Be still, and know that I am God! I am exalted among the nations, I am exalted in the earth.

Psalm 46:10

Dear Friends,

The church season that begins after Pentecost is called Ordinary Time. “Ordinary” does not refer to “mundane” or “common”. It refers to the word ordinal which means counted time. Lasting until the first Sunday of Advent, Ordinary Time is the sixth and longest and final season of the church year. For those of us who live in Maine, however, this time is anything but ordinary!

In Maine at Ordinary Time, our thoughts turn to hiking trails, lush gardens, bike trips, family reunions, and time spent somewhere on, in or beside a body of water, be it lake, river or ocean! Some of us will leave home to do these things and some of us will just walk out the back door! Wherever one is in Maine, summer is truly a blessed gift, and wherever one is in Maine, Ordinary Time focuses on ways we seek out and embrace loving one another and living in God’s presence with justice as we strive to use God’s blessings wisely for all humankind. My prayer for each of us is that we will indeed find some time in each “wide Maine day” of endless blue sky to reflect deeply and reverently on being stewards of all creation.

And, as some of us go to great lengths to (ahem!) ‘worship outside’, let us not forget to worship inside at church with our community of faith! The Deacons’ Worship Team has worked hard on the schedule below! 

Grace and peace,

The Reverend Lorna Grenfell

Summer Worship Schedule

June 13- July 4 at 9:30 a.m. Church of Universal Fellowship with Rev. Lorna

July 11-August 1 at 9:30 a.m. Church of Universal Fellowship

            July 11            David Gardner, Bangor Theological Seminary

            July 18            David Gardner

            July 25            The Reverend Phil Hastings, Presbytery of Northern New England

            August 1         The Reverend Mark Worth, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Castine, Maine

August 8 - 29 at 9:30 a.m.

The Church of Universal Fellowship

&

The Orono United Methodist Church

            Services at Church of Universal Fellowship

            August 8            Pastor Steve Smith

            August 15          Pastor Steve Smith

            Services at Orono United Methodist Church

            August 22          The Reverend Lorna Grenfell

            August 29          The Reverend Lorna Grenfell

The service for Sunday, September 5, will be at CUF at 9:30 a.m. with Rev. Lorna.  Services will return to the 10:15 a.m. time on Sunday, September 12.