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Announcing the 2022 Mission Scholars!
Maine Seacoast Mission is pleased to announce 23 Mission Scholars for the 2022-2023 school year. These new scholarship award recipients hail from Hancock and Washington Counties and will pursue college degree programs from a diverse number of schools. Representing...
Erica Hutchinson joins Mission as Director of Development
On April 25th, the Maine Seacoast Mission will welcome Erica Hutchinson as its new Director of Development. She comes to the Mission with experience in fundraising and relationship management gained at respected Maine institutions. Erica’s primary responsibility will...
EdGE summer camps at 3 Downeast locations
Seated at his desk in the Ed and Connie Greaves Education Center, EdGE Director Isaac Marnik builds registration forms for this year’s summer camp schedules. “We expect to return to pre-pandemic attendance, so we’re opening in full force,” he explains. On April 19,...
Gigi Georges and Jeff Oxman launch the Downeast Exploration Fund
Nationally-acclaimed author Gigi Georges has created the Downeast Exploration Fund to support rural, Downeast youth. In 2021, Ms. Georges published the non-fiction book, Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America with publisher Harper Collins....
Director of Island Outreach Reflects on Mindfulness
From the desk of Douglas Cornman, MA, BC-DMT, Director of Island Outreach A few years ago, someone dear to my heart, introduced me to a creative way of measuring emotional energy. I had never heard of this particular method for gauging how a person is feeling, but,...
Aboard the Sunbeam
Aboard the Sunbeam, Mission programs often take center stage. Yet crew members always have fascinating stories and interesting reflections to share. This month, we plumbed the minds of Captain Mike Johnson and Steward Jillian for some of their ruminations on life and...