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Christmas worship services, Wellesley churches

December 23, 2020 by Deborah Brown Leave a Comment

Wellesley has many houses of worship that observe Christmas. This year almost all services will be online, and the few that are not have already been fully booked via a reservation system.

Online or in-person, all the services and masses will be joyful, and all are welcome. Merry Christmas, Wellesley.

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Merry Christmas, Wellesley (photo by The Swellesley Report, at Mass Hort Festival of Trees).

First Church of Christ, Scientist

8 Rockland St, 781-235-1114

Regular services online on Sun., Dec. 27, 10am
All are welcome.


MetroWest Baptist Church

2 Brook St.  781-431-0828
See their website for more information.


Milestone Church

Wellesley venue
42 Elmwood Road, Wellesley, MA
781-235-6025

Natick venue
217 West Central Street, Natick, MA
781-235-6025

Join Milestone Church as they host a very special online Christmas Eve gathering at 6pm for the whole family. There will be sing-along music, a special Christmas message, and lots of surprises along the way. Milestone’s Christmas episode can be watched on Facebook, Youtube, Milestone online, and local TV. Milestone Christmas, what to expect.


St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church

79 Denton Rd., 781-235-7310

St. Andrew's Church, Wellesley


St. John the Evangelist Parish (Catholic)

9 Glen Rd., 781-235-0045

St. Paul Parish (Catholic)

502 Washington St., 781-235-1060

Reservations for all in-person Christmas Masses are now closed.

Collaborative Mass for Christmas from St. John the Evangelist and St. Paul Churches will be celebrated.

Available to stream beginning at 4pm on Christmas Eve via the church website and YouTube channel.

All are welcome and capacity is unlimited at online Christmas Mass.


Unitarian Universalist Society of Wellesley Hills

309 Washington St., 781-235-9423

Online Candlelight Christmas Eve Service, Thurs., Dec. 24, 5:30pm

Join Rev. Kelly and Director of Music Suzie Cartreine for a traditional service of Lessons and Carols. Carols sung by the UU Wellesley Hills Choir will be featured. Live-streamed events are available through the UUSWH website or UU Wellesley Hills Facebook page. Zoom meetings are listed on the online church calendar; click the links you find there.


Wellesley Village Church

2 Central St., 781-235-1988

Online celebrations:

Dec. 23, 6:15pm – 7:15pm, on Zoom, Wellesley Village Youth Music
Dec. 24, 4pm – 5pm, online, Family Christmas Eve Service
Dec. 24, 8pm – 9pm, online, Christmas Eve Service of Lessons and Carols


Wellesley Hills Congregational Church

207 Washington St., 781-235-4424

Online celebrations:

Dec. 24, 4pm., Family Worship with Christmas Pageant, Rev. Anne Marie Holloway preaching
Dec. 24, 7pm., Traditional Service of Lessons & Carols, Rev. Matt Wooster preaching


Wellesley Friends Meeting (Quaker)

26 Benvenue St., 781-237-0268

Dec. 24, 4pm – 5pm, via Zoom

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Village Table in Wellesley is a loaves-and-fishes story

December 22, 2020 by Deborah Brown 2 Comments

In the basement of an historic Wellesley church that can trace its history back to Puritan times, a modern and spacious industrial kitchen hums with activity. Volunteers, masked up and socially distant, work together under the direction of Gary Arthur, a Wellesley Village Church member with 17 years’ experience managing food services at large industrial kitchens. Like a well-oiled machine, group members work at their stations to prepare and package hundreds of healthy and delicious meals that will be distributed to food insecure recipients in locations from Wellesley to the Greater Boston area.

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Village Table volunteers put together meals in Wellesley Village Church’s commercial kitchen. Photo credit: GA

The feeding program is called “Village Table” at Wellesley Village Church, and it was started in the church’s fully licensed commercial kitchen in response to the rise in food insecurity during the coronavirus pandemic. “People are hungry,” Arthur says, “and they’re getting in food lines. Food insecurity is right at the top of the list of problems for so many. But we can do something about it.”

It’s been a pretty big something. Already over 1,000 meals per month are going out the door. Included in that number are ongoing donations to the Community Fridges program in Jamaica Plain, Dorchester, and Roslindale; Family Promise Metrowest; Food for Free in Cambridge; A Place to Turn in Natick; and food pantries both here in Wellesley and beyond.

