by maineseacoast | Dec 23, 2018 | Christmas, Maine Seacoast Mission, News
downeast.com/ Christmas 1968 By Victor Stanley The story of my childhood reads like the beginning of a Steinbeck novel, but it’s all true. Times were tough in the mid-1950s in Down East Maine. Jobs were scarce, and people were desperate. My parents came down with...
by maineseacoast | Dec 27, 2016 | Christmas, News, Sunbeam
Director of Island Outreach Douglas Cornman sent this report and photos from the Sunbeam V’s Christmas Cruise 2016: The Sunbeam V and crew cruised to three islands in just over twenty four hours this week, to offer Christmas Services to the islands’...
by maineseacoast | Dec 21, 2016 | Christmas, News, Sunbeam
Rev. Neal Bousfield, Mission Superintendent (1938-1972) delivering Christmas presents in 1940. As of this writing, we have no other details about this photo. We welcome any factual background information readers are willing to share. Here’s how to reach us. One...
by maineseacoast | Dec 18, 2016 | Christmas, Events, Sunbeam
The Sunbeam V is making a few Christmas Cruises to Maine islands this week. Director of Island Outreach Douglas Cornman sent these cruise details. ===== Who: Mike, Storey, Jillian, Douglas and the communities of Frenchboro, Isle au Haut, and Matinicus What: The...
by maineseacoast | Nov 29, 2016 | Christmas, News
Our thanks thrice. Once to members of the Congregational Church of Wells, ME for helping the Mission Elves at the Elves Workshop at our Downeast Campus making Christmas brighter. And thank you to Chuck McDonald of Barnacle Billy’s Seafood Restaurant, Ogunquit,...