The Rev. Tom Lenhart will lead the service at the Wilson Memorial Chapel on Ocean Point this Sunday, Aug. 11 at 9:30 a.m. Alan Wingard will serve as organist. 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 early 1990s he 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. Last year Tom spent three months serving as senior minister of Westmoreland Congregational Church while the senior minister was on sabbatical. For many years he was also chair of the board of the "Outdoor Church" – an ecumenical ministry to the homeless in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and he continues to be involved in that ministry. 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 69 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.