Congregants and coffee drinkers sang “Happy Birthday” to Director of Christian Education Wendy Donnell during fellowship time on Sunday, February 2, 2025, accompanied on the piano in a spirited fashion by Music Director Jan Zimmerman.
Did you know that the Bible contains many different types of stories, including narratives, parables, and accounts of the lives of people in the past? The Bible also includes laws, poetry, wise sayings, and letters. Jesus’ teaching used familiar images in unfamiliar ways to help his disciples understand extraordinary and challenging events and to teach valuable lessons. …
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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Newton Highlands Congregational Church children and youth depicted the Christmas story during worship on Sunday, December 8, 2024. The pageant script was updated by the Reverend Ken Baily. Director of Christian Education Wendy Donnell managed casting and costumes, and members of the Christian Education Committee assisted in various ways.
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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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 …
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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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 …
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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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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