Transforming hearts in that key mission field we call the Northeast (from Richmond, VA, to Maine)
The most dire mission field in the United States, as over 1,000 churches will close in that region this year
As one scholar said, if we lose the Northeast for Christian faith, we lose our Country for Christian faith.

Contact Scott Myers, Captain for the Hurting Coast

Recent Articles in the Messenger Newsletter

Archived Articles in the Messenger Newsletter

• Hurting Coast Testimony

  September 19, 2010 What we now call the Hurting Coast was once a vibrant religious society. As Alexis de Tocqueville, who spent most of his 9 months in America north of Virginia, reported in his1835 classic Democracy in America, “while the law per...

• A Message from the Rev. Canon Doug Peterson

  It has been a joy for Joanne and me to be part of St. Michael’s following my time as Episcopal chaplain and math professor at The Citadel. To some, though, we may seem like strangers, since there are two things that take us away from Charleston for e...

• Bus Fundraiser

  We set out a few short weeks ago to bring our entire congregation together in a joyful outpouring of love and blessings for the parishioners of an inner city Church 988 miles away in Dorchester , MA.  As most of you know, our plan is to raise the nece...

• Shagging to the Glory of God

  On July 15, the Kinloch Room was a lively place! You may have thought you were on a Lowcountry beach a half-century ago instead of a in a church parish hall, thanks to our decorations team of Amy Smith, her mother, Cameron Smith, Nicole Nicholson, Char...

• Reflection by Julie Akers

  I had been on the Hurting Coast Task Force since October 2010 and after meeting Dan and Michelle and understanding their mission, it was easy to become excited about my first “mission trip”!  St. Michael’s had raised money, through generous cont...

• Update from Christ the King Dorchester

  July 2011

• Dorchester Mission

  “Missions exist because worship doesn’t” – John Piper This is perhaps the best reason we as a church body have felt called to go on mission to a place like Boston, or even the Hurting Coast at large. In fact, this is the very reason we call ...

• Christ the King Dorchester Newsletter

  Christ the King Dorchester September 2011 Newsletter

• Ministry in Maine 2011

  The summer of 2011 was the third summer for Joanne and me to be part of the Church of Our Father in Hulls Cove, Maine (just three miles from the center of Bar Harbor).  This parish is one of four Episcopal parishes on Mount Desert Island (where Bar Ha...

• Holly Craighead’s Report of Her Summer Activities

  What a delight it was to serve as a missionary/summer intern along with our friends, Doug and Joanne Peterson, at Church of Our Father. My life was filled with helping at Sunday Eucharists, weekday Eucharists, healing prayer services, and Morning Praye...

• Christ the King, Dorchester Newsletter April 2012

  Christ the King Dorchester April 2012