Free DETOP Community Supper, Sunday, May 27, Downeast Table of Plenty

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Please join us, Sunday, May 27, for our Downeast Table of Plenty (DETOP).
Would you like to host a DETOP meal? Thank you. Please go to the calendar website (SignUp), and schedule your Sunday, or email Wendy Harrington.

CHERRYFIELD, ME — Each Sunday afternoon, 3:30-5:00 pm, at the Mission’s Downeast Table of Plenty, everyone is welcome to share satisfying, home-cooked meals.

People age two to ninety, from every segment of the community attend. Music, conversation, and laughter preside. Hunger and loneliness are nowhere in sight.

The Table of Plenty takes place in the EdGE building on our Downeast Campus every Sunday, 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. Meals are provided by volunteers.

If you would like to host a meal, please go to the calendar website Sign Up and schedule your Sunday or email Wendy Harrington.

Ready by 21 Mentoring Teams with Sunbeam for Isle au Haut Community Service

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Photos courtesy Island Outreach director Douglas Cornman and Ready by 21 Mentoring

NORTHEAST HARBOR, ME — Outreach director Douglas Cornman reminds us that May 15th, the Sunbeam carried a group of 25 young men and women and their adult mentors from the Deer Isle/Stonington area to Isle au Haut.

Each May, as one of Ready by 21 Mentoring “Real World Trips,” a sophomore class travels with the Sunbeam for a day of community service. Once the group is on Isle au Haut, they will work with rangers from Acadia National Park to clean debris from the island coastline.

Ready by 21 Mentoring is a Maine based program. According to its web site it “seeks ways to create safe, quality opportunities for youth beginning at age 14 thru 21 to develop multi-generational relationships that allow them the opportunity for growth, self expression and views of their highest potential.”

“The Sunbeam has collaborated with Ready by 21 Mentoring each of the four years I’ve served as outreach Director,” said Douglas Cornman, who is “pretty certain” the Ready by 21 Mentoring and Sunbeam partnership precedes him.

Learn more about the Mission’s Island Outreach programs.

Free DETOP Community Supper, Sunday, May 13, Downeast Table of Plenty

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Please join us, Sunday, May 13, for our Downeast Table of Plenty (DETOP).
Would you like to host a DETOP meal? Thank you. Please go to the calendar website (SignUp), and schedule your Sunday, or email Wendy Harrington.

CHERRYFIELD, ME — Each Sunday afternoon, 3:30-5:00 pm, at the Mission’s Downeast Table of Plenty, everyone is welcome to share satisfying, home-cooked meals.

People age two to ninety, from every segment of the community attend. Music, conversation, and laughter preside. Hunger and loneliness are nowhere in sight.

The Table of Plenty takes place in the EdGE building on our Downeast Campus every Sunday, 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. Meals are provided by volunteers.

If you would like to host a meal, please go to the calendar website Sign Up and schedule your Sunday or email Wendy Harrington.

Mission Scholarship Recipient Nellie LaValle Awarded Fulbright Grant

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BAR HARBOR, Me — Congratulations to Maine Seacoast Mission scholarship recipient Nellie LaValle for her Fulbright Grant award at Colby College, Waterville, ME.

Thanks to Mission Program Manager for Scholarships and Outreach Terri Rodick for bring us the news. Learn more about the Mission’s Scholarships.

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Student Achievement Recognized at Colby Awards Ceremony
May 9, 2018

Three Colby seniors were recognized for having been awarded prestigious Fulbright Grants for 2018: Clare Murray ’18, Nellie LaValle ’18, and Alyssa Kullberg ’18.

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Getting by With Help From Our Nautical Friends

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BAR HARBOR, Me — When the Sunbeam is in dry dock for it’s annual upkeep, Mission Island Outreach director Douglas Cornman, and Island Health director Sharon Daley, RN rely on alternate transportation to continue their work on unbridged islands. Beal & Bunker Mail Boat & Ferry “Sea Queen,” photographed by director Cornman, is one much appreciated alternate ways of moving among the islands and mainlands.

PBS News Hour Features Mission’s Food Security Programs

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PBS News Hour recently visited the Mission’s Downeast to learn about our work with food security. PBS’s interview and filming at the Downeast Campus informed a longer tv segment airing this past weekend, “How work requirements for social security programs impact people in need.”