In addition, over Thanksgiving a group sponsored and delivered hot meals, clothing, and personal items to over 300 people on “Methadone Mile” in Boston, a one-mile stretch of Massachusetts Avenue. There, volunteers served those struggling with problems that may include nutritional deficit and/or hunger; addiction; being underhoused; loss of community of origin; and mental illness.

Village Table, Wellesley
Teriyaki chicken skewers, prepped for inclusion in Village Table meals. Photo credit, GA

On a mission

Essential to the mission of Village Table is maintaining the dignity of every individual. “We don’t want anyone to feel underprivileged or feel like they have to self-identify as needy. We really try to minimize shame,” Arthur says. It’s all about looking at food need through a lens of community. If one person benefits from food security, that doesn’t mean that person is unaffected by the food insecurity of others. “Need is something that affects the entire community,” he says.

To that end, Village Table food is anything but hastily slapped-together rations. Meals are nutritious and delicious, prepped and packaged with love by volunteers committed to the goal of helping others. Teriyaki chicken skewers on udon noodle salad is one example of the kind of restaurant-quality meals Village Table provides. Roasted lemon chicken, with simmered farro and vegetables is another. Meals are put together in two separate 3-hour cooking sessions, then packaged for delivery in a third session. Distribution is handled by a combination of Wellesley volunteers  and those from the Greater Boston community who load up their vehicles and shepherd the meals out to where they’re needed. We’re talking over  a thousand meals per month, and that’s just since the inception of the program in fall 2020.

“We officially got going in September for the pilot.” Arthur explains. “We got funding together and we started doing it. October was our first operation. We planned for 600 meals.”  But in a loaves-and-fishes scenario, additional donations meant the group was able to stretch their resources and reach that 1k meals milestone,  all without sacrificing portion size or quality.

Coincidence? I think not

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Gary Arthur, Wellesley Village Table

Providence seemingly went to work to reach this point. Three years ago, Arthur and his wife Carmen Suen moved into Wellesley along with their two children, who they enrolled in their neighborhood public elementary school. The family found their way to Village Church, felt comfortable there, and joined the congregation.

Arthur just so happened to have a lifetime of experience in industrial food service. “I’ve been managing food services at large industrial kitchens for 17 years. U Chicago. Notre Dame.” Perhaps his largest-scale gig was at Texas A&M University, where he was part of the team that fulfilled delivery  of 30,000 meals a day at 41 on-campus locations. Then an opportunity at MIT brought the family to the Boston area, which in turn led to Arthur self-starting a new venture. Once COVID hit, that project was put temporarily on hold. “I realized God may be saying that wasn’t my path right now,” he says.

Once that epiphany hit, things started coming together with Village Table. Fast.

Head Pastor Rev. Dr. Sarah Butter was all in with the idea of using the church’s commercial kitchen to help serve the greater good. “We live in a hungry world. People are hungry physically and spiritually, and hungry for care and community. Village Table emerged at just the right time, with just the right leadership, to work at the intersection of these hungers. Volunteers and recipients alike are fed by the process of shopping, cooking, packaging, and delivering meals to any in need of a bit, or bite, of care. It’s a marvelous embodiment of love alive in community, in real time, in real ways. I’m grateful for Gary’s vision and the contagious energy that has given birth to this ministry that feeds so many people in so many ways.”

Indeed, there is much gratitude to be parceled out. Arthur credits the Foundation for MetroWest for the non-profit’s recent $5,000 grant to support the work of Village Table. He also thanks New England Country Mart, a wholesaler as well as a direct-to-consumer grocery delivery platform that provides fresh premium produce to restaurants, institutions, and grocers. “Country Mart provides us with a lot of food,” Arthur says.

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Wellesley Village Church, Central St.

How to volunteer

There’s no question that as Village Table increases its reach, more volunteers will be needed for help with shopping, food sourcing, gardening, cooking, cleaning, distribution, marketing, grant-writing, and more. But right now, due to COVID concerns, the volunteering is limited to a small group of church members. The hope is that in the near future, anyone with the time and the heart to serve will be invited to participate.

For now, please instead consider a monetary donations to Village Table.

“There’s enough love in this town to make a difference for hungry people. That’s the part I love,” Arthur says.

