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==The church today==

==The church today==

Harbor Church still hosts a small local congregation and invites tourists to its worship services, which begin at 10 a.m. each Sunday. The church maintains a Bible study at 7 p.m. on Thursdays and a men's fellowship breakfast at 7:30 a.m. each Saturday.<ref name=hlight>''The Harbor Light'', publication of the First Baptist Church of Block Island, Rhode Island, Summer 2009</ref>The main annual events are the Church Fair and Auction held on the third weekend in July and the Roll Call Dinner on the Tuesday nearest Founder's Day, October 23. This event often reaches more than five hundred.<ref name=history/>  

Harbor Church still hosts a small local congregation and invites tourists to its worship services, which begin at 10 a.m. each Sunday. The church maintains a Bible study at 7 p.m. on Thursdays and a men's fellowship breakfast at 7:30&nbsp;a.m. each Saturday.<ref name=hlight>''The Harbor Light'', publication of the First Baptist Church of Block Island, Rhode Island, Summer 2009</ref> The main annual events are the Church Fair and Auction held on the third weekend in July and the Roll Call Dinner on the Tuesday nearest Founder's Day, October 23. This event often reaches more than five hundred.<ref name=history/>  

   

   

In 2009, the Reverend Stephen Eugene Hollaway became the current Harbor Church pastor. Born on July 28, 1952, in Nageya, [[Japan]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gedcomindex.com/Towns/jp1055.html|title=Nageya, Japan|publisher=gedcomindex.com|accessdate=May 25, 2012}}</ref> to Baptist missionary parents, Hollaway spent his childhood in [[Tokyo]]. He moved to [[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]], when he was in the eighth grade and completed high school there. He majored in [[English]] at [[Princeton University]] in Princeton, [[New Jersey]]. He enrolled in a Ph.D. program at [[Duke University]] in Durham, [[North Carolina]], but returned to Princeton to study at the seminary there. He was the Baptist chaplain at Princeton. Hollaway and his wife, Rebecca P. "Becca" Hollaway, a graphic artist originally from [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]], have two children, Sarah and Nathan. Before arriving in Block Island, Hollaway had been the pastor for the preceding seven years of Latonia Baptist Church in Covington, [[Kentucky]], south of [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]].<ref>Search Committee report, First Baptist Church of Block Island, Rhode Island</ref>

In 2009, the Reverend Stephen Eugene Hollaway became the current Harbor Church pastor. Born on July 28, 1952, in Nageya, [[Japan]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gedcomindex.com/Towns/jp1055.html|title=Nageya, Japan|publisher=gedcomindex.com|accessdate=May 25, 2012}}</ref> to Baptist missionary parents, Hollaway spent his childhood in [[Tokyo]]. He moved to [[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]], when he was in the eighth grade and completed high school there. He majored in [[English]] at [[Princeton University]] in Princeton, [[New Jersey]]. He enrolled in a Ph.D. program at [[Duke University]] in Durham, [[North Carolina]], but returned to Princeton to study at the seminary there. He was the Baptist chaplain at Princeton. Hollaway and his wife, Rebecca P. "Becca" Hollaway, a graphic artist originally from [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]], have two children, Sarah and Nathan. Before arriving in Block Island, Hollaway had been the pastor for the preceding seven years of Latonia Baptist Church in Covington, [[Kentucky]], south of [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]].<ref>Search Committee report, First Baptist Church of Block Island, Rhode Island</ref>