December 20, 2024
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Easter weekend events planned by area churches

Bangor – Easter sunrise service by Columbia Street Baptist and Essex Street Baptist churches, 6:30 a.m. March 23, Thomas Hill Standpipe.

Bangor – Holy Saturday prayers, 9 a.m. March 22; Great Vigil of Easter, 7 p.m. March 22; Easter Sunday Eucharists, 8 and 10 a.m. March 23, St. John’s Episcopal Church, 225 French St.; 947-0156.

Bangor – Holy Saturday, 8 p.m. March 22; Easter Sunday, 10:15 a.m. March 23, St. John Catholic Church, 207 York St.

Bangor – Easter Vigil, 7:45 p.m. March 22; Easter Sunday, 9 and 11 a.m., St. Mary Catholic Church, 768 Ohio St.

Bangor – Easter Sunday celebration, 10 a.m. March 23, Abundant Life Church, 1404 Broadway; 945-5577.

Bangor – Easter service, 10 a.m. March 23; humor service, 10 a.m. March 30, Unitarian Universalist Society of Bangor, 120 Park St.; 947-7009.

Belfast – Great Vigil of Easter, 7 p.m. March 22; Easter Festival Eucharist, 8 and 10:15 a.m. March 23, St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, 95 Court St.; 338-2412.

Brewer – Easter celebration, 10 a.m. March 23, St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church, North Main and Holyoke streets.

Dexter – Easter Mass 10:15 a.m. March 23, St. Anne’s, 59 Free St.; 564-2842.

Dover-Foxcroft – Church of the Nazarene sunrise Easter service, 6:30 a.m. March 23, Macomber’s Hill, Dexter Road, just above the church.

Dover-Foxcroft – Holy Week Masses: 7:30 p.m. March 22, 9 a.m. March 23, St. Thomas Aquinas, 45 High St.; 564-2842.

Ellsworth – Resurrection Sunday, 10 a.m. March 23, The Church of Life and Praise, 321 State St.; 667-4308.

Frankfort – Easter Vigil, 7 p.m. March 22; Easter worship, 9 a.m. March 23, Frankfort Congregational Church, Main Road; 223-5762; Easter sunrise service on West Hill with potluck breakfast afterward at the church.

Hampden – Easter Sunday Mass for St. Matthew’s and St. Gabriel’s Catholic churches, 10:30 a.m. March 23, Hampden Academy gymnasium; 862-4735.

Jonesport – “Behold the Lamb,” free Easter drama presented by The Pentecostals, 7 p.m. March 21-23, Jonesport Pentecostal Church, Highway 187, Indian River Road; 497-2808, 497-3100 or www.pojmaine.com.

Lincoln – Easter sunrise service, 6 a.m.; breakfast, 6:30-7:30 a.m. to benefit Pilgrim Lodge Fund; Easter worship, 9 a.m. March 23, First Congregational Church of Lincoln, 19 School St.

Mars Hill – Southern gospel songs by the Rev. Richard Bell, 6 p.m. March 23, Mars Hill Full Gospel Assembly, 9 Maple St.; 425-6661.

Milo -Easter, 11 a.m. March 23, Sts. Francis Xavier and Paul the Apostle, 128 Riverside St.; 564-2842.

North Searsport – Easter breakfast, 7:30 a.m. March 23, Easter worship service, 8:45 a.m. March 23, North Searsport United Methodist Church, Mount Ephraim Road; 548-2239.

Old Town – Easter sunrise service, 6:30 a.m. at the Riverfront Gazebo for UMC and Federated Church of Stillwater; Easter breakfast, 7:30 a.m. March 23, Stillwater Church, bring an egg; Easter worship, 9 a.m. at Federated Church and 10:45 a.m. at United Methodist; 827-3559.

Orono – Easter service 10:15 a.m. March 23, Church of Universal Fellowship, 82 Main St.; Easter sunrise service, 6:30 a.m. March 23, Penobscot Valley Country Club; 866-3655.

Orrington – Sunrise breakfast, 8 a.m. March 23, Orrington Center Church, 468 Dow Road; 825-3492.

Pittsfield – Holy Week Masses: 7:30 p.m. March 22, 8:30 a.m. March 23, St. Agnes Parish, 238 Detroit St.; 564-2842.

Robbinston – Sunrise Easter service including choirs from Dennysville and Perry Congregational churches, 7 a.m. March 23, Sewall Memorial Congregational Church, 558 U.S. Route 1, followed by light brunch; 726-3905.

Rockland – Easter sunrise Communion service for Rockland Congregational Church, gather in lobby of Samoset Resort at 6 p.m. March 23; service is held outdoors.; breakfast afterward at fellowship hall of church at 180 Limerock St; traditional service in sanctuary at 10 a.m.; 594-8656.

Searsport – Easter sunrise service, 6 a.m. March 23, Searsport Wharf, off Steamboat Avenue; 548-2239.

Searsport – Easter worship service, 11 a.m. March 23, Searsport United Methodist Church, 43 East Main St.; 548-2239.

Veazie – Service at 10:15 a.m. March 23; Sacred Song Sunday, 10:15 a.m. March 30, Veazie Congregational Church, 1404 State St.; 947-8878.

West Brooksville – Easter worship, 7 a.m. March 23, West Brooksville Congregational Church, 1827 Coastal Road. Breakfast after the early service. Family Easter service at 10 a.m.


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