About Seventh-day Adventists
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a mainstream Protestant church with approximately 19 million members worldwide, including more than one million members in North America. The Seventh-day Adventist Church seeks to enhance quality of life for people everywhere and to let people know that Jesus is coming again soon.
Adventists believe a Trinity of three persons—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit—make up one God. They made salvation possible when Jesus, the Son, came to earth as a baby in Bethlehem and lived a sinless life in accordance with the Father’s will. When Jesus was crucified for the sins of the people of the world and arose from the dead on the third day, victory was won for everyone.
When He returned to heaven following the resurrection, Jesus left the Holy Spirit to serve as our Comforter and Counselor. He promised to return to earth a second time to complete His plan of salvation and take His people to heaven. Adventists are among the believers who look forward to that day.
Adventists believe that God is concerned with the quality of human life, and that everything—the way we live, eat, speak, think, treat each other, and care for the world around us—is part of His plan. Our families, our children, our jobs, our talents, our money, and our time are all important to Him.
“Moving Forward for Christ”
From Dexter To Corinna
How the Dexter, ME SDA Church has become the Corinna, ME SDA Church, and how we are growing and serving the Lord.
Written in her own lovely words
by long-time member,
Colleen Fickett-Giles.
” A few days ago, I called Margaret Curtis Smead, who goes to the church in Keene, NH, to see if she knew anything about how the Corinna home church got started.
It started somewhere in the 1940’s. Martin and Lillian Curtis had services in their home. Margaret remembers sitting on a board between two chairs and also on the upstairs steps. She was 10 or 12 years old at that time.
The attendance grew and they started renting the American Legion Hall. They kept growing and finally had to move again. They rented the Methodist Church right there in Corinna.
In 1957 my husband joined their church. We had been going to the Bangor Church. Some of the people I remember were Elmer Easler, Reginia Cheney, Lea Tracy, Luetta Beatty, Dr. Gloor, the Mitchels who had 6 kids and lots more that I can’t remember. The pastor at the time was Elder Kline.
I believe in 1958 we bought a big church built by the Episcopalians in 1872. It had been vacant for several years and needed lots of work. By 1967 we had renovated the church and it was beautiful. We had an open house, and many pastors and conference speakers came to help us dedicate our beautiful church.
Martin and Lillian visited our church every summer because we as a church were dear to their hearts. He died at 99 and she at 90, still serving the Lord.
In 2015 we were aging out; young people had moved where there were jobs and church schools. As a dwindling membership we voted, with God’s help, to sell the church.
This was bittersweet for many of us, we were back to home church. God was still leading. We were fortunate enough to be able to go back to home church at Doris and Bill Shirk’s home for two years.
We then moved to the Community Center for about two years in Garland where we rented two rooms for $25 a week. They were very good to us.
We have a new pastor, Roger Belanger and his wife, Wendy. They found this beautiful new church in Corinna, right where we started from, for us to worship in. God is still leading us. We are looking for a better place and that place is at home with Jesus in Heaven.”