Category: News

  • Report by Marilyn Hollinshead re. Annual Conference

    REPORT OF THE NE ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH JUNE 6-9, 2012   Prayer: O God, Open our minds to hear this news and our hearts to find ourselves in it. Through Jesus Christ we pray. Amen Every year the Methodist Church of New England, comprising all the congregations in six states, convenes…

  • Carol and David Christensen return to Ghana

    Dear all: Carol and I are returning to Ghana March 19-April 3 and hope that you will place us on your prayer list- We ask for travel mercies and our mission will be a blessing – thank you- Peace and Blessings David  

  • Community Corrections

    Saturday, February 11:  If you got near to the Fellowship Hall you’d hear rock music playing and smell sausage or bacon and paint fumes in the air.  Brian Kennedy and his crew of eight painters were in action.  After a community breakfast, the Community Correction crew will be finishing the main room today and have…

  • EMAIL ACCOUNT HACKED

    BEWARE of strange communications from strangers.  Our email account was hacked.  Not only did they send everyone an Email asking for money for Ann, stranded in England, but they stole all the addresses and contact information. We are so sorry!

  • Ghana Ministry Update

    You’ll remember that as a result of our church posting Rev. Christiansen’s sermon on his Ghana Ministry on our web site, he received an inquiry from a person in California who wanted to provide “Talking Bibles” to the church there and to the leper colony. Talking Bibles most often serve the blind. The last week…

  • Lia Kahler to sing August 18th

    Sunday, August 18th, Lia, a member of our congregation and professional opera singer and voice teacher, will sing Virgil Thompson’s ” My Shepherd Will Supply My Needs”. Also on the 18th, she’ll sing Arlene’s favorite, “His Eyes Are on the Sparrow”.

  • Boston Sting Quartet, Aug. 28th at Chilmark Community Church

    7 pm, August 28th at Chilmark Community Church.  Come see and hear the Boston String Quartet.  Tickets  $15. Boston String Quartet     Since its formation 2004, the Boston String Quartet has been a creative leader in contemporary classical music in New England. Having made their professional debut at Weil Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, the…

  • “BATTER MY HEART”

    On Sunday May 8, Dan Cabot is speaking on John Donne’s sonnet, exploring how a deeply religious person feels.  See poem below: Sonnet #14 by John Donne (1572-1631) Batter my heart, three-person’d God, for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend…

  • DIRECTIONS TO HOLLINSHEADS

    Chilmark Church Potluck Sunday October 17at our house, 508-693-5803.  Directions to our house: In West Tisbury turn right off the Edgartown road onto New Lane (stables sign on right).  Go 3/10 mile until the road splits three ways, the left becomes Tiah’s Cove Road, a dirt road is straight ahead, and our dirt road is…