Dear Edgeboro Family & Friends, It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! With the season comes its own traditions – trees, candles, stars, and all that stuff, but of course, music. There are so many good Christmas carols out there, so much so that it’s hard to get to singing everyone’s favorites during church!…

Dear Edgeboro Family & Friends, Recently, Edgeboro was invited by Northeast Community Center (NECC), a local partner in ministry, to collect food for their Thanksgiving meal distribution. They expect to give away around 200 Thanksgiving meals to local families. Knowing that, they asked us to collect boxes of stuffing and cans of yams for all…

Dear Edgeboro Family & Friends, Over the last few issues of The Envoy, I have used a three-part writing template that I’d like to once again return to this month. For this article, my three parts are: A Prayer Concern, A Thing I Learned Last Month, and A Piece of Edgeboro History. A Prayer Concern…

Dear Edgeboro Friends & Family, The fall calendar for the church is filling up quickly, reminding me of pre-pandemic years! In pre-pandemic September issues of The Envoy, I often wrote about what was coming up in our fall programming and invited you to be a part of it. In most recent issues, I’ve adopted a…

Dear Edgeboro Family & Friends, In the last few issues of The Envoy, I’ve chosen three things to write about on the front page. Here are my three things this month: A reminder, a thing I learned this month, and a prayer. (1) A Reminder August comes and goes without nationally-recognized holidays, but it holds…

Dear Edgeboro Family & Friends, I’ve enjoyed my new front-page writing format, so for the third monthly newsletter in a row, I’ll offer three things: list-writing prompts, a resource, and a prayer. (1) List-Writing Prompts The fruits of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22-23) came up in worship a few Sundays ago (June 26), and so we…

Dear Edgeboro Family & Friends, I’m going to take a similar approach to writing the front page of this issue of The Envoy as I did last month. I’ll be giving you three things: Prayerful words, a Bible update, and something I learned this month. Prayerful Words Seminary taught me what to do in a…