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LEWISTON — Trinity Episcopal Church will celebrate new ministry with the Rev. Sheila Seekins at 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 8.
The Celebration of New Ministry worship service will be held at the church at 247 Bates St. The Rt. Rev. Thomas J. Brown, newly elected bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine, will lead the worship, and the Rev. Kerry R. Mansir, rector of Christ Church, Gardiner, will preach. A reception will follow the service.
There will be no morning service Sept. 8.
The congregation is excited to partner with Seekins in their ministry as a progressive 21st century center of urban ministries and inclusive worship. The public is invited to join in the special celebration. A Celebration of New Ministry honors both the ministry of the new rector and the ministry of the people of the congregation. It gathers the larger faith community together because shared ministry develops and is sustained in the context of connection with others.
Seekins grew up in Ohio, youngest of three siblings. he shared in woodworking, sewing, caring for cats and rabbits, participating in the summer garden and putting up tomatoes in the fall. During the summe,r she loved to go to daily Mass at the Catholic Church. Her mother was a first-generation French-Canadian immigrant. Her father was a sixth generation Mainer. That Maine family history drew her to Maine.
After work in nursing, and a time of formation in a religious community, she moved to Seattle and earned a master of pastoral Ministry. She worked as Catholic hospital chaplain in several city hospitals, then returned home to Maine. S
he worked as chaplain in a state mental health facility and in hospice home care. In 1997 she was welcomed into the Episcopal Church. She worked in a psychiatric and substance abuse facility as a nurse while completing a master of divinity at Bangor Theological Seminary. Seekins was ordained priest in May 2017 at St. John Bapst in Thomaston.
PHOTO: The Rev. Sheila Seekins, the new pastor at Trinity Episcopal Church, Lewiston. (Submitted photo)
