First Church in Belfast warmly welcomes supply Pastor Lee Witting on September 29, 2024.  

Lights for our Love Lights Tree will be on sale through November 22nd. Remember a loved one with this Christmas tradition. Names will be read at the Love Lights Ceremony at the Church on Sunday, December 1st at 5PM.

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

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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.  

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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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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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The First Church in Belfast Welcomes Lee Witting

As we work toward finding an interim pastor, we welcome Lee Witting to our pulpit beginning September 29, 2024. Lee, a member of the Trinitarian Congregational Church in Castine, has led a rich and varied life and came to ministering after many other careers. He began as a caseworker in Harlem. He then traveled through Europe and the Middle East in a VW camper with his first wife and three-year-old son. He ventured into publishing in Philadelphia and gave that up to restore an abandoned farmhouse and farm in Castine, Maine, replete with goats, chickens, pigs, and a horse. He helped start and edit Farmstead Magazine and then opened a real estate office in Castine. He published and edited a weekly paper, The Castine Patriot. He earned a master’s degree in theater studies in 1992, and then he and his second wife attended Bangor Theological Seminary.

He has served as an interim at the Searsport Congregational Church, co-pastored at the Union Street Brick Church in Bangor, and was for 15 years a nondenominational chaplain at Eastern Maine Medical Center. In 2010, he earned a doctorate in Near Death Experiences from Bangor Theological Seminary and currently has an ongoing podcast, Near Death Experiences with Lee Witting. I hope you will all take the opportunity to hear Lee preach and get to know him during coffee hour!

Deborah Woodbury
Moderator, First Church in Belfast, UCC