Sunday
Service is held at 10:00 AM.
Childcare and Sunday School
Available.
Dear One and All,
I write as your new Interim Pastor – feeling a great joy and deep gratitude for your calling me to minister with you.
This period between the arrival of another is called ‘Interim’ – the in-between time. During interim we will together face the challenges and reap the benefits of this special time between permanent settled pastors.
I recall Jesus and his followers were the first in church history to enter a space of wondering what the future would hold and the limbo they were about to experience. Like us, Jesus was asking his disciples to enter into a liminal space. For clarification, liminal space is an in-between space, a ‘social limbo’, created as one leaves one structure, moves to a new one, or returns to the old setting.
According to anthropologist, Victor Turner, ‘Liminality’ is a time of ambivalence, ambiguity, and even disorientation, but it is at the same time a ‘realm of pure possibility where novel configurations of ideas and relations may arise.’
I invite you all to enter into this interim period and liminal space with me. I’m encouraging all of us to embrace our interim spaces as together we create possibilities. This will be an exciting time as we remain in it patiently until a new crystallization or synthesis of understanding arrives. As this happens those of us who occupy this special time will have a faith journey that will be deeper, wider and made stronger. As future successes emerge they will be, by the grace of God, of our own initiative. A blessed future – one that is all our own – is on the horizon.
Love,
Pastor Stan
Confirmation
Confirmation at First Church is two years of intensive
study in preparation for church membership. Topics include
Biblical study, Christian doctrine and creeds, Christian
living, the sacraments, church history, church government,
seasons of the church year, church membership responsibilities,
and more. The course includes various assignments and
projects and Confirmation Youth are encouraged to participate
in our annual Mission Trip. For July 2010, our Mission Trip will be returning to H.O.M.E. in Orleans, Maine.
This year our Confirmation Class will consist of a combined group of ninth and tenth graders.
The class meets once a week on Sunday mornings. The class
begins in October and runs through the end of May. The conclusion
of confirmation is marked by each confirmand reading his
or her Statement of Faith at a celebratory Confirmation
Sunday, where each youth is welcomed into membership at
First Church.
Contact Church Office for more information.
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