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Adventure, friends, fun, and learning!

 Join Brookline Cub Scouts! Pack 6 welcomes all children in grades K-5. Camping, hiking, rock climbing and community service projects are just some of the activities scouts participate in as they learn new skills, earn merit badges and make new friends. Join us for our fall Pack 6 kickoff event at 9:15am on Saturday, September 16 at New England Base Camp, 411 Unquity Road in Milton. Kids can learn to build a fire, tackle a ropes course, pick up archery skills, and more! Parents and children are invited to spend the morning and stay for a BBQ lunch. Any questions,… Read More

Thrifty Threads Update

Thrifty Threads Update Thrifty Threads is excited to have received gorgeous brand new fashion from Designers Circus. Designers Circus, a clothing store located at 1 Braintree Street in Allston, has been an ongoing support to our community store efforts. Learn more at http://designerscircus.com/. Thrifty Threads has been super busy the last few weeks. If anyone has shopping bags to share with us, we can put them to further use as our shoppers check out at Thrifty Threads. We are also collecting kids clothing to pass on to our partner organizations that are supporting children as they start the school year. They… Read More

Welcome Back Cookout, September 10

Please join us for a cookout in WILLETT HALL on Sunday, September 10 after the church service (around 12pm). Everyone is invited to bring a side dish or a dessert to supplement the burgers, hot dogs, veggie burgers, chips, and drinks we will be providing. We could use some help with set-up, clean-up, and grilling during worship. If you’d like to volunteer, please sign-up on this form: Welcome Back Cookout Volunteers…. Read More

Church School Kick-Off – September 10

Come celebrate the start of a new Church School year with us on Welcome Back Sunday. Please join us on the front lawn at 9:45am for families with young children (babies-elementary schoolers) and at 10:15am for families with older children (Middle-High Schoolers) on September 10 for a special Church School Get-to-Know-You event for children, families, and Church School teachers. We will have muffins and coffee with special music on the lawn before dismissing children and their parents/guardians to meet their teachers in the classrooms on the 2nd floor…. Read More

Welcome Back Dinners for 8, September 22 and 23

In response to feedback received through our recent vision discernment work about a desire to gather more regularly in small groups, we are organizing Welcome Back Dinners for 8 on the evenings of Friday, September 22 and Saturday, September 23 (and a lunch option on Saturday, September 23, too!) Meals will be held in homes or at church and we can help coordinate transportation. This is a wonderful opportunity to find deeper connections and enjoy fellowship in a small group setting. Please sign up HERE and we’ll assign you to a meal on one of these two dates. Thanks to… Read More

Brookline.News Events Calendar

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Brookline Porchfest

Saturday, September 30 from 12-6pm all over Brookline. Here at United Parish, the Handel + Haydn Youth Choruses will perform on our front lawn from 12-1pm, followed by a Berklee Jazz Combo featuring our very own Micah D. from 1-2pm. Learn more at brooklineporchfest.org…. Read More

Brookline Day

Sunday, September 10 from 11am-3pm in Coolidge Corner. The event will feature vendors, games, inflatables, trucks, food, face painters, bands, prizes and special activities. Learn more at facebook.com/brooklinerec…. Read More

20/30 Vision Fall Plans

 20/30 Vision is a group for adults in their twenties and thirties who come together to deepen their faith through Bible study, community service, social justice activities, fellowship and fun. This fall, the group will be meeting on Wednesday evenings. September 6 at 6:30pm: Our first Bible Study meeting at Amory Park in Brookline. Bring a blanket to sit on if you’d like! We’ll be hanging out and discussing what we would like our Bible study meetings to look like. This first ‘Bible Study’ will likely be more social than studious. September 13 at 7:30pm: Meet us for Trivia Night… Read More

Calling all Knitters and Crocheters

The Hearts and Hands Ministry Team are in need of more prayer shawls to increase our stock which we give to church members in times of mourning or as a remembrance. Here is the link to a pattern that includes directions for both crocheting and knitting: https://www.shawlministry.com/instructions.html. Whether you use one of these patterns or another, please have the finished product be no less than 20″ by 45″ as this will ensure we will be able to give them to whomever is in need. We are also in need of finding a couple of people interested in making mittens for children… Read More