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Welcome!
Greetings and welcome to my cyber office on Foreside Community Church’s website. I truly appreciate you taking the time to stop by. Allow me a few words of introduction.
My name is Janet Dorman and I have been serving the Foreside Community Church as its settled pastor since September of 2009. Prior to serving here, I spent four years in San Francisco serving two churches in the Bay Area as an interim pastor. Most of my ministry, however, has been in the Boston area and New England is home.
The metaphor that has guided my ministry I learned from a seminary professor at Boston University School of Theology, Dr. Harrel Beck, who said that we must understand the biblical narrative as the story of a people turning brown into green. That metaphor also applies to the ministry of the church. Imagine this.
Picture yourself standing on the edge of a vast desert. The land stretches to the horizon. All before you is dry and brown, seemingly lifeless. As your eyes scan the bleak wilderness, you notice what you missed before – a small, but definite patch of green, an oasis in the desert. As you look harder, you notice that there are people on the oasis who are tending it carefully. Allow your mind’s eye the benefit of time-lapse photography, and you will see the oasis is growing. Under the care of the people the brown and barren desert is becoming green with life.
The way we live this out here at Foreside Community Church is through the practice of shared ministry. As you move around the site you will see that this practice is lived out in the ongoing ministries of worship, stewardship, outreach and mission, fellowship and Christian education and formation. These branch out into small group ministries that come and go as the need and desire arises.
I am always eager to hear from visitors, so feel free to contact me at jdorman@foresidechurch.org.
Peace, Janet
Foreside Community Church, United Church of Christ
340 Foreside Road, Falmouth
(207) 781-5880
SEE HONDURAS Mission Photos LINK below:
SUNDAY WORSHIP 9:30A.M. WORSHIP & SUNDAY SCHOOL
10:30A.M. COFFEE-FELLOWSHIP
Communion is usually served the first Sunday of every month.
Our Newsletter, “Steeplenotes,” is published the beginning of each month.
Deadline for submissions is the 20th of the previous month.