September 20, 2020

Today is our second weekend of in-person worship at St. John's. Here is the link! We'll live-stream the service at 9am, and it can also be viewed later as well. We will welcome as a guest musician the renowned oboist Fatma Daglar.

At 11am we host Professor Christian Appy of UMass Amherst who will shed light on the Vietnam War and its place in American identity. Click here to attend.

There are many other offerings found on our Worship & Classes page.

I titled today's note "looking up" because recently at our mural painting event we rang the Revere bell in our bell tower every hour on the hour as a reminder to everybody to look up. A bell in a steeple invites us to literally look up, but this is also a representation of who we are as a church. When we look up, we remember that there is a higher perspective. This can keep us from losing our way, or losing heart. When we get caught up in the stresses, fears, disappointments, uncertainties and challenges of trying times, we can always look up and see that God is present, and that God loves us—always. Looking up also reminds us that if we seek it, God will empower us to be part of the healing that the world needs, which ultimately comes from above.

(I've included an image of our Ascension window, when the disciples are looking up at Jesus!)

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