Adorable historic church, alongside the new Millburn Short Hills Historical Society and across the…read morestreet from a Revolutionary War era family cemetery for the Parsil family who owned the nearby land.

This has been a church that has out to help the community. Super friendly staffers and they have a…read morebook donation box in the back that's been there forever. Currently there's a drive for giving donations to help with a yard sale to fund their mission and helping the needy, you can drop off items on Saturday mornings (high schoolers can get volunteering credit) for donation (they give tax receipts). During the pandemic, they were kind enough to allow grocery delivery trucks to use their parking lot (big one) in the back so ppl could drive up and get groceries dropped into their cars without having to get out.

While I'm not a congregant here, I've attended many events as a guest-weddings, christenings,…read moreantique shows, and voting too. Immaculate grounds and church volunteers do a great job!

All are welcome in His place. I don't come here to socialize but I come to get spiritually fed and…read morestrengthen my relationship with Him. I always get what I need when I come to this place. Music is usually always on point...I love a good praise and worship.

Welcome into the House of the Lord! Where you will find fantastic praise and worship and a dynamic…read moreword of God! There's no place like this place anywhere near this place! SO THIS MUST BE THE PLACE!! Happy Sabbath

For $280 per person who's spirit you want to send along the road, you will also need to bring: food…read more(chicken, pork, oranges, candy) and a few coins. A seer (genuine or not) will: Chant in San scrit, burn paper machet clothes, paper money, incense, stomp her feet on the ground, and throw brass trankets on the table for 30 minutes. Difficult to give this place any stars for a particular service I don't necessarily believe in.

Dr. Gary V. Simpson is the senior pastor at Concord Baptist Church. He has the ability to use…read morecurrent events and humor to deliver Gods word. After hearing him preach on Sunday mornings makes me want to go out and save the world. As our Brooklyn neighborhood is becoming more diverse so is Concord Baptist Church. The young people in the church are really involved and it's exciting to see what new ideas they have to offer. The choir is excellent as well as the dance ministry. The rest, well you'll just have to experience for yourself....

Huge edifice and sanctuary. Very nice architecture. Ample space for large masses. Friendly…read morecongregants.

New Jersey Festival Orchestra Giveaway!…read moreNJFO's Valentine Win a romantic night out with 2 FREE tickets to NJFO's Invitation to Vienna concert on 2/22! I followed the giveaway instructions and so very grateful to win 2 free tickets- Valued at $85 each! I used to play the violin and have a fondness to hearing the beautiful sounds of violins! Took my forever Valentine to this concert! Sp What a magnificent experience! Concert venue was The Presbyterian Church in Westfield, New Jersey! Beautiful church with grand chandeliers!

The idea of this practice is nice: if you're struggling with something or someone, want certain…read morethings to happen in your life, you chant...2-3 times a day, every day. Overtime your mentality, spirit will hopefully change because you've refocused your mind & may have "gotten the things" that you were working towards, or conflicts had resolved. You try to lead a life with positivity and positive action. This is what you're required to purchase in order to practice... A local representative (sort of like a youth leader, cheerleader, sales person, social worker, neighborhood member all in one) to call, text, email encouraging you to attend meetings (at member's homes or NYC/Queens branch). An okay little church / communal space in a sleepy residential area- with a "store." What it'll cost you (& I'm guessing the rep / youth leader earns commission per person & encourages you for each purchase) $50 to Officially "sworn in" at a group meeting $40 for the Scroll to chant to $40-60 + (can't remember) for the wooden shrine / hanging big wooden frame to store the Scroll in Clear off a big spot / table in your tiny apartment to sent these things up. $20 for the Booklet & Chants to read $20-40? for the Intro test to study, take & pass. Maybe $20 for the book to study, $20 for the test to take. I don't think I wanted to pay for the second test & stalled on it. Members try to connect & talk up the tests to you, to take more! $$$ (I kept stalling to buy these items) $$ Sort of a singing bowl, to tap 3x before and after you chant $$ A mortar type wand to tap the bowl with $ Plants and water around the shrine. Water things every morning. $$$ other items that I don't remember For an Eastern, non-materialistic practice, it's quite costly! Gosh I wish fundraising for my non-profit was this member pro-active! Although it's members seem friendly and welcoming, their encouragement/ persistence for you to practice could be helpful guidance for newbies feeling fragile and needing support & encouragement (however extremely costly); to overbearing eagerness / cult-like ness, slight guilt in why you don't make time to chant. I was looking more for a nice community with positive vibes to regularly uplift each other, but the 3 times a day chant, chanting that could last up to an hour. Weekly or twice a week meetings. Reps offering to come over morning, evening, help you set up your shrine (actually there to try to convert your roommate), call to remind you of group meetings, call if you missed. You accidentally mass e-mailed higher level organizers about an event that you were having (thinking this is how you create mutual community); instead it causes big drama & phone calls to you (you cannot "sell things" in the group). You move out of the city, still get emails & calls and Christmas cards (after notifying of move...because this sect is "all over the world! & we support all past members.". Call checking up during Covid (nice gesture but this 3+ years since moved). When you post photos on social of other temples that you visit, messages from members who notice your photos (or may be happy that you're still a little Buddhist). You email the new group leader to please remove your contact because you're not interested in this particular sect anymore & meeting reminders, a few emails as to why before you're "removed" (but a few DM's from members trying to maintain contact during it). And you practically beg: although it's a nice gesture, please no more random phone calls & emails. No more contact! Another year later, somehow you're back on the group email list (non-BCC) for meeting announcements. WHY?? I really hope I don't get any more emails or calls after this review. I hope everyone can practice what and how often they want. Obviously this regimen & money structure from this sect, just isn't for me. Or my pocketbook. (No I don't have the items I bought anymore.) Please no more emails, snail mail, DM's, phone calls! Please! Work on you own individual practices and invested members!

I've been coming here for now 6 years now and I've found it to be so so very helpful with…read moreeverything and anything in my life.. for starters, the practice revolves around chanting the mantra Nam Myoho Renge Kyo to a mandala which is also called a Gohonzon and you share this practice with others and study upon the various concepts that it offers which I find very humanistic, peaceful and motivating. You chant to make inner changes in your life to see the outer changes in your environment as it talks about the reflection of ones self in the environment. So chanting to be more confident in one self to tackle your problems more directly rather than victimizing yourself (which I often do lol) is key, but speaking to other members, what someone derives from this practice can be unique to them. The organization has a very friendly community that really does look out for each other, sometimes it can feel like it's a bit much but then you realize, you're just not used to having people ACTUALLY care for you this much. Especially being in a city where that can be totally missing in our lives.. One of the founders of the organization, Daisaku Ikeda is still around today, and writes daily encouragement to all its members, has written many materials for this practice to study and learn, and annually writes a UN Peace Proposal which is absolutely worth a read! 1000% will recommend this buddhist practice to all who want to fundamentally change something in their lives for the good of themselves and the world at large. :-)

Such a beautiful church. I love knowing that Ukrainian community comes to have a safe space here…read more Slava Ukraini!