Announcements

We Are Christmas

 

How will you attend? Live or via livestream on YouTube and Facebook?

Kick-off the season with the Musicians’ Circle of Emmanuel Church and their FREE, kid-friendly, concert of Christmas classics featuring our church’s amazing musicians with special guest performers and the annual singing of the 12 Days of Christmas – Emmanuel style. It’s admittedly early in Advent – but we have to get it in before the Salve Regina students start their exams!

And like the old Christmas standard says – we’ll have folks from 1 to 92 (ok, 11 to 88) performing!

After the concert you will be able to support community partners at a Care Fare in the Library …

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Church Saves Lives

Potluck and Conversation Panel

October 23rd at 6:30 p.m.

Robert Messore will moderate a panel of Jere Wells, Lorraine Frazier, and Phil Schmitt, discussing the educator’s, physical healthcare provider’s, and emotional/behavioral healthcare provider’s perspectives on the role of faith communities specifically as the antidote to our pandemic of loneliness and the political, social, economic, physical, behavioral, and broad societal ills that come from this global illness.…

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3rd Annual Creation Care Conference

October 5, 2024 at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Providence from 9 am to noon.

Doors open at 8:30 with refreshments. The Conference will start at 9 am with worship. The Rev. Amy Brooks, US Coordinator of GreenFaith, will be our speaker.

Rev. Amy Brooks Paradise is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister serving as the US Coordinator with GreenFaith. Rev. Amy’s connection to the Earth has roots in the farms of Western Pennsylvania but it was not until she did the Fellowship program with GreenFaith that she dreamed of making it the primary focus of her ministry. Moved by the urgency of this moment and the deep need for healing among people and with the Earth, she is humbled by …

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Pet Blessing in celebration of the Feast of St. Francis

Pet blessing at Emmanuel Church at the 10:00 a.m. service Sunday, October 6, 2024 in the church. Our pets bring out our very best, kindest selves. Please invite your pet of any kind to join you at Emmanuel Sunday, October 6 — on a leash, in a cage, or otherwise under your control. If you are grieving your pet, please bring a photograph, toy, or other token for blessing.…

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Quiet Hours During July Every day until 6 pm!

Out of respect for those rehearsing at Emmanuel Church for the myriad events of the Newport Classical Music Festival we will observe quiet hours on the entire property EVERY DAY in July until 6 p.m. On Sundays we may make our joyful noise as usual, and begin our quiet hours at noon.

All other days it’s from 6 a.m. to 6 pm.…

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Rainbow Rendezvous: The Sounds of Pride 2024

Saturday, June 29, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

What? An outdoor concert on the church lawn

When? June 29 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Why? Celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride.

Emmanuel Church is on the route of the 2024 Pride Bike Parade so we will be able to cheer on participants as we enjoy the amazing musical talents of Caleb & Paige Dinger. Many heard and enjoyed their work at a recent Wednesday night supper. Caleb & Paige will be joined by others from the Musicians’ Circle and the greater Newport community singing favorite popular music from the 1950s through the present day. Come and bring a picnic and some friends.…

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Community Bridge Project

The Community Bridge, our much-needed ADA access ramp into the Narthex. We invite you help build the Community Bridge, helping Emmanuel to open its doors even wider to the whole community.

At Emmanuel, we are reclaiming our founder, Natalie Bayard Brown’s, vision of a community center open to all people from all places in all seasons. We can express our hospitality and welcome by providing universal access, so that everyone comes in the same door the same way, whether on two feet or with a cane, crutches, a walker, or a wheelchair, for Soup’s On, Newport Classical Chamber Series concerts, worship, or community meetings and events.

With the design and drawing (link to PDF of drawing) help from Salve …

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Soup’s On Dinners

Emmanuel serves a FREE community dinner, Soup’s On, the first Tuesday of the every month.

This summer that’s June 4,  July 2,  and August 6!

All are welcome at Emmanuel , dinner served 5:00 to 6:00 pm.

Please join us!…

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We Are Christmas! Concert at Emmanuel Church on December 4th at 7:00 p.m.Preview Here