Keep Village Table close to your heart right now

It would be an omission of note to leave out a recent tragic turn of events that has affected Gary Arthur and his family. Our hearts go out to Gary as he mourns the sudden death of his 44-year-old son Michael David, who was shot and killed last week during a robbery at the store where he was working in Portland, Ore.

While this story was written prior to this tragedy, Gary’s pastor, Rev. Sarah Butter, on behalf of Wellesley Village Church, invites donations to the Village Table in memory of Michael David Arthur.

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Wellesley church bells will toll to remember victims of COVID-19

September 26, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

Wellesley Village Church, along with many other area churches, will ring their steeple bells 20 times at 10am over ten consecutive days beginning Sunday, September 27. The symbolism behind the tolling is to remember the 200,000+ Americans who have died from COVID-19.

Wellesley Village Church
Wellesley Village Church, Central St.

The ringing of the bells is also a way for churches to express their care for those grieving the loss of loved ones, friends, and neighbors, and to signal that they are not forgotten. By following the old tradition of ringing church bells when a community member dies, the dignity of each life lost is marked. As they ring, the church is called to prayer on behalf of all who have suffered because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Some history

The ringing of church bells is part of an ancient tradition to mark the passing of a member of the community and to serve as a witness to loss. According to The Church Bells of England, by H.B. Walters, “The ringing of a church bell in the English tradition to announce a death is called a death knell. The pattern of striking in earlier times depended on the person who had died; for example in the counties of Kent and Surrey in England it was customary to ring three times three strokes for a man, and three times two for a woman, with a varying usage for children. The age of the deceased was then rung out. In small settlements this could effectively identify who had just died.”


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Wellesley Business Buzz: YogaSix never got started; Cottage & Door No. 7 return; The Goddard School not leasing St. Paul space

August 6, 2020 by Bob Brown Leave a Comment

Our round-up of the latest Wellesley, Mass., business news:

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YogaSix never got started

YogaSix was among a few businesses looking to open in Wellesley this year, only to have their plans upended by the pandemic. Unfortunately, for this local franchise, its doors won’t be opening in Linden Square after all. A Swellesley reader had inquired about the status, having signed up as an early member in March, only to have her membership canceled and payment returned in May.

“Unfortunately, due to the current circumstances, we are no longer able to move forward with the YogaSix location in Wellesley. We were excited to join the community and had strong feedback from early members. But ultimately, we were not able to weather the financial storm,” writes Jed Sturman, the franchise owner.

The Cottage, Door No. 7 to return on August 7th

Door No. 7, Wellesley
Door No. 7, Wellesley

The Cottage and Door No. 7 restaurants in Linden Square, owned by restaurant power couple Laura Wolfe (who grew up in Wellesley)  and her husband John Wolfe, plan to reopen their doors on Aug. 7 for indoor and outdoor dining as well as takeout. Both establishments have been closed since mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A post on the Door No. 7 Facebook page says, “We’re committed to exceeding state and local standards for creating a safe — yet comfortable — dining experience.”

Goddard School says goodbye before it even gets here

St. Paul Church, Wellesley
St. Paul Church, Wellesley

Late last year The Goddard School entered into a preliminary lease agreement for the rental of the St. Paul School building at 502 Washington St. The arrangement with the early education provider, and the anticipated income the agreement would generate, was good news for the church, and the idea was popular with parishioners.

However, the expected $3.5 million in renovations to the school building that The Goddard School had planned proved to be the undoing of the deal. Jackie Welham, Director of Finance and Operations for the St. John – St. Paul Collaborative said in response to our recent email inquiry, “The Goddard School was unable to secure the necessary financing to go forward with their planned project. The St. Paul School building is once again available for lease.”

The school building most recently operated as St. Paul School. The Catholic school closed in 2015 after 60 years of educating K – 8th grade students.

St. Paul Catholic Church remains open and operates in a Catholic Collaborative partnership with St. John Church, located at 9 Glen Rd. in Wellesley Hills.


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Wellesley Food Pantry sees slight uptick in numbers served

June 26, 2020 by Deborah Brown Leave a Comment

These are lean times for many, and we felt like we should check in on the Wellesley Food Pantry to see how the 30-year old charitable organization and its clients are doing during this time of pandemic and 15% unemployment in Massachusetts. The pantry is located at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Wellesley Hills (UUWH) for the summer. They expect to move back in September to their permanent home at the Wellesley Hills Congregational Church once renovations are complete at that space.

