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  • November 26 Italian Night

    Tom Ruimerman once more produced the grand finale to the Pizza Night season. (People always look awkward eating..my apologies)..but there were 4 tables of  happy eaters.Many thanks to Julie Flanders for fetching pizza from Rocco’s in her nifty red insulated bag for the past many Tuesdays. Onward to 5:30 pm Tuesday “Community Suppers”.  From soup…

  • The Widow and the bad Judge 10/20/19

    Today’s reading from the Holy Scriptures tells of the unjust Judge. As the Parable goes there was a judge who answered only to himself, couldn’t give a rip about spiritual things and worst still did not care one hoot about or for the poor widow. Mosaic Law prescribed that the husband’s immediate family and the…

  • Sept.22,2019 Parable of the Shrewd Manager

    This introduction to the worship service gives a broad outline of the sermon themes. Chilmark Community Church 9 Menemsha Crossroad, Chilmark, MA Sunday, September 22, 2019 The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost Worship Service of Praise & Thanksgiving Rev. Ernest Belisle, Pastor Thought for the week: “We live in a cheating culture, one that encourages us…

  • August 23, 2019 Union Chapel

    Many familiar faces at the reading of the new script of 1854 (no longer an opera).  Front and center was Pastor Ernest Belisle as Frederick Douglas.  The Slave Song Choir with Chilmark members Corrie Stone and Lorna Andrade.  Lorna also was instrumental in the entire production.  Claire Ganz played a child.  Phil Dietterick accompanied the…

  • D.S. Foster July greeting

    Subject: Interesting quote from “God Moments: A Year in the Word” Greetings! – I’m reading “God Moments: A Year in the Word” by The writers of Encouraging.com and wanted to share this quote with you. “July 1 Who is the Boss of You? There is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.—1…

  • “There be giants in the land” by Vicky Hanjian

    “There be giants in the land…” Numbers 13:1-3a;17-33 Matthew 28:5-10 Chilmark Community Church June 30, 2019 Perception is a really curious human phenomenon. There is the old cliché observation that if four people witness an automobile accident, there will be four different descriptions of what happened – each person believing that they saw accurately. Moses…

  • “The Cost of Discipleship” Armen Hanjian 6/23/19

    THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP      87, 128, 421                                                                                 92362 Luke 14:25-33       …

  • THURSDAY STRINGS

    June 20..We had visitors which made our biggest group yet.  We  played fiddle tunes and old time and folk waltzes …Stop in to join or listen on Thursdays at 10.  We have “guest music” for new comers.  The banjo took this picture!

  • Figuring Out The Blueprint

    Figuring Out The Blueprint Deuteronomy 4:9-14  Acts 2:1-21  2 Corinthians 3:17-18 Chilmark Community Church June 9, 2019 Rev. Vicky Hanjian I love the story of Pentecost.  What drama!  The early band of followers of the Way all gathered together in one place 50 days after the resurrection  when all heaven breaks loose with roaring wind…