The Christian Education Committee of Newton Highlands Congregational Church, UCC, plans to distribute a card about their programming to families who gather on the church lawn for the annual neighborhood egg hunt on Sunday, April 20, 2025.
Moderator Sally Brickell and tech consultant Neil Johnson worked with the Reverend Dr. Ken Baily to update the sacraments pages of the Newton Highlands Congregational Church, UCC, website in March 2025. The website now includes refreshed pages for the two sacraments (baptism and communion) along with updated pages for confirmation, marriage, and funerals and memorial …
God’s signs and wonders are here for us. The Reverend Dr. Ken Baily On Sunday, March 30, 2025, at Newton Highlands Congregational Church, UCC, the Reverend Dr. Ken Baily explained ways in which the actions attributed to the Prodigal Son would have been “incredibly offensive” to the early church. “He ate with sinners and he …
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In March 2025 Gustavo Alay of Gustavo GR Brothers Home Improvement Inc. completed roofing repairs at Newton Highlands Congregational Church. The work included making new caps for the two chimneys and replacing all the damaged slate tiles. He also cleaned the gutters. Mr. Alay has agreed to inspect the roof annually in the spring. The …
We’re here to find that balance between the way that the world is and the way that we think, hope, breathe, and believe that God wants it to be. The Reverend Dr. Ken Baily The Reverend Dr. Ken Baily spoke about divisions in church history during his meditation on Sunday, March 23, 2025, at Newton …
Norumbega Harmony invites the community to a concert of “Choral Songs of Revolutionary New England” on Sunday, March 30, 2025, at 3:00 p.m., at Newton Highlands Congregational Church, 54 Lincoln Street, Newton, MA. A freewill offering will be held. This hour-long concert will bring the audience into the musical, emotive intellectual, political, and spiritual dimensions …
Read moreNorumbega Harmony concert set for March 30, 3:00 p.m., at NHCC
All are invited to a healing service on Sunday, April 6, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., at Newton Highlands Congregational Church, UCC (NHCC). The tradition of healing services at NHCC dates back to the 1980s. The church will also offer a Good Friday service on April 18 and a sunrise service and 10:00 a.m. worship on …
More than 60 worshipers gathered on March 5, 2025, at Eliot Church, UCC, for a Newton-wide Ash Wednesday service. The Reverend Dr. Ken Baily of Newton Newton Highlands Congregational Church (NHCC) was one of the worship leaders. About NHCC members attended, and several sang with the choir.
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. Socrates, 5th century BCE Dear Friends in Christ, With apologies to Eugene O’Neill, this month we begin Lent, which is a Long Day’s Journey into Light. A few days are particularly important for this …
Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. Luke 6:37 The Reverend Dr. Ken Baily spoke about decency, shame, and forgiveness in his meditation on Sunday, February 23, 2025, at Newton Highlands Congregational Church, UCC. He quoted from Margaret Chase Smith’s …