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Summer Worship at the Chapel

In July, Raquette Lake Chapel’s summer season begins.

Please join us at 10 am for worship, in person at the Chapel.

Our Sunday Blasts will give a preview of the scripture and sermons for the upcoming Sunday Service. Services will be held

every on Sunday in 2026 during July and August
the first Sunday of September.

We celebrate communion on the first Sunday of the month.

If you are attending service at the Chapel this Sunday, you are welcome to participate by reading a short piece or scripture during the service. Just let us know.

Special Services at the Chapel

The chapel is available for other services upon request.

Use our online form to contact us.

Prayers for the Beginning of School

Sunday Blasts and Sermons

Sunday Blast and Sermon Topics. Our pastor calls this: “Sermon on demand.” If there is a particular Bible passage or topic you’d like to hear preached about, let use know via our contact form.

If you are looking for links to all our blasts and notes, visit our Sunday Blast page and look through our archives.

Please Note…

If you are attending Chapel this summer, you will hear the full sermons on these topics.
If you aren’t in the area this summer, I’d be glad to forward you more on these topics via email.

Online Worship Services

Check out our growing collection of Online Worship Services and videos.

The Pastoral Caring channel’s videos include:
- Sunday Worship
- One Minute Sermons
- Lenten Thoughts
- link will also take you to short recordings related to Vance’s “Lenten Thoughts”.
Weekly services are recorded and then uploaded to YouTube.
Videos are posted nearly every Sunday, in the early evening.

Liturgy for our non-denominational prayer service is available online and comes from sources such as Northumbria Community.

Chapel History

Do you have a story to tell from your experiences at the Chapel? In honor of the Chapel’s 100th birthday we are updating our history and collecting stories, and pictures from the Chapel’s past. Use our handy online form to send us your story or let us know if you have pictures to share too!

Contact Us

Please use our contact form to send us your notes and prayers.

“May we, in our own lives, hear that call to meet injustice not with silence, to resist not with violence, but to live a faith that reaches out, transforms hearts, and helps build a more just world.”

Gratitude Journal

Are you looking for a way to foster peace and hope in your life? Look for and note the presence of God in the action of others and world around us with a daily Gratitude Journal.

Download our printable Gratitude Journal.

Sunday Blasts

See an archive of all Blasts.

This link takes you to a pre-recorded sermon which will be delivered on Sunday, September 6. The scripture backdrop is Luke 10:1-16, and this is the last in the “Be a Blessing” series. The Sunday Blast goes along with the theme of “Going out into the world,” but is a different approach than the sermon. The Blast tells the story of a seminarian visiting his pastor father and his experiences of “going out into the world” to meet members of the congregation in a rural section of the country. The key verse from Luke is “…eat what is set before you…”

This Sunday at Raquette Lake Chapel, we continue our “Be a Blessing” series by asking what it means to flourish and to help others flourish. The Sunday Blast and sermon look at the Beatitudes and how “Blessed” has been translated into English, with the main part of the sermon focusing on “Blessed are the peacemakers.”

Last week we said that vocation is much larger than our employment: it includes all of our relationships. This week we should ask ourselves: Who is standing right in front of us, a person God has entrusted to be in our life?

Our “vocation” is not simply a job: vocation involves the many roles we have and the people we encounter. How can we be a blessing in our vocation. Scripture reference (Paul, Pricilla, and Aquila) is Acts 18:1-4.

Remembering Carol Bird Mitchell

Bulletin for Memorial Service — An pdf of the service bulletin is available online.

Carol Bird Mitchell, long-time Raquette Lake resident and Chapel member, left to meet the Lord recently. “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his faithful ones.” (Psalm 116:15)Her life was celebrated on June 13th at the Raquette Lake Chapel.

Donations can be made to the Raquette Lake Chapel and Raquette Lake Fire Department.