You are invited to the Celebration of the Independence Day with Holy Communion on July 7th at 10 am. The bulletin for this Sunday is available for viewing HERE.
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Celebration of the Independence Day with Holy Communion
Sunday, July 7, 2024, 10 am
Children’s Time “American Revolution Quiz” Pastor John
Message “Othering: Us against Them in America” Rev. John Song
As we celebrate our Independence Day, we’ll take this opportunity to examine our divided nation where we find ourselves as Americans. In this critical moment in our young democracy, we are sorely tested and called upon to rise to the ideals of our founders.
“Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.”
~ Mark Twain
“Convince your government, as Abraham Lincoln understood that
the real threat always and still comes from within this favored land.”
~ Ken Burns
“The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
Vote.
You indelibly underscore your citizenship,
and most important, our kinship with each other when you do.”
~ Louis Brandeis, the early 20th century U.S. Supreme Court Justice
“Choose honor over hypocrisy, virtue over vulgarity, discipline over dissipation, character over cleverness, sacrifice over self-indulgence. Do not lose your enthusiasm, in its Greek etymology the word enthusiasm means simply, ‘god in us’. Serve your country. Insist that we fight the right wars. Denounce oppression everywhere.”
~ Ken Burns, the Key Note Speech to the Brandeis University’s 2024 Graduates
Abraham Lincoln and his mobile log cabin
