Provincial Ties

Springtime, the Gulf Coast, and Easter | Concerns & Celebrations | Ordination Anniversaries | PEC Report | Gemeinschaft Leadership Development Training | Christian Churches Together in the USA | Prayer for Star Mountain | Classified | Special Discounts on Moravian Book of Worship | One Spirit. One Will. Zero Poverty | Rick Sides Honored with the Jon Hus Alumni Award | Healing Touch | 2007 Moravian Holy Land Trip | Thomforde becomes 15th President of Moravian College and Moravian Theological Seminary | The Impact of Intentional Interim Ministry | Great Sabbath Service of Music | From the Provincial Treasurer's Office | Sabbath Weekend | YAMS! Young Adult Moravians | Mission Awareness Dinner | For Your Calendar | Address Book


Uniting People in the Southern Province
April 2006

Congregations & Fellowships
Advent
Ardmore
Bethabara
Bethania
Bethesda
Calvary
Christ
Christ the King
Clemmons
Community Fellowship
Cordero de Dios Fell.
Covenant
Crooked Oak
Enterprise
Fairview
First Moravian (GA)
First Moravian (NC)
Friedberg
Friedland
Fries Memorial
Fulp
Good Shepherd
Grace
Holly Springs
Home
Hope
Hopewell
Immanuel-New Eden
Kernersville
King
King of Kings
Konnoak Hills
Leaksville
Little Church on the Lane
Macedonia
Mayodan
Messiah
Mizpah
Moravia
Morning Star Fell.
Mt. Bethel
New Beginnings
New Covenant Fell. (Palm Beach)
New Hope (FL)
New Hope (NC)
New Philadelphia
Oak Grove
Olivet
Palm Beach
Palmetto Fellowship
Peace
Pine Chapel
Prince of Peace
Providence
Raleigh
Rolling Hills
Rural Hall
Sarasota Fellowship
St. Philips
Suriname Fellowship
Tampa Fellowship
Trinity
Union Cross
Unity
Willow Hill

 

Springtime, the Gulf Coast, and Easter

During this Lenten season dozens of us have spent time in Gulf Coast communities cleaning up and rebuilding. The hurricane devastation there continues to call us to be instruments of God’s grace in the face of physical, emotional, and spiritual need. For many who have volunteered there, this Lenten season is uniquely powerful in their lives. They have