Yes, we are doing Chapel services in Grinnell’s Mayflower Community.
Founded as a church ministry in 1950, the Mayflower has offered regular worship services from the start. Prior to the pandemic, Chapel was held for all Mayflower residents every Tuesday morning in the Carman Center, the 2nd floor meeting hall located in the Health Center.
With the onset of the pandemic and the closure of the entire Health Center to all but residents and staff, Chapel was suspended. Under the guidance of Mayflower’s Community Life and Wellness department, individual services were started again last summer, one for Health Center residents in the Carman Center and one for Beebe Assisted Living residents in Beebe’s second-floor lounge. Both services are off-limits to all but residents and staff.
During the summer, the Mayflower Residents Association volunteer Chapel Committee was reformed as the “Spiritual Life Committee.” They restarted worship services in the middle of September, again on Tuesday mornings, but now in the Pearson building Kiesel Theatre. The worship leaders scheduled for September and October are all Mayflower residents, some retired clergy and some just regular people.
In the photographs accompanying this article, local pastor, The Rev. Wendy Abrahamson of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, leads recent services in the Health Center and in Beebe Assisted Living.
Mayflower appreciates the services of local clergy and other spiritual leaders in leading worship services.
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