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FISH TALES Episcopal Parish serving the Greater Bridgton Lakes Region since 1962
AUGUST 2018
Episcopal Parish serving the Greater Bridgton Lakes Region since 1962
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church 42 Sweden Road
Bridgton, me 04009 207-647-8549
E-mail’:
Webpage:
Stpetersbridgton.org
A NOTE FROM
FR. WARREN
Dear Friends, I’m appreciating the diverse life and care at St. Peter’s, indoors and outdoors. Art in the Park hospitality was warm, friendly, and tasty; then the feast moved indoors for the Wednesday supper. The gardens are well kept and inviting, and the Memorial Garden committee has refined plans and policies. The Music Committee- Bob Vivian, Margaret Reimer, and Barbara Mortenson- guide choral developments. We now convene at 8:30 to practice and prepare current and future music. Sandra Collins and Pat Sprackland have prepared a draft of a new parish directory, now before the vestry for review- all ably assisted by our parish secretary Janet Risch. I’ve joined with Carmen Lone of the Bridgton Community Center, Emily Goodnow of the United Church of Christ, and Barbara Collins of our parish Living Local to shape an event for Oct. 10: Practicing Civil Discourse. Please save the date. And all the while, Clark Lewis and Tom Stone guide our vestry. Thanks be to God. Dan+
I asked Barbara Marshall to let me take a picture of this beautiful quilt that
she has made for Harvest Hills to raffle off as a
fund raiser
CHURCH INFORMATION
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church 43 Sweden Road
(P.O. Box 134) Bridgton, Me. 04009
207-647-8549 E-Mail:
Web Page Stpetersbridgton.org
CHURCH OFFICE HOURS Monday, Wednesday and Friday
9:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Emergency contact Fr. Dan Warren @ 207-408-1430
Sr. Warden Clark Lewis @ 207-710-6417
Holy Eucharist Sunday at 9:00 AM
Director of Music Evan Miller
Vestry Sr. Warden: Clark Lewis Jr. Warden: Tom Stone
Treasurer: Eric Wissmann Clerk: Chris Molloy
Members: Fred Stewart
Jan Boole Ingrid Von Kannewurff
Ray Turner Margaret Reimer Barbara Collins
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church began as a summer mission in 1962. On September 8, 1974 St. Peter’s-by-the-Lake held its first service of extended ministry. Since then, though it did not have a home of its own, the church has provided an Episcopal presence to summer and year-round residents of the Lakes Region by meeting in various locations including people’s homes, Bridgton Academy and local churches of different denominations. The first service in St. Peter’s Episcopal Church on Sweden Road, Bridgton, was held on May 25, 2008. The building and its contents were dedicated and consecrated on June 1, 2008.
August 5th Bob & Norma Vivian, Barbara Marshall
August 12th Margaret Reimer, Gloria De Cupua
August 19th In-Reach August 26th Ingrid von Kannewurff,
Volunteer needed
Please consider volunteering for coffee hour. There is a signup sheet in the Narthex.
Thank you
Here we are again, July passed so quickly and August is here. Where has the summer gone?
It seems like August will be a quiet time here at St. Peter’s so I will think of September and the fall.
In September we will have a Sunday of Reflection for the parish to plan what 2019 will mean to us at St. Peter’s. Are subtle changes sufficient or do we need to kick ourselves into high gear? I have some ideas and I hope all of you will bring forth your own sense of where our directions should go. Day dreaming is active participation.
Clark
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the seashore of the mind
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
THOUGHTS FROM THE
SENIOR WARDEN
Summer St. Peter’s members and anyone who wants to add input to our search
process.
Please join us next Sunday, August 5th, during Coffee Hour for a question and answer activity.
The process is simple: the questions are listed below, please read them and think about them in
advance. Everyone is invited to participate during coffee hour on August 5. Each question will
be written on a big sheet of paper. Everyone will circulate from question to question writing
out their answers on “post it” notes, until everyone has had a chance to answer all the
questions, signed or anonymous. The Committee then takes all the answers as the raw
material from which it develops the congregation’s answers to the Office of Transition
Ministries questions.
Here are the questions:
1. Describe a moment in your worshiping community’s recent ministry which you recognize as
one of success and fulfillment.
2. Describe your liturgical style & practice. If your community provides more than one type of
worship, describe all.
3. How do you practice incorporating others in ministry?
4. As a worshiping community, how do you care for your spiritual, emotional, and physical well-
being?
5. Describe your worshiping community’s involvement in either the wider Church or geographic
region.
6. How do you engage in pastoral care beyond your worshiping community?
7. Tell about a ministry your worshiping community has initiated in the past five years. Who
can be contacted about this?
8. How are you preparing yourself for the Church of the future?
9. What is your practice of stewardship and how does it shape the life of your worshiping
community?
10.What is your worshiping community’s experience of conflict? And how have you addressed
it?
11.What is your experience leading/addressing change in the church? When has it gone well?
When has it gone poorly? And what did you learn?
12.In no more than four descriptors of one or two words each: Provide words describing the
gifts and skills essential to the future leaders of your worshiping community.
IMPORTANT NOTE FROM THE DECERNMENT COMMITTEE
Gloria De Cupua’s grandson Ryan is
in his 2nd year at the United States Coast
Guard Academy
Bruce & Barbara Marshall
attended their son’s wedding in Australia
Bruce and Natasha Marshall
SUE WEEDS GARDEN UNDER ROUND WINDOW
ELNA TENDS TO THE WEEDS AROUNG THE CELTIC CROSS
CLARK AND TOM START TO DISTRIBUTE THE FRESH MULCH
TWO OF OUR FELLOW KAYAKERS OFFERED TO GIVE US A HAND.
CLARK WATCHES OVER GORDON AS HE SPREADS SOME MULCH
Sally Seller
Timothy Falso
Sara Rogers
Bob Mawhinney
Nelle Ely
Fred, Clark, Sara, Jan and Eric
Clark and Sue
Tom, Fr. Dan and Mark
Fred the cashier
Eric and Ben
Support group chats while tom has his lunch
Clark and Joan
Linda enjoying a little snack
Ingrid
Elna and Sandy
Mark and Margaret
ART IN THE PARK
ST. PETER’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
FOOD TENT
TENT IS DOWN, EVERYTHING PACKED AWAY AND ANOTHER
SUCCESSFUL “ART IN THE PARK” IS BEHIND US.
THANK YOU
CLARK
AND
MARK
BEN
ERIC
CLARK ERIC
BEN
MARK
CLARK
BEN
JENNIFER
TOM
MIKE
CLARK
BEN
MARK
ERIC’S HAND
LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE A DECISION TO MAKE HERE
BEN, TOM, CLARK, JENNIFER AND ABIGAIL
1. The Vestry discussed having a “Greeter Group” on Sundays to say hello at the door and ask everyone to
wear their name tags. If people don’t have name tags, the greeters will have them made up. New people don’t
know all of our names, so it will make it easier for them to say hello while seeing our names.
2. I was happily surprised to see that most everyone in church put their names on the sign-up sheet for Art in
the Park as it takes about 30 people to make it a success. If the big hotel gets built on the Saunder’s Mill lot next
year, there won’t be parking for about 40 cars, and possibly there won’t be Art in the Park. Our worry this year is
there is another food vendor who is making sandwiches and desserts.
3. Once or twice a year Ryan Hayes, our lawn mower, will mow the perimeter areas and the two giant catch
basins so that trees don’t start growing in those areas. When you look at our property after this mowing, it really
looks nice.
4. Thanks to all the people who came out last Saturday, July 14th, to weed and install mulch in the Memorial
Circle. After church go on over to the garden and sit and enjoy the solace, flowers, bees, etc.
5. If you adopted a garden area last fall, this is a good time to weed it.
6. Looking around the church there are many areas of wood work, walls, etc., that need painting. It has been
ten years that we have used the building, and it’s time for a new look again. Maybe in the fall, we could have a
paint work day when the temperature cools down.
Tom
Summer Reading Looking for some good vacation reading? Check out these books written by Maine authors Kate Braestrup, Jack Perkins, and Julia Spencer-Fleming. Within these pages you’ll find prayer, mystery, memoir, and spirituality. Interested? You’ll find them on the book display in the narthex.
All Mortal Flesh Out of the Deep I Cry Julia Spencer-Fleming is a mystery writer, author of the award-winning series featuring Episcopal priest Clare Fergusson.
Here If You Need Me: a true story Beginner’s Grace: bringing prayer into your life Anchor & Flares: a memoir of motherhood, hope & service Kate Braestrup is a minister who serves as chaplain to the Maine Warden Service. Find out more about her at KateBraestrup.com. Finding Moosewood, Finding God: what happened when a TV newsman abandoned his career for life on an island Jack Perkins is known as a popular journalist, commentator, and anchorman.
Barbara Mortenson Parish Librarian
LESSONS FOR SUNDAYS IN AUGUST
AUGUST 5TH Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost Track 1 Track 2 2 Samuel 11: 26-12: 13a Exodus 16: 2-4, 9-15 Psalm 51: 1-13 Psalm 78: 23-29 Ephesians 4: 1-16 John 6: 24-35
August 12th Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost Track 1 Track 2 2 Samuel 18: 5-9 ,15,31-33 1 Kings 19: 4-8 Psalm 130 Psalm 134: 1-8
Ephesians 4: 25-5:2 John 6: 35, 41-51
August 19th Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost Track 1 Track 2 1 Kings 2: 10-12; 3: 3-14 Proverbs 9: 1-6 Psalm 111 Psalm 34: 9-14
Ephesians 5: 15-20 John 6: 51-58
August 26th
Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost Track 1 Track 2 1 Kings 8: (1,6,10-11), Joshua 24: 1-2a, 22-30, 41-43 14-18 Psalm 84 or 84: 1-6 Psalm 34: 15-22
Ephesians 6: 10-20 John 6: 56-69
August 2018
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Woman’s Group 9:00-
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Holy Eucharist
Rev. Warren 9:00 AM
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Rev. Warren 9:00 AM
LLJG 10:00 AM
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Prayer Shawl 10:00-12:00
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Rev. Warren 9:00 AM Vestry
Meeting 10:00 AM
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Prayer Shawl 10:00-12:00
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Woman’s Group 9:00-
11:00 AA 12:00-1:00 Community Dinner 5:30
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