Patten Shine Weekly: Repotting (Children's Sunday tomorrow)



Do you like spider plants?

A few years ago, a teacher shared a spider plant with me. It grows so well and multiplies beautifully from generation to generation. I can’t even count how many baby spider plants I have given away to people over the years! Just yesterday, I made almost 30 baby pots out of 5 mother plants!

Scripture reminds us,

“Every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.” (John 15:2) 

Repotting stretches the roots. Pruning cuts away old parts. Both look painful at first, but they create room for new growth. God sometimes does the same in our lives.

Tomorrow, we will celebrate how our spiritual spider plants are growing in our Children’s Sunday! Jeanie Good has been teaching Sunday school for 50 years! God blessed us with 6 teachers and helpers, 5 youth, and 10 children last year! Tomorrow, there will be a ceremony to thank our volunteers and encourage our beautiful children. Everyone is welcome!! 

Children will meet at 10:00 am for practice.

We also had a wonderful Administrative Council meeting on May 14th, and we will have the minutes available soon. Looking ahead, we will have a combined welcome service on July 5th for the new pastor’s family, and we will officially start the A/B rotation model on July 12th. Pastor Craig will preach every other Sunday, and on the Sundays he is not physically with us in July, we will have lay leaders read his sermon.

Unfortunately, our worship time will have to change from 10:30 am to 11:00 am starting July 12th. This will give the pastor enough time to travel to us safely after finishing his first service in Hodgdon. Change is always hard, but I was so grateful to see everyone in the meeting willingly raise their hands to support this new cooperative ministry. Praise the Lord!

Lord, bless all our transitions across our four churches as we grow together. I pray in Jesus Christ’s name. Amen.

Thank you for all the fun times in the children’s ministry and at the Fiddlehead Festival!



 

 


Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow!


   Worship Assistants:

 

                                May 17, 2026                   May 24, 2026

 

      Ushers:                    Bob                                  Ted  

      Greeters:                 Beth                                 Doris

      Media:                     Denise                             Terry

      Liturgist:                 Debbie                             Chissy

      Acolyte:            Delila & Inara                     River & Amelia

                                                                

   UPCOMING EVENTS:

·       May 17   -    Children’s Sunday

                     Nursing Home Service (2:00 pm Gardiner)      

·       May 19    -   Last day of Bible Study (10 am Houlton UMC)

                               Combined Women’s Potluck Party (11 am)

·       May 22  -     Cooking Class for Bibimbap (3:15 pm)

·       May 24    -   Pentecost Sunday, Communion, Pick up choir,

                    Bible Study celebration & Potluck Luncheon

·       May 28    -   Healing Prayer Meeting (11: 30 am Sanctuary)

·       May 31    -   Combined Service of Farewell (10 am Houlton UMC)

·       July 5   - Combined Service of Welcome (10 am Houlton UMC)

 

   Weekly Program:

           Every Sunday – Sunday School

           1st & 3rd Friday:  Afternoon School Program (3:15-4:45 pm)

           2nd & 4th Friday:  Family Karaoke (5:30-7:30 pm)

          

Thursday:  BTS (Thursday Bible Study)  9:30 – 11:00

            Sunday:  SBS (Sunday Bible Study)  9:00 – 10:00

            Nursing Home:  Bible Study (Friday 10 a.m. at Gardiner)

                                     Service (3rd Sunday 2:00 p.m.)


Prayers for Bodily Healing:

      Donnie Adams, William Barton, Little Beckham, Gary Blake,

      Rev. Dan Blevins, Robin Bosse, Dana Carver, Mike Casey,

      Gordon & Roseanne Daughinee, Ron Dennis, Raymond

      Deshaies, Kathy Duffy Family,  Patsy Dyer, Ross Gowen,

      Zachary Gowen, Emily Harris Family, Chris Heath, Dicki Heath,

      Hope Heath, Justin Karcher, Coty Kelso, Matt Lane, Ricky Lyons,  

      Jim Mason, Judi MacArthur, Dean McFarland, Pam McGary,

      Amy Milo, Danette Moddy, Roberta Moore, Rick Murray,

      Ed Noyes, Robin Pettengill, Barbara Porter, the Richards Family,

      Dennis Sanborn, Kari Sanborn, the Alfred Savage Family,

      Cora Savage, Keith Sheilds, Kristine Wells, Rena Shorey, Butch

      Smallwood, Dicki Somers, Steve Trembly, Jolene Webber, Zach

      Weeks, Linda Zalieka

 

Happy Birthday

Maelyn Garret(1), Amelia Cocharan(7), Raymond Deshaies(12), Sara Hill(17), Haven Giles(21), Rick Hill(28)

 

Happy Anniversary

Rick & Sara (29), Victor & Joyce (31) 

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