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Welcome Visitors,

            St. Peter’s Episcopal Church is a community of Christians, who strive to foster and share Christ’s welcome, caring and compassion for each other and for the world at large in the Episcopal tradition. We welcome all visitors to our parish to share in the presence of God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

            St. Peter’s started as a summer chapel in July 1962. Today, St. Peter’s has grown to become a strong Episcopal presence in the Lake Region Communities, providing our 9:00AM Sunday Eucharist and a 6:30PM Wednesday Eucharist, followed by a Healing Service, Taizé Service, concert or an educational event. St. Peter’s also conducts seasonal and ecumenical services during the year. We have been blessed with a new Church/Parish hall for worship and the ministries, to which we have been called, and moved into the new building on June 1, 2008
           
            Our Sunday school program meets September to June, using “Godly Play” as our educational focus for children K-6 grade; and Attitude, a powerful programming on real-life issues for young people grades 7-12. Childcare is provided year round at the 9:00AM Eucharist.

            Our parish has a very active “Outreach Program”, serving local, state, national and worldwide needs. The Outreach Program is a central part of St. Peter’s Ministry. God has blessed St. Peter’s with members that have a strong sense of compassion for all people and strive to help where needed. We work very hard with Special Fundraising projects throughout the year to help facilitate the funding of this gifted ministry.

            The parish “In-reach Ministry” extends this caring and compassionate ministry of all to the parishioners by birthday visitations, respite meals, emergency transportation, prayer ministry and pastoral visits.

            We hope you will come and visit us and please join us after the service for coffee and share you travel adventures. If you have relocated to this wonderful area, we hope to see you again soon. Please call our office, if we can be of any assistance while you are here in the Lake Region Area.

Faithfully,
St. Peter’s Congregation

FEED MY SHEEP!
John 21:15

With these words to the disciple, Peter, Jesus sent his disciples into the world to share the Good News that the Kingdom of God has come very near!  St. Peter is the “patron saint” of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Bridgton, Maine.  Through him those words from our Lord and Savior are the basis of our life and mission as well.

Feed my Sheep!  Feed my people.  Feed my people in mind, in spirit, and in body!  Steep yourselves in the Kingdom of God which has come very near you – is within you, among you, near and here in Jesus Christ.  Share that Good News with all of my people in the world!   That is the very heart of St. Peter’s Church’s life and mission.

Feed my people – in spirit, through worship and prayer, through a loving faith community who supports and nurtures folk in their spiritual quest and pilgrimage, that we all may experience the unconditional, generous presence of God.  There is something greater in human life than the world would teach us.  Share that with all of God’s people.

Feed my people – in mind, through regular study of Scripture, in teaching and learning, through educational events that enable folk to ask those important questions of life and of our relationship to God so that each of us may grow in faith and as St. Paul puts it, “to maturity, into the full stature of Christ.”

Feed my people – in body, by providing for the physical needs of those around us, reaching out with the compassion of Christ in whose name we are called and sent.  Feed the hungry!  Clothe the naked!  Care for and heal the sick! Give drink to the thirsty!  Welcome the stranger!  These are all the practical actions for those who have experienced the compassion of Jesus.   We at St. Peter’s Church take seriously our ministry of reaching out to the world around us in tangible, physical ways.

Feed my people – in heart, by living out Jesus’ command to love one another as he has loved us, that by our love for one another the world may know that Jesus has come and that the Kingdom of God has come very near!

            It is to this community faith that we invite you.  Come and share with us in worship, in life-long learning, in helping to feed God’s people who are hungry in spirit, mind and body.  We invite you and welcome you!

                                                                                    Faithfully in Christ,
                                                                                    The Rt. Rev. John H. Smith, Rector