Thank you for volunteering
Fourteen members of our congregation volunteered at the Preble Street Soup Kitchen, helping to prepare and serve lunch on Saturday, Jan. 30. Thank you for taking the time to help others!
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Consider health kits for quake survivors
Health kits provide the basic necessities to people who have been forced to leave their homes because of human conflict or natural disaster. Health kits are also used as learning tools in personal hygiene, nutrition and cooking classes.
Each kit will cost you approximately $12 to assemble. Consider putting one together [...]

Thank you for your donations
A total of $2,031 was donated by members of our congregation during a special offering at the two services on Sunday, Jan. 17. As Pastor Ruth Morrison explained during the services, 100 percent of this money will go to support efforts by UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief).
These contributions will aid [...]

Make summer camp plans soon
The 2010 brochures for Camp Mechuwana, the United Methodist Church summer camp, have been sent to area churches for summer opportunities.
For a complete listing of 2010 plans at Mechuwana, click here: Camp Mechuwana.
All healthforms are also now on the web site.
You may now pay for your camp by credit cards (Master or Visa). [...]

Beginning Jan. 17, early service will start at 8 a.m.
As a four-week experiment, we will be starting the early service at 8 a.m. instead of 8:15 a.m., beginning Sunday, Jan. 17.
Moving up the early service by 15 minutes will create more time before the start of the 9 a.m. Adult Education class, and with the [...]

Send us your celebrations
As another way to celebrate our special moments together — in and outside of the church — consider sending us photos of your celebrations so that we can include them in the Celebrations portion of this web site. To tempt you, here is a special celebration sent by Mark Braun of his [...]

 
Thank God for snowy Sundays
The scrolls across the bottom of television screens on Sunday, Jan. 3, announced the cancellation of church services throughout the Greater Portland area because of the three-day Nor’easter.
The Cape Elizabeth United Methodist Church wasn’t on the list.
Rev. Ruth Morrison conducted two services on Sunday morning, first at 8:15 with three people [...]