Mission Report – August

The Mission Committee is ready to begin a new time of working together after our two month vacation. We hope everyone enjoyed their summer. Throughout the summer we have continued to pay our...

Join the Choir

When the Chancel Choir returns in the fall, consider singing with us! We rehearse Thursday evenings 7:30-9:00 pm; and warm up Sunday mornings beginning at 9:15 am. While musical experience is a plus, you...

Maine Work Camp 2017

For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I...

On-line Giving Coming to First Church

Has this happened to you? You are in church and it is time for the offering…..uh oh, – you don’t have a pen; – you forgot to bring a check; – you don’t...

Christian Education

It’s Heifer Time at First Church! Christian Education will kick off its annual Lenten missions work for Heifer International (www.heiferinternational.org) on Sunday, March 5th. This is a time at First Church during which...

West Virginia Workcamp

Warm, Dry and Safe Description The Cabell-Lincoln County Work Camp is a multicultural and relational Christian ministry designed to provide an experience in mission (home and church repair) for youth and adults in...

H.O.M.E. – Orland, Maine

H.O.M.E. (Homeworkers Organized for More Employment) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1970 dedicated to keeping and enhancing the quality of life for low-income and homeless families. Through services, stewardship of resources, and...

Stephen Ministry

First Church supports an active Stephen Ministry program for its congregants and the wider community. According to their website (stephenministries.org) “Stephen Ministry is the one-to-one lay caring ministry that takes place in congregations...

Watch the Conductor September 18, 2017
World-renowned violinist, Joshua Bell, has an unusual way of leading the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, a 44-member chamber orchestra. Instead of waving a baton he directs while playing his Stradivarius with the other violinists. Bell told Colorado Public Radio, “Even while I’m playing I can give them all kinds of direction and signals that I […]
Removing the Barriers September 17, 2017
I saw Mary every Tuesday when I visited “the House”—a home that helps former prisoners reintegrate into society. My life looked different from hers: fresh out of jail, fighting addictions, separated from her son. You might say she lived on the edge of society. Like Mary, Onesimus knew what it meant to live on the […]
Anger Management September 16, 2017
As I had dinner with a friend, she expressed how fed up she was with a particular family member. But she was reluctant to say anything to him about his annoying habit of ignoring or mocking her. When she did try to confront him about the problem, he responded with sarcastic remarks. She exploded in […]
What’s Your Father’s Name? September 15, 2017
When I went to buy a cellphone in the Middle East, I was asked the typical questions: name, nationality, address. But then as the clerk was filling out the form, he asked, “What’s your father’s name?” That question surprised me, and I wondered why it was important. Knowing my father’s name would not be important […]

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