Helping Feed Families
NHCC donated $1500 to Casa, the MetroWest Worker Center, to help supply food to area families.
Bert’s Apple Cake
Intended for dinners at Rosie’s Place, but feel free to bake one for yourself. Mix and beat well: 3/4 cup oil 3 eggs 1 1/2 cups sugar 1 tsp vanilla Sift and add: 2 cups flour 1 tsp baking soda pinch of salt 1 tsp cinnamon Add 1 cup chopped nuts and 4 cups chopped …
Advent Giving Market
The Advent Giving Market 2019 is the first day of Advent, Sunday, December 1, immediately following the morning service. We will be serving a light lunch of soup, bread and butter, fresh fruit, and cookies. This year we will focus on Heifer International. In addition we will also offer a chance to buy handmade Christmas …
2017-2022: Capital campaign, Covid-19
The Celebrate and Serve Capital Campaign from 2017-2020 raised about $525,000 in pledges to pay for a major restoration of the organ, among other projects, as well as a 10% charitable commitment. In June 2018 Weekday Nursery School ceased operations. Its space was leased to Pine Village Preschool, a Spanish immersion daycare and nursery school. …
A Deal with the Future
2006 September 10 Recovenanting Sunday Rev. Kenneth F. Baily, Senior Pastor Based on the Scripture reading: Isaiah 35: 4-7a Mark 7:24-37 Just moments ago you and I engaged in a radical and revolutionary act, and I don’t want anyone to miss it. Just moments ago we did something that connects us back to three millennia …
Litany of the Covenant
Newton Highlands Congregational Church, 2006September 10 Each fall on the first Sunday of our program year (usually the first Sunday after Labor Day), we repeat our ancient church covenant adapted for our contemporary time. This is the covenant for 2006. It is based, as always, on the Salem Church Covenant of 1629. Click here for …
1986-2020: New Rep, cell tower leases
Beginning in about 1986, the New Repertory Theatre rented the Parish Hall and staged four to six plays per year. According to Alexander Stevens, an arts correspondent for Wicked Local, Larry Lane, the founding artistic director of the theatre, and a small group of fellow actors began looking for a location to stage their productions …
1982: 110th anniversary celebrated
NHCC celebrated its 110th anniversary with a fundraising concert on November 21, 1982. A quintet of singers performed arias and ensembles from operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Guiseppe Verdi.
1953-1972: Founders Hall, Weekday Nursery, 100th anniversary
In May of 1953, NHCC dedicated Founders Hall, excavated beneath the sanctuary and finished by the direct effort of the men and women of the church. In 1961 plans were drawn for establishing 10 classrooms in Founders Hall, but not acted upon. The Christmas pageant was started in 1959. Memorial and Teaching windows along the …
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1946-1947: office suite, 75th anniversary
The upstairs office suite was built in 1946. Special services on June 15 and June 17, 1947, marked NHCC’s 75th anniversary.