Dear Edgeboro Family & Friends,

Our newsletter was revamped! Check it out here. The previous look served us well for 12 years, but with a new decade comes a new, modern, and simplified format.

With this new format, there will be no more alternating months of “regular” Envoys and “mini” Envoys. Instead, we took the information from the “regular” and the concise listings of the “mini”—the best of both versions—to create this new look. What you see here is essentially what you’ll see each month.

This redesign happened because we wanted to make something that was easier to produce, easier to teach others how to produce, and required far less printing. We also hoped to make something that appeared more organized to the reader, making it easier for you to find the information you need each month.

This month definitely tested this new format with a full slate of events. What a way to start! There are so many things in the newsletter you should know about, so read it all! From snow tubing to Lent Madness to job and scholarship opportunities, even newly announced dates for VBS and more, there are a lot of ways to get involved here in the Edgeboro community.

(It might have been the new format, but I had some extra space to fill, so I continued to write the following. Just thought I’d note that because obviously it’s a different situation online.)

Wow, I don’t know if it’s this new format, but I feel like I have a lot more space to write. I kind of said all that I wanted to say, so I guess I’ll just share some things that are on my mind right now.

My Green Bay Packers were a hot mess in the playoffs.

A great quote from Mr. Rogers: “If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”

Hot dogs are not sandwiches. You can’t change my mind.

Now here’s something else you should actually know about. Edgeboro’s watchword for 2020, chosen during the last worship service of 2019, comes from Nehemiah 9:6, “You are the Lord, you alone; you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them.” This is spoken by Ezra to a crowd of Israelites who are re-learning from scratch about their home, culture, and religion after years of being in exile. Perhaps this watchword is guiding us to care for God’s creation in 2020, which fits well with an announcement in this newsletter about a new initiative starting soon among local Moravian churches to recycle plastics.

That makes me think that you should really stop reading this page before I go off on even more tangents and start taking a look at the newsletter so that you can get involved in what’s going on!

Peace & Grace, Pastor Dan