First Church of the Nazarene

Summer BBQ Week 10 Tuesday August 25, 6:00 PM

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Last week for the summer BBQ's coming up. I saved my personal favorite Nooma video for last, Dust:

Believing in God is important, but what about God believing in us?
Believing that we can actually be the kind of people we were meant to be. People
of love, compassion, peace, forgiveness, and hope. People who try to do the
right thing all of the time. Who act on the endless opportunities around us
every day for good, beauty, and truth. It's easy for us to sometimes get down on
ourselves. To feel "not good enough" or feel like we don't have what it takes.
But maybe if we had more insight into the culture that Jesus grew up in and some
of the radical things he did, we'd understand the faith that God has in all of
us.

Summer BBQ Week 9 Tuesday August 18, 6:00 PM

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Down to two weeks remaining. As promised I am posting earlier than 3 days out. Our next Nooma video will be Sunday:

Why do we do the things we do? Why do we go to church or give money away?
Because we're supposed to or because we think God needs it? Do we honestly put
on our best clothes for an hour once a week, stand and sit at all the right
times, and sing all the appropriate songs for God's sake, or because it'll make
us look better to the world around us? We're tired of all the empty rituals and
routines. And so is God. God hates it when we call ourselves Christians but
ignore all the things he really cares about. He hates it when we go through
hollow religious routines out of some feeling of duty or obligation. God doesn't
want the meaningless rituals. God wants our hearts.

Summer BBQ Week 8 Tuesday August 11, 6:00 PM

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I'm getting later and later at updating, will do better next week! We are down to our last three summber weeks in the series. Its not too late to come visit and take part.
This week we will be watching the Nooma- Kickball:

We always think we know what's missing from our lives in order to really
make us happy, don't we? If only I had that car, or that job, or if only I could
lose those 15 pounds, then I'd be happy. Really? How often do we want something
only to find out that it wasn't that great after all? Sometimes we ask God for
things and if he doesn't deliver right away, we start questioning whether God
really understands or even cares. Do we really trust God? Do we trust that God
is good and sees a bigger picture than we ever could? It's easy to want what's
right in front of us, but maybe God knows what's better for us, and sometimes we
just can't see it.

Summer BBQ Week 7 Tuesday August 4, 6:00 PM

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It worked! Finally a Tuesday night with no rain, lets hope a new streak continues. This week we will be watching and discussing the Nooma video Lump:

A lot of us have done things in our lives that we're ashamed of. Some are
small things, and some of us have really big and devastating things. Some of us
even have things that people close to us don't know about. Personal junk that we
keep to ourselves so we don't have to deal with it. Because we don't know how to
deal with it, do we? We're afraid that if we try it's just going to make
everything worse. But no matter how big our junk is, no matter how much what
we've done has impacted the way other people feel about us or how we feel about
ourselves, it hasn't changed how God feels about us. God loves us, he always has
and always will, and there's nothing we can do to change that.

Summer BBQ Week 6 Tuesday July 28, 6:00 PM

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I wish I could start off these posts differently but every week we have been forced in doors because of Rain! This week we are going to watch the Nooma video Rain and hope that might change things!

Things don't always work out the way we want them to, or the way we think they
will. Sometimes we don't even see it coming. We get hit with some form of pain
out of nowhere leaving us feeling desperate and helpless. That's the way life
is. Still, it makes us wonder how God can let these things happen to us. How God
can just stand by and watch us suffer. Where is God when it really hurts? Maybe
God is actually closer to us than we think. Maybe it's when we're in these
situations, where everything seems to be falling apart, that God gets an
opportunity to remind us of how much he really loves us.

Summer BBQ Week 5 Tuesday July 21, 6:00 PM

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What a summer, 4 weeks in and we still haven't eaten outside due to rain or threat of. But we are still barbequin' and having fun. Each week we've had great discussions following the Nooma video. This week's Nooma is Trees:

We want to know why we are here. If our lives really matter. How our
religion is relevant to this life. Today. We want to understand what
significance this minute, hour, week, month, and year has to our lives. To our
world. We need a God who cares about this life, in this world, right now. We
want to understand why everything we think, everything we say, and everything we
do matters. We don't want to just sit back and wait for something to happen or
someday to come. We want to know if all the choices we make now will shape our
world and lives for eternity. Because we want our lives to have meaning today,
and our lives today to have meaning forever.

Summer BBQ Week 4 Tuesday July 14, 6:00 PM

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3 weeks in and we still haven't been able to eat outside due to rain! That hasn't stopped us from having fun and thought provoking discussions following the Nooma videos. This next week we will be seeing Rich:

There's a popular bumper sticker that reads "God Bless America," but hasn't
America already been blessed? It's easy for us to fall into a mindset of viewing
"our" world as "the" world, because it's all we generally see. We're constantly
bombarded with images of the latest styles and models of everything, and it can
easily leave us feeling like what we have isn't enough because we see people
that have even more than us. But how does what we have compare to what most
people in the world have? Maybe what we have is enough; maybe it's more than
enough. Maybe God has blessed us with everything we have so we can bliss and
give to others.

Summer BBQ Week 3 Tuesday July 7, 6:00 PM

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We still haven't had an outdoor BBQ but we are certainly using the grill for the hotdogs and rolls and are eating inside. Last week was a lot of fun and we even had a little cooking show to go along with the Nooma video. This week we will be watching the Nooma video Open:

Many of us have experienced situations where we've prayed and it felt like
God wasn't listening. And yet other times we've prayed or known someone that
prayed and the situation changed. Does God answer prayer? Sometimes, but not all
the time? Or does God always answer prayer it's just that sometimes God says no?
some of us are angry with God for not answering the prayers we've prayed for
years. Why did he answer their prayer but not ours? What if there's more to
prayer than just God listening and answering? Maybe if we understood how Jesus
prayed, our concepts and expectations of prayer would change.

Summer BBQ Week 2 June 30 6pm

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We meet rain or shine.
Our first week was a fun time with good conversation.
This week we will be watching the Nooma short film Tomato:

We all get consumed with ourselves; sometimes we're not even aware of it.
We learn from a young age that life is about winning and impressing. We pick up
that our worth and value come from how good, how smart, and how skilled we are.
So, we twist things in our favor, making us look like we have it all together.
Every day we have the choice to prop up these false ideas about ourselves or to
let go of them. Jesus invites these parts of us to die, the parts of us that
tell us our worth comes from the things we say and do. Maybe it's only when we
let these things die, that we truly begin to live.

Summer BBQ Week 1 June 23 6pm

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Our Nooma video of the week will be Rhythm:

What does it mean to have a relationship with God? What does it look like?
For a lot of us it's a hard thing to understand. If God is an infinite spirit
with no shape or form, how can we possibly relate to that? And what about Jesus?
He said he came to give everyone life in its fullest. He came to show us how to
live. Maybe it's through trusting Jesus and living the kind of life he taught us
to live--a life of truth, love, justice, compassion, forgiveness, and
sacrifice--that we have a relationship with God. Maybe the way we live every
day, every single choice we make, determines how in tune with God we are.

May Events

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Every Sunday at 11:00 AM we have our weekly Worship Service. We rotate weekly with who will deliver the lesson for the week between our two pastors. On May 24 we will have Rev. Gloria Coffin, Co-Pastor of the Portland Nazarene church delivering a sermon that is sure to be a blessing to our church community.

May 9, will be a graveside memorial service for our dear friend Alice Call. Please contact Pastor Dan Joyce for details 666-5575.
May 10, is Mother's Day-Don't forget to bless your mom!
May 24, Rev. Gloria Coffin, Co-Pastor of the Portland Nazarene preaching in Bowdoinham
May 30, Saturday Night Service, 5:30 PM

Our midweek studies will be on brake for the month of May as we are gearing up for our Summer BBQ series starting Mid-June, check back here for more details.

Saturday Night Service

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April 25 @ 5:30 we will have our Saturday Night Service, this month Ruth Joyce will be delivering the message.
Get your dinner before or after at the Bowdoinham Fire Department Bean Supper.

Easter

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Join us for Easter Breakfast at 9:30AM followed by our Resurrection Celebration Service at 11:00 AM

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Next Saturday Evening Service

March 28th at 5:30

January 31st Saturday Evening Service

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What:
Saturday Evening Service followed by coffee and fellowship

When:
January 31st at 6:30

Who:
All are welcome

Where:
Bowdoinham Church sanctuary

How:
Come with the spirit of community

Painting by Sandra Frey

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Bible Study Tuesday Nights at 6:30 p.m.
Located at the church parsonage.

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Thanksgiving Service Wednesday @ 6:30 p.m.
@ Bowdoinham Nazarene

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Bowdoinham’s
First Church of the Nazarene
&
Second Baptist Church
Invite You to Join this annual time of Worship and Reflection to

Give Thanks for our blessings of the year.
At the Bowdoinham Church of the Nazarene,
Corner of School and Main Streets
Tuesday, November 25
6:30 in the Evening
You are also invited to bring a

portion of your bounty (non-perishable goods or money)

to donate to local families.

Church Website

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Having today off I grabbed my camera and went to the church and took some photos, one of the pictures is the heading of this page and another picture can be seen on the bowdoinhamnazarene.org homepage. I updated the homepage today and when I have some more time I will add more pages to the site describing the church a bit more. Check back to the blog and website more often to see what work we have done.

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Todays Order of Service
Call to worship Psalm 78:1-7

*Worship songs from the Chorus Book

His name is wonderful

Because of Who You Are

I Love Him

Hymn: He is Everything to Me #403

Responsive Reading: #288

Sharing Time:

Song: He Is Lord

Prayer: Of the People

Presentation of Tithes and Offering

* Doxology 7

Scrpiture: Mathew 25:1-13

Message: When Things Change Fast Rev. Dan Joyce

*Benediction

Prayer Needs:

Tom Grimes

Fred David

Wayne Morse

Bert Hathaway

Ryan Jennings

November 9th Harvest Dinner

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This Sunday, November 9th annual Harvest Dinner
Free directly following the service 12:15 p.m.
Everyone is welcome!
We will meet in the fellowship hall 7 School St. Bowdoinham, ME

Latest happenings...

2008-08-25T09:22:00.000-07:00

This Tuesday will be the last of the Summer BBQ series. Its been a fun time of hanging out together. It's never too late if anyone wants to drop in.

Next week Ruth Handler will be leading the next series "Patriarchs" its based on the study by Beth Moore, it is open for men and women.

This past Sunday Ruth preached on the first of our five week series on the Journey From Bondage. Next Sunday Rev. Joyce will continue the series through Exodus as we look at the Journey From Bondage, a learning from the framework of the story of Moses.

2008-07-29T16:23:00.000-07:00

Join us this Sunday for a teaching by Darren Joyce from Matthew 14 and a special worship service with John and Leanne Scott
Bible Study Homework: Read Romans 3:27-4:25, For extended information read about Abraham Genesis Chapters 11-25.

Bible Study Homework

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Homework: Next week we will be going over the theme of God's righteousness needed, to be ahead of the game read Romans 1:18-3:20 Blessings, May you find God's wisdom as you read!

Summer Barbeques

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From July 1 to August 26, every Tuesday night there will be a free BBQ at the church for anyone to come to. In a summer of economic uncertainty we feel blessed to be able to share food for our community. We will begin serving food at 5:30 PM following our dinner we are sharing our series on the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Romans, join us as we enter in the conversation as Paul shares the hope to those living in the heart of the turbulent empire, it’s the living 2000 year old hope we do believe in! Child care provided.

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