The Rev. Scott Planting, president of Maine Seacoast Mission, will lead the service at the Wilson Memorial Chapel on Ocean Point on Sunday, July 15. This is the mission’s 97th summer visiting the chapel. The offering from the service will be donated to Maine Seacoast Mission. The service is at 9:30 a.m.  All are welcome! 

Rev. Planting graduated from Amherst College and Harvard University Divinity School.  He and his wife, Marsha, have two daughters, Mercer and Hadley, and three grandchildren.

Previous to beginning his service at Maine Seacoast Mission in October of 2010, Rev. Planting served as a parish minister of a three-church parish in Western Maine (Farmington, New Portland and North New Portland) for 35 years. The parish was part of a cooperative parish called Mission at the Eastward (MATE). MATE is comprised of eight congregations and several social service ministries—youth, housing, camping and a partnership with a rural South African parish. Rev. Planting served as Mission Coordinator for MATE for 24 years and especially enjoyed connecting the cultural history of the region with the ministry.

A non-denominational, non-profit organization, Maine Seacoast Mission “provides spiritual, health, and youth development programs in coastal and island communities from Midcoast to Downeast Maine.”  One of their far-reaching, high-impact programs is EDGE, an afterschool program serving nearly 750 children in Washington County.  The Mission supports coastal and island communities in many ways, including providing valuable medical services via the Sunbeam V.