Trusted leaders share information about the relevance of the process to congregants’ daily lives.

When the Jews were in Egypt, they suffered under the cruel pharaoh. The people cried out to God, who struck Egypt with the 10 plagues and performed the wondrous miracle of splitting the Red Sea, guiding his people through the desert. Each year, Jews remember these events of the Hebrew Bible on the holiday of […]

“Not for one moment has this flowing toward me ceased.” On my 11th almost-spring birthday, I wrote in my journal, “I made it through flu season. It’s March. I won’t get sick.” Of course, moments later, I spiked a temperature, started sneezing and alternately froze and sweated under my corduroy coverlet. Then my grandmother arrived […]

Today Inside/Out yard sale, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., also 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., to benefit His Place Teen Center. Alpha and Omega Thrift Shop, Norway/Paris Solid Waste Facility, lower level, 39 Brown St., Norway. Lenten Vigil for Disarmament, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., weekly through Lent. Bath Iron Works administration building, Washington Street, […]

PORTLAND — Grace-Street Ministry, a nonprofit organization working through Stevens Avenue Congregational Church, has been selected to participate in this year’s Feinstein Challenge. For 13 years, Alan Feinstein, a Rhode Island philanthropist, has divided $1 million among agencies serving the hungry and poor. Through April 30, any donation to Grace-Street Ministry will be enhanced by a […]