jan 1, 1974 - St. Patrick's, Brewer
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Photo 1: St. Patrick’s as it now sits at the intersection of North Main Street (Rt ME-9) and Holyoke Streets in North Brewer. What is now parking lot used to be where the building reposed!
Photo 2: One of our significant annual events is “Worship on (the) Waterfront” (“WOW”). It started small a number of years ago, but as it has grown, it has become a Brewer-area ecumenical event, and now traditionally includes members of the congregations of the Methodist, Congregational, Baptist, and Evangelical churches in Brewer, Eddington, and Orrington. God has been very kind for us – we’ve yet to have a “bad” weather day!
Photo 3: Something we do that is perhaps unique is our “children’s area” at the back of the church, in which parents with young children can still be in the sanctuary with their children playing (quietly?) while the service is in progress.
Photo 4: In the finest Anglican tradition, harkening back, perhaps, to Pagan tradition, on the Twelfth Day of Christmas we gather at the farm of a church family for a Burning of the Greens, sending light, warmth, and the Holy Spirit into one of the darkest, coldest nights of Winter (snow cover permitting). We then retire to the warmth of the farmhouse for hot wassail and food (see below).
Photo 5: FOOD! …an integral part of just about every gathering at and for the people of St. Patrick’s. This includes Sunday coffee hours, potluck suppers, seders, Diocesan gatherings, and any other excuse to get together and “break bread”!
SOMETHING THAT “EXCITES US” in words or pictures? ALL of the above, in addition to a variety of OUTREACH programs such as LIVING LOCAL, Community Garden (on the church grounds, open to anyone needing the produce), support of the Brewer Community Food Cupboard, participation with several other parishes on a rotating basis in providing a noon meal EVERY Sunday (using the facilities of Columbia Street Baptist Church in Bangor), the Artful Spirit Connection and Creative Crafts (inviting anyone interested in participating in arts and crafts one night each week at the church), supporting the Bangor-area Partners for Peace (a refuge agency for women in crisis), providing “street kits” to area police departments to be distributed to the area homeless population, and providing a welcoming space for organizational meetings such as the Diocese of Maine, non-profits, and an ad-hoc area women’s group.
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Diocese of Maine Bicentennial
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