The Eliot Church of Newton, UCC
  • HOME
  • ABOUT US
    • Contact
    • Music >
      • All things music
      • Performers at Eliot
    • Who are we?
    • LGBTQ / Open & Affirming
    • Mission
    • Accessibility
    • Safe Church
    • Staff
  • WORSHIP
    • Song, Word, and Prayer
    • In Need of Prayer?
  • Archived Sermons
  • GIVING
  • COMMUNITY
    • Anti-Racism Work
  • PARTICIPATE
    • MSJ and Climate Change
    • Governance
    • Annual Fellowship Events
    • Women's Spirituality
    • Get involved
    • Service & Mission Committees
  • ELIOT & INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
Picture

​
​474 Centre Street
​Newton, MA 02458


Enter, Rejoice and Find Peace

Welcome to all our neighbors!
Watertown, Newtonville, Oak Square, Newton Corner, W. Newton, Nonantum, Brighton and ​Newton Centre!
Access to the building during the week is limited,
​so please call ahead if you plan to visit.
​See our Covid Precautions HERE
Picture
Picture

Join Us for ​Song, Word and Prayer​

Sunday, May 22   
​
10:00 am

In the Sanctuary

Picture
Photo by Stefan K on Unsplash
How is church different from the MFA?

There are actually many similarities. Both bring us to another world, the fifth dimension. Both inspire us with the beauty of art. Both preserve our cultural heritage and grow it at the same time.  Both educate and prompt insights for living. Both are voluntary destinations, people go when they want or not.

But church holds us closer, brings people together over periods of time to keep learning as the world changes. The Church has a single prism for learning, namely, Christ, in whose light we try to see ourselves. Peter Senge famously taught us about the learning organization–we think of church as a learning community, always learning more about what it means to be human, learning how to be mutually supportive. Church upholds an ethic, a good life instead of the good life. One more thing: at church you experience the one live moment in a whole week–living words and words for living.

We are marked by our church life. To enter is to experience joy and peace. So enter this Sunday, rejoice and find peace.

RevRick
Vertical Divider
Picture
Photo by Marjan Blan | @marjanblan on Unsplash

Our prayer for Ukraine:

O God, in our shock, dismay and disbelief, we lift up to you the people of Ukraine now undergoing this criminal assault upon them and upon world order. Strengthen their spirit and resistance.
Reward all who support them.
Give guidance to our President and all world leaders in measuring the protective steps available.
All this, O God, and also for those who can only watch and wait in a world already beset with calamity and anxiety. In the name of Christ, the Prince of Peace, we pray. Amen.

​Please find below audio of the Worship highlights
​from Sunday (5.15.22).

​
Vertical Divider

​Sermon from 5.15.22
​Worship Service

A religious matter–where are the men?
Matthew 23:13-16
I.
                                                
Last week I was struck by something with the force of a blow to my solar plexus. When I heard about the Supreme Court’s leaked opinion on abortion, I doubled over. The image immediately arose before me of a blood sacrifice. I saw in my mind Agamemnon’s ritual sacrifice of his own daughter Iphigenia to bring favorable winds that would take their warships to Troy—. It was blind, it was desperate, and death-dealing. 
​​
READ MORE​

We are Building Community,
Growing Faith,
​and Living Love

    If you wish to receive our communications, contact RevRick at RevRick@eliotchurch.org

Submit
The Eliot Church of Newton, UCC
​474 Centre Street | Newton, MA 02458​
office@eliotchurch.org       
​617.244.3639​
  • HOME
  • ABOUT US
    • Contact
    • Music >
      • All things music
      • Performers at Eliot
    • Who are we?
    • LGBTQ / Open & Affirming
    • Mission
    • Accessibility
    • Safe Church
    • Staff
  • WORSHIP
    • Song, Word, and Prayer
    • In Need of Prayer?
  • Archived Sermons
  • GIVING
  • COMMUNITY
    • Anti-Racism Work
  • PARTICIPATE
    • MSJ and Climate Change
    • Governance
    • Annual Fellowship Events
    • Women's Spirituality
    • Get involved
    • Service & Mission Committees
  • ELIOT & INDIGENOUS PEOPLE