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Family and friends remembered on All Saints Communion Sunday

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Worshippers marked All Saints Day on November 3, 2024, with a reading of the names of departed friends and family from the past year. The congregation celebrated Communion and sang, “For All the Saints.” In …

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Help provide Thanksgiving meals for neighbors

Come, ye thankful people, come, raise the song of harvest home All is safely gathered in ‘ere the winter storms begin God our Maker doth provide for our wants to be supplied Come, ye thankful people, come, raise the song of harvest home Come, Ye Thankful People, Come On Monday, November 25, 2024, Newton Highlands …

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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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Members deliberate about bylaws at fall meeting

Members of Newton Highlands Congregational Church met in the church parlor on Sunday, October 20, 2024, to complete the work of the 2023-2024 program year–-reviewing, discussing, and accepting the reports of the treasurer and auditor.  A planned vote on proposed changes to the church bylaws was postponed because of the number of questions that were …

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Sunday includes children’s message, cookware-drive wrap up

There is no true, basic difference between laymen and priests…between religious and secular, except for the sake of office and work, but not for the sake of status. They are all of the spiritual estate, all are truly priests, bishops, and popes. But they do not all have the same work to do. Martin Luther …

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Bylaws review wraps up at one-year mark

The Newton Highlands Congregational Church Bylaws Committee wrapped up its work in October 2024, just in time to celebrate its one-year anniversary. The committee was authorized by the Church Council to begin a review of the church bylaws in October 2023. The proposed amendments to the bylaws will be voted on at a congregational meeting …

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Mission Committee donates to hurricane relief fund

Members of the Newton Highlands Congregational Church (NHCC) Mission Committee voted to send $1,000 to Church World Service (CWS) for hurricane relief on October 11, 2024. In the past month, Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton caused severe damage in several states. According to its website, CWS “is a faith-based organization transforming communities around the globe …

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