The Rev. Tom Lenhart will lead the service at Wilson Memorial Chapel on Ocean Point this Sunday, July 17. Jim Swist will serve as our organist. The renowned Maine duo Castlebay will be part of our musical worship. Castlebay weaves together the heritage of New England with Celtic lands in their ballads; their music transcends time and place. The service is at 9:30 a.m. All are welcome!

Rev. Lenhart graduated from Columbia College in 1968 and 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 Tom was 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. In the early1990s Tom also taught at Cornell Law School as an adjunct professor.

For over 25 years, Tom, the son of a UCC minister, was very active at 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 master’s in divinity degree in 2005.

Subsequently, Tom was called to be the 13th Senior Minister at the First Congregational Church in Chappaqua, New York, where he served from 2006 to 2013. From November of 2014 until April of 2016 he was the interim senior minister at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York, a church founded by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. In 2018 Tom spent 3 months serving as senior minister of Westmoreland Congregational Church while its senior minister was on sabbatical. For many years Tom was chair of the board of the "Outdoor Church" – an ecumenical ministry to the homeless in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is currently theologian in residence at the First Church in Ipswich, Massachusetts.

Tom's wife Lynn is the president of the Ipswich Refugee Program. They have three adult children, Amanda, James "JJ", and Abigail, and five grandchildren. Tom has been coming to the Boothbay Region for more than 70 years and briefly attended school here. He has a cottage in East Boothbay and spends as much time as possible on the water in his boat.