Our People
Meet the Clergy, Musicians, and Vestry who offer their many gifts to guide the Chapel forward. On most any Sunday morning you will also meet folks from across the country—thirty-five states are represented in our active membership. Some people have long-standing ties to the Cape; others have found us on their first summer stay and have “stayed” with us since. While most are Episcopalians, we welcome worshippers from many faith traditions.
Clergy
The Very Rev. Tracey Lind, Priest-in-Charge
Tracey is an Episcopal priest, community activist, and retired Dean of Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland Ohio’s oldest church. Previously, she served as Rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Paterson, NJ and Associate Rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Ridgewood, NJ.
A graduate of the Union Theological Seminary in NYC, Tracey has spent over thirty-five years in ordained ministry working for interfaith relations, social and environmental justice, sustainable urban development, arts and culture, and progressive theology. Most recently, her ministry extended to include the spiritual insights and lessons she has gained from a life complicated by early-onset dementia.
Tracey is a renowned preacher who has spoken in a variety of national pulpits, including the Chautauqua Institution. In 2014, she presented a widely viewed TEDx Talk entitled “How I Met God in a McDonald’s,” and in 2018, she and her spouse Emily Ingalls were featured in a 60 Minutes episode on FTD. Tracey is an exhibiting photographer, an enthusiastic folk musician, an avid gardener, a struggling golfer, and an adventuresome swimmer, hiker, cyclist, sailor and traveler. Tracey and Emily live in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. In the summer, they reside in Wellfleet, and in the winter, they escape for a couple of months to Luquillo, Puerto Rico.
To learn more about Tracey, read a selection of her writings, view some of her photographs, and see her speaking schedule, please visit www.traceylind.com. She can be reached by email at Traceylind@mac.com . To make a date for conversation, invite her to golf, coffee, sail, or walk on the beach.
“We are not defined by our memory. We are defined simply by being a child of God, whether we know it or not. We are created in the image of God, whether we remember that fact or not. And we value relationships, even if we can’t express it or can’t participate in the ways that we used to.”
~ The Very Rev. Tracey Lind, Priest-in-Charge,
sermon at the Chapel on August 29, 2021
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Interim Principal Musician – Peter Kosewski
A lifelong Episcopalian, Peter began piano study at age 7, sang in his first choir at age 9, did his first supply-organist’s gig at age 12, and took his first organist position at age 15. He earned his bachelor’s degree in literature from Bard College, where, throughout his undergraduate career, he worked for the drama-dance program as a pianist. His experience as an organist, choir director, sometime cantor, and frequent chorister, is augmented by his assignments as an acolyte, a chalicer, a lay Eucharistic minister, and a daily-office officiant. He served as an organist at the Jesuit Urban Center and at St. Stephen’s (both in Boston’s South End), as interim parish musician for Trinity Church, Lenox, and in a variety of roles distributed over several decades at St. Mary’s in Provincetown. He recently completed a two-year sequence of monthly Taizé services here in Wellfleet. A retired communications officer from Harvard University, he and his husband, John Dennis Anderson, are year-round residents of South Wellfleet.
Vestry and Chapel Leadership
Warden: Stewart Wood
Treasurer: Madison Riley
Clerk: Holiday Houck
Members: Mary Blocher, Nick Deppen, Stephen Douglass, Linda Irving, Peter Olsen, Patricia Penza, Milton Porteus, Warren Thaler and Martha Wilson
Altar Guild: Harriet Blanchard
Outreach: Madison Riley, Martha Wilson
Newsletter Editor: Emily Ingalls
The Chapel of St. James the Fisherman
2317 US-6, Wellfleet, MA 02667
The Chapel is located on the west side of Route 6 on the hill just south of the Post Office and WHAT Theatre Company.
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