Sunday Afternoon, July 8, Derryfield Park

Derryfield Park in Manchester will be home to Explorer Camp this week! This afternoon we gave it a trial run and made plans for what activity will happen where. We ate lunch with new friends from CTR in the pavillion that we will use.

Sunday, July 8, Worshipping in Another Language--Northern!

Sunday morning found the Cov Pres team worshipping with brothers and sisters at Church of the Redeemer in Manchester. Exciting things are happening for this church. They (like all churches in this presbytery) have struggled to find a permanent location after moving from a music school to a hotel to the basement of another church to their current location in an office building. In this office building their neighbors are the local Muslim worship center, Manchester's Obama re-election campaign headquarters, and the department of transportation. This space has been too small for CTR for some time. After many starts and stops, the doors are now open to purchase a building from a Church of the Latter Day Saints congregation. They expect to be in it sometime in August. Having a permanent, stand-alone traditional church building will add to their credibility and visibility in the city.

Covenant Goes Granite

Welcome to the Granite State--New Hampshire! Yes, we know that the blog is called Mission Maine. Portland, Maine, is where we've partnered with Christ the Redeemer Presbyterian Church for the last two summers, but this year, we've added a second location for our summer camps for children.

A team of 12 folks--Dan, Leslie, Christina and Koyla Edwards; Lois Callen; Carter, Monica, Elson, Bradford, and Frances Stewart; and Burney and Roger Johnson--arrived in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Saturday. We are in Manchester at the invitation of Church of the Redeemer, one of 10 PCA churches in the Northern New England presbytery, made up of Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire. Pastor Jon Taylor and his wife, Allie, hosted our team and CTR church members for a sweet time of dinner, songs, and getting to know each other. Burney and Roger Johnson awed all with a duet. We already have new friends in this gorgeous place.