sabbath

The question of which church to attend – given there are three Episcopal churches in Fort Wayne – was answered by a good conversation about what we hoped to find and what each church told us what to expect on their respective websites.

We settled on Grace. Located in a neighborhood southwest of town, it sat on a hill and was a sight of expectation for the worship to come.

It was a beautiful church, with a welcoming parish, and a priest who led good worship and gave a good sermon. The Outreach Ministries of the parish were remarkable.

From there we Ubered to The Hive coffee shop for breakfast.

Afterwards we headed back downtown to the Fort Wayne Museum of Art.

The museum’s collection includes American art from after 1850. They have exhibitions of American fine and decorative art ranging from the 19th century to contemporary art.

One exhibit was Weaving the Narrative: The Works of Dinh Q. Lê, a Vietnamese-American artist, well-known for his works which combined photography and photo-weaving.

The museum houses a permanent collection of glass sculpture which numbers over 300, with major works from artists like Dale Chihuly,

Currently on exhibit is a collaboration between artists Philip Baldwin and Monica Guggisberg. The exhibit was comprehensive and impressive. The creative ways to make designs out of glass was amazing.

Just as amazing was travel later on Sunday. We were to fly from Fort Wayne to Philadelphia in the late afternoon. Significant thunderstorms across Indiana and Illinois, and all the way to the east coast, caused significant delays and cancellations. Our flights from Fort Wayne to Chicago to Philadelphia were both very late, rough and disquieting.