Wellesley Food Pantry
Photo credit: Wellesley Food Pantry

Peter Lull, president of the pantry’s Board of Directors, met up with me at UUWH to give me a tour. If you’ve ever been in an old church that has one of those vast multi-purpose rooms where everything happens from games of tag to rummage sales, then you’ve got the picture. Lull thinks the space is just perfect. He says, “The accommodations have been really been wonderful. UU has welcomed us with open arms. They’ve made it easy to work during this time of transition.”

The location isn’t the only thing that has changed. The way the pantry conducts its mission has undergone a dramatic re-work. “We have fewer volunteers working to keep the pantry running because of social distancing requirements and the vulnerability of our volunteers, who tend to skew older. So many are sitting out for now. The extra number of hours required to make this work has probably doubled, on average, but we have made it work with our dedicated volunteers. Many clients say how amazed and grateful they are for the job we’re doing. We care and they can tell,” Lull says.

The numbers of families and individuals who rely on the pantry are gently increasing, and the pantry is bracing itself for a continued rise. At the end of December 2019 they had 183 registered households comprising 390 individuals. Lull notes that the number had been steadily declining for the past few years as more of the younger clients found work.

Wellesley Food Pantry, Peter Lull
A masked-up Peter Lull, president of the pantry’s Board of Directors, met up with me at the pantry to give me a tour.

As of June 3rd, he says, “We’re back up to 192 households of 421 individuals — not a huge increase in households, and we expect to see the numbers rise once the unemployment runs out — but the number reflects more volatility than merely 11 new households, since we’ve had others move away from Wellesley.”

Lull also pointed out that 106 of the individuals in December were 18 and under compared with now, when they have 124 in that same age range. So the growth has clearly been in families. In addition, a number of the households served have one or more family members who have lost jobs.

Along with the usual donations of canned goods, pasta, rice, diapers, and more, with the onset of summer, the pantry is taking in more donations of fresh produce. There’s a dedicated drop-off spot at the Weston Road Community Gardens where gardeners can drop off produce for donation to the pantry. A sign at the pantry directs clients to wash fresh produce, and each bag of food comes with a reminder note to do so.

Overall, donations of food and monetary donations continue to come in at a good clip. “We very much appreciate all the support the community has provided for our clients,” Lull says. “We’re a supplement for people who need it. The food we give helps families stretch their dollars.”

Wellesley Food Pantry
Photo credit: Wellesley Food Pantry

As far as donations go, the bad news is that the annual Stamp Out Hunger drive was canceled, an effort that typically results in 10% of the yearly donated food. And it is unknown if the Scouting for Food drive will happen in the fall. That drive accounts for 40% of food donations.

How to donate to the Wellesley Food Pantry

Curbside donations at UUWH’s west entrance are Mondays, 8:30am – 10:30am (look for curbside bins). You can also donate food at the designated donation bins at Roche Bros. in Linden Square and Whole Foods. Here’s the updated wish list.

Monetary donations may be made online at this link.

Checks made out to Wellesley Food Pantry may be sent to  207 Washington Street, Wellesley, MA 02481

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Interfaith demonstration at Wellesley Village Church calls for “justice and joy” for all people

June 8, 2020 by Deborah Brown Leave a Comment

The grounds of the historic Wellesley Village Church (WVC) at 2 Central St. served as gathering place for a witness on Sunday, at which hundreds of demonstrators came together in solidarity. Representatives from multiple places of worship joined to share the sacred space along with WVC parishioners and clergy, residents, Wellesley police, and more.

The purpose of the interfaith and multi-congregational witness as stated by church leadership was to “unite in the conviction that black lives matter, that police brutality and racial injustice must end, and that we are called to pray and work for justice and joy for all people.”

Hundreds of participants held signs, prayed, and simply lent their physical or spiritual presence to a the cause. There wasn’t a prayer of social distancing for most attendees, but those who wished to keep six feet apart hung back along the edges and across the street.

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Demonstrators gather at Wellesley Village Church (WVC) at 2 Central St.

There was music. There’s always music at Wellesley Village Church. The church bells rang; a trio including saxophonist Gregory Groover Jr.; Max Ridley on bass; and Tyson Jackson on drums played a jazz selection; and the windows and doors of the church were thrown open so that the sounds of WVC’s organist David Carrier could be heard.

