Serving on a vestry is an important ministry for the health and well-being of a church. It can bring with it questions and challenges, as well as rewards. The Diocese of Maine wants to help helps wardens and vestries find resources necessary to fulfill their responsibilities. Wardens and vestries are also encouraged to share ideas and to help one another.
The BTS Center website has a number of resources for congregations to use for contemplating in nature as well as ways to stimulate the ecological imagination.
Bishop Brown’s Advent message Congregations and people in the Episcopal Diocese of Maine are supporting the Lewiston-Auburn communities with prayer and money. Lewiston Deaf Access Foundation Learn more about supporting the deaf community and make...
The New Initiative Fund grant process is for congregations and program groups in the Episcopal Diocese of Maine to request funding for new ministries and efforts, to expand existing ministries in new directions, or to...
Here are a few events happening this Shrove Tuesday in our Maine congregations. For a full list of our churches and service times, click here. Camden, St. Thomas Episcopal Church https://www.stthomascamdenme.org/ Prayer Service and Pancake...
Offering liturgical, formation, and other resources for congregations
Faith Climate Action Week is ten days in April during Earth Month when IPL congregations focus on how we can all take action to protect our climate. This year’s theme is Common Ground: Cultivating Connections...