Christ Church
IU Parish
25328 Lambs Meadow Road
Worton, MD 21678
MD Rte. 298 North of Kent County High School
Holy Eucharist each Sunday at 9 am.
Come join us.
Christ Church IU at Worton Parish is a spiritual haven for its congregation. We have a vestry but virtually no committees, a church family but no Sunday School. We simply come together every week in peace and mutual support to worship. Our members are activists and volunteers in the Kent County Food Pantry, Washington College of Lifelong Learning, Diocesan outreach following Hurricane Katrina, Habitat for Humanity, Red Cross outreach, the sailing programs at Washington College and Chestertown Yacht and Country Club, Kent School, Children’s Home Foundation, Questors, Kent Youth, Horizons at Kent School, Echo Hill Outdoor School, Gunston Day School, the Masons, and Radcliffe School. Our congregation is interesting, fun, caring, and enjoys a sense of rootedness in community and spiritual life. We keep in touch by phone and email, and the entire congregation is generally party to all major decisions. We welcome all newcomers with pleasure.
The church itself, an unobtrusively elegant mid-19th century brick sanctuary, is on the historic registry as is its 18th century sexton’s house. No, we don’t know for sure what IU stands for (EVERYONE asks). It’s been Christ Church IU (IU to those of us who love it) since the first sanctuary was built in mid-1700’s. The sexton’s house, which we restored with our own backbreaking labor and sweat (along with several generous donations), is the last surviving piece of the early 18th century village of IU Crossroads. The churchyard holds the graves of some of Kent County’s earliest movers and shakers, but sadly its white oak (243 years old) second only to the Maryland’s Old Wye Oak in age and size, had to be taken down due to disease and lightning damage.
IU, currently blessed with supply priests, is looking for a priest-in-charge. It would be an ideal part-time job for a retired clergyperson.
Contact: email: Christchurch@iuparish.org
Phone: Jane Hukill, registrar, 410-778-6659
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