with other Waltham leaders. Community Day Center programs for unhoused …

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CE: The power of community: Making connections and serving others

Welcome back to church school and nursery care! Jesus calls us to embrace both the cost and promise of living in a faith community shaped and transformed by the Biblical stories and good work we do together. Because God is present in every situation, we can work with confidence through any challenges by helping one …

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Church school and nursery on summer break; nursery care August 4

In July and August 2024, the Newton Highlands Congregational Church (NHCC) programs for children of all ages will be on a summer break. On Sunday, August 4, however, there will be nursery care during worship for the annual All-Newton UCC intergenerational worship gathering. The Reverend Alex Shea Will leads worship and communion. NHCC’s Christian Education program …

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June brings beauty in all forms, from mission work to community building!

We have fun and meaningful plans this month. As a community we will make sandwiches for the hungry twice this month, attend worship at Parish of St. Paul, collect cans of tuna fish, hand out new Bibles, honor the men we love, and enjoy summer treats and fun games! Come celebrate your faith, hope, and …

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Join the Mission and Christian Education Committees for a fishing expedition!

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 …

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