new church life: september/october 2014
been in our classrooms in August, early September, May and June, you know
how incredibly important this project is for our students and staff.
Our annual ANC Summer Camp and Tools 4 Life camp were well
attended and hugely successful. Campers had a fabulous time learning about
the Academy, making friends and sharing meaningful experiences.
What makes ANC special is the students and staff choosing to make the
mission part of their lives every day. Our mission is to prepare for principled
and useful lives in this world and the next. We work very hard to help students
find success on a daily basis and to be ready to succeed at whatever may come
next in their lives. This means ensuring that we offer rigorous academics and
varied extra-curriculars. But most importantly, we are helping students to
prepare for their eternal home in heaven.
If you are in town, please visit campus. Come cheer on an athletic team,
applaud our stage performers, or appreciate the student-produced art on
display. We have a lot to be grateful for and we are
happy to share with you.
swedenborg’s flying
machine
The Rev. Dr. Erik E.
Sandstrom,
Director
of
Swedenborgiana
for
the
Swedenborg Library, notes
that this year is the 300th
anniversary
of
Emanuel
Swedenborg’s “flying machine.”
Pictured here are: a
drawing in Swedenborg’s own
hand, with his notes; a drawing
made by Gustav Genzlinger;
and a
model made by Gustav for the
Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.
Erik says Swedenborg entered his invention in the Daedalus Hyperoreus
in 1716, but without his drawing. Erik also notes that the book, Swedenborg’s
1714 Airplane: A Machine to Fly in the Air, written by Henry Soderberg in
1988, is available in the Book Center at the Bryn Athyn Cathedral: www.
newchurchbooks.com
farewell and welcome
Shakespeare had a phrase for it: “Welcome every smiles, and farewell goes out
sighing.” The scene was played out this summer in Canada.
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