The Reverend Peter Baldwin Panagore will lead the service at the Wilson Chapel at Ocean Point on Sunday, July 21.  The service is at 9:30 a.m.  All are welcome.

Panagore is a native New Englander, born and raised in Massachusetts, and a graduate of Yale University in New Haven, Conn., with a master's degree in divinity. Panagore earned his bachelor's degree 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, Mass., where he rowed crew on an eight.

Raised both Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic, 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 www.dailydevotions.org founded in 1926. Daily Devotions, America’s oldest religious broadcast, reaches 50,000 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 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, with the working title, “Heaven Is Beautiful.” In the fall of 2013 he will be featured in an episode of the PBS Emmy Award winning series, “Life Focus.”

Panagore has practiced centering prayer and yoga for 30 years, writes poetry, skis fast, races the J-22 class, stilt walks and once died while ice climbing and obviously came back. He is married with two adult children and lives in East Boothbay.