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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1960
Page
3
Directory of churches in Saco and surrounding towns listing pastors and Sunday Mass times for St Joseph St Andre St Mary Notre Dame de Lourdes Most Holy Trinity Our Lady of Victory St Monica St Martha St Margaret Wells Ogunquit First Parish School Street Methodist Second Parish Unitarian North Saco Congregational Christian Christian Science Society Salvation Army and Holiness meetings with service times and addresses.
The list details Episcopal chapels with priests and service times. Christ Church on Crescent Street led by Rev. Mark M McCullough offers Holy Communion at 7:30 am and Holy Eucharist with sermon at 9 am, plus nursery and kindergarten in the parish hall. Trinity Church on Main offers Holy Communion, morning prayer, Holy Eucharist and sermon, with nursery and evening prayers. St John By the Sea on St John Street in Old Orchard Beach is served by Rev Harold McElwain with Holy Communion at 8 and 11:15 am. St David on Portland Road, led by Rev Mark M McCullough, offers church school at 10 am, devotions, and services with nursery care.
A roundup of Sunday services across Biddeford churches including Biddeford St Demetrios on Adams Street with Rev Sam J Kalamaras, Advent Christian on Hill and Chapel streets with guest preacher Rev Delmar Lee, First Universalist in City Square led by Rev Edmund W Beal, South Biddeford and United Baptist churches with their respective pastors, and congregations note worship and Sunday school times for Advent, Full Gospel, Second Congregational, Foss Street Methodist, and other area churches.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints holds 10:30 a.m. services at the Adventist church on Cleveland Street in Saco. Charles Chase is pastor with ministers Elder Staley and Elder Whitby officiating.
Goodwins Mills Methodist church led by Rev Norman J Langmaid holds services every Sunday at 9 30 a m with church school at 10 30 a m directed by Mrs Stanley Stearns superintendent Advent Christian church pastor Rev Lloyd Osborne leads morning worship at 11 a m and Sunday school at 12 noon Lyman Baptist Church in Rob ert I Vance’s parish offers Sunday school classes at 9 45 a m and morning worship at 11 a m.
Cape Porpoise Methodist Church on the Cape announces Rev Henry O Megert as minister. Church school begins, followed by morning worship at 9 30 a m and service at 10 45 a m.
Og.nquit Baptist church on Shore road announces Reverend Paul S. Hazlett will lead morning worship at 11 a.m. and evening worship at 8:30 p.m.
Listings show Methodist on Washington Avenue with Rev John T Stahl holding Sunday school at 945 am and worship at 11 am First Baptist on Ocean Avenue led by Rev G Stephen Johnston with Sunday school at 130 pm and worship at 230 pm An evening worship at 730 pm planned at First Baptist Ocean Avenue Old Orchard Beach Advent Christian on Saco Avenue with Rev Hermer Thurlow Sunday school at 945 am and morning worship at 1000 am Faith Tabernacle Pentecostal at Atlantic Avenue and Third Street led by Rev Russell K Pier Sunday school 945 am Junior church 1130 am and morning worship at 1000 am Salvation Army 91 Union Avenue led by Capt Robert Reid with 945 Sunday school 1100 am Holiness meeting 3 pm street open air service
Unitarian church First Congregational parish with Rev Carl Bierman as pastor holds morning worship and Sunday school at 11 a.m. Christchurch with Rev Frederic Holmberg and Robert B. Culmer as pastors offers morning services at 9 30 and 11. Ken Baptist on Main Street is led by Pastor Chester M Stanes. Bible school time unknown. Christian Science Society at 25 Summer Street holds morning service at 11 and Sunday school at 11 a.m. West Kennebunk Methodist Church led by Rev John H Jordan offers morning worship and sermon at 9 a.m with soloist Miss Mary Vigne and organist Miss Elizabeth Hersey.
First and Second Congregational churches of Wells hold services at the Second church at 10 30 a m with Sunday school. Highpine Baptist, Sanford road, Rev Wayne A Porter from North Berwick leads Sunday school at 1 p m and worship at 2 p m. Wells Branch Freewill Baptist on Route 9 A with Rev Coleman York from South Berwick offers Sunday school at 9 30 a m and morning worship at 10 30 a m. Moody Community church in Moody Community hall Route 1 hosted by Mr and Mrs Nelson Kimball with Sunday school at 10 a m and worship at 11 a m.
Advent Christian church ministers Rev Milford G Butterfield with church school at 9 45 am and morning worship at 11 00 am Village Baptist Church corner of Maine and Spring streets Rev George P Urban pastor church school for all ages at 9 45 am morning worship at 11 00 am with supervised nursery and children's church First Congregational Church North Street and Arundel Road Rev Robert M Howes pastor morning worship 9 30 am South Congregational Church Temple Street Rev Robert M Howes pastor morning worship 2 00 pm and 1 am
An informal Webber-Lefebvre American Legion meeting at Kennebunk Post home, led by first vice commander Roger Noble, reports 75 members to date and over 100 toys donated for needy children. Plans set for the Christmas party December 21 and a reminder to bring gifts. York County Council meeting slated for Sanford December 9.
