The Rev. Cannon John L. C. Mitman will lead the service at the Wilson Memorial Chapel on Ocean Point this Sunday, Sept. 3. Carol Smith will be the organist. The service is at 9:30 a.m. All are welcome. This is the last service of the chapel’s 100th year.

A native of Washington, D.C., Canon Mitman is a graduate of Randolph-Macon College in Virginia and from the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. He has served as curate and associate rector at St. Thomas’ in Hanover, New Hampshire; vicar pro tem at St. Michael and All Angels in Lancing, Sussex, England; chaplain precentor at The Cathedral of St. John in Hong Kong; director of interns and fellows at the William Jewett Tucker Foundation at Dartmouth College; Episcopal chaplain at Michigan State University; rector of St. Paul’s Parish, Des Moines, Iowa; rector of St. James’s Parish in West Hartford, Connecticut; and priest associate, Christ Church Cathedral and Grace Church, Hartford, Connecticut.
 


Beginning in 2001, Canon Mitman served as executive director of the Society for the Increase of the Ministry, raising money for and administering scholarship monies for Episcopal seminarians across the United States. He retired in 2010. Currently he assists at Grace Church in Hartford. His publications include “Premarital Counseling: A Practical Manual for Clergy and Lay Counselors.” 

John and his wife, Ruth, along with their children and grandchildren, have been regular summer residents on Linekin Neck since 1985. Over those years he and his family have walked Ocean Point, sailed out of Linekin Bay, enjoyed Henry Abbott’s lobsters from Linekin Bay and Card Cove, and prayed with many, many residents and visitors at the Wilson Chapel. He is very much looking forward to being back with the Wilson Chapel community on Sept. 3.