The Rev. Tom Lenhart will lead the service at the Wilson Chapel on Ocean Point on Sunday, Aug. 23. The service is at 9:30 a.m. All are welcome. Music will be provided by the Maine duo Castlebay.

Lenhart graduated from Columbia University in 1968 with an A.B. in government and with a JD degree from Columbia Law School In 1972, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.

Upon graduation he became a law clerk to a United States District Judge in New York City. From 1973 through 2002 Lenhart was an associate and then a partner with the law firm of Shaw Pittman (now known as Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP), in Washington, D.C. He specialized in litigation and special investigations for corporations, nonprofits, universities, international organizations and individuals. In the early 1990s, he also taught at Cornell Law School as an adjunct professor.

For over 25 years, Lenhart, the son of a UCC minister, was very active at his local UCC church, Westmoreland Congregational Church in Bethesda, Maryland. In 2002 after 30 years in legal practice, he felt a different call and entered Harvard Divinity School, graduating with a Masters in Divinity degree in 2005. Since 2004, he has been a member of the board and a liturgist for the "Outdoor Church," an ecumenical church to the homeless in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Lenhart was the 13th senior minister at the First Congregational Church in Chappaqua, New York, where he served from 2006-2013. Since November 2014 he has been the interim senior minister at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York, a church founded by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.  

Tom's wife Lynn has been a Christian educator for 18 years. They have three adult children, Amanda, James (JJ) and Abigail, and five grandchildren. Lenhart has been coming to the Boothbay region for more than 65 years and attended school here when he was in sixth grade. He has a cottage in East Boothbay and spends as much time as possible on the water in his boat, the JAMBA.