Effective January 1, 2012, after 21 years of service to our community, Rev. Cummings retired from his pastorate at OCBC.  We are currently interviewing candidates for an intentional interim pastor and look forward to installing our new pastor by March.

On behalf of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church community, I welcome you to this site and to our church. I hope you will find time to visit us in person, soon. I know you will find among us a diverse and vibrant group of people, eager to be doers of the Word and not just speakers of it. We are also eager to get to know you and welcome you to this historic and wonderful place. Whether your calling is to join our choir, to serve in an outreach ministry, to work with our children, or to apply your talents to the many other ministries of this church, we welcome you.

I was born on a farm in the Adirondacks of New York State.  As a youngster and teenager, I was quite active in our local Presbyterian church where I received early grounding in the stories of the Bible.  Toward the end of my high school years, the Vietnam War was raging and I had to face the question of my own support of and involvement in that war as the day of my necessary registration with the Selective Service System inexorably approached.  I was lucky to have had the support of a pastor when that hour presented itself, for, in response to the question on the form regarding the morality of bearing arms, I resolutely stated that I was opposed to the practice.  Given that many of my friends had not responded in this way, and that they were currently serving in that war, this was a courageous move for me, but one that I could not have made had I not felt the guiding hand of God through all of it.

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Baritone Thomas Jones is in the 29th year of his career as a performer and appears with orchestras, opera companies, choral ensembles, pops concerts and on recital series throughout North America, Europe and the West Indies.  Critics from coast to coast have hailed his performances as elegant, passionate, expressive and sensitive.  Richard Buell of The Boston Globe calls the vocal and stage presence of Thomas Jones "irresistible".  Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times proclaims that Mr. Jones sings "with plush sounds and musical vigor".

Mr. Jones’ solo appearances include The Santa Fe Symphony, The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco's Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Boston's Handel & Haydn Society, The Apollo Chorus of Chicago, The San Francisco City Chorus and Orchestra, The Vancouver Chamber Choir and The Canadian Broadcast Orchestra, The Phoenix Bach Choir, The Phoenix Chamber Orchestra, New York's St. Cecilia Orchestra, Baltimore Choral Arts Society, The Omaha Symphony, The Pacific Chorale and The Pacific Symphony in Southern California, The Battle Creek Symphony (Michigan), The Billings Symphony (Montana),The Louisville Bach Society at The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, The Masterworks Chorus and Orchestra of Washington, DC, The Simon Sinfonietta of Washington, DC., The Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic Orchestra, The Bucks County Choral Society and The Philadelphia Festive Arts Orchestra under conductor Robert Page.  Thomas Jones has sung on recital series coast to coast in the USA and in the cities of Stockholm, Oslo and Copenhagen among others.

Kathy Maskell, a lifelong church musician, has a varied and rich musical background.  She studied organ with Donald Willing at New England Conservatory and piano with Bob Winter, pianist with the Boston Pops.  She received her Bachelor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music and a Masters of Music Education degree from Boston University.  Kathy has been a highly successful piano instructor both in her home studio and in the many years she owned and directed MusicWorks, Inc. a commercial music education facility offering lesson in piano, voice, guitar, strings and drums.

Her interest in music technology has led her to give presentations on the subject at national conferences for both Music Teachers National Association and the National conference on Keyboard Pedagogy.  Her music technology articles have been published in Clavier Companion, a periodical for piano teachers.  Since 2003 Kathy has been adjunct professor at Regis College in Weston, MA teaching piano classes, music theory, keyboard ensemble and several independent studies with students interested in vocal arranging and counterpoint.  Kathy has been organist and pianist here at Old Cambridge Baptist Church since 2003 also, happily returning to collaborate with Thomas Jones after their tenure at Tremont Temple Baptist Church.  With her background in technology, Kathy aids the OCBC choir with rehearsal compact disks as they prepare for special holiday services.  The choir has performed her composition "Send Down Your Spirit" written for choir and piano.  Her background in composition and arranging has given her opportunities to write original music for keyboard ensembles and most recently incidental music for the children's book "Gwendolyn the Graceful Pig" by David Rottenberg.  Kathy continues to explore musical opportunities to enhance her musicianship and to benefit her students.