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