Community members have an opportunity to learn about the world through a ministry in Uganda — Noah’s Ark Children’s Ministry Uganda. On Sunday, Sept. 11, the Island’s Community Church on Bailey Island is hosting Pete and Pita Buitendijk, founders of NACMU in Mukono, Uganda. Noah’s Ark is a Christian-based organization that houses housing nearly 180 […]

BATH The Bath United Methodist Church at 340 Oak Grove Ave. celebrated the first service of the Rev. Gwyneth Arrison as its new pastor on Sept. 4. Arrison arrived at the ministry, and Maine, from an unlikely beginning. She grew up near Philadelphia, and although baptized Presbyterian, the family did not attend church. It wasn’t […]

ORR’S ISLAND — On Sunday, Sept. 11, Rev. Alfred Niese will preside over the service Sunday at All Saint’s Chapel, located at 9 Cooper Lane, off Harpswell Islands Road/Route 24 on Orr’s Island. Services take place at the church at 9 a.m. Sundays, through Sept. 25. For more information about the church and its services, […]

LISBON — Lisbon United Methodist Church is hosting “Breakfast with the Minions” on Saturday, Sept. 10 from 8-10: a.m. Bring the family and enjoy a meal with a Minion. Breakfast includes pancakes, sausage, beverages. The church, located at 14 School St., Lisbon Falls, offers a free breakfast several times a year for the local area […]

WOOLWICH — Beginning Sunday, Sept. 11, Day’s Ferry Congregational Church’s Sunday worship service will be held at 10 a.m. The church is located at 50 Old Stage Road in Woolwich.

Consider the lilies of the field: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” Matthew 6:28-29 The message of Flowers Never underestimate the power of flowers to comfort, heal, and delight the senses. When God created the world he provided fertile […]

BRUNSWICK St. Charles Borromeo Church of Brunswick, part of All Saints Parish, has welcomed in a new missionary this summer. Father Eugen Nkardzedze of Cameroon, Africa, has traveled across Maine and much of the Eastern seaboard the past three years, working tirelessly to spread his love for others and for Christ, while hoping to provide […]

Do you long for change? Last December, when we bought our little house in the big woods, the weathered shingles were as gray as a dreary winter day. A rusting light fixture hung outside the mold-stained fiberglass door, with the house number scrawled on front with black permanent marker. Once loved, the house had sat […]

Hundreds of local, state, and federal law enforcement officers, firefighters, and emergency personnel will be recognized for their faithful commitment and self-sacrifice at the Blue Mass, celebrated by Bishop Robert P. Deeley, at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland on Sunday, Sept. 11, at 10 a.m. People of all faiths are welcome to […]

The Rev. Ben Barnes of Brunswick will conduct the last service of the summer at All Saints by the Sea Episcopal Chapel on Bailey Island on Sunday, August 28, at 9:30. All summer the chapel, located on Washington Avenue, has been celebrating the 100th Anniversary of its founding in 1916.