9 Menemsha Crossroad
Chilmark, MA 02535
508.645.3100
Hours of Worship:
Sunday Morning Worship 9:00 AM
http://chilmarkchurch.org/service/index.php/category/orders-of-worship/
Directions:
Head up-island to Beetlebung Corner.
From Edgartown: Take the Edgartown/ West Tisbury Road and go through West Tisbury. Follow South Road into Chilmark. Bear right at the fork (Bettlebung Corner) then go straight past the Town Hall and the Fire Station. The church is next on the right after the parsonage.
From Vineyard Haven: Take State Road to North Road and follow the signs to Aquinnah and Chilmark. When you come to a fork to Chilmark bear left. This is Menemsha Crossroad. The church will be on your left about 8/10 of a mile down.
From Gay Head/Aquinnah: Take South Road into Chilmark. You will pass Chilmark Chocolates and the Chilmark Community Store on you left. At the fork (Bettlebung Corner) go straight and then bear left. Pass the Fire Station and the church will be on your right after the parsonage.
Chilmark Community Church
Rev. Arlene Bodge, Pastor
Chilmark Flea Market:
The Chilmark Community Church hosts the Chilmark Flea Market during the summer (June-Sepember).
We are open on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 8:30-2:00. Everyone is welcome. There is no admission fee. Parking is available at the Flea Market. The Flea Market will be returning to North Road in Chilmark in June 2009. Flea Market Vendors are asked to call Pat Lynch our vendor manager for more details, if you are interested is getting a space at the Flea Market. Her number is 508.693.6974.
The History of the Chilmark Community Church, a United Methodist Church
Methodism was formally introduced to Chilmark through a circuit preacher in about 1797. By 1810 a "class" of twenty members of the Methodist Episcopal Society met in homes and later in school houses.
In 1827, land was offered by John & Mary Hancock of Middle Road, near Meetinghouse Road in Chilmark, then the center of town. Edgartown sold a small church to Chilmark, which was moved to the donated site. The Reverend John "Reformation" Adams, a Methodist minister, was pastor. This building, soon outgrown, was torn down. A second, larger church was built in 1843 on the opposite side of Middle Road. Growing membership necessitated yet a third church, a larger building, constructed in the last quarter of the 19th century on Middle Road. This, our present church was moved to the Menemsha Crossroad in 1910. In 1928 the Oddfellows of Oak Bluffs gave a bell to the Chilmark Ladies Aid. The bell was hung in the new steeple in 1931.
In order to appeal to all people, the name changed to the Chilmark Community Church in 1982. In 2002 a Parish/Education building was built behind the historic church providing Sunday School and meeting rooms, a kitchen, bathrooms and a Pastor's Study.
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