CHERRYFIELD, ME — Scott Shaw, Mission Downeast Campus Facilities Manager, earlier this week emailed a photo of a welcome sight in the back of a Mission delivery truck.
“Received big donations of meat, produce and bread this morning from Shaw’s and Walmart. Should be well stocked on everything for this coming week,” said Scott.
Learn more about the Mission Food Pantry.
L-R: Joe Ocampo, Levi Shaw.
CHERRYFIELD, ME — We would like to honor our two high school graduates Levi Shaw and Joe Ocampo. Since Covid 19 happened they have been a wonderful asset to our food pantry. Thank you for your all hard work and we here at the Mission wish you luck in all you do.
Megan Smith
Interim Food Pantry Manager
Community Resource Coordinator
Maine Seacoast Mission
NORTHEAST HARBOR, ME — Maine Seacoast Mission Sunday Morning Church Services begin June 7th at 9:00 am. The link for Zoom will be posted on island Facebook pages each Saturday afternoon, for the following Sunday. Weekly services will take place through June, July, and August.
Douglas Cornman, Sunbeam’s Outreach Director and Chaplain will lead the service. Katherine Rhoda from Monhegan will provide music. Beginning June 14th, guest summer ministers who are no longer able to visit in-person will join to offer the homily and lead us in prayer. The link will be sent to the Cranberries, Frenchboro, Isle au Haut, Matinicus, and Monhegan. Islanders are welcome to share the link with others. This is not intended to be a closed or private service. The link supports up to 100 individual devices.
If you are a mainlander interested in joining one of these services, please email Douglas for details.
Housing Rehabilitation Program Manager Scott Shaw
CHERRYFIELD, ME — Earlier this year, Housing Rehabilitation Manager Scott Shaw wrote with a “heavy heart,” a letter to year 2020 Housing Rehab volunteer groups. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Scott said, Maine Seacoast Mission was not providing stay over accommodations for Housing Rehab volunteer groups this season. This year, for safety’s sake, volunteers should stay home, said Scott.
The 2020 Housing Rehab program, however, is still going forward in a modified version. You might say we’ve rebuilt the Housing Rehab program. Temporarily.
Houses and mobile homes in Washington County are often old and hard to heat, especially on limited budgets. Through the Mission’s Housing Rehabilitation program we normally fix or rebuild twenty houses a year. Repairs and renovations range from painting to insulated mobile home skirting to new roofs.
In a normal season, this very worthwhile work is done primarily by our great volunteers from all over the country. This summer, without these traveling volunteers, Housing Rehab is focusing on homeowner applicants who have their own help available — family, friends — to do the home improvement tasks, as well as some local volunteers. Housing Rehab will vet the projects and supply the building materials. We look forward to working with households to make needed improvements to their homes!
BELFAST, ME — A short and sweet message earlier this week from Front Street Shipyard:
The new galley on Sunbeam is coming along.
It’s Thank you Thursday and today’s shout out of Mission Love goes to Elin MacKinnon. Elin has been a great friend and colleague to Mission staff as well as to so many others in the Downeast community for many years. Through workshops, conversations and coaching, she has helped the Mission build the Family Engagement Program. Currently, she is inspiring families to “dig deep” through the Downeast Family Victory Garden project – “because Mainers are tough!” and she is a bloom of wisdom and caring wherever she goes.
This is what community looks like.