BANGOR – “Serve Thy Neighbor” was this year’s Sunday school class theme at the First Baptist Church on Center Street. To apply that philosophy, the students, under the direction of Dawn Cobb, Shirley Boberg and Kim

Douglas, held a rock-athon and bottle drive to purchase a

Canadian rocker for Eastern Maine Medical Center’s neonatal unit.

The children rocked for one hour continuously at Sunday school and raised more than $300. Nurse Tina Gist

accepted the rocking chair Sept. 22 on behalf of the neonatal unit.

Participating in the rock-athon were Bianca Morey, Mary Lent, Laura Dearing, Kim Cyr, Jackie Cobb, Andrew Askins, Matthew Taylor, Toni Lent, Kayla Goodwin, Ben Getchell, Hillary DuBois, Juliet Cobb, Maren Askins, Jennifer Smith, Sara Livingstone, Seth Livingstone, Daniel Bullard, Caitlin Barrows, Sam Askins, John Livingstone, Nathaniel Larkin, Brooke Getchell, Hannah DuBois, Rachel Douglas, Jon Cassidy, Ian Barrows, Brooke Wing, Joseph Larkin, Nicole Dearing, Cullen Cassidy, Timothy Bullard, Carl Boberg, Caleb Smith, Kayla Griffis, Zachary Griffis, Matthew Douglas, Mikayla Carr, Elisabeth Boberg, Danny Moores, Matthew Bullard and Kevin Smith.

Three of the children are alumni of the neonatal unit.