Partners who attended the demonstration were the Congregational Church of Weston; Charles St. AME; St. Andrews Church; Wellesley Hills Congregational Church; Temple Beth Elohim; Dover UCC; Wellesley UU; St. John/St. Paul Roman Catholic Community; Wellesley Police Department; and Pilgrim Church in Sherborn; World of Wellesley.

 

Wellesley Village Church, BLM demonstration
WVC member Gary Arthur spoke of the need for justice and hope that the bigger story of Black people in America will be told “from the end of slavery to why we are all here today. This story is bigger than me and you. It tells the tale of hatred, mental abuse, violence, spite, disregard, segregation, rape, unemployment, incarceration, and so many more horrid things. I pray it is the story which will give you the breath to utter three words: “Black Lives Matter”. (See Arthur’s speech in its entirety, below.)

Wellesley Village Church, BLM demonstration

Wellesley Village Church, BLM demonstration

Wellesley Village Church, BLM demonstration

Wellesley Village Church, BLM demonstration

Wellesley Village Church, BLM demonstration

Wellesley Village Church, BML demonstration
Wellesley Police Chief calls for an end to immoral and criminal police actions, as Rev. Sarah Butter of Wellesley Village Church looks on.

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Wellesley houses of worship will continue to love their neighbors at a distance

May 23, 2020 by Deborah Brown Leave a Comment

Gov. Charlie Baker on Monday revealed the state’s re-opening plan, which includes a rough timeline along which organizations in various sectors might re-open. Up first were places of worship (up to 40% occupancy), beginning May 18. But don’t expect Wellesley’s religions houses to rush toward re-filling those pews. They’re all still praying on it.

Due to continued COVID-19 concerns, Wellesley Village Church will not rush to re-open.

Despite the new guidelines, religious organizations in town are taking a cautious approach under advisement of each of their own committees as they study the situation carefully. Services and masses, which have been online for weeks now, will continue in that vein, while baptisms, weddings, and funerals will be managed on a case-by-case basis.

Temple Beth Elohim‘s (TBE) Rabbi Joel Sisenwine in an interiew said, “Preservation of human life and health is one of the great values in Judaism. In the rabbinic tradition we’re told to sacrifice certain joys of religious life in order to preserve life, and that is true today.”

Sisenwine said the synagogue, which has not scheduled a re-opening date, has gone as far as temporarily re-branding itself. For now, call it TBE Online.

Milestone Church‘s Pastor Jay Mudd in an interview agreed that now is not the time to take COVID-related health concerns lightly. “We’re huggers at Milestone,” he says. “That’s just not going to work right now.”

Mudd noted that when services do resume, worship will look different than before. According to the Milestone website, “We will have to limit interaction and worship with only a handful of people in the room. Your overall worship experience will be much different than you expect.”

Day by day

No church or synagogue offices are staffed right now. A pastor or rabbi might stop in briefly to record a section of the upcoming online worship service. A bare-bones cleaning crew does the rounds of chores quickly and at a distance from one another. Phone calls either go to voicemail or are picked up by a staff member working from home.

When the buildings do re-open, expect to see masks on clergy and worshippers; plenty of sanitation supplies available from hand sanitizer to bleach wipes; and even plexiglass shields in some offices to protect staff as they interact with the public. All scenarios are currently up for discussion including traffic patterns throughout the spaces and a dismissal system that could look less like a meandering flock headed out in to the world and more like a military operation.

It seems likely that most sanctuaries will remain closed until fall, which could be the most sensible course given that attendance at Wellesley churches and synagogues already trends downward during the summer months. The closest to opening may be St. John and St. Paul’s. Weekly mass attendance is  a precept of the Catholic Church, although dispensation from the Sunday Mass obligation has been granted to the faithful for now.

According to Wellesley Village Church (WVC) pastor Sarah Butter in a statement on the church’s website, “I am not ready to reopen WVC for public worship or gatherings until we discern it is in the best interest and well-being of all. For now…worship will be remote and small groups and meetings will continue to gather on-line.” WVC is looking to work toward a phased reopening, hopefully in the fall.

The commandment has been delivered loud and clear: Love they neighbor as thyself — but do so at a distance.

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