The Strawberry Shortcake Festival and Craft Fair is Saturday 7/13/24 8am-2pm! 

Community Events are posted on our Events Calendar.  Please join us! 

You are welcome here.

An Open and Affirming Congregation

Stained glass art depicting a heart.

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Every Sunday at 10 am – 104 Church Street, Belfast, Maine

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Gather with us following the Sunday Worship Service for fellowship and refreshments. Child Care is available and Youth Sunday School meets during the Worship Service. Adult Choir rehearses prior to Worship Service and Youth Choir rehearses after the Service. 

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Our Facilities, Parking and ADA Access

Parking:  Street parking is available on Church, Spring and Court Streets, or in the Town parking lot adjacent to the Probate Court.  Designated handicapped parking is close to the church office at 8 Court Street, which is also the church address for mail. 

Parish House/Fellowship Hall:  The entrance to the Parish House and Fellowship Hall is on Spring Street, which is ADA accessible.  At this entrance is an elevator to assist accessing the Fellowship Hall where many community functions take place.  

Main Entrance:  The Main Entrance to the Sanctuary faces Church Street at Spring Street.  An ADA ramp is accessible on the Spring Street side.  

INTERESTED IN FIRST CHURCH?

No matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here! You are always welcome to join us at Sunday worship or any of our church activities and events.

Come visit us or call the church office if you would like to speak to our pastor. He would be happy to set up a time to meet you and answer your questions about First Church. 

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Zoom into worship with us every Sunday morning at 10am or watch previous Sunday Services on your schedule.

Meeting ID: 956 4418 0328
Passcode: 504204

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Your support makes a difference in our ability to render loving service toward humankind as we strive for righteousness, justice and peace.

I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.

Parker J Palmer, Author/Educator/Activist

Creator God, cultivate within us a life which proclaims your praise. Sow within us your love and compassion for our neighbors and creation. Nourish us always with the outpouring of your grace ... and lead us to tend a life that shares you with the world.

– Pastor Joshua Fitterling

You gave me blue and I gave you yellow./ Together we are simple green. You gave me/ What you did not have and I gave you/ What I had to give - together, we made/ Something greater than the difference.

– Excerpt from the poem “When Giving Is All We Have” by Alberto Ríos, 2014.  Shared during 2022 Stewardship Reflections by Judy Williams.

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UPDATE – PASTORS NICK AND MARY ANGELA ON SUNDAYS

This summer, as our transition team does the important work of finding the right interim pastor for us, we have been blessed to have two UCC retired pastors, Reverends Nick and Mary Angela Davis, preach on Sundays. If you haven’t heard Nick and Mary Angela preach yet, I hope you attend one of their services. They will be with us through June and July except for two Sundays, June 30 and July 21, when our diaconate will lead the service.

Nick and Mary Angela grew up in Maine – Nick in Yarmouth, and Mary Angela in Bangor.  They attended Andover Newton Theological School, were married in 1976, and were ordained in 1979 at Christ Church United in Lowell, Massachusetts. Nick and Mary Angela have served churches in both Connecticut and Maine. Nick most recently served as a Bridge Pastor in Blue Hill and Summer Pastor in Somesville. Mary Angela has served churches in Pittsfield, Machias, and Bucksport. Nick retired from the First Congregational Church UCC in Ellsworth in 2017; Mary Angela retired from the First Congregational Church in Ellsworth Falls in 2018. Nick and Mary Angela have lived in Ellsworth since 2007, and they are currently members of the Hancock Union Church where their pastor is T.J. Mack, a familiar name to many of us at First Church. Nick and Mary Angela have a son, Joshua, who lives in Portland, and a “Bosnian daughter,” Ferisa Omerovic. Those of us who have heard their children’s messages also know they have a small cat named Black Beauty.

Deborah Woodbury
Moderator, First Church in Belfast, UCC