Church Directory Listings for Saco and Coastal Maine
A catalog of Sunday masses and service times across multiple parishes and churches in Saco, Old Orchard Beach, Wells Beach, Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Ogunquit, and nearby towns. Includes church names, pastor names, and daily or Sunday mass times with first Fridays when noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennebunk
Monica
Kennebunkport
Martha
Wells Beach
Mary Church
Liam J. Kelly
Janelle
NT Saints
Ogunquit
Episcopal Churches Schedule in Crescent and Nearby Towns
Weekly church services listed for multiple Episcopal parishes including Crescent, Saco, Kennebunk, and Old Orchard Beach. Details cover morning prayers, Holy Communion, vesper prayers, Sunday school, and nursery care with named clergy such as Rev. T. S. Knox and Rev. Reynolds A. Hopkins, plus soloists from the opera company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Episcopal
Carr of Crescent and
South Streets
Ddeford
T. S. Knox
Pas
Main
Clevelands
Saco
Stor
Philips By-The-Sea
Formes Rocks
Ayer
Under Opera Company
St. David (Episcopal
Inland Road
Kennebunk
Reynold A. Hopkins
York Harbor
St. Phillip-by-the-Sea
James Rocks
Biddeford Area Church Schedule Mix of Services and Ministers
A compiled schedule lists Holy Communion and morning services across Biddeford and surrounding churches. Key notes include Rev. Mes Douglass Riddle at Biddeford Street Methodist, Rev. James Douglass Biddle at Pool Road church, Union Church with Rev. Stan Bennett as guest pastor, Advent Christian on Hill and Chapel, Saint Demetrios Greek Orthodox at Adams Street with Rev. Alexander Xanthakis, and United Baptist on Jefferson Street led by Rev. Jasper M. Beane. Morning worship times range around 9:45 to 11 a.m., with Sunday schools at 9:45 or 9:45 a.m. and midweek prayer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S Street Methodist Church
Oss
Pool Streets
Mes Douglass Riddle
South Bidded Methodist Church
Biddeford Methodist Church
Pool Road
Union
Fosstreet
Chilren
Union Church
Honey Ledger
Biddeford Pool
Stan
A. Bennett
Advent Christian Church
Cor. of
Hill and
Chapel Streets
V. Lottie
St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Arch
Adams Street
Exander Xanthakis
United Baptist Church
Jeffern Street
Jasper M. Beane
Astor
Village Baptist Church Sunday worship and services
Village Baptist Church at corner Maine and Spring streets offers morning worship at 11 o clock with supervised nursery and children's church. Rev erge P Urban, pastor. First Congregational Church at North Street and Arundel Road conducts worship at 9:30 with Rev Robert M Howes, pastor. South Congregational Church on Temple Street also presents morning worship led by Rev Robert M Howes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennebunkport Village
Maine
Spring Streets
First Congregational Church
Orth Street
Arundel
Robert M Howes
South Congregational Church
Emple Street
Ogunquit Church Services Notice
Ogunquit Baptist Church Shore ad Rev Paul Hazlette pastor Sunday morning worship 9 and 10:30 Sunday school and nursery 10:30 Sunday evening worship 8:30 Ogunquit Methodist Church Shore head Rev Thomas R Merrill pastor Sunday worship service 3:30 a.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ogunquit Baptist Church
Shore Ad
Paul Hazlette
Unday
Gunquit Methodist Church
Shore Ead
Thomas R. Merrill
Astor
Area church services listed for Sunday across Saco and Old Orchard Beach
Advent Christian Church on Saco Avenue with Rev Phylis E Adams holds Sunday school at 9 45 am and worship at 11 am Old Orchard Beach Methodist on Washington Avenue led by Rev Oakley E Woodward offers Sunday worship at 1030 am First Baptist on Ocean Avenue under Rev G Stephen Johnston offers Sunday school at 130 pm and worship at 330 pm Faith Tabernacle Pentecostal at Atlantic Avenue and Third Street led by Rev Russell P er conducts Sunday school 945 am junior church at 1130 am and evening worship at 1100 am Salvation Army at 91 Union Avenue commanded by Lt and Mrs Gordon Clark Jr features Sunday school 945 am holiness meeting at 11 am and evening salvation at 730 pm with mid week service Wednesday at 730 pm
