IMPACT SOUTHERN MAINE

Have you considered partnering with church planting efforts in New England? The statistics say that less 3% of the population is a part of a life giving gospel preaching church community.

SHORES CHURCH was started as a home Bible study in a coastal town called Wells, Maine. This community boasts 12,000 year round residents and within a 20 minute drive almost 250,000. Currently you can count on one hand the number of Gospel centered faith communities committed to sharing Jesus and making disciples in this town.

Wells doesn’t just need another church. Our community needs to be revived, restored, refreshed by the life changing power of Jesus Christ.

2 MIN. INTRO

Get a two minute overview of the Shores Story from Pastor Court.

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Partner with SHORES CHURCH

In January of 2023, Shores Church became a recognized 501c3 organization as well as being registered in the State of Maine.

Over the last 18 months, we have seen some incredible things. We started by meeting in living rooms, office spaces, dining rooms, a basement, and eventually securing a local community center.

Since our first meeting of 7 people (pictured here) we are averaging nearly 80 people and have broken 100 in attendance 6 times. We’ve seen people come to Christ through Shores Groups, personal evangelism, and at Sunday services. We’ve baptized new believers and are connecting people into weekly groups.

We currently focus on Shores Groups which have roughly 50-60 in attendance (intentional group community and study), Sunday service, and community connections with the school, 1st Responders, other local non-profits, and local businesses to meet both the felt needs and spiritual needs of our community.

We’ve been able to contribute 1000’s of dollars to our community and have our church involved in numerous social and volunteer groups throughout our town.

OUTGROWING CURRENT SPACE

We had 2 full Easter Services where we had over 135 unique attenders. We have been looking for permanent space via rentals/leases/purchase as well as potential land.

Recently we have come to a verbal agreement to secure this white church building located on one of the busiest streets in Wells! This church will give us a major upgrade to Shores Kids and would give us assets to work towards building a larger facility in the future. The pictures below are of the front of the space and then a few team members checking out the space with Kara for the first time.

Would you consider supporting SHORES CHURCH as a church planting mission of your church? Financial Support will go towards funding this building and supporting summer/fall outreaches to the community of Wells!

The picture to the left is a typical Sunday service. I think that day we had over 110 in attendance.

“If you throw a boulder into an ocean, you don’t always see the impact, but when you throw a pebble into a pond, the ripples reach the shore. Church plants in these smaller towns in NEW ENGLAND are the pebbles, making waves that reach the shore.”