Slide showing Mission Committee year-end donations

Mission Committee makes year-end donations

Members of the Newton Highlands Congregational Church, UCC, Mission Committee deliberated in June 2025 to decide which nonprofits to support with their remaining discretionary funds. The committee works to address needs locally, nationally, and internationally according to co-chairs Holly Grieb and Kitty Rieske. They also keep in mind the goals expressed in their mission statement …

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Head shot: Natasha Dukach, guest musician, June 8, 2025

Violinist Natasha Dukach to play on Sunday, June 8

The worship service at Newton Highlands Congregational Church, UCC, on Sunday, June 8, 2025, will feature a prelude and postlude played by violinist Natasha Dukach, co-founder and CEO of See Forward Ukraine, Inc. (formerly Cash for Refugees), and pianist Tianhong Yang. The service will also be livestreamed on YouTube at NHCC Worship at 10:00 a.m. …

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Woman (Karen Sebastian) gesturing to group on church front lawn

Kickoff for landscape master planning elicits interest and ideas

Newton Highlands Congregational Church, UCC, congregants gathered after worship on Sunday, June 1, 2025, to help launch Community Connection, a landscape master planning process with landscape architect Karen Sebastian and design builder and restoration contractor David Nauss. About 20 church members and friends got an overview of a process that will include several group brainstorming …

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Ken Baily joins Prayers for Liberty march on May 30

In other words that while I am among you we may be mutually encouraged by one another’s faith, yours and mine. Romans 1:12 The Reverend Ken Baily participated with other clergy in a march from Lexington Green to the Boston Common to protest the immigration policies of the current administration. He was signatory number 271 …

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