Category: Stories from Our Church
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April 5 ZOOM service
Please join us in zoom worship together. April 5 was lots of fun..to see each other. The meeting number is 890 298 4151 and this week the password was 332743. The meeting number will be the same next week, Easter, but we’re not sure about the password. Email us at chilmarkchurch@gmail.com if you need help…
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February 2020 Bishop’s message
Feb. 1, 2020 Dear Beloved in Christ: Greetings in the precious name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. A few weeks ago, 16 youth and eight adults returned from India, having taken part in the Mission of Peace sponsored by the Northeastern Jurisdictional Youth Ministries. These annual pilgrimages were born out of the vision cast by the late Bishop…
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Rolling Ridge Taize
For Christians, Advent and Lent are typically seasons of spiritual preparation. For years, Rolling Ridge has offered an Advent Quiet Day to prepare hearts for Christmas with a core of regulars who find rest amid the holiday hustle and bustle. Last year, we offered our first Taizé Lenten Retreat, and were so blessed by the…
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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…
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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…
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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!
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2019 Children’s Fair
June 15 was a perfect day. Everett and his grandmother, Kim, were the first arrivals (and helpers).The games were prepared: Oscar, the GrouchFace Painting: cup cakes and badminton and bean bag toss and ducklings to be netted from a pool..and the bounce house.And the people came and sweet children, all well behaved. The cup cakes to decorate…
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May 26 Blessing of the Fleet/Memorial Day
Blessing of the Fleet May 26,2019 Memorial Day Weekend Menemsha Harbor Chilmark Community Church Rev. Vicky Hanjian This is perhaps the 3rd time I have been involved with a service of Blessing The Fleet. Each time I prepare for this ritual, I become aware of the gift of grace of living in an environment where…
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May 19, 2019 Farewell
This was Rev. Dr. Charlotte Wright’s last Sunday in our pulpit.After our formal farewell in the sanctuary, there was a bountiful reception in the Hall with every great cook in the church contributing fabulous food. Charlotte got somethings to remember us by: a tree planted in a national forest, a doggy Thank You card and, she…