The Boiler Room

The Boiler Room

New Sunday School class starting March 3rd! Effective Powerful, Purposeful praying. Charles Spurgeon called his church’s prayer chapel the boiler room.  He believed prayer was the engine that drives the ministry of the church.  And so do we.  Part of our vision at UBC...
Preparing for Planting Now?

Preparing for Planting Now?

Although it is still winter here in Maine, gardeners are looking at seed catalogues, and farmers are thinking ahead to spring planting and dreaming about the fruits of their labor. Some Aroostook farmer sowed (and most importantly painstakingly cultivated) this...
Go! Tell It!

Go! Tell It!

John Wesley Work Jr. was an African American educator and musicologist who compiled, “harmonized,” and published a number of slave songs which came to light during the Great Migration of Blacks from the southern states to the north after the civil war. “Go Tell It On...
Open or Shut?

Open or Shut?

Beyond the fence in the photo lies a magnificent but obscured view of Frenchman’s bay, its islands, boats, and mountains. That wonder can only be accessed through the now closed gate, and we are not invited in. Jesus used a gate as a metaphor in a rather surprising,...