The speaker reflects on generational shifts and the search for guidance amid wars, depression, and crisis. A note of hope arises from recovering spiritual roots and scriptures to face daily life and future uncertainty. He cites a blind veteran seeking eternal words and Hosea as examples of enduring faith.
The piece explains Advent wreaths and Advent houses as age old customs to focus families on the Christmas message amid commercialism. The wreath uses four candles lit weekly, while the Advent house shows four windows with biblical quotes behind each revealing the Messiah born from the Old Testament. Advent means coming, signaling a penitential season of preparation.
The Wells-Ogunquit PTA meets December 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the Wells Elementary auditorium to discuss upcoming projects as Grade 5 sings carols. The Wells Corner hospitality committee, led by Barbara Littlefield, will host refreshments. The Lions Club hosts a joint Christmas party dinner December 9 at 8 p.m. with Kennebunk Lions, plus Pris cilla chapter Order of the Eastern Star holds a social and tree gift exchange December 9 at the Highpine Masonic hall with decorations sale proceeds benefiting the Star club.
Menus for Kennnebunk High and Junior High and Park Street and Cousens schools list daily meals for December 5 through 9. Each day features options like American chop suey, turkey with gravy, hamburgers, fish sticks, soups, vegetables, breads, and milk with desserts such as ice cream, pudding, and fruit.
Old Orchard Beach hosts a stated Miniwanca chapter meeting at 7 30 p m at the Robinson Memorial Masonic Hall with a proposed dues increase and Past Matrons and Past Patrons Night. St Margaret Ladies Sodality meets at 7 30 p m. St Johns by the Sea curia service at 11 15 a m on the first Sunday in December followed by a Bishops committee meeting and Sunday school at 10 30 a m. Mentions of Mizpah and Beacon Light Chapter visits and a festive 50 cent gift exchange with a coffee jelly recipe concluding the item.
About 600 attended the open rehearsal at Kennebunk High School as the Park Street School bands joined the junior high and high school ensembles. Proceeds will fund new uniforms and instrument repairs. The Kennebunk Band Boosters sponsored the event. about 100 more joined later.
Faith Tabernacle at the Beach in Old Orchard Beach hosts two week evangelistic services starting December 4 at 7 30 p m except Mondays and Saturdays. Rev Lloyd Sparks of Caribou will speak. the events mark Faith Tabernacle’s 14th anniversary, with three memorial services planned for December 11. An all night prayer session preceded the series.
A well-baby and immunization clinic will be held at Old Orchard Beach Town Hall on Tuesday December 6 at 9 30 a m Only pre schoolers will be taken at this clinic since a polio clinic will be held in schools next week Children who have not completed the series may finish it at the January clinic Immunizations for diphtheria tetanus whooping cough and smallpox will be available.
The Women's Fellowship at Christchurch hosts its first gentlemen's night this evening at 8 in the Webhannet clubhouse Kennebunk. A play The Amazing Arabella directed by Mrs Cranston Folley and Mrs Fred Holmberg, and a second play If Men Played Bridge As Women Do directed by George Whittier, will be presented. A social hour follows with Circles 1 and 8 under Mrs Fred Hansen and Mrs Richard Smith in charge.
Stamford announcement states 21 year old Joan Tunney daughter of former heavyweight champ Gene Tunney is engaged to 23 year old Lynn Carter Wilkinson Jr a Northwestern University senior from Whitefish Bay Wisconsin. No wedding date has been set.
The Rotary club met at the Kennebunk Inn on Thursday noon. Vernon Littlefield introduced Rich ard Arsenault of the Maine Forest Service management group, who spoke on local service programs. Junior Rotarian Peter Graham, a Kennebunk High student and National Honor Society member, was welcomed. Attendance shows three tied for first. Inter-club contest plans were discussed by representatives from South Berwick, Sanford and Biddeford clubs to begin in January.
Mrs. Douglas Nason honored at a surprise stork shower hosted by her mother in Kennebunk. Guests from Kennebunk and Westbrook attended the yellow and white event with gifts placed in a Nason basket. A social hour followed with refreshments and a decorative shower cake.
Highpine chapter in Wells hosted an official visit from William Whipple chapter officers of Kittery. The group discussed life membership at Highpine with initiatory fees of 15 dollars, age 14 to 21, and opened applications. Two Highpine candidates, David Porter and John Wentworth, earned the DeMolay degree last week.
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