2006 Order of Service - Final Draft

Here

Photos from the service - 20 January 2006

Updated list of churches

Here.

Progress as of 10/10/05

September 6th our committee, left over from last winters service, met at the Somesville Union Meeting House. Michael Shook, Joanna Herrick, Ursula Heiniger, and missing Terri Lanpher.

It was decided I would modify and update the letter sent to clergy last year to notify them of planning for 2006 service. The service will be January 22, 2006 with storm date of January 29.

A notice for bulletin was also sent to churches a week after the letter. On September 22nd, a Thursday, we met at home of Joanna Herrick on Norway Drive.
(Attached will be the clergy letter, bulletin notice, list of Christian churches on MDI, and us on committee.)

Looking at the list of churches we talked about who would contact whom to increase our committee membership. Michael would talk with David Lucey, and a member of First Baptist- Ann Damm, Wayne Buchanan, Blake Brown and Tom Crikelar of Acadia Friends. He would also contact Tom Ewell - Maine Council of Churches as possible speaker as well as Bill Imes of Bangor Theological Seminary, and Ann Johnston.

I was to contact Gail Leiser of St. Saviour’s and Maria & Lee Hemminger of Assembly of God church in Town Hill,, as well as Mac Bigelow. Gail Leiser told me of Rachel Sharp and Carmen Greene. Phone calls and a note/reply to from Jenny Reece and we have Carmen Greene.

While at the Annual Mtg of Maine Conference UCC, Sept. 23-25, I talked with Kathy Woodside of Bar Harbor Congregational. Now Kathy and Carmen will join our committee. Welcome aboard!

While at the Conference meeting I also talked with Bill Imes to ask if he would be our speaker for the service, saying we were still looking at possibilities. He said he’d be glad to. Michael had left phone msg. for him and I said I might see him in person at the Conference meeting.

At the Sept 22 mtg we decided to meet on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month, 7:10 ish pm, allowing anyone with Thursday evening choir rehearsal to still be with us. I work until 7pm and can get to Joanna’s in less than 10 minutes.

Thayer

Meeting 7:15pm Wednesday 12 October...

...at Joanna Herrick's house of the west side of Norway Drive just south of the Stone Barn.

Island Church Websites

A list of websites of churches on MDI can be found here.

Please email me with any additions: mshook [at] gmail.com

Super Bowl XL

In 2005 our planned service was snowed out and we had to reschedule to Sunday February 6 which just happened to be Super Bowl Sunday. In 2006 Super Bowl XL will be Sunday February 5. We've planned ahead and scheduled our storm date for Sunday January 29.

Letter to clergy

Here's the letter that Thayer sent to the list of clergy. It has lots of details about the service.

• Date: Sunday 22 January 2006
• Storm date: Sunday 29 January 2006
• Theme: “Where Two or Three Are Gathered In My Name … Matthew 18:15-22.
• Time: To be determined
• Church: To be determined

Next meeting: Thursday 22 September

Our next meeting will be 7:15pm Thursday 22 September at Joanna Herrick's house.

If you're interested in participating, please give me a call at 244-4425 or email me (Michael) at mshook [at] gmail.com

Church list

Here's the list of churches and contacts we're working with.

The Team

Here's the team that put together the 2005 service:

Left to right: Michael Shook, Terri Lanpher, Jennifer Reece, Joanna Herrick, Ursula Heiniger, Thayer Fanazick, and Eva DeHaas

And here we are, hard at work:

(I guess Terri took the picture)

Unity Service - January 2006

We're planning the Mount Desert Island 2006 Service of Christian Unity for Sunday 22 January 2006 during the week of prayer for Christian unity from 18 to 25 January. We're using materials and inspiriation from the Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute