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Harbor Church is a warm community of faith which seeks to serve the entire island as followers of Jesus. We are affiliated with American Baptist Churches, but our membership includes persons of many denominations and we welcome visitors from all over to our services. Sunday morning worship is always at 10:00 am year-round, followed by a coffee hour. During the school year there is Sunday School following the children's sermon in the worship service. Adult education classes are held Sunday at 9:00, along with a Bible study for adults on Thursday at 7:30 pm. On Friday nights we host the Soup and Song Coffeehouse with free soup, coffee, and refreshments at 6:30 and live entertainment at 7:00 pm.

Harbor Church hosts many community groups in our facilities, including AA meetings, BIRA, the Prevention Task Force, Friends of the Great Salt Pond, the Bridge Club, Memoirs Group, Prayer Shawl Ministry, the Ecumenical Choir, the Block Island Poetry Project, and the Spring Street Gallery. In addition we host the town-run Rec Center in our basement and operate the Summer Rec center for both island and visiting teenagers. Vacation Bible School will be held in late July to early August. Harbor Church also sponsors Clayhead Pottery, a paint-your-own-ceramics program.

Our pastor, Steve Hollaway, is a poet and a graduate of Princeton Seminary, as well as Princeton and Duke Universities. He and his wife Becca, who is an artist and a potter, live upstairs in the church building, which was once a Victorian hotel known as The Adrian. Soon Harbor Church (aka First Baptist Church) will celebrate 250 years of organized existence, but our roots go back 350 years to the faith of the original settlers of the island.

Please contact us at 466-5940 for more information about programs and arrangements for island weddings, or email us at harborchurch1765@gmail.com

For more info visit our web site: www.harborchurchblockisland.org.

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Spirit and Serendipity

Steve Hollaway, Harbor Church, May 19, 2013, Pentecost We’ve been celebrating Pentecost, the day the church was really born through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. It was the day the gospel of Jesus broke through and the church was sent out on mission. Our church, like every church, depends ...
"Dress a Girl Around the World" Workshop: 5/22, 7pm, ...

The Harbor Church Women's Group meets monthly, except during the summer months. All BI Women are invited. So far, each month has been "run" by a different woman. That practice will probably continue unless someone feels the urge to step up and run the group on a regular basis. For May 22nd at ...
Earth Day: Wonder vs. Worship

(John 1:1-3, Colossians 1:15-17, Hebrews 1:1-3), Steve Hollaway, Harbor Church, April 21, 2013 During the Poetry Project events in this sanctuary last weekend, we were led in a number of songs. For someone of a literal bent or a theological bent, the songs were a little confusing, drawn as they ...
Can Good People Be Converted?

Acts 9:1-6, Steve Hollaway,Harbor Church, April 14, 2013 Everybody knows that bad people can be converted. The world is full of such stories. John Newton, the “wretch” who wrote “Amazing Grace” was a slave-trader who repented of his sin. “I was blind,” he said, “but now I see.” We’ve all heard ...
Breakfast with Jesus

John 21:1-19, Steve Hollaway, Harbor Church,April 7, 2013 As the last chapter of the gospel of John opens, we find ourselves no longer in Jerusalem, but on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. It’s back home for Jesus’ disciples, back where it all started. You have to wonder what they are doing ...