On Sunday, Nov. 3, the Rev. David S. Heald will be formally installed as vicar of St. Nicholas Episcopal Church, 350 U.S. Route 1 in Scarborough.

The Right Reverend Stephen T. Lane, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine, will preside and celebrate the festival Eucharist The service of installation and celebration will be held at 4 p.m. at the church. There will be no morning worship service that Sunday.

Heald has served as priest-in-charge at St. Nicholas since September of 2011. He graduated from Amherst College and received his master of divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School. He had further post-graduate education in Anglican Studies at the General Theological Seminary in New York and was ordained in 1983. He served in several parishes in Massachusetts before coming to Maine as rector of St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in Yarmouth from 1991 to 2006. For several years, he served as a full-time chaplain with Beacon Hospice. Finding that he missed the challenges and satisfactions of parish ministry, he now divides his time between hospice ministry and the spiritual leadership of St. Nick’s.

Heald and his family enjoy the broad range of outdoor activities Maine has to offer including vacationing each summer on Little Cranberry Island just off Mt. Desert. He is a loyal fan of the Red Sox and the Patriots. His wife, Sukie Curtis, is an artist. The Healds have two daughters. Anna attends Connecticut College, and Bekah is doing post-graduate work in the School of Asiatic and African Studies at the University of London.

The installation of a new vicar comes as St. Nick’s celebrates the 25th anniversary of its founding. It initially held services at St. John’s By-the-Sea in Old Orchard Beach and then for several years in shared space with Blue Point Congregational Church. The church moved into a small building at its present site that had been, among other things, a store selling hot tubs and spas. The congregation moved from the “tub shop” to its new building in 2003.

In addition to using traditional Episcopal liturgy, worship services often include celebrations drawn from newer alternative Episcopal sources. Worship services at St. Nick’s emphasize an underlying directness, simplicity and close sense of community.