From Sea to Shining Sea (Article Link)

The following is an excerpt of an article written by Ernie Didot from The Apostle Magazine, an official publication of the Anglican Church in North America

Katherine Lee Bates’ poem, “America The Beautiful,” 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: “And crown thy good with brotherhood / From sea to shining sea.” 

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.

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.

To read the rest of the article written by Ernie Didot, click here.