The Reverend Peter Panagore will preach at Wilson Chapel, Ocean Point on Sunday, July 1 at 9:30 a.m. All are welcome.

The Reverend Peter Baldwin Panagore is a native New Englander, born and raised in Massachusetts, and a graduate of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, with a Masters of Divinity. Reverend Panagore earned his B.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He attended Montana State University for one year as an exchange student, where he performed nationally in the Theater of Silence. He graduated from the Catholic prep school Saint John's High School in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, where he rowed crew.

Raised both Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic, Reverend Panagore was ordained in the United Church of Christ Congregational, New Haven Association, in 1987. He served 18 years in pulpits in Connecticut and Maine, ending that portion of his career as minister of the Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor, United Church of Christ. In 2003, he was recruited to apply for the position of Pastor and host of Daily Devotions, founded in 1926. Daily Devotions, America's oldest religious broadcast, reaches fifty thousand people a day on TV, AM, FM, Social Media, and on the Web. Panagore serves as the fifth minister of Daily Devotions.

From 1999-2006 Reverend Panagore was a staff writer at Homiletics, the leading nationwide worship preparation journal for mainline clergy. Homiletics has published more than a hundred of his sermons. He has also published short stories in anthologies, most notably, Chicken Soup for the Veteran's Soul, by New York Times Best-Selling editor Jack Canfield. Two Minutes for God was released by Touchstone/Fireside, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, in early December of 2007 and landed immediately on the Maine Bestseller list. He is at work on his next book – a detailed account of his Near Death Experience.

Reverend Panagore has practiced centering prayer and yoga for 30 years, writes poetry, skis fast, once died while ice climbing and obviously came back. He is married with two adult children and lives in East Boothbay.