Barry and Coleen Blackstone, pastor and pastor's wife of the Emmanuel Baptist Church in Ellsworth, Maine.  Natives of Maine, the Blackstone's have served in four churches in thirty-seven years; nineteen of those years of ministry have been at Emmanuel.  

The Blackstone's have two grown children.  Their son Scott, is a specialist in the United States Army stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.  Scott has done a fifteen-month tour in Iraq and is preparing to deploy again.  Their daughter, Marnie, is in her second year at Dallas Theological Seminary seeking her Master's Degree.  Marnie's love of missions has taken her to Africa twice, Europe once, and India twice. 

A pastor by vocation but a writer by avocation, Barry had his first book published in 2009.  (http://wipfandstock.com/store/Though_None_Go_With_Me)  "Though None Go With Me", is a devotional on his observations during his first trip to India to teach at Kerala Baptist Bible College in 2006.  His second book was published in 2010.  (http://wipfandstock.com/store/Rendezvous_in_Paris)  "Rendezvous in Paris", is a series of practical devotionals and personal meditations written as he traveled to the Charles De Gaulle Aero port to meet his daughter who was returning home sick from a summer missionary trip to Togo, West Africa.  His third book was published in 2010.  (http://wipfandstock.com/store/Though_One_Go_with_Me)  "Though One Go With Me", is the sequel to his first book, which retraces the steps of a Maine pastor back to the fabled land of India.  His only other passion is fly-fishing. 

Coleen is active in ladies' ministries and AWANA, the primary youth ministry of the church.  She also loves to quilt, cross-stitch, cook, and put on her annual Christmas Tea for the ladies of the church.