The Rev. Charles Carrick will lead the first service of the summer season at the Wilson Chapel, Ocean Point, Boothbay on Sunday, June 24. The service is at 9:30 a.m. All are welcome. Clarissa Brown will serve as organist.

Rev. Carrick is a graduate of Drexel University (1984, BS computer science) and Yale Divinity School (1987, master of divinity). He is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, having served churches in Pennsylvania for over 14 years. He served as the executive director of the Hazleton Enlarged Ministry, a cooperative ministry of 14 churches in the Greater Hazleton area. In his last full-time appointment, Rev. Carrick served Conyngham, Pennsylvania, UMC for eight years.

Carrick is in his 20th year at Wyoming Seminary College Preparatory School (Kingston, Pennsylvania) serving as chaplain. He teaches AP Computer Science, Introduction to Electrical Engineering, ninth grade STEM Foundations, and STEM elective courses in robotics, submersibles, and flight. Geometry, Algebra I, Algebra II, Bible, World Religions, Moral Philosophy, and Post-Apocalyptic Literature are other courses that Carrick has taught. Skiing, snowboarding, soccer, and kayaking are sports passions.

Carrick and his wife, Jill Clay Carrick, have a home at Farnham Point. Jill serves as STEM associate director at Wyoming Seminary and teaches science and computer at the Lower School. The Carricks have a daughter, Grace, who will be entering Wyoming Seminary's 10th grade this fall (class of 2021). Their son, Jordan, is an aerospace engineer at General Atomics in San Diego, California.