Rembrandt: THE PRODIGAL
The powerful story of the Prodigal Son is this Sunday’s lesson from the Gospel of Luke. You can find all of the Bible readings for this week here.
Four new quilts by our neighbor Ellie Fellers are on display in the Vestry Community Room. Ellie is a member of our own Blockhouse Stitchers.
There are stories behind all her quilts. Ellie has been making quilts for seven years, since discovering quilt making while surviving breast cancer–as she says, “when I was lost and couldn’t find my way.”
Ellie ’s world of color surrounds her daily and gives inspiration to help meet each day. Her quilts are beloved objects to her, and help to heal the soul and provide purpose to her life.
Ellie ha
s gifted quilts to all her family members, children, grand-children, aunts, sisters and best friends during this journey of discovery. So, the spiritual connection of thread weaves fabric into her life force today and she hopes it will continue for many years to come.
In 2009, the Western Maine Art Group in Norway accepted an Ellie Fellers quilt to display in a juried show. Later, she exhibited seven quilts in a fiber show there, and more recently in Gray at Fiddlehead Center for the Arts. In February, her African pictorial quilts were displayed at Gritty McDuff’s gallery through L/A Arts in honor of Black History Month.
We are grateful to Ellie for letting us display her work here! Come by and have a look between now and Easter!
Ellie’s quilts are for sale. We’ll be happy to give you contact information.
“We have eggs!” seems a strange announcement at worship, committee meetings and choir practice! What it means is that the church refrigerator is loaded with dozens of plump brown eggs from the 
Willow Farm on Cobb’s Bridge Road. Our farmers are Elizabeth and John Randall. Faced with more eggs than her family could consume, and a desire to advance the church’s ministries of Christian Education, Elizabeth made us an offer we couldn’t possibly refuse. For $3, you can take home a dozen fresh eggs. $2 goes to the farmer for supplies, and $1 helps the Christian Education folks provide opportunites for Christian nurture to children and adults. This program is thriving, with people stopping by for eggs whenever the church lights are on.
