Dear Edgeboro Friends & Family, “The Lord is Risen! The Lord is Risen, Indeed!” We proclaimed these words on Easter Sunday at the beginning of our beloved liturgy, but these words are not reserved for one day a year. The season of Easter, or Eastertide, lasts 50 days. This year, that began on March 31st…
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. It takes many people to host 10 worship services…
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! Once again, we’re focusing on the long-standing Moravian tradition of writing and sharing a lebenslauf (German for “life’s path,”…
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…
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. I find it amazing that for…
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…
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…