Church plans special events for Holy Week
Holy Week 2025 at Newton Highlands Congregational Church, UCC, will include a tenebrae service on Friday, April 18, and a neighborhood egg hunt on Easter Sunday. All are welcome!
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Dedicate Easter flowers
Celebrate the season or honor loved ones with beautiful Easter tulip plants that will decorate the chancel at Newton Highlands Congregational Church, UCC, on Sunday, April 20, 2025. Purchasers may write a dedication when they order flowers; the dedications will be printed in the Easter bulletin. Flowers may be taken home after the 10:00 a.m. …
A message from the pastor
You are my shelter; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with songs of deliverance. Psalm 32:7 Dear Friends in Christ, If we’re doing it right, our sanctuary should be a place of welcome to all who seek to celebrate God’s hope, who long to live at peace with their neighbor, learn, grow, pray, …
Pledge Sunday brings church to 60 percent mark
As of March 30, 2025 (Pledge Sunday), Newton Highlands Congregational Church, UCC, has brought in about 60 percent of the pledges expected during Stewardship 2025: Reflect, Redeem, Renew, its annual stewardship campaign. Pledges made to date total $184,000 from 31 pledgers, with a net increase of about $17,500.
Seeking singers! NHCC Community Choir will lift voices this spring
Sing to God, sing praises to his name; lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts; his name is the LORD; exult before him! Psalm 68:4 Do you love to sing–or think you might with encouragement? Try your hand at singing choral music! If you want to try out the Newton Highlands Congregational …
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NHCC worship service recognizes 5-year anniversary of Covid impact
On Sunday, March 16, 2025, the Reverend Ken Baily recalled the uncertainty and need for rapid change that accompanied the beginning of the Covid pandemic in March 2020. The service included a litany, standing, with memory and prayer. Remembers the Reverend Baily, “March of 2020 brought great changes to our parish, as well as our …
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Stewardship 2025: Reflect, Redeem, Renew
Remember this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously. 2 Corinthians 9:6-7 What is stewardship? Stewardship season is the time when Newton Highlands Congregational Church (NHCC) establishes its budget for the next fiscal year. Help us continue to be a gathering place that provides opportunities …
B&G approves work on platform in church sanctuary
With support from the Deacons Committee, the Buildings & Grounds Committee has approved work on a wooden platform on the front right side of the sanctuary at Newton Highlands Congregational Church. The work will include the following: Removing the wooden platform will make it much easier to move the heavy wooden baptismal font forward during …
“The Meaning of Sanctuary”: Two-part conversation planned for March
The Reverend Dr. Ken Baily will lead a two-part conversation entitled “The Meaning of Sanctuary” on Sunday, March 16, and Sunday, March 23, after worship, at Newton Highlands Congregational Church, UCC. “Sanctuary is a personal, powerful place,” he stated. “It is a political, powerful term.” The Reverend Baily will explore the term in his sermon …
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All invited to Newton-wide Ash Wednesday service on March 5
All are invited to gather at a Newton-wide worship service on Ash Wednesday, March 5, at 7:00 p.m., at Eliot Church, UCC, 474 Centre Street, Newton. The Reverend Dr. Ken Baily will participate in the service, and there will be a pop-up choir, including some of members of the Newton Highlands Congregational Church choir.