Welcoming Our 2024 Season Guests
June 30 Rev. Deborah Finley-Jackson, Ph.D.
Family of Faith AME Church, St. Thomas, USVI
July 7 Daniel J. Allen, Ph.D. La Salle University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
July 14 Rev. Shannon Kershner
Central Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, Georgia
July 21 Rev. Dr. Leslie Callahan
St. Pauls Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
July 28 Rev. Dr. Brandon Thomas Crowley
Myrtle Baptist Church, West Newton, Massachusetts
August 4 Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, III
Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago, Illinois
August 11 Rev. Dr.Howard John Wesley
Alfred Street Baptist Church, Alexandria, Virginia
August 18 Rev. Dante Quick, Ph.D.
First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens, Somerset, New Jersey
August 25 Rev. Dana Allen Walsh
South Church, Andover, Massachussetts
September 1 Rev. Dr. Aliya Browne
President, Union Chapel Board of Trustees, Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts
Union Chapel Board of Trustees
Rev. Dr. Aliya F. Browne, President
Heidi Bryan, Vice President
Stephanie Parker, Secretary
Kamla Branche, Treasurer
Robert Jennings, Sexton
Rachelle Browne
Brenda Bryan
Cindy Carter
Alvin R Johnson
Louise Johnson
Kathleen McGhee-Anderson
Ginny McIntosh
Roger Morris
Kevin Myatt
Jeanna Shepard
Andrew Skeen
Ann Stewart
Ed Trayes
Diane Welburn
Lois Jean White
Sabrina Williams
Trustees Emeriti:
William Adams
Joann Kidd
Anne H. Parsons
Richard Taylor, President Emeritis
Interdenominational “as a place of worship for the summer community ” The Union Chapel building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and is owned and managed by the Vineyard Preservation Trust
September 1, 2024
Reverend Dr. Aliya F. Browne
Services will be streamed and available for watching on Facebook, YouTube and through our website www.UnionChapelMV.org
Today’s floral arrangements on the altar are placed ...
By Aliya & Reggie Browne
in honor of and memory of our mothers Nona and Linda, and our children Alex, Myles and Jabril Browne.
In loving memory or our brother-in-law, Dr. John Zimmer. From the Branche family
Today’s Guest Musical Artists Paryss and Allie
Husband and wife “Team Hayden” (as they like to refer to themselves) are a team in marriage, music, and in their walk with Christ. They have toured with various national artists and recorded their first P&W cd as Allie and the krunch. Now year-round Vineyard residents, they serve as worship leaders and perform at many events and venues on the island.
Rev. Dr. Aliya F. Browne
Dr. Aliya Browne is a board-certified clinical cardiologist who specializes in integrative cardiology at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital in Oak Bluffs MA. She received her bachelor’s degree from Temple University and attended New York College of Osteopathic Medicine /New York Institute of Technology, receiving her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine. She is a fellowship graduate of University of Arizona in integrative medicine. A licensed minister, graduating from Princeton Theological Seminary with her Master of Divinity, she serves at First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset New Jersey and Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs Massachusetts. She is passionate about caring for the total person, integrating Eastern, Western and Spiritual practices into one practical prescription for whole body health.
Dr. Browne is a sought-after lecturer and speaker on women and heart disease and has been featured in newspaper, magazine articles, and radio programs discussing Heart Disease and Women. She is the author of Meditating on God’s word, published July 2017. One of her life’s passions is the development of spiritual formation and spiritual practices in others. This book seeks to help others to learn how to decompress and grow stronger in their relationship with God through meditation. She teaches and leads guided meditations classes throughout the year using scripture. She has a CD entitled Meditations from God for your heart, which pairs music with guided mediations. Her latest production, RIPE, a collection of guided mediations on the fruit of the spirit continues her teaching on meditation for spiritual fitness.
Dr. Browne is happily married to her college sweetheart, Reginald Browne and is mother to Alex, Myles and Jabril. She lives by the scripture ‘When someone has been given much. Much will be required in return,’ (Luke 12:48). She dedicates her medical career to her grandmother who died suddenly from heart disease when she was thirteen. This had a dramatic impact on her life and has guided her in her specialty path.