Union Chapel

Rev. Kate Braestrup, New York Times best-selling author of Here If You Need Me and one of the first chaplains appointed to the Maine Warden Service, will preach this Sunday, at 10 a.m. in Union Chapel, Oak Bluffs The widely-known writer and author’s sermon title is Hope Is a Thing With Fangs.

Drawing on her experiences of difficult times both personal and as a chaplain who works with grieving families, Rev. Braestrup’s sermon will explore what happens when our prayers become both an expression of our most fervent hopes and a challenge to the notion of hope itself.

Rev. Braestrup lives in Maine with her husband, Simon van der Ven, an artist, and their six children.

Union Chapel is a nondenominational church located at the intersection of Circuit, Kennebec and Narragansett avenues. The organ prelude by Garrett Brown begins at 9:40 a.m. and the service starts at 10 a.m. All are welcome.