It's been great to meet up with our friends, Phil & Suzanne, also visiting the US at this time, and to be together for worship this morning on Easter Day.
We went to Falls Church Anglican in Arlington, Virginia (a suburb of Washington) for their packed 8.30am Festive Communion Service (it was the second service of the day and two more were to follow).
Falls Church Anglican has recently been deprived of its historic buildings over its stand for biblical truth and the historic faith of the church, but they are in good heart, holding their services in the auditorium of a Catholic high school, pending the construction of a new set of buildings.
It was a great service, full of Easter joy, with a really good sermon by Rector, John Yates, great hymns and songs, accompanied by an orchestra-cum-band and a choir.
We were a long way from home but we felt curiously at
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| Alleluia! Christ is Risen. At Falls Church Anglican |
home, here in America with our brothers and sisters, celebrating the resurrection of Christ.
Then we were back into the city centre to see two more of the memorials that grace the capital, that to President Rooosevelt, and that to Jefferson:
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| Jefferson |
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| Jefferson memorial |
Yesterday had been a day of museums. The National Mall is lined with them. Sadly we were unable to visit the (new) museum of African American History (it is so popular it is booked up months ahead), but we did enjoy visits to the National Museum of Air and Space, the National Museum of the American Indian, and the splendid National Gallery of Art. All free. All excellent.
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| Nat Mus of American Indian |
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| Nat M American Indian |
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| Nat Gallery of Art |
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| Nat Gall of Art |
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| From the galleries of American art |
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| Rembrandt's Descent from the Cross |
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