On Saturday, April 16, at 7 p.m., Putnam Smith will perform at the Houlton Unitarian Church as one of the featured events of their Bicentennial Year Celebration. Joining Putnam will be Nate Spencer from Asheville, N.C., adding tight harmony vocals, as well as some fancy pickin’ on mandolin, guitar and mando-cello.
On Sunday, March 27, at 10:30 a.m. there will be a special service for retired Pastor Dale Holden as she assumes the role of Pastor Emerita at the First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ in Houlton.
Over $1,000 was raised on Sunday Oct. 24 when 28 youths of the Limestone Methodist Church, with the help of a couple non-members, trick-or-treated early for UNICEF.
“Back To Church Sunday,” part of a national movement of churches across America, will be held at Military Street Baptist Church in Houlton, ME at 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 12. Everyone is welcome to attend.
St. Mary of the Visitation is launching a Christian sports camp in August that Father Dave Raymond, the pastor, said is open to all who are interested, not just Catholics.
The Presque Isle Wesleyan Church recently had 49 children receive year-end awards at an Awana Awards ceremony held Wednesday, June 9, for their earned work completed in Bible studies and scriptures knowledge, as well as for their participation and attendance in the educational and fun Awana program.
While Pastor Ron Chaffee of the Grant Memorial United Methodist Church in Presque Isle was reading a local newspaper lately, he came across an article profiling a young, local woman that suffered paralysis as the result of a car accident.
The history of the Limestone United Methodist Church is a story of ingenuity, hardship, joy, endurance and faith. From preliminary Methodist services offered in homes to the dedication of the Church on July 16, 1890, from the spare-potato fund-raising efforts for church repairs in the ‘20s to the turbulent theological times of the ‘60s and even from the closing of the Loring Air Force Base in the ‘90s came the congregation of today— unified, devout and compassionate with more strength than ever.
After much prayer and consideration, Military Street Baptist Church and Houlton Wesleyan Church have decided to join forces and plan a combined Vacation Bible School for area children this summer.
Jeanie McGowan, executive director of the Nylander Museum of Natural History in Caribou, will be a guest speaker on Sunday, Nov. 29, at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Caribou.
