Mission Fall 2020 Bulletin Now Available Online
Mission Fall Bulletin 2020 – Available for downloading or reading online. Click here.
Mission President’s Scholarship Celebration Sponsors – We Thank You
A salute to all the wonderful Event Sponsors of the Mission’s President’s Scholarship Celebration.
While this year has challenged our Mission Scholars in new ways, they are meeting the challenge with resilience and spirit. The Maine Seacoast Mission’s President’s Scholarship Celebration is a week from today.
We want to thank our wonderful Event Sponsors. Thanks to you, the Mission can truly make a difference in the lives of our scholars and their families.
Sunbeam Schedule Calendar Back Online
NORTHEAST HARBOR, ME — With the Sunbeam home, crew member and Island Outreach Director/Chaplain Douglas Cornman is once again maintaining the Sunbeam schedule calendar online. As you move through the week thinking, “I wonder what the Sunbeam’s doing today?” — you can find out in an instant online:
Thank you Thursday to the Teaching and Learning Collaborative (TLC)
NORTHEAST HARBOR, ME — It’s Thank you Thursday. Today’s shout out of Mission love goes to The Outer Islands Teaching & Learning Collaborative (TLC). The TLC is one of the many supports offered by The Island Institute, a non-profit organization based in Rockland, Maine.
The TLC brings students and teachers together from one- and two-room island schools in Maine and Massachusetts. The TLC excels at creating a virtual classroom where students meet for grade focused learning, student council meetings, weekly exercise groups, and a wide variety of super fun social events. The TLC also hosts off island field trips and provides resources for island teachers, many of whom teach in isolation of other educators.
TLC staff Robin Chernow and Yvonne Thomas and the Mission’s Director of Island Outreach and Chaplain Douglas Cornman collaborate throughout the school year to support one others’ work with students and teachers.
Thanks Robin, Yvonne, and the TLC for your unwavering, creative, and ingenious support of island kids, teachers, and communities. You’re awesome!
This is what community looks like.
On Facebook
Happy Drawings Outside
CHERRYFIELD, ME — Happy drawings on our outside gallery wall by the first grade class at Cherryfield Elementary. Photo by EdGE Site Coordinator Jen Kearns.
Learn more about EdGE school programs.
MDIslander – Sunbeam Back Home After Major Rehab
Photo courtesy MDIslander.
www.mdislander.com
Sunbeam back home after major rehab
October 5, 2020 by Dick Broom on News, Waterfront
MOUNT DESERT — Following an absence of nearly 18 months for repairs and renovations, Sunbeam returned to its Northeast Harbor home last Friday and will be back in action within a few weeks.
The Maine Seacoast Mission uses Sunbeam to deliver health care and other services to islands and coastal Downeast communities.
It was taken to Front Street Shipyard in Belfast in May 2019 because rust was starting to eat away at the inside of the steel hull. The furnace and two generators needed to be replaced, and the crew’s very small and rather spartan living quarters needed to be reconfigured and spruced up. The galley needed new appliances, and the floor in the salon area needed to be ripped up and replaced because of rust.
=====
Sunbeam serves a trio of functions.
“We take the nurse around, we take the chaplain around and we are also like a floating coffee house,” [Capt. Mike] Johnson said. “When we show up on Isle au Haut, for example, people come aboard to get coffee and play cribbage and mingle with their neighbors.”