Church Blog

  • Children’s Fair 2016

    A Perfect Morning! Pony Rides are the favorite.       Thank you Bob and Irene, Bella, Fran and Julie. The Bounce House is great too. Peter did snakes on arms and stars on faces.  Everyone was happy. Little ones liked to dip for ducks.Cup Cakes to custom decorate… Kim kept the cupcakes coming and the frosting…

  • Pizza Nights Come to Close

    Thank you, Julie Flanders, for another great season of Pizza Nights.  Vicky and Armen also, thank you for setting up, helping clean up and salads and grace!! Here come Lobster Rolls.

  • You are the Salt of the Earth..6-12-16

    YOU ARE THE SALT OF THE EARTH Matthew 5:1-13 June 12, 2016 Rev. Armen Hanjian Chilmark Community Church “You are the salt of the earth.”  When Jesus said that, there were several obvious things to which he referred.  Today,  the implications of this vibrant sentence from the sermon on the mount are not quite so…

  • “City Gates and Thin Spaces” June 5, 2016

    “City Gates and Thin Spaces” 1 KIngs 17:8-24      Luke 7:11-17 Chilmark Community Church   June 5, 2015 Rev. Vicky Hanjian It doesn’t take a degree in Biblical Studies to see how freely the author of the gospel of Luke  has drawn upon the story of Elijah and the widow of Zarephath.  The similarities…

  • Blessing the Fleet Memorial Day Sunday

    Photographs by Susan Heilbron. Tony Peak calls Menemsha to worship. Coast Guard Station Menemsha  was represented. Carol Loud played the old portable key board among the coffee pots. Andy Goldman attentive from his electric car. Judy and a lot of others enjoyed the morning. Fresh from Fla. Rev. Armen Hanjian Rev.Vicky Hanjian on God calming…

  • “Thunder, Lightning, Wind and Fire” May 15

    “Thunder, Lightning, Wind and Fire” Exodus 19:9-25 Acts 2:1-21 Chilmark Community Church May 15, 2016 Rev. Vicky Hanjian There is a lot of cosmic drama going on in the scriptures this morning. A  mountain rumbles, wrapped in smoke, fire descends, the smoke rises like the smoke from a furnace – the mountain shakes.   A …

  • Released From Fears May 8, 2016

    RELEASED FROM FEARS MICAH 4:1-4            1 JOHN 4:3-21 CHILMARK COMMUNITY CHURCH UNITED METHODIST MAY 8, 2016 REV. ARMEN HANJIAN Recently someone said,   “Almost everyone I know is either lonely or afraid.”  “Fear,” said Gilbert J. Chesterton, “is the greatest plague of mankind.”  Medical dictionaries list more than 3,000 fears…

  • Promises, Promises Take II, May 1, 2016

    “Promises, Promises – Take 2” John 14:15 – 29 Chilmark Community Church May 1, 2016 Rev. Vicky Hanjian This has been an emotionally strenuous week. On Thursday morning, my email contained a message from Rev. Amy Edwards. She is the pastor of the Federated Church in Edgartown. The email went to all the island clergy…

  • Promises, Promises April 25,2016

    “Promises, Promises” Genesis 17:1-8 Revelation 21:1-7 Chilmark Community Church April 24, 2016 Rev. Vicky Hanjian There are lots of ways to name and classify the many books of the Bible.  One that I use increasingly is the fact that the scriptures are a witness to a people’s relationship with God.  From beginning to end –…