Dear Edgeboro Family & Friends, The Lord is risen! Easter blessings to you all now and throughout the Easter season (through May 18)! Before I jump into the rest of this article, I wanted to express my thanks for another blessed Holy Week here at Edgeboro. […]

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Dear Edgeboro Family & Friends, I want to take a moment to write about our Lenten series for this year. It’s one that’s familiar to some of us because it’s actually one that we’ve done before! […]

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Dear Edgeboro Friends & Family, I had a church member ask me a very specific Bible question out of the blue recently. I could sense this was not meant to be a challenging “stump the pastor” type of question, but rather a genuine one – and those type of questions are ones that I’m always eager to explore. […]

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Dear Edgeboro Friends & Family, Happy New Year! Over the last few Januarys, I have noticed that my attention gravitates toward the Moravian Daily Text. I think it is a combination of getting a new book to use and having the opportunity to select new watchwords for the year. […]

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Dear Edgeboro Family & Friends, This newsletter was printed on Giving Tuesday, and so I thought it was a fitting opportunity to include this list, serving as a year-in-review of all the community outreach events, collections, and offerings that Edgeboro did in 2023: Offering: 12 Monthly Joyful Noise offerings (Recipients include Essentials Café, Shannon Swingle’s mission trip to You Belong, Andrew Miller’s travels on the Moravian Youth Convo, the Moravian Unity Disaster Relief Fund, Edgeboro’s VBS program, Camp Hope, Mercy World Organization (Tanzania), Edgeboro’s Sunday School program, the International Student Care Committee, Tricklebee Café, Bethlehem Emergency Sheltering, and Moravian Open Door.) Collection: Trex Plastic Recycling (Since the program began among the Bethlehem Moravian Churches in 2020, over seven tons of plastic has been recycled, resulting in four benches, or soon-to-be four benches, that each of the churches has received.) Collection: Chips for Esperanza (At least 500 snack-sized bags of chips have been donated this year for after-school children’s snacks.) Collection: Candy for Northeast Community Center (They hosted their 2nd annual Easter Egg Hunt attended by 100+ kids in the community.) Collection: Children’s books for Calvary Moravian Church (To help supply Calvary’s book ministry.) Event: Ice Cream Festival on August 21st (Hundreds of people attended and $3,100 was raised for the church, more than any previous Ice Cream Festival.) Offering: Debt Jubilee Project (An interprovincial offering that raised $100,000 to eliminate $10 million in medical debt. […]

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Dear Edgeboro Friends & Family, I wanted to take some space in this newsletter to update you all on some fantastic ministry happening in the Moravian Church of North America. Inspired by the work of Trinity Moravian Church in Winston-Salem, NC (search online for the CNN article that featured them from earlier this year), the Board of World Mission, Moravian Ministries Foundation, Commission on Congregational Development, and the Interprovincial Board of Communication challenged Moravians across the country to engage in the Debt Jubilee Project to raise $50,000 to purchase and abolish medical debt. […]

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Dear Edgeboro Friends & Family, On September 17th, Edgeboro participated with other Moravians around the country in the 5th annual Moravian Day of Service. Edgeboro has participated in each Moravian Day of Service by devoting our regular worship hour to engage in service projects. […]

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Dear Edgeboro Friends & Family, It’s been nearly a year since I’ve used this format for the front page of The Envoy, but I decided to come back to it in this issue. […]

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Dear Edgeboro Friends & Family, This is the first newsletter article I’m writing after the Synod of the Northern Province, which took place June 22-25 on Moravian University campus. I’ve been asked multiple times, “How did it go?” and “What did you do?” Besides from quickly responding with, “it was rewarding, exhausting, and we got a lot done in four days,” I wanted to try to give you some extra details as space allows in this newsletter. […]

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Dear Edgeboro Friends & Family, Every other June (pandemic withstanding) is an important time in the life of Edgeboro’s region of the Moravian Church. This is when our synods of a district and provincial level take place. […]

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