The Vestry met in-person at the parish house this past Tuesday. Updates were reported from Vestry members on the Discernment and Planned Giving Committees. The Vestry reviewed and voted to accept new guidelines for in-person worship effective immediately with additional changes beginning in July, using recommendations by our COVID Task Force following new CDC guidelines….
The few of us present were dressed in red! The church looked festive also “dressed” in red! And Bishop Thomas Brown was with us to celebrate Pentecost and bless our recently restored and moved baptistry window via a streamed service to the parish.
Our baptistry window, previously installed next to the last pew, has been restored and now hangs behind the font on full display from inside and outside of the sanctuary.
The Bishop will be visiting via ZOOM on The Day of Pentecost, May 23rd, so please mark your calendars. Please join us for ZOOM Church and Coffee Hour!
Our biannual “KNIT-A-THON” will be held on May 8th from 9:00am – 6pm outside on the lawn of St. Margaret’s, weather permitting. Any and all are welcome to drop in with handwork or just for support. We will be raising money for the Belfast Soup Kitchen, an organization that supports many individuals in our area facing…
Your lay leadership team, from left to right: Kristen Burkholder, Faye Ward, Julian Sheffield, Deirdre Good, Rev. John Nieman, Kenneth Taylor and Audrey Klein-Leach. This group has been meeting after church starting in late January — and going for nearly 2 months — learning about leading Morning Prayer and preaching, mostly by rehearsing and receiving…
Maundy Thursday, April 1 at 7:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist/Spiritual Communion, concluding with the stripping of the altar. Good Friday, April 2 at 7:00 p.m.The Good Friday Liturgy from the Prayer Book, including the reading of the Passion Narrative from the Gospel of John. The Lighting of the New Fire, April 3 at 7:00 p.m.This will…
The 2021 version of Knitmaineia begins on March 1 with an online auction of shawls, sweaters, hats, and knitted animals. In addition, there will be a slideshow of knit and crochet work in lieu of a runway show. The auction items are complete, but please enter photos of any handwork throughout the month of March. Inspire…
The annual KnitMaine-ia fashion show fundraiser will be held during the month of March this year. Donate knit, crochet or fiber related items to our online auction, or share your work in photos to be posted online, and also in the window of Heavenly Yarns. All proceeds will benefit New Hope for Women. Knitmaineia 2021 is sponsored…
Ash Wednesday service will take place at noon via ZOOM. The Imposition of Ashes will take place at 4:00 p.m. Participants must wear masks and remain in their cars parked in front of the church on Elm or Court Streets. We will come to you with the ashes. This is both to ensure physical distancing and…
Howard Thurman, educator, civil rights leader, and mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr. provided some of the key spiritual insights and theological underpinnings that ultimately shaped the civil rights movement. His short book, Jesus and the Disinherited, first published in 1949, reveals much of the compassion and prophetic power of an interpretation of Jesus for those…