Mother's Day Weekend

Peoples Food, Fix-up, Celebration and Visioning

May 9^th dawned and the vestry of Peoples was visited by Men and Women who came together to fellowship and eat before setting out to a busy day of activity on the grounds of the church or elsewhere.

Chef Brad prepared his usual quality breakfast with some assistance in the kitchen from Rosemary and Chuck. As the folks joined them there was Rob, Art and Marlene, followed by Keith, Dick and Earle. Soon Randy and Kit and Andy joined the earliest of the birds. Jim and Pastor Tom were there as well as Doreen. Pastor Tom led us in prayer and then over our meals we talked about a variety of items in small groups.

It is but two times a year that the women are in attendance, both of which happen to be on the semi-annual clean-up days that are held in the spring and fall of the year.  We bid goodbye to some folks while others of us, after clean-up began a strenuous morning of raking and hoeing some of the lawns and gardens. Art and Keith began with the lawn between Ellis Hall and the parsonage. Soon Susan and Walter were there to rake and to spread mulch on gardens. Dick and Brad spent most of the morning repairing the awning that protrudes over the kitchen door. Several bags of leaves and brush were collected and later taken to the South Portland brush site on Highland Avenue.

Doreen and Marlene worked around the gardens in the front of the church property as had Tom and Barbara Nelson the day before. By the time they had finished one garden Walter was there to groom out the mulch.

Somewhere around noon the crew was done for the day.

 

 

 

 

 

On Sunday, Mother’s Day, mothers entering the church were greeted with a red carnation. Special lyrics appropriate to the day were sung by the congregation. “Praise to God, the World’s Creator”, “Our Father God in Heaven” and “God of the Women” were the three hymns that were sung to the music of more familiar hymns. Pastor Tom’s sermon was titled. “Mother’s Day Thoughts”. All of us had the opportunity to remember mothers and other women who played important roles in our lives in our younger years.