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Seeking Common Ground,
Working for the Common Good

 

19 Pleasant Avenue, Portland, ME  04103            207-772-1918 

Fishes and Loaves: The covenant between land and sea
MCC has developed a new educational program on the changing realities of ocean ecology and local fisheries.

This 4-part series of videos, personal and biblical reflection, emerging science, and local Maine stories invites congregations to consider how our lifestyle on land impacts the sea, the creatures who live in it, and our neighbors who make their living from it.

Three church communities along the Maine coast are previewing this resource this spring and it will soon be available for wider use. Here's where you can see it first:
  • St. David's Episcopal Church in Kennebunk on Wednesdays,  April 28, and May 5 and May 19.  www.stdavidskennebunk.episcopalmaine.org
  • Midcoast Presbyterian Church in Topsham on Thursdays, April 8, April 15, April 22, and April 29; and a public chowder supper on Saturday, May 1, 4:30-6:00 PM. www.mcpconline.org
  • St. Saviour's Episcopal Church in Bar Harbor on Wednesdays, April 28, May 5, May 12, and May 19; and a public chowder supper on Saturday, May 29, 4:30-6:00 PM. www.ellsworthme.org/ssaviour
Contact the MCC office for more details and to arrange to use this program in your church. This project is funded through the Presbyterian Hunger Program.

Featuring:
  • A Sea Change: imagine a world without fish. This film follows Sven Huseby as he travels around the world to find out what is happening in the oceans in order to explain it to his grandson Elias.
  • Fishing Voices. Produced for Penobscot East Resource Center, the film provides insight into fishermen’s knowledge, their values for the waters they fish and the communities they live in through interviews with several Downeast fishermen.
  • A Leap of Faith: how one Maine church turned shrimp into a big idea. Members of the First Universalist Church of Rockland share their experience of starting the first Community Supported Fishery project in Maine with fishing partners in Port Clyde.

    A Leap of Faith: Community Supported Fisheries on Vimeo.

 
 
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