Training session July 26 Our church’s first week to host families in the Greater Portland Family Promise mission will be Aug. 13-20. We will need many volunteers throughout the week for approximately 90-minute shifts, but before anyone can volunteer, they must go through a training program that will fully explain […]
Learning about each other The July 11 Open House and Pot Luck Supper at Margaret and Mark Braun’s home was supposed to be a time to better get to know our new minister, Casey Collins. In some ways it was, but it also was, surprisingly, a time to learn a […]
First services for the Rev. Casey Collins The Rev. Casey Collins began her new ministry in the Cape Elizabeth United Methodist Church, leading two services on July 9. It was the beginning of a journey for both the third-generation minister and the congregation she will guide. Throughout both services, the […]
Rev. Collins’ first service: July 9 The Rev. Casey Collins will lead her first service and preach for the first time at the Cape Elizabeth United Methodist Church on Sunday, July 9 at both the 8 and 10 a.m. services. Before her Cape assignment, Rev. Collins served the United […]
On to retirement for Ruth Morrison After 45 years in ministry services, including the last 13 at the Cape Elizabeth United Methodist Church, the Rev. Ruth Morrison is retiring, effective June 30. Ruth’s last service of preaching was June 18 and on June 25, the congregation held a Celebration Service for […]
Advice from some experts Our own Natalie Underdown and five of her fellow students from the University of New England’s College of Pharmacy volunteered their time on April 30 to provide members of our congregation with valuable health information. The UNE students were in the Narthex after the 10 a.m. […]
23,440 breakfast meals For the fourth consecutive spring, members of our church participated in the Outreach, Inc. food-packing mission, providing meals for individuals and families who have difficulty finding healthy food to eat. On April 29, 64 people — including seven from our church — gathered at the Peoples United […]
Finding new life Keeping with tradition, members of the Cape Elizabeth United Methodist Church began Easter morning with the Sunrise Service at Two Lights and followed it with the Sanctuary Service at 10 a.m. In her final Easter sermon before retiring in June, the Rev. Ruth Morrison appropriately talked about […]
Sunrise and Sanctuary services The Cape Elizabeth United Methodist Church will hold two services on Easter morning. The first will be the Sunrise Service at 5:45 a.m. above the rocks at the end of Two Lights Road. Park in the Lobster Shack parking lot. The Sanctuary Service will be at […]
Joyous procession For the Palm, Sunday service in the Sanctuary, church members joined the choir and children from Sunday School in a parade that went out the back door of the church, wrapped around the building, entered the front door into the Narthex and then procceded into the Sanctuary. At […]
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