Date:
Time:
Location:
Intro Paragraph
Schedule
Who to Contact with questions
-
Eclipse Glasses Collection a Success
Eclipse Glasses Collection A Success (S. Somes) As you may remember, I facilitated a collection of used solar eclipse glasses several months ago. The purpose was to provide these much needed safety aids to the organization Safe Passage (https:// www.safepassage.org) located in Guatemala. Safe Passage is “…a progressive school dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty through education, healthcare, nutrition, and social services.” I had the great fortune earlier to join a volunteer team traveling to SP from Greely High School with our youngest daughter in 2014. The experience has stayed with me since. The school is now preparing for their solar eclipse event over Latin America scheduled for this October. I received about 30 pairs of glasses from friends and members of the church, and in combination with the schools in Cumberland/North Yarmouth, was able to hand off over 200 pairs at Safe Passage. I wish I could thank each of you individually for your donation, albeit small to you, it is amazing what a difference we make when we work together. Thank you.
-
Sunday School Starting
Sunday School Starting Back Up! We are excited to welcome back families for the beginning of the 2024/25 Sunday School year starting on September 15! We can’t wait to see you again! FYI Wendy Tracy
-
Simply Turn Off Plastics
SAVE THE DATE Thursday Evening, Sept. 26 Town of Falmouth Forum on Plastics The Falmouth Conservation Commission will hold a free forum on Thursday evening, September 26 to share more about the dangers of plastics and how citizens can reduce their use of these products, deemed to have a hazardous role in human health. The program — “Simply Turn Off Plastics” — will be held at the Falmouth High School Theater beginning at 6:30 p.m. According to a recent New York Times article, plastic products contribute to our climate and biodiversity crises and are responsible for killing marine life by entering food chains or entangling animals. Plastic particles can now be found in soil, water, and air. Since the majority of them are produced with fossil fuels, they are responsible for 3.4 per cent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. More information is available at the town’s website — https://www.falmouthme.org/conservation-commission
-
September Mission Moment
September Mission Moment Announced On Sunday, September 22nd FCC is pleased to welcome Karen Campbell, Family Resource Specialist for Kids Peace (www.kidspeace.org), a private charity dedicated to serving the behavioral and mental health needs of children, families and communities. Founded in 1882, KidsPeace provides a unique psychiatric hospital; a comprehensive range of residential treatment programs; accredited educational services; and a variety of foster care and communitybased treatment programs to help people in need overcome challenges and transform their lives. The experts at Kids- Peace provide emotional and physical health care and educational services in an atmosphere of teamwork, compassion and creativity. KidsPeace offers residential treatment services in Pennsylvania, Maine and Georgia. At its Graham Lake Campus in Ellsworth, ME, KidsPeace offers residential services for young people on the autism spectrum and youth requiring 24-hour clinical, residential and educational services and supervision. Karen will be joining us afterwards for our Fellowship Coffee Hour to answer any additional questions while providing printed material for your individual read. The Justice & Outreach Ministry hopes you will take this opportunity to hear this weighty and crucial message.
-
Welcome Back Potluck
Fellowship Welcome Back Potluck! Save the date 9/15/24 It is time for everyone in The Foreside Community Church to gather and celebrate, to share summer stories, find out who wins the Bingo prizes and renew our church community. On Sunday September 15 after church service, we will gather for our annual potluck. There will be fun activities for those young in age or young in heart. We are planning on it being outside weather depending, if not, in downstairs!
-
How to Read a Book
The Foreside Book Group We will reconvene on September 18 with our next pick Monica Woods newest book, How to Read a Book. It sounds like another good one by a favorite Maine writer. Here is a summary from Barnes and Noble. “Violet Powell, a twenty-two-year-old from rural Abbott Falls, Maine, is being released from prison after serving twenty-two months for a drunk-driving crash that killed a local kindergarten teacher. Harriet Larson, a retired English teacher who runs the prison book club, is facing the unsettling prospect of an empty nest. Frank Daigle, a retired machinist, hasn’t yet come to grips with the complications of his marriage to the woman Violet killed. When the three encounter each other one morning in a bookstore in Portland—Violet to buy the novel she was reading in the prison book club before her release, Harriet to choose the next title for the women who remain, and Frank to dispatch his duties as the store handyman—their lives begin to intersect in transformative ways. How to Read a Book is an unsparingly honest and profoundly hopeful story about letting go of guilt, seizing second chances, and the power of books to change our lives. With the heart, wit, grace, and depth of understanding that has characterized her work, Monica Wood illuminates the decisions that define a life and the kindnesses that make life worth living.” Barnes and Noble FMI: mimihinkel@gmail.com
-
From the Pastor
This fall, I’ll hope you’ll join in some of our activities around the theme, How Shall We Pray? and reflect some on how we are called to live lives of prayer and service, but lives which rediscover the one-ness of all creation that God longs for us to share in. In worship, we’ll be exploring the meaning, instruction, and invitation of the prayer which Jesus taught us, and which we now call the Lord’s prayer. On Tuesday mornings, I’ll be exploring centering prayer as a meditative practice. I hope you’ll read on for all the other many events as we What a gift to be entrusted with this ministry—and this deep hope—of God’s reconciling love for all things… for a time such as this.