Sharing life’s journey in Christian faith, love and service
Welcome to The Second Church in Newton!
At Second Church we honor your questions and seek answers together as we celebrate God’s unconditional love and seek to share it with one another. We join Christians in every age as we seek to discern where God is calling us to serve in our time, and to interpret God’s Word with relevance to our lives as individuals and as a community. We invite you to join us in worship and receive your presence as a gift that enriches us.
SCN Selects New Director of Music
Dr. Sarah Tocco
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Since the successful debut at Carnegie Weill Recital Hall in New York as an accompanist, Dr. Sarah Tocco has maintained an active concert career both as a soloist and an ensemble pianist. As a concerto competition winner, she has performed with California State University Symphony in Los Angeles and Moor Park College Symphony in California. She has collaborated with numerous chamber ensembles and vocal ensembles throughout New England area as well as in New York, California and around the world.
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Her recent performances in the US include solo recitals at M. Steinerts Piano recital hall, Merrimack College, and a collaboration with Choral Arts Society orchestra in a performance of Beethoven Choral Fantasy, among many others.
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Aside being a successful concert pianist, Dr. Tocco also has passionate love for choral music and choral conducting which led her to a choral director position at public schools for 7 years. With her strong religious background as a minister’s daughter, Dr. Tocco has served as a church organist for more than 20 years and as a music director at First Parish Westwood for 10 years.
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Dr. Sarah Tocco holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance from Boston University and both Master’s and bachelor’s degree in Piano Performance from Manhattan School of Music in New York. Her teachers include Mr. Boaz Sharon at Boston University and world-renowned pianists, Constance Keene, Eugene List, Byron Janis, Garry Graffman and Don Alexander-Feder at Manhattan School of Music in New York.
​She currently is a faculty member at Brooks Prep School, Groton Hill Music Center, and Winchester School of Music. Sarah will begin her tenure at Second Church in Newton this September, 2024.
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Summer Service Schedule
Services are held in Fellowship Hall beginning at 9:30am from June 30, 2024- August 25, 2024. Please come early and join us for Coffee Hour at 9:00am, also in Fellowship Hall. You can also live stream the service or view it later at the same link. Led by Rev. Corey Sanderson, Pastor
Open and Affirming
Second Church was one of the first congregations in the nation to vote to explicitly welcome people who are lesbian, gay, or bisexual, in 1992. In 2016 the covenant was amended to become more inclusive.
About the United Church of Christ
The United Church of Christ (UCC) is a Protestant Christian denomination with over 5000 member churches in the United States. The UCC does not require uniformity of belief. In fact, members are invited and encouraged to agree, disagree, and wrestle with life’s biggest questions in a spirit of love.
Parking access is from Highland and Chestnut Streets.
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Accessibility
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There is a parking area by the 60 Highland Street entrance with a short ramp to a door leading immediately to the sanctuary. However, the ramp is steep and the door is heavy. Alternatively:
1. Park in the lot off Chestnut Street and follow the walkway behind the building to the door with the Accessibility symbol and push the pad to open.
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2. Turn left at the end of the hall and left again to enter Fellowship Hall. Go to the elevator on the left at the far end of the room.
3. Call the elevator and take it to the top level.
4. Exit the room and turn left to enter the sanctuary.
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