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September 21,2025

“On Common Ground  “

Rev. Doretta Colburn

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Gather Together

WCC Choir with Heather Pierson

With This Life

Congregation with Heather Pierson

“Humankind has not woven the web of life.

We are but one thread within it.

Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.

All things are bound together.

All things connect.” 

Chief Seattle Leader of the Suquamish and Duwamish Native American tribes

May Peace Prevail Upon Earth

Congregation in Closing Circle

 with Heather Pierson 

Postlude

 by Heather Pierson 

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September 14,2025

“In Search of What We Have Lost “

Rev. Doretta Colburn

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Like the Murmer of the Dove's Song

WCC Choir w/ George Wiese

“Sometimes the things you’ve lost can be found again

in unexpected places."

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September 7, 2025

“The Work We Must Do“

Rev. Doretta Colburn

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Blessed are the Poor in Spirit

Sylvia Chandler and Nancy Farris

“Without justice for all Creation, there will be no peace.

Without peace, Creation cannot flourish.” 

Reverie

Al Struck and Kay Leslie

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August 31, 2025

“The Blue Plate Special“

Rev. Nancy Foran

Visiting Minister

The Parish Hymn

WCC Choir

Let us share God's abundance with no fear of scarcity;

let us greet strangers as angels God has sent!

from our Gathering Prayer

Postlude

Kay Leslie at the piano

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August 24, 2025

“Pick UP the Mantle“

Rev. Nancy Foran

Visiting Minister

At the River

David Percival

The Parish Hymn

WCC Choir

Be Present among us as we woship you and as we open ourselves to you Word.

To you be all glory, now and forever.

from our Gathering Prayer

Postlude

Kay Leslie at the piano

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August 17, 2025

“How Do We Interpret This?“

Rev. Doretta Colburn

The Parish Hymn

WCC Choir

"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning."

Ivy Baker Priest

Postlude

Kay Leslie at the piano

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August 10, 2025

A Celebration of the Life of

Margaret Louise Fallon Wheeler

aka "MEG"

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August 10, 2025

“What’s This About Faith?“

Rev. Doretta Colburn

The Parish Hymn

WCC Choir

“Faith is taking the first step

even when you don't see the whole staircase.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. 

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August 3, 2025

Rev. Doretta Colburn

Music Sunday: Melodious Accord - A Concert of Praise

Musical arrangements by Alice Parker (1925-2023)

Directed by George Wiese

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July 27, 2025

“Seeing the Heart of God Through Nature’s Window“

Rev. Doretta Colburn

Outdoor Service

The Parish Hymn

WCC Choir

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature,

he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

John Muir

Birds that sang with us today:

Red-eyed Vereo, Black-Capped Chickadee

House Wren, American Robin, Purple Finch, American Crow, Common Yellowthroat,Cardnal,  American Goldfinch, Song Sparrow,

Chipping Sparrow, Yellowbellied Sapsucker 

Go Now in Peace

WCC Choir

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July 20, 2025

“Beyond Our Distractions“

Rev. Doretta Colburn

The Parish Hymn

WCC Choir

“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

Wayne Dyer

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July 13, 2025

“Follow the Leader“

Rev. Don Mayberry

Visiting Minister

The Parish Hymn

WCC Choir

“Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes,

to see through their eyes,

that's how peace begins.

And it's up to you to make that happen.

Empathy is a quality of character

that can change the world.”

Barack Obama

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July 6, 2025

“Holding Up Our Part of the Covenant“

Rev. Doretta Colburn

Outdoor Service

The Parish Hymn

WCC Choir

When the world says, “Give up”,

Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.”

Unknown 

Go Now in Peace

WCC Choir

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June 29, 2025

“The Spirit-Led Life“

Rev. Doretta Colburn

The Parish Hymn

WCC Choir

 “May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” 

Nelson Mandela

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June 22, 2025

“Longing“

Rev. Doretta Colburn

Outdoor Service - Inside!

The Parish Hymn

WCC Choir

 “We are tender and fierce.

We are soft and strong.

We are fragile and courageous.

Sometimes all in one day.”

Kay Kurzel

Go Now in Peace

WCC Choir

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June 15, 2025

“Wisdom is Calling – Will We Listen"

Rev. Doretta Colburn

Trinity Sunday

Father's Day

"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit.

Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad."

