The Rev. Charles Carrick will lead the service at Wilson Memorial Chapel on Ocean Point this Sunday, July 26. Margaret Mceldowney will serve as organist. The service is at 9:30 a.m. All are welcome!

Rev. Carrick is a graduate of Drexel University (1984, BS Computer Science) and Yale Divinity School (1987, Master of Divinity). He is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, having served churches in Pennsylvania for over 14 years. He served as the Executive Director of the Hazleton Enlarged Ministry, a cooperative ministry of 14 churches in the Greater Hazleton Area. In his last full-time appointment, Rev. Carrick served Conyngham, PA, UMC for eight years.

Rev. Carrick is in his 28th year at Wyoming Seminary College Preparatory School (Kingston, PA) serving as chaplain. At Sem he teaches AP Computer Science, Algebra II Honors, and STEM elective courses including Introduction to Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Submersibles, and Flight. Bible, World Religions, Moral Philosophy, Geometry, and Post-Apocalyptic Literature are some of the other courses that Rev. Carrick has taught. He has coached boys’ lacrosse and was head coach of Sem’s Upper School boys’ soccer team for 11 years. Soccer, snowboarding, skiing, and kayaking are sports passions. 

Rev. Carrick and his wife, Jill Clay Carrick, have a home at Farnham Point. Jill serves as STEM Associate Director at Wyoming Seminary, works as part of the Climate Science and Sustainability team, and teaches middle school science at Sem’s Lower School where she serves as science chair. The Carricks have a daughter, Grace, who graduated from Wilkes University this year with a major in digital design and media art and minor in English. Their son, Jordan, his wife, Shani, and family live in San Diego, California. Jordan is an aeronautical engineer at General Atomics.