Our ‘Why’

Mission Statement:

We are a not-for-profit organization, whose sole purpose is to restore people's health using simple tools that the Designer of the universe has prescribed to restore the vital force lost in humanity. Let’s keep our community healthy, and teach our families to properly manage their health and well-being.

Goals:

Our goals are simple: to create eternal friendships that extend our family into the larger community–where we can help our neighbors with their spiritual, mental, and physical health.

Growing Happy, Healthy, Heavenly Homes

    • Here at the Maple Bucket we care. We care for our community and are committed to providing low-cost, wholesome foods. These foods not only taste good, look good, but also will make you feel good.

    • Come and see the simple life, feel the relaxing, family atmosphere that reminds us of the slower, happy times of the past.  And take in the aroma of Grandma's home-baked bread.

    • The greatest need in our world is a sound mind and good mental health. Mental health is prized, yet we are trying to find healing in a broken system that only masks the true cause–yet true healing does exist. True healing is found through abiding by God’s original plan and a variety of healthy whole foods.

    • “Courage, hope, faith, sympathy, love, promote health and prolong life. A contented mind, a cheerful spirit, is health to the body and strength to the soul.” Ministry of Healing page 242

    • “And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers . . .” Malachi 4:6

    • "Let food be thy medicine, and let medicine be thy food." Hippocrates

    • Come in and visit our store in the Aroostook Centre Mall. Talk with our very knowledgeable staff and learn how you, too, can create family-centered, tasty dishes that your children will be begging for.

    • We are growing, building, and want to guide our community in restoring our bodies back to how they were created and built to be.

    • While you are here, peruse our bookstore and learn how to use our bulk foods.

    • Our desire is to offer an abundance of economically affordable dry goods that will promote full body health. 

    • We believe that each of us has been created by design. Our Creator is the designer, engineer, and manufacturer of all living things. Who would know better what our bodies fuel best on than our Maker? 

    • Here at the Maple Bucket, we want to share the basic health principles that God has ordained for us to use so that we may think clearer, feel stronger, and help others in our community

    • Here in Maine’s largest county, we want to reach our community through education and locally sourced ingredients.

Join us in our Mission

Support our work by contributing a donation.

We are under the umbrella of 7th Day Maranatha Ministries 501 (c)(3)

Why Bulk Foods?

We aim to offer you and your families natural dry goods at prices that save you money by cutting out the middleman and reducing our packaging costs. It’s a win-win!

Come in and discover something new. If we don’t have a staple your family needs, let us know, and we might add it to our stock!

A note from our President:

Greetings neighbors and friends,

I believe that we are living late in Earth's history. Many of our friends and family are experiencing some level of pain or ailment, either physically or mentally. It is my understanding that our world is getting tired under the burden of sin, and we, too, are feeling the results that come with this.

We at the Maple Bucket are not a hospital or rehabilitation facility, we are, however, your neighbor. It is my commitment that, even if only in a small way, our team at the Maple Bucket may be able to encourage, educate, and pray for the ongoing improvement in each one of your lives.

The Bible says, "It is more blessed to give than receive." We can only give what we have. As we desire and work for an improved quality of life, we will be more effective in helping and encouraging others toward the same goal.

We also read in the Bible, "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth."

I believe that we are created by God. God is our designer. It is my belief that the One who designed our machinery would know best the ingredients most effective in running that machinery.

It is my commitment, on behalf of the Maple Bucket team, to help and encourage our neighbors to learn how to use and have access to the ingredients that help us return as close as possible to the original recommendation of our owner's manual.

Thank you for allowing me to assist you to this end.

Kerry Simpson

Meet the Team

  • Kerry Simpson

  • John Record

  • Fred Gresham

  • Diana Tanksley

  • Deborah Zirakian