BAR HARBOR, ME — Maine Seacoast Mission is headquartered in Bar Harbor. But much of the Mission’s daily, ongoing work, happens elsewhere — on both land and sea. Prior to the physical distancing requirements with the coronavirus, all Mission staff met virtually at the start of each month. These meetings reinforce the Mission’s team spirit, with our Program Directors letting each other know their work priorities for the month ahead.
Adapting to physical distancing advisories, the Mission’s virtual meetings are keeping on and expanding. With many Mission staffers working now from home, virtual meetings are temporarily replacing normal sharing in the workplace.
While we miss working in the same physical space, we are grateful for the internet technology making it possible for us – and you – to be together virtually.
CHERRYFIELD, ME — Our drive thru Food Pantry will be open from 9-12 tomorrow to give out extra milk, bread, produce and eggs? Click here for directions.
Megan Smith
Community Resource Coordinator
Maine Seacoast Mission [email protected]
CHERRYFIELD, ME — Downeast Campus Facilities Manager Scott Shaw sent a photo this morning and a note of explanation. “I just picked up a second round of milk from Shaw’s this morning. Headed to Walmart for more! We had a load on Monday, another today, and the grocers told me to come back tomorrow.
“We will wait until next Monday. I think Washington County will be good until then,” said Scott Shaw.
A big THANK YOU to both Walmart and Shaw’s for their help keeping the Mission Food Pantry well-stocked with good food for the people we serve.
Maine Seacoast Mission is grateful for the support of so many, including companies, volunteers, and community partners. Today’s shout-out of Mission Love goes to TREE (Transforming Rural Experience in Education) staff members Laura, Stephanie, and Maggie who volunteer at our Downeast campus every week, filling backpacks with nutritious foods that are then delivered to families from our local schools. TREE is a program of Cobscook Institute.
Maine is now facing the greatest food, isolation, and health care crisis in our generation.
Now may be the time to join the Mission as a volunteer and help your neighbors.
Since 1905 the Seacoast Mission has helped support some of Maine’s most isolated communities on the outer islands and along the Downeast coast.
And the Mission is here to help now — with the help of some timely volunteers. Maybe that’s you.
If you can make phonecalls to isolated seniors at home, deliver boxes of food to the driveways of folks who need them, or run necessary errands for those who can’t — you can help.
Get started now by sending an email to [email protected] — or call 207-546-5860 and ask for the Volunteer Application.
L-R: Director Douglas Cornman, Director Sharon Daley, Steward Jillian
MDIslander
Mission works to keep islanders connected, safely
March 27, 2020 by Liz Graves on News, Waterfront
BAR HARBOR — In some ways, residents of unbridged island communities are ahead of the curve with the changes brought by the virus epidemic, since they already rely on remote and online connections for important services.
But in other ways, they’re especially vulnerable.
On March 13, the team of Maine Seacoast Mission staff that usually visits islands aboard the Sunbeam (or this year, the replacement Moonbeam while work is being done on the bigger boat) decided to suspend their regularly scheduled visits.
“Each island community has asked that people not come out to the islands (so they can) make the best use of what limited resources they have on the island,” said Doug Cornman, director of island outreach and chaplain. So we want to honor that … If people start to not feel well, this would decimate an island.”