Unknown

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June 8, 2025

“Amazed and Perplexed"

Rev. Doretta Colburn

Pentecost Sunday

“The Holy Spirit transforms and renews us,

creates harmony and unity,

and gives us courage and joy for mission."

Pope Francis

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June 1, 2025

“Breaking the Chains"

Rev. Doretta Colburn

Communion

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,

but to live in a way that respects and enhances

the freedom of others.”

Nelson Mandela

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May 25, 2025

“Are You Feeling Stuck?"

Rev. Doretta Colburn

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today,"

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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May 18 2025

“God's Dream: A Message of Hope”

Rev. Nancy Foran

Visiting Minister

Gentle Voice

WCC Choir

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May 11 2025

"It’s Time to Get Up!"

Rev. Doretta Colburn​ 

Mother's Day

"Life’s persistent and most urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"

Martin Luther King, Jr. 

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May 4 2025

"Message by Kirsten Wears

of Tucker’s House "

Rev. Doretta Colburn​ 

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April 27, 2025

"It’s Time to Step Outside "

Rev. Doretta Colburn​ 

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April 26, 2025

Celebration of Life

Kerry Adams Johnson

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April 20, 2025

"There’s More to the Story "

Rev. Doretta Colburn​ 

Easter!

Christ Arose

George Wiese

Alleluia

WCC Choir

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April 13, 2025

"About Talking Stones "

Rev. Doretta Colburn​ 

Palm Sunday

Just as I Am

WCC Choir

"Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do!" 

 Matthew Kelly

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March 16, 2025

"With Conviction"

Rev. Doretta Colburn​ 

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“Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.”

Dag Hammarskjold

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April 6, 2025

"It Takes Courage "

Rev. Doretta Colburn​ 

Just as I Am

WCC Choir

"You can't get to courage without rumbling with vulnerability.” Brené Brown

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March 9, 2025

"Looking Our Temptations in the Face "

Rev. Doretta Colburn​ -  on FaceBook

Women Composer Sunday

“You must never be fearful about what you are doing

when it’s right.”

 Rosa Parks

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March 23, 2025

"A Round Tuit"

Rev. Doretta Colburn​ 

Come Ye Sons of Art

Mainely Clarinets

You Raise Me UP

Mainely Clarinets

 “What you do makes a difference,

and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

Jane Goodall​

Amazing Grace

Mainely Clarinets

It is Well with my Soul

Mainely Clarinets

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Denny Raymond

Memorial Service

March 2, 2025

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March 2, 2025

"Awash in Radiant Light"

Rev. Doretta Colburn​

Transfiguration Sunday

“Every once and so often,

something so touching, so incandescent, so alive

transfigures the human face that it's almost beyond bearing.”

Fredrick Buechner

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February 23, 2025

"Open to the Possibilities"

Rev. Doretta Colburn​

“A mind that is stretched by new experiences

can never go back to its old dimensions.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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February 2, 2025

"When Expectations Get In the Way"

Rev. Doretta Colburn​

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world.

Scrub them off every once in a while,

or the light won't come in.”

 Alan Alda

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Clara Belle Hamlin

Memorial Service

January 31, 2025

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January 26, 2025

"To Be As One"

Rev. Doretta Colburn​

So powerful is the light of unity

that it can illuminate the whole earth.

– Baha'U'Llah

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January 19, 2025

"To Drink from the Well of Life"

Rev. Doretta Colburn​

“An individual has not started living

until he can rise above the narrow confines
of his individualistic concerns

to the broader concerns of all humanity.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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January 12, 2025

"The Voice of Affirmation "

Rev. Doretta Colburn​

"...Your life is already a miracle of chance

waiting for you to shape its destiny."

Toni Morrison

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January 5, 2025

"There is Always Grace"

Rev. Doretta Colburn​

“I do not at all understand the mystery of grace -

only that it meets us where we are

but does not leave us where it found us.”

Anne Lamott

Gloria

WCC Choir

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ABOUT US
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The Waterford  Congregational Church is UCC-affilliated.  We serve the community of Waterford, Maine and its environs. 

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Our church's vison for congregrants encompasses Service, Music and Spirituality.

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We embrace our rich history as well as  work toward a healthy and sustainable future.

 

(207) 583-6381

 

15 Plummer Hill Rd

PO Box PO 59

Waterford, ME 04088

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