The OAK HARBOR CHURCH OF CHRIST will hold a worship meeting at 7 p.m., Oct. 18-21. Patrick Mead will discuss “The Community of God.” Mead will take stories from the Book of Acts that show how the church functions in the real world.

The Oak Harbor Lutheran Church Watoto Mission Team will host OKTOBERFEST beginning with an auction at 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m., Oct. 17, at the Oak Harbor Elks Club. The event will include a Bavarian supper, an auction, African fair-trade goods, a no-host bar and music by the Pickled Herring Band. Tickets cost $20. Benefits youth health care scholarships for Watoto orphans in Uganda. Call 360-679-1561 for more information.

Oak Harbor’s CHRISTIAN SCIENCE READING ROOM, located at 721 SW 20th Court at Scenic Heights Street, is open for study, questions about Christian Science and prayer from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays and from 3-7 p.m. Wednesdays. For more information, call 360-675-0621 or go to christianscience.com

GRIEFSHARE, a support group for those in mourning, will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursdays through Dec. 10, at the Family Bible Church room C-3, 2760 N. Heller Road, Oak Harbor. Call 360-679-3736 for more information.

COFFEE BREAK BIBLE STUDY will begin the fall season with a six-week study of the Apostle Paul’s two letters to the Thessalonians, some of the earliest Christian literature in the New Testament. This study group will meet weekly at 10 a.m. Thursday mornings at 1986 Country Lane in Oak Harbor. The group is non-denominational and is open to all women. Call Launa at 675-4706, or call the church office at 675-2881 for more information.

WHIDBEY ISLAND FRIENDS (QUAKERS) hold their regular meeting for worship 4-5 p.m. Sundays at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 20103 Highway 525, two miles north of Freeland. This time of silent worship together may include spoken messages. For more information, visit www.whidbeyquakers.org or email Tom Ewell at tewell@whidbey.com