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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