Victoria Remer, a 2013 graduate of Red River High School, is featured in a New York Times article headlined “How 5 New Yorkers Are Coping with Holidays Alone,” published Wednesday, Dec. 23. Remer, a student at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, is serving a year-long internship at the Lutheran Church of Our Savior in Jamaica, Queens, New York. She said had been hoping to connect with church members in Queens at worship services or leading in-person Bible studies and youth groups. This past fall, until in-person worship services were prohibited, only 24 people could attend services, masked and seated in pews labeled with signs designating the service times, to keep people physically separated. “But now I’m just at home, doing a puzzle and getting ready to watch (the service) online," she said.

Source: New York Times December 26, 2020 13:30 UTC