Welcome! - Raquette Lake Chapel

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.

Giving Thanks for Summer

Father, Creator of all, thank You for summer!
Thank you for the warmth of the sun
and the increased daylight.
Thank You for the beauty I see all around me
and for the opportunity to be outside and enjoy Your creation.
Thank You for the increased time I have to be with my friends and family,
and for the more casual pace of the summer season.
Draw me closer to You this summer.
Teach me how I can pray
no matter where I am or what I am doing.
Warm my soul with the awareness of Your presence
and light my path with Your Word and Counsel.
As I enjoy Your creation, create in me
a pure heart and a hunger and a thirst for You.

– Author Unknown

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 from the p

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 week’s Blast introduces a new series of reflections about “Vocation” and what it means for our spiritual lives. I give thanks for one of your comments last month: “We are meant to bless each other!” In other news: The Chapel’s Annual Meeting will be after services on August 16 in the Chapel. All are welcome!

It is tradition at the Chapel to celebrate communion on the first Sunday of the Summer Months. Different traditions use different terms for this act of worship: “Eucharist,” “Communion,” and “The Lord’s Supper.” Do they all mean the same thing … or are they different? As noted in the readings for this week in the “Blast” here is a transcript of Pope Leo’s brief address to the Asian Bisbops (July 2026): “As his disciples today we know that Jesus is not only the source of our communion with God but also with one another. Indeed in the recently published encyclical letter magnifica humanitas I wrote that Christian solidarity finds its source in the mystery of Christ and emerges from our communion in the sacraments particularly the Eucharist. For this reason I would like to encourage you to continue to promote a eucharistic spirituality within your local churches that is a spirituality of ecclesial unity grounded in the charity that flows from the gift of our Lord in the Eucharist. In this way it is my hope that the bonds of communion within and between the local churches will be strengthened and become an ever greater sign of God’s presence in your various countries which in turn will help you be bridge builders together throughout Asia.”

This week’s Blast is part 2 of the sermon on the 2026 Dignity Barometer created by Dignity.US. Last week we celebrated the divine gift of dignity. We discovered that every person is created in the image of God and crowned “with glory and honor” (Genesis 1:26–28; Psalm 8:3–6). Human dignity is not something we earn: it is God’s gift. This week we turn to a challenging question. If we believe in our innate dignity, why do only 31% of the people in the survey believe we treat each other with dignity? Our service this week uses Genesis 1:26–28 and Psalm 8:3–6 as the backdrop, while we turn our attention to James 3:7-10 (James identifies one of the central contradictions of Christian life: worshiping God while speaking contemptuously about people who bear God’s image.) and Luke 10:25-37 (.The parable of the Good Samaritan -“Who is my neighbor?”)

This week and next week we will look at results from a 2026 survey by Dignity.US: “The 2026 Dignity Barometer.” The One-Minute Sermon (Sermon Link) gives you the headlines and the Blast digs a little deeper. This Sunday’s reading are available too.

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.