Katherine Lee Bates\u2019 poem, \u201cAmerica The Beautiful,\u201d is best known for being set to music and popularly performed at public sporting events in the United States. In it, she celebrates the grandeur of American geography and resources: \u201cAnd crownthy good with brotherhood \/ From sea to shining sea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two church parishes in the Anglican Church in North America, located in port cities on opposite coasts, richly blessed with the bounty of natural resources like salmon and lobster, have received unexpected blessings this past year in the form of church buildings and property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anglican churches in Portland, Oregon and Portland, Maine, 3200 miles apart on each coast of the United States, have both received, in the same year, church buildings and property of significant value! Of course, the physical properties God has blessed these two parishes with are the fruits of God at work
in unexpected ways in their respective communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read it all<\/a> (page 10 ff.).<\/p> Rise Church in Portland, Maine is an Anglican church drawn from three congregations: what was formerly the Church of the Holy Spirit, a Sudanese church, and the newer, Rise Church. Watch a short video here: https:\/\/t.co\/9k86nfr7bW<\/a> Read more about it here: https:\/\/t.co\/luttGJvO7L<\/a><\/p>— ACNA (@The_ACNA) December 12, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>