Words from the Well Summer 2020

CHURCH OF OUR FATHER PO Box 186 HULLS COVE, MAINE 04644 (For GPS locator—91 State Hwy 3, Bar Harbor, ME ) 207-288-4849 ~ shalomcoof@gmail.com www.churchofourfather.org The Rt. Rev. Thomas James Brown, Bishop of Maine Anthony Sousa, Senior Warden The Rev. Mary-Carol Griffin, Deacon

Senior Warden’s Corner Summer 2020

Who could have imagined! Six months ago words like Coronavirus, Zoom, YOUTUBE, masks quarantine, etc., were not part of our vocabulary. By now they have become the “New Normal”. Our MDI Episcopal Churches have stepped up and are providing Sunday Services on YouTube. Jim Vallette, St. Saviours, and Jayne Ashworth, St. Johns, have produced a very processional format. Our three priests, Bill Hague, Steve Muncie and John Burton, along with members of all four congregations, have made a very important addition to our Christian lives. In addition, Father Steve Muncie at St. Mary’s, Northeast Harbor, has an online Zoom Bible Study on Wednesday mornings. I have been providing “Music & Chatter”, on Wednesday evenings at 5:30 P. M. on the MDIEpiscopalYOUTUBE channel, to add some music to help us be together. Please join me and see who our surprise guests are. The team that has provided the YouTube programs, is studying the idea of live services. At first the services will be limited to a live site (one of the churches). In the beginning the services will be limited to those persons that are part of the services. After we are “allowed” to be back in our churches, the team wants to have live ser-vices on YouTube, rotating between the parishes. That way those who cannot make it to church will have an op-portunity to participate. This will be a major commitment, but is under study. Our plans to sell the Rector are proceeding well. Our Appraiser, Tim O’Brien, is finished his report, and we sent to the Diocese, along with additional paperwork from Jim Kitler. Our Realtor, Gail Caruso and I have met with our tenants and we are ready to list the Rectory. The resulting funds from the sale will go into our Van-guard Investments and help us with the financial responsibilities of our church. Regarding the progress on the planned search for a priest for the three churches; The Search Committees have now finished all the paperwork and Canon Michael Ambler will be advertising our information “On Line”, starting this week. Bishop Brown indicated during one of his “Coffee Hours”, that there appears to be great in-terest by priests wanting to come to Maine. Maybe this has something to do with the present conditions around the country. Please pray for a successful Search. Your Vestry is meeting regularly by Zoom and we welcomed back Larry Johnston as he is now happy to be back home in Ellsworth. As always, please let us know what is on your mind. We look forward to hearing from you. Blessings, Tony Sousa

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Standing alone…

I had a sense of sadness for our beautiful Church the other day, while thinking about how lonely it must be. For the first time in 130 years the doors are locked, folks are not running in and out, phones not ringing, smiling secretary gone, no laughter and hugs in the halls to greet our summer parishioners, no good smells from the kitchen, no music and singing with-in its walls and no Communion with loving faces at its altar. There it is, standing alone. Time goes by. I bet others in our Church family and our Partnership Churches feel the same loneli-ness. We are blessed with beautiful weather, calls from friends, wonderful MDI Epis-copal YouTube Services, and “Music and Chatter” by Tony. We all anxiously await the day when we may be together once again and our little Church will be happy.

Joanne Sousa

What a great MDI Episcopal Parishes meeting we had with Bishop Brown in June! Eve-ryone had the chance to connect and to express thoughts and concerns. Zoom may not be perfect, but it beats not seeing each other at all! Thank you, Bishop Brown!

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“Music & Chatter” On the MDIEpiscopalYouTube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-fGpm4_aFoi0mNvMiXhSwg Premier’s Each Wednesday at 5:30 p.m.

DID YOU KNOW? + “Music & Chatter” by Tony Sousa and Guests is being presented for you during

the Covid-19 pandemic each week? The goal: To bring folks together. + That you may go on MDIEpiscopalYouTube anytime you like and find Music

and Chatter? + The Show’s Producer is Jim Vallette, St. Saviour’s? Awesome! + Each Episode features music from different eras?

Episodes available for you now!

Episode 1. Church of Our Father Supplemental Song Book favorites. Guest: David Dawson/guitar and vocals Episode 2. Scottish music. Guest: Karin Maag

Episode 3. Melody selection. Guest: David Dawson Episode 4. Beatles music. Guest Steve Biggers Episode 5. “Name that Tune”, Viewer participation

Episode 6. Jazz Classics. Tony at the keys! Episode 7. Old Time Hymns, 1700 & 1800s

Episode 8. Piano Duets: Guest: Steve Biggers Episode 9. Piano and Violin. Guest: Fred Benson Episode 10. Elvis Presley selections: Tony Sousa

Episode 11. Broadway Shows: Tony Sousa Episode 12. Acoustic: Jim Vekasie and Jamie Lou

Episode 13. Accordion: Tony’s brother, Ed Sousa from Florida!

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August 2020

If you want to see updated postings, click <here> to go to our Google calendar

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Diocesan Cycle of Prayer 2 August ~ Pentecost 9 The summer chapel congregations of St. James’, Prouts Neck and Holy Trinity, Peak’s Island. For those serving in lay liturgical ministries 9 August ~ Pentecost 10 The summer chapel congregations of All Saints by-the-Sea, Bailey Island and All Saints, Orr’s Island. For seafarers and those who make their living from the earth and from the sea 16 August ~ Pentecost 11 The summer chapel congregations of St. Cuthbert’s, MacMahan Island and All Saints by-the-Sea, Southport. For Summer Services, North Haven 23 August ~ Pentecost 12 The summer chapel congregations of St. George’s, Tenants Harbor and Christ Church Dark Harbor, Isleboro. Our Lady of the Evergreens, Harborside 30 August ~ Pentecost 13 The summer chapel congregations of Church of the Redeemer, Sorrento and St. Christopher’s By-the-Sea, Winter Harbor. For all who labor and work, for parents who labor to care for their families, and for all who seek the dignity of meaningful employment 6 September ~ Pentecost 14

Summer Birthdays 7/6 Sue Olson 7/14 Barbara Craighead 7/19 Kay Dawson 7/28 Chelsea Libitzki 8/1 Janet Meryweather 8/4 Marjorie Dahl 8/4 Larry Johnston 8/13 Lynn Thompson 8/15 Nancy Lombardi 8/18 Jane Adams 8/18 Pam Farnsworth 8/21 Yvonne Johnson 8/23 Tom Tukey 8/28 Grace Dwyer 8/28 Helen Miller 8/28 Glenn Tucker 8/29 Gina Farnsworth

ANNIVERSARIES 7/13 John and Gail Reeves 8/18 David and Jean Evans 8/20 Jim and Barbara Kelly 8/28 James and Marilyn Kitler

Intercessory Prayer for our Friends, Family, Military,

Prison Ministry, Diocese & Missionaries: Pray for Gail Leland, Scott McCaslin, Stacey Austin,

Donna Cardillo, Cindy, Roger Evans, Carl Hatch, Christi-na Heiniger, Cody Van Heerden, Ursula Heiniger, Helen, Marilyn Kitler, Cameron Knable, Kim and Jean Lasater,

Gary Lyons, Ronald Olson, James Salisbury, Tony & Shawn Smoker, Bob Theriault, Lloyd Woods, Anne Zaslau, and the Ministry of Hospice and the Bar

Harbor Food Pantry

Our Military Pray for those who serve in the armed forces, of the

USA

Prison Ministry Pray for peace in our prisons.

Anglican cycle of prayer Sunday, 2 August 2020 Pray for the new Province of Alexandria - created from the former Diocese of Egypt with North Africa and the Horn of Africa in the Episcopal Church of Jerusalem and the Middle East. Sunday, 9 August 2020 Pray for the Province de L'Eglise Anglicane au Rwanda The Most Revd Laurent Mbanda - Archbishop of L'Eglise Episco-pal au Rwanda & Bishop of Shyira Sunday, 16 August 2020 Pray for the Scottish Epis-copal Church The Most Revd Mark Strange - Pri-mus of the Scottish Episcopal Church & Bishop of Moray, Ross & Caithness Sunday, 23 August 2020 Pray for the Church of the Province of South East Asia The Most Revd Melter Tais - Archbishop of South East Asia & Bishop of Sabah Sunday, 30 August 2020 Pray for the united Church of South India The Most Revd Dharmaraj Rasalam - Moderator of CSI & Bishop of South Kerala

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Barbara Linscott along with her co-worker Liz Libby started making a few COVID-19 masks for friends. The word got out on Facebook and before they knew it, it was almost a full time job! They have now made over 650 masks and Barbara has several orders for children's masks at pre-sent. Customers make donations to the Bar Har-bor Food Pantry and they have been generous. Barbara has now donated $1,700.00 so far to the pantry in Memory of Bill Krenicki. Bill is smiling down on them for sure. Wonderful job girls!!

The Woodshed Boys!

Front row: Sandy Beatty, Dick Salisbury holding a photo of Hank Olson , Bernie Staples, Rich Johnson, Owen Craighead Second row: Brad Berry, Diehl Snyder, Jim Kelly, Tom Tukey, Father Bob Raymond, Bob Theriault

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The happy sounds of song, prayer and laughter could be heard on the grounds of Church of Our Father last week. Youth and Family Ministry presented our first in person lessons since March. The mini VBS introduced the book of Exodus and followed lessons that have been mailed and delivered to our cur-rent Sunday School students through-out the spring and summer. The com-mittee followed strict social distancing and sanitizing rules. We will continue to monitor changes in this policy and pray that we can offer more opportunities like this.

Summer, 2020

CHURCH OF OUR FATHER P.O. Box 186 HULLS COVE, MAINE 04644 Office—207-288-4849 shalomcoof@gmail.com www.churchofourfather.org (GPS location: 91 State Hwy 3, Bar Harbor)