Words from the Well Fall 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 Notes October, 2020 A lot of things have been going on during the past few weeks and I want to report them to you.

• Your Search Committee has been active in reviewing the present applicants. We are fortunate to have 12 candidates. We are in the process of reviewing and then com-bining our thoughts with St. Saviour’s and St. John’s teams. It is the start of the pro-cess. Pray that we may call a leader that will be able to guide us through our contin-uing process of joining hands with our MDI Episcopal partners.

• The Rectory is being shown regularly by our Realtor, Gail Caruso. We will keep

you informed as we proceed with the showings. • The Joint YouTube Sunday services have been well done. We are blessed to have three wonderful priests

who combine their talents, along with many church members who take part in the services, as well as the mu-sicians from all four churches. We hope to be able to continue these online services after we are back in our churches, holding our live services once again. The future online services will be an aid for those of us who are unable to come to Sunday services.

• I have had fun with the Music & Chatter program that we started 22 weeks ago. Thank you to all our devot-

ed fans! Our “Guests” have been wonderful, with a wide variety of music. If you have any ideas about guests or programs, please let me know. A big thank you to Jim Vallette and Jayne Ashworth for “producing” these programs. It takes them a lot of time and without them we would not be able to have Mu-sic & Chatter.

• What can we do to bring us together? One of our churches has decided to have small groups meet by zoom,

sort of like a Coffee Hour. Groups of nine, in their case, will try this approach. Should we try this? Please, some feedback is very welcome.

• Our prayer chain is functioning beautifully. Thank you Mary McEnroe. It is indeed a Blessing. • Our Vestry meets every month and is working on several projects. An audit is being scheduled with David

Hawkes heading that effort. Brad Berry is working on combining our Finance and Investment Commit-tees. Sue is working on refitting the wonderful painting that Jan Biggers did for us. The Building and Grounds Committee is working on keeping our property well maintained. A big thank you to Ken Linscott for his tireless work at keeping us looking great! Our Junior Warden is working on projects that have needed attention. Joanne Sousa is looking into replacing many of the folding chairs for the parish hall. Many of the old chairs have welds broken and are dangerous.

I think that is enough news for now. If anyone has ideas that would help bring us together in a proper way, let’s talk about it. 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 parish-ioners, no good smells from the kitchen, no music and singing within its walls and no Com-munion 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 Episcopal 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?

Some of the 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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4 Pentecost 18 Available by 8 am YouTube Worship Service

5 4 5 10:30 Zoom Bible Study with Fr. Steve Muncie 5:30 Music & Chatter!

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11 Pentecost 19 Available by 8 am YouTube Worship Service

12 5 pm MDI partnership Zoom meeting

11 12 10:30 Zoom Bible Study with Fr. Steve Muncie 5:30 Music & Chatter!

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18 Pentecost 20 Available by 8 am YouTube Worship Service 1 pm Zoom Vestry Meeting

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19 10:30 Zoom Bible Study with Fr. Steve Muncie 5:30 Music & Chatter!

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25 Pentecost 21 Available by 8 am Diocese YouTube Worship Service

24 25 26 10:30 Zoom Bible Study with Fr. Steve Muncie 5:30 Music & Chatter!

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November 1 ALL SAINTS SUNDAY Available by 8 am YouTube Worship Service

October 2020 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Diocesan Cycle of Prayer 11 October ~ Pentecost 19 For the harvest, and the fruits of human work. For all who are preparing for the 201st Convention of the Diocese of Maine 18 October ~ Pentecost 20 For the congregation of St. Dunstan’s, Ellsworth 25 October ~ Pentecost 21 For our sisters and brothers in common mission in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on Reformation Sunday 1 November ~ All Saints Sunday For the priests of the Diocese of Maine. For civil discourse during a time of election 8 November ~ Pentecost 23 For the congregations of St. Andrew and St. John, Southwest Harbor, St. Saviour’s, Bar Harbor, Church of Our Father, Hulls Cove. For all who serve and have served in the armed forces of our country as we honor them on Veteran’s Day

Fall Birthdays 9/11 Estella Hopkins 9/17 Barbara Fleming 9/27 Mike Bullard 9/29 Barbara Linscott 9/30 Susan Snyder 10/3 Mary McEnroe 10/9 Wendy Copson 10/11 Gail Leland 10/15 Jean Evans 10/17 The Rev. David Mills 10/25 Audrey Mills 10/28 Gail Reeves 11/3 Barbara Kelly Aedan Higgins 11/4 Sandra Smoker 11/9 Muffet Stewart 11/16 Steve Johnson

ANNIVERSARIES 9/7 Tony & Joanne Sousa 9/9 Dick & Nancy Salisbury 9/27 Ben & Mary Hopkins 10/11 Dick and Jeanie Blake 10/17 Revs. John Allison & Kathleen Killian 10/18 Carroll & Gail Leland

Intercessory Prayer for our Friends, Family, Military,

Prison Ministry, Diocese & Missionaries:

Pray for Chris Buzzell, departed this life and for Tony and Joanne Sousa and their family, for Gail Leland, Scott

McCaslin, Stacey Austin, Donna Cardillo, Cindy, Roger Evans, Carl Hatch, Christina Heiniger, Cody Van Heerden, Ursula Heiniger, Helen, Marilyn Kitler, Cameron Knable, Kim and Jean Lasater, Gary Lyons, Ronald Olson, 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, 11 October 2020 Pray for the Church of the Province of Uganda. The Most Revd Stephen Samuel Kaziimba - Archbishop of Uganda & and Bishop of Kampala Sunday, 18 October 2020 Pray for the Episcopal Church. The Most Revd Mi-chael Curry - Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church Sunday, 25 October 2020 Pray for the Church in Wales. The Most Revd John Davies - Archbishop of Wales & Bishop of Swansea & Brecon Sunday, 1 November 2020 Pray for the Church of the Province of West Africa. The Most Revd Dr Jonathan Bau-Bau Bonaparte Hart - Primate & Metropolitan, Church of the Prov-ince of West Africa; Archbishop of the Internal province of West Africa and Bishop of Liberia Sunday, 8 November 2020 Pray for the Church in the Province of the West In-dies. The Most Revd Howard Gregory - Primate and Bishop of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands

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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 John-son, Owen Craighead Second row: Brad Berry, Diehl Snyder, Jim Kelly, Tom Tukey, Father Bob Raymond, Bob Theri-ault

Does anyone know where Dan and Rachel Seija are? Marilyn Kitler has wedding photo-graphs for them, but no address. If you can help her, phone 288-9855.

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The happy sounds of song, prayer and laughter could be heard on the grounds of Church of Our Father this summer. 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.

Fall, 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)

Remember the Operation Christmas Child Program!

It is exciting to see the boxes fill up for needy children around the world! This is a wonderful way to be a missionary to places we cannot go ourselves. Contact Marilyn Kitler with any questions. .