2025 Season Guests 2025 Season Guests
June 29
Rev. Joanne Hus
United Methodist Church of Martha’s Vineyard
(Note, this is a combined service with United Methodist, held at The Tabernacle)
July 6
Honorable. Ayanna Pressley, U.S. Congresswoman
Massachusetts's 7th congressional district
July 13
Rev. Dr. Brandon Thomas Crowley
Myrtle Baptist Church, West Newton, Massachusetts
July 20
Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie
President and General Secretary of the National Council of Churches of Christ
July 27
Rev. Frederick Haynes III
Friendship-West Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas
August 3
Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, III
Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago, Illinois
August 10
Rev. Dr. Howard John Wesley
Alfred Street Baptist Church, Alexandria, Virginia
August 17
Rev. Dante Quick, Ph.D.
First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens, Somerset, New Jersey
Aug 24
Rev. Dana Allen Walsh
South Church, Andover, Massachusetts
August 31
Rev. Dr. Aliya Browne
Union Chapel, Martha’s Vineyard
Union Chapel Board of Trustees Union Chapel Board of Trustees
Rev. Dr. Aliya F. Browne, President
Heidi Bryan, Vice President
Stephanie Parker, Secretary Kamla Branche, Treasurer
Rachelle Browne, Brenda Bryan, Cindy Carter, MD, Alvin R Johnson, Louise
Johnson, Robert Jennings, Sexton, Kathleen McGhee-Anderson, Ginny
McIntosh, Roger Morris, Kevin Myatt, Andrew Skeen, Ann Stewart, Ed Trayes, Diane Welburn, Lois Jean White, Sabrina Williams
Interdenominational “as a place of worship for the summer community ” Union Chapel is listed in the National Register of Historic Places
Narragansett Avenue, Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts
Trustees Emeriti:
William Adams, Joann Kidd, Anne H. Parsons, Trustee Preident Emeritus Richard Taylor
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) is an activist, a legislator, a survivor, and the first woman of color to be elected to Congress from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Throughout her career, Congresswoman Pressley has fought to ensure that those closest to the pain are closest to the power - driving and informing policymaking.
As Congresswoman for Massachusetts' 7th Congressional District, she has been a champion for justice and healing: reproductive justice, justice for immigrants, consumer justice, justice for seniors, justice for workers, justice for survivors of sexual violence, justice for formerly and currently incarcerated individuals, and healing for those who have experienced trauma. She has also turned her experience living with alopecia into action, becoming a leading voice fighting to raise awareness and support for the alopecia community across the nation.
Congresswoman Pressley currently serves on the House Committee on Financial Services and the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. Prior to being elected to Congress, she served on the Boston City Council for eight years and was the first woman of color elected to the council in its 100-year history.
Union Chapel Octet Union Chapel Octet
Ava Brown, Becky Williams: soprano
Marquetta Drakes, Martha Hudson: alto
David Behnke, Aiden Weiland: tenor
Brad Austin, Brian Weiland: bass
ANNOUNCEMENTS ANNOUNCEMENTS
Today’s floral arrangements on the altar are placed by ...
Mr. Virgil J. Young Jr. and Mrs. Rosalind Young honor the memory of his parents, Drs. Frances and Virgil Young Sr., devoted Cottager and Tuskegee Airman, married 58 years.
With eternal love and memories of Frederick Jackson Jr., from Noah
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PRELUDES
Somos del Señor
traditional Mexican melody (arr. Emma Lou Diemer)
Steal Away
African American spiritual (arr. Joe Utterback)
Fanfare for the Common Man Aaron Copland
INTROIT
O Beautiful, Our Country words: Frederick Lucian Hosmer music: William Walker’s Southern Harmony, 1835
TRUSTEE GREETING
Trustee Brenda Bryan
*INVOCATION
“God of hope, we have sensed your spirit walking with us as we open a new door in our lives, felt your urging when we were reluctant to say yes to a new adventure. Come among us today. Open our eyes to truth wherever it may be found. Allow us to hear the siren song of knowledge and understanding.”
LORD’S PRAYER
Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.
*HYMN # 727
America, the Beautiful Materna
ANTHEM We Belong
Karen Marrolli
PRAYER
PRAYER RESPONSE
OFFERTORY
A Better Day is Coming
Robert Lowry, Charles A. Tindley
*DOXOLOGY
*Hymn #621
For the Healing of the Nations Regent Square
SCRIPTURE
SPEAKER
Honorable Ayanna Pressley
“Unyielding Hope”
*Hymn
God of the Ages, Whose Almighty Hand, National Hymn
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE:
Festive March, Daniel Pinkham
*Please rise in body or in spirit.