All Saints by-the-Sea services begin June 16
All Saints by-the Sea, the Episcopal summer chapel on Southport, will open for the 2013 season on Sunday, June 16, with Holy Communion Services at 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. A coffee hour will follow the 10 a.m. service.
The preacher will be the Rev. Maria Hoecker, Rector of St. Columba’s Episcopal Church, Boothbay Harbor. Rev. Hoecker, who has an MDiv from Sewanee, The University of the South, joined St. Columba’s in 2012.
Before coming to Boothbay, she was Associate Rector at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in Brevard, N.C. In 2011 she spent six months traveling the United States with her family, covering 23,000 miles in a retrofitted ’97 VW Poptop Eurovan camper.
Other visiting clergy this summer will be:
June 23 and 30, the Rev. Paul Tunkle, Rector of the Church of the Redeemer, Baltimore, Md.;
July 7, the Right Rev. Gary Gloster, retired Suffragen Bishop of North Carolina;
July 14 and 21, the Rev. Neal Goldsborough, Rector, Christ Church, Pensacola, Fla.;
July 28 and August 4, the Rev. Allison Read, Chaplain, Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.;
August 11, the Right Rev. Mark Beckwith, Bishop of Newark, N.J.;
August 18 and 25, the Rev. George M Maxwell, Jr., Vicar, Cathedral of St. Philip, Atlanta, Ga.;
September 1 and 8, the Rev. John Ineson, former Rector of St. Andrew's, Damariscotta.
Returning to the organ bench at All Saints for his ninth summer is Dr. Calvin Johansson. Johansson retired as a member of the music faculty at Evangel University in Springfield, Mo., and as organist of St. James Episcopal Church. He currently serves as the organist and choirmaster at the Village Church at Shell Point in Fort Myers, Fla.
All Saints by-the-Sea is on the east side of Southport, accessible either by private boat or by the Novelty which leaves Pier 8 in Boothbay Harbor at 9 a.m. and picks up passengers from the church dock at 11:40 a.m. for its return.
If traveling by car, parking is available along Route 238 or if necessary, in the handicapped accessible lot off of All Saints Road. A golf cart will ferry persons from the handicapped lot to the church steps.
The chapel is open during the week for quiet prayer and meditation. Throughout the summer visiting clergy will lead a discussion group on the church porch on Tuesdays at 9 a.m., beginning on June 18.
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