Upcoming / Recent Services
Join us at 10:00 a.m. for our in-person / Multiplatform service
Ingathering Music will begin at 9:55 a.m.
Please join us IN-PERSON at the church building (69 Winthrop St.) or watch our streaming service wherever you are.
If you are unable to attend or would like to join at home or from wherever you are. you can!
To watch the service online: If you want to watch the service online, you can use this link https://boxcast.tv/channel/mtifpth0utvesjqgjyej. We will use the same link every week, so please bookmark it. This link is a live video feed or live stream of the service, like watching TV.
Services may be viewed by Boxcast for a week after the service is live.
Sunday, August 4th
Service at 10:00 a.m. "BREATHE: The Human Journey" Catherine Palmer
Based on the sculptures by Marjorie Michael and words by Virginia Olsen Baron (1974), I weave my own story into each slide (including an update from my traumatic June 14 cliff dive in Ogunquit). We will also hold space in this service for you to share your Joys and Sorrows with our community.
A special thank you to our worship arts team. Kathy Kellison will be our worship associate. Nan Bell will develop the slide deck. Marty Peters will serve as our Boxcast tech. Karen Foust will be our pianist. Our coffee hour will be hosted by Terry and Betty Cairn and our greeter will be Michaela Loisel.
Sunday, August 11th
Service at 10:00 a.m. "Hymn Singing with Hal" Harold Booth
Hal brings us another selection of hymns - mostly not in our hymn books, selected primarily for the music - that he has harvested from various sources. Most of them have been "massaged" to fit with UU-sensibilities. Chances are that you will recognize the tune, or enjoy it if you don't.
A special thank you to our worship arts team. Lori Milner will be our worship associate. Angie Blevins will manage Boxcast technology and run the slide deck developed by Rev. Donna. Our pianist will be Stefanie Barley. Coffee hour will be hosted by Catherine Palmer and June Zellers. Our greeter will be Cheryl Ring.
Sunday, August 18th
Service at 10:00 a.m. "Showing Up for Each Other" Rev. Donna Dolham and Martha Pelletier, Chair of Pastoral Ministry Team
Please join us as we explore spiritual growth through communities of compassion. As we live into community together, our lives are tenderly weaved by our capacity to care for each other and by our willingness to accept care. This Sunday, Kay Fritz and Lori Milner will host a special coffee hour, celebrating the opportunity to visit with Cal and Jean Sizelove.
A special thank you to our worship arts team. Marty Peters will be our worship associate. Lindsey Wiehl will manage Boxcast technology and Rev. Donna will run the slide deck. Hannah Faulkner will be our pianist and our greeter will be Karen Allen.
SHARE THE PLATE: This month's recipient, chosen by the Social Justice Committee, is the Family Violence Project. The Family Violence Project is a nonprofit Domestic Violence Resource Center serving Kennebec and Somerset Counties. Services include: 24 Hour Helpline to provide support, advocacy, resources, and safety planning, and more...
Sunday, August 25th
Service at 10:00 a.m. "Re-Storying Our Lives, A Story of Grace and Hope" Rev. Donna Dolham and Jamez Riot
As we greet each other at the intersection of world news, our daily lives, this congregational community, and our Unitarian Universalist faith how we choose to tell the story of our lives can ground us in our way forward. In what ways will we live into hope and grace?
A special thank you to our worship arts team. Jamez Riot will be our worship associate. Priscilla J. Jenkins will manage Boxcast technology and a member of the team will run the slide deck developed by Nan Bell. Our pianist will be Karen Allen. We still need a volunteer for Coffee Hour. If you can step into this task, it would be greatly appreciated. Our greeter will be Jim Caldwell.
Sunday, September 1st
Service at 10:00 a.m. "A Moment of Rest" Rev. Donna Dolham
Please join us for this service offering readings, music and moments of contemplation. This will be a Taizé style service. We will also hold space in this service for you to share your Joys and Sorrows with our community.
A special thank you to our worship arts team. Lori Milner will be our worship associate. Angie Blevins will manage Boxcast technology. Hannah Faulkner will be our pianist and our greeter will be Kathy Kellison. Our coffee hour will be hosted by Eowyn Levene and Stefanie Barley.
Sunday, September 8th
Service at 10:00 a.m. "As We Gather Again!" Rev. Donna Dolham
Our faith invites us into a period of renewal every year when we gather together for our annual Water Communion Ritual. Join us as we recenter ourselves as a Beloved Community. Please feel free to bring a small amount of water to share during our service. It can be from the well, the kitchen, a lake, river or ocean. We gather from many places. To Learn More about Water Communion visit: https://www.uua.org/worship/holidays/water-communion.
A special thank you to our worship arts team. Sara Hodgkins will be our worship associate. Nan Bell will manage Boxcast technology. Rev. Donna will run the slides prepared by Nan Bell. Our Choir, led by Music Director, Bridget Convey and accompanied by Lee Morgan on piano, will sing "Rain, Rain, Beautiful Rain" by Shabalala. Susan O’Keefe (Claska) will lead the team that is hosting coffee hour. Our greeter will be Michaela Loisel.
This Sunday we will increase our commitment to “going green” - we will not be handing out paper orders of service (OOS) to in-person service attendees. If you would like to print an order of service at home or would like to bring it up on your phone during the service, don’t hesitate to go to our online order of service. The order of service is updated on Fridays. Here is the OOS link.
Sunday, September 15th
Service at 10:00 a.m. "To What Do We Promise?" Rev. Donna Dolham
As the new church year invites us to begin again, we have the opportunity to ground ourselves in our UUCC covenant together. How does our Unitarian Universalist history ground us in the act of covenanting? To What Do We Promise?
A special thank you to our worship arts team. Marty Peters will be our worship associate. Angie Blevins will manage Boxcast technology and run the slides prepared by Hanna Brown. Karen Allen will be our pianist and our greeter will be Nancy Fritz. Kevin Kane will lead the team that is hosting coffee hour.
The SHARE THE PLATE offering on September 15 will be given to the Natural Resources Council of Maine (“NRCM”) as chosen by the UUCC Social Justice Committee. For more than 60 years, the NRCM has worked at protecting, restoring, and conserving Maine’s environment, now and for future generations. The council works statewide to:
- Protect the health of Maine’s rivers, lakes, streams, and coastal waters;
- Promote sustainable communities through initiatives that reduce toxic pollution and waste
- Decrease air and climate-changing pollution through energy efficiency and renewable sources;
- Conserve Maine lands and wildlife habitat, including our treasured North Woods; and
- Defend the federal environmental policies and programs that help protect Maine.
Sunday, September 22nd
Service at 10:00 am. "Glimmers Calling Back Spirit" Rev. Vanessa Lynn Titang
Amidst life’s trials we may at times forget nuggets of wisdom and previous moments of peace and joy that call us to center. To counter times of forgotten self may we experience “glimmers” that inspire and reorient. Regardless of the source, these moments are each of significance—ways our spirits tell us to simply be, and invite us to be restored.
Bio: Rev. Vanessa Lynn Titang (she/her/they) is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister. She attended Smith College for a BA in Philosophy and Sociology, and Wheelock College for a MS in Organizational Leadership, before finding Unitarian Universalism and her call to ministry. She graduated with her M.Div. from Meadville Lombard Theological School in 2022. Vanessa is the proud mother of her child, Amelie, and resides in Ellsworth, Me.