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Advent Christian Church
Saco Avenue
Phylis E. Adams
Old Orchard Beach
Atlantic Avenue
Third Street
Russell P.er
The
Salvation Army
Union Avenue
Gordon Clark, Jr
Goodwins Mills Methodist Summer Service Schedule
Goodwins Mills Methodist Church in Lyman Maine lists summer Sunday services from June 17 to August 6 with 10 45 a m worship and sermon by the minister Norman J Langmaid. No services run during the minister’s vacation from August 12 to September 2. Also notes Advem Christian church led by Rev Lloyd Osborne with morning worship at 11 am and Sunday school at noon and Lyman Baptist Church Sunday school at 9 45 am and morning worship at 11 am.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Parish Congregational Church
Old Beach
Saco
A. Rufiero
Second Parish Unitarian Church
School Street
Pepperell Park
Roy Lee
United Baptist Church
Main and
Cross Streets
Stanley A. Bennett
Bible Baptist Church of
Carll J. Grathwohl
Saco City Hall
Goodwins Mills Methodist Church
Lyman
Maine
Norman J. Langmaid
Kennebunk Area Churches Schedule for Sunday
The Advent Christian church on Route 35 in Kennebunk Lower Village led by Rev. Milford G. Butterfield offers Sunday school at 9 45 a m and worship at 11 00 a m with a nursery during those hours The Unitarian first Congregational parish led by Rev. Carl Bierman conducts morning worship and Sunday school at 11 00 a m Christ Church with pastors Rev Frederic Dolmberg and Robert B Culmer holds morning services at 9 30 and 11 00 a m Kennebunk Baptist Church on Main Street worships at 11 00 a m and 7 00 p m Christian Endeavor Society at 25 Summer Street hosts Sunday school at 11 00 a m West Kennebunk Methodist Church led by Rev Alfred H Ives offers Sunday worship at 9 00 a m and Sunday school at 10 00 a m Kennebunk Landing Free Christian Union Society Full Gospel Church with Mrs Gracie Ames hosts Sunday school at 10 00 a m and Sunday morning worship at 11 00 a m
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Advent Christian Church
Route 35
Kennebunk Lower Village
Milford G. Butterfield
Unitarian Church
First Congregational
Carl Bierman
Christ Church
Frederic Dolmberg
Robert B. Culmer
Kennebunk Baptist Church
Main Street
Christian Eines Society
Summer Street
West Kennebunk
Summer worship schedules at Wells area churches
Multiple Wells churches list summer Sunday services with pastors and times. First Congregational holds 9 a.m. services, Second Congregational 11 a.m. School is recessed until fall while other churches such as Full Gospel on Route 9-A and Wells Moody Church on U S Route 1 offer afternoon or evening services and Sunday schools.
Cape Porpoise Church Notice Seeks Morning Service
Cape Porpoise Methodist Church on the Cape announces morning worship service at 10 45 led by Rev. Russell J. Peppe minister.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Church
The
Cape
Russell J. Peppe
Finding the Way and the Faulkner Echo in Civic Dishonesty
The essay critiques political shysters like Senator Shopes, aligning his tactics with Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha portraits. It contrasts cynicism with the Faulknerian call to courage, honor, and sacrifice, urging love of God as a redeeming remedy amid violence and manipulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shopes
Yoknapatawpha County
Mississippi
William Faulkner
Faulkner
Jesus
Miss Sandler and Kenneth Salk Wed in Roxbury Mass
Thelma Merle Sandler and Kenneth H. Salk exchanged vows at Aperion Plaza Roxbury Massachusetts. The bride wore peau de soie with Alencon lace and seed pearls and carried a Bible with an orchid. Attendants included maid of honor Judith Strock and best man Herbert A. Sandler. After a wedding trip to Miami and Nassau the couple will reside in Brighton Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thelma Merle Sandler
Herman Sandler
Graham Street
Biddeford
Kenneth H. Salk
Reuben Salk
Providence
R.J
Aperion Plaza
Roxbury
Mass
Irving Sandler
Judith Strock
Belmont
Herbert A. Sandler
Leonard Salk
Lewiston
Jack Wilkes
R.I
Abbott Cutner
Cranston
Jerome Miller
Worcester
H. James Rome
Joseph Rome
Gardner
Miami
Nassau
Brighton
Vatican prepares seats and tech for Second Vatican Council
In St. Peter's Basilica Pope John XXIII will preside over the Second Vatican Council beginning October 11. Grandstands seating 2,800 are being installed with desks kneelers and microphones for each participant. Cardinals bishops and officials will use taped recording and an electronic computer to tabulate votes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vatican City
St. Peter's Basilica
John XXIII
St. Peter's
Council
St. Peter’s
Pope John
Msgr
Pericle Felici
Railroads Protest Fair Treatment at Rotary Meeting
Oscar C. Benson, head of the New England Railroad committee, told about 85 Kennebunk Rotary members that railroads are overregulated and overtaxed, near bankruptcy while rivals gain government favor. He urged equality in regulation, user charges, tax relief, and permission to diversify into unitized transportation with public support to urge lawmakers to study the transportation picture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar C. Benson
New England Railroad Committee
Kennebunk Rotary Club
Kennedy
Benson
Sone
Area Men Receive Yard Promotions at Portsmouth Shipyard
Six area men received promotions at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Gaston M. Dubuc of Biddeford was promoted to machinist, Lea E. Montpas to electroplater, Lucien P. Nadeau to welder, Arnold L. Smith to patternmaker, Paul F. Kenisom to leading stockman, and James F. Purdy of Saco to mechanical engineering technician in the planning department. Rear Admiral C. J. Palmer cited merit and increased responsibility as the basis for the appointments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Nearbeap
Gaston M. Dubuc
School Street
Biddeford
Lea E. Montpas
Maple Street
Lucien P. Nadeau
Elm Street
Arnold L. Smith
Kennebunk
Paul F. Kenisom
Ogunquit
Saco
James F. Purdy
Central Street
C. J. Palmer
Buxton Area Churches List Morning Services
Buxton Tory Hill Meeting House at Buxton Lower Corner and The Old Pea Body Pew church hosted by Rev David W. Smith with morning worship at 11. North Congregational Church also led by Rev David W. Smith offers morning worship at 9 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tory Hill Meeting House
Buxton Lower Corner
Old Peabody Pew
David W. Smith
North Congregational Church
Battle For Sunberth In Beach Loop Showdown
A clash between the V.F.W. and Wortmans is scheduled for next Thursday at 6 pm on the Old Orchard Beach High School Alumni field. The winner claims first place in the Old Orchard Beach Little League. both teams hold seven wins and one loss, with Zahares S.G. A. at six and two. Wortmans coach Hadley Getchell will start ace Chuck er Slender John Andrews, while V.F.W. coach Bob Maguire fields Glenn No Hit Davis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
V.F.W
Wortmans
Old Orchard Beach High School
Old Orchard Beach
Zahares S.G. A
Hadley Getchell
John Andrews
Bob Maguire
Glenn
Davis
Portland Men’s Singing Club Concert Tonight at Temple Ocean Park
The Portland Men’s Singing Club directed by Allister H Grant with Dorothy Hicks will present a free concert at Temple Ocean Park this evening at 8 under the assembly committee and Acquaintance club. Highlights include Holy Lord of All, I Could Have Danced All Night, Carry Me Home to the Lone Prairie, It Got Plenty of Nutthin, When I Have Sung My Songs, Tommy Lad, Border Ballad, Catch a Falling Star, Swing Low, Shortnin’ Bread, Goin’ tt Shout, Green-E Dragon Spirituals, David Rubinoff and Earl Libby solos, The Happy Wanderer, Begin the Beguine, Grandfather’s Clock, The Publican, Dana, Ezekiel Saw de Wheel, The Hills of Home, Behold Now Praise the Lord.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland Men's Singing Club
Allister H “Sandy” Grant
Dorothy Dee Hicks
Temple
Ocean Park
Assembly Committee
Acquaintance Club
Holy Lord of All
Isalaw
Loewe
Lone Prairie
Guion
Gershin
Charles
Tommy Lad
Magetson
William Thompson
Maunder
Vance
David Rubinoff
Moller
Porter
van de Water
Dana
Dunhill
Earl Libby
Ezekiel Saw de Wheel
Home
Fox
Lord
Titcomb
Local residents plan visits and training departures this week
Mr and Mrs Richard Michaels of Mechanic Street embark Friday for a week long vacation in Gowanda New York to visit friends. Chief Bob Burns now heads to six weeks of training at Virginia Beach Naval Station after a Yug four year home visit with his parents in Kennebunk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Michaels
Mechanic Street
Gowanda
N. Y
Bob Burns
U. S. Navy
Key West
Fla
Lawrence Battles
Portland Street
Kennebunk
Virginia Beach Naval Station
Merrimac
Mass
Dion
Carroll Twist
Mark
Michael
Agnes Lupien
Summer Street
Cambridge
Mildredge
Frances Shaefer
Prizes In Beach Art Show Are Presented
The fifth annual Art Festival by the Old Orchard Beach Art Association at Jordan hall Ocean Park ends with prize presentations by Adelbert M. Jakeman. Top vote went to Along the Coast of Maine by Albert Stuhlmueller of Hamilton Ohio. Other winners include oils by Pasquale Tranquillo, Anita Carson, C Paul Wight, Alexander Merson. water colors by Edna Perkins, Jon Legere, F T Kelley Morgan, Michael Willis. and honorable mentions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Orchard Beach Art Association
Jordan Hall
Ocean Park
Adelbert M. Jakeman
Ocean Park Assembly
Maine
Albert Stuhlmueller
Hamilton
James A. Elliott
Bath
George de Lyra
South Harpswell
Pasquale Tranquillo
South Portland
Anita Carson
Ottawa
Penobscot
C. Paul Wight
Old Orchard Beach
Alexander Merson
New York City
Edna Perkins
Kennebunk Beach
High Street
Portland
Jon Legere
Helen Hall
Sarah Bridge Graves
Priscilla Skilling
Helen Smith
Elizabeth Wilson
Mildred Leonard
Alice Leavitt
Journalists To Be Hosted By Kennebunk Club
Gov John H Reed program brings three foreign correspondents to Kennebunk Rotary club events August 11 to 17. Emile Walter of Germany, Washington correspondent for Sued Deutsche Zeitung, stays with Kingsburys. Viggo Steenstrip of Denmark, Danish State Radio, stays with Dessows and later Cresseys. Walter meets host at Portland City Hall. Rotarians serve as guides including Hopkins, Beard, Spiller, Stephens, Dessow, Cole, Packard, Burr, and Holmberg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H. Reed
Kennebunk Rotary Club
Emile Walter
Germany
Theodore O. Kingsbury
Summer Street
Walter
Washington
Deutsche Zeittung
Viggo Steenstrip
Denmark
State Radio
Charles Dessow
Fletcher Street
Churchill Cressey
Penwood
Portland City Hall
Dessow
Kennebunk
Charles Cole
M. A. Packard
Kenneth Burr
Fred Holmberg
V F W Auxiliary Plans Food Sale and Tag Day
A Kennebunk VFW auxiliary meeting at Mrs. Ruby Bouvier's home approved a tag day for August 24 under Mrs. Phyllis Lindquist to raise funds for sending a girl to Camp La-Gis-Ca. A food sale is set for Friday August 31 at Washington Park with Mrs. Dorothy Labbe as chair. The next meeting September 12 at the Post home will include a covered dish supper with guests. Mrs. Ruby Bouvier to chair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
VFW
Kennebunk
Ruby Bouvier
Jin Arundel
Carolyn Goldhammer
Phyllis Lindquist
La-Gis-Ca
Washington Park
Dorothy Labbe
Post Home
Dorothy
Wells native screens dog show judges at Santa Barbara event
Ernest Crowley of Saltaire Kennels Wells was among judges from across the United States, Honolulu, and England at the 34th annual Santa Barbara dog show in California where about 2050 dogs entered. He judged specialty breeds and joined a pre show potluck at S F Hekert Jr home, then a banquet at Oak Ranch Country Club. Crowley traveled by astro jet. Seven Wells Boy Scout Troop 353 members faced a Board of Review at Ralph Booth studio in Ogunquit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Crowley
Saltaire
Crowley
Wells Boy Scout Troop 353
Ralph Booth
Ogunquit
Water Safety Certificates Awarded At Day Camps
Two Georgeanna Girl Scout Council day camps in York County closed the season with American Red Cross Water Safety certificates. At Kennebunk Pond in Lyman 26 certificates were awarded across levels Beginners Advanced beginners and Intermediates. At Barney Beg Girl Scout Day Camp in Sanford 53 certificates were issued by Water Safety Instructor Jean O Perkins to a large list of recipients across several towns including Sanford South Berwick York Kennebunk and Springvale. Advanced Beginners certificates went to several more. The article notes related Scouting events in Wells and Camp Hinds Raymond including a Boy Scout Order of the Arrow initiation for Gerald A LaPierre of Wells Troop 353.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgeanna
Dawn Dyer
Julianne Reiner
Paula Martel
Diane Boucher
Susan Angers
Martha Conway
Gail Dansereau
Nancy Montpas
Donna Dubuc
Pamela Collins
Kathy Frederick
Dawn Taylor
Beverly Michel
Joy Taylor
Karen Plummer
Gale Libby
Jean O.perkins
Barney Beg
Sanford
Denise Boulanger
Becky Burgess
Cathy Lajoie
Berwick
Gail’ Lightbown
Sheila Parnham
Stuart Collins
Deborah Stowe
Mary Spilline
Betty Jean Sweeney
Christine Proof
Diane Paraham
Bonnie Hoffman
Mary Somerset
Linda Budlong
Sandra Lightbown
Linda Spencer
Pamela Maddocks
South Berwick
Susan Chasse
Arlene Glaude
Janet Poliquin
Christine Libby
Gail Marshall
John Duggin
Elaine Berthieume
Magaret Lagere
Susan Cote
Doris Carrier
Monique Boisvert
Pauline Berard
Lorri Leclerc
Alison Hayes
Roxanne Chabot
Linda Gagnon
Julie Leclair
Susan Leclerc
Kathy Murphy
Francine Beaupre
Somersworth
N. H
Mary Gay Jones
Magaret Perkins
Kennebunk
Meridith Ricker
Karen Simpson
Kathy Fenderson
Sandra Jones
Wells
Deborah Collins
Patricia Taulkos
York
Jane Chadbourne
Springvale
Arlene Claude
Karen Duggin
Gail Lightbown
Charlotte Stowe
Linda Lilly
Mary Webster
Jane Kimball
Board of Advancement
Pine Tree Council
BSA
Gerald LaPierre
Larry Kent Alpren
Francis Milinski
William Byrnes
Thomas Chase
Michael Perry
Dennis Byrnes
William Perkins
Kennebunk Boy Scout
Gerald A. LaPierre
Albeo G. LaPierre
Post Road
Order of the Arrow
Camp Hinds
Raymond
Cape Porpoise Community Notes and Visits
Cape Porpoise and area residents share cordial social ties with visitors and relatives. Miss Arlettie Tibbetts receives appreciation from Paul G. Bulger of State University College Buffalo for memorial fund support, while eight Kennebunkport Girl Scouts prepare a summer camp stay in New Hampshire. Local residents welcome visitors from Medford, New Haven, Natick, Mt. Kisco, Arlington and New York, with stays at homes on Langsford road and nearby inns and cottages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arlettie Tibbetts
Langsford Road
Paul G. Bulger
State University College
Buffalo
N. Y
Irving C. Perkins
Friends and Neighbors
Cape Porpoise
Perkins
Kennebunkport
Caroline Burnham
Michele Burnham
Roberta Moulton
Susan Wildes
Lorraine Pitts
Carol Eaton
Janet Huff
Ann Miller
Camp la Gis
Horne Pond
Sanbornville
N. H
Collie Merrill
Pine Point Manor
West Scarborough
Clovis Laverty
Lee Hutchins
Deborah
Hartley Huff
Harry Emmons
Doris McKenna
Lucy Lord
Russell J. Peppe
Frank Wakefield
Linda
Frederick Crowell
Carl Jennison
Canton
Mass
Inez Jennison
Mills Road
David Abbott
Milton Roberts
Medford
Murray Roberts
Eliot Ridlon
Natick
J. C. Beck
Mt. Kisco
Fiske College
Eleanor Morris
New York City
U.S. Public Health Service
Elizabeth
Dorothy Rice
Pier Road
Colin Locke
Larry Coyle
Harry Hall
Lexington
Pegg Brooks
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S. P. Bova
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U. S. Route 1
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IGA
Second Church
Wells Corner
Full Gospel Church
Lyle Nicholson
Highpine Baptist Church
Sandford Road
Wayne A Porter
North Berwick
Wells Branch
Freewill Baptist Church
Coleman York
Wells Moody Church of the Nazarene
U.S. Route 1
Nelson Kimball
Ralph W. Loew
D.D
Enterprise Assn
Allister H. Grant
Miss Sandler
Kenneth Salk
Ellis Field
By Bennett Bolton
Buxton
Battle For Sunberth
Portland Men’s Singing Club
Edmund Cashen Dial
Kennebunk Club
V.F.W. Auxiliary
Alice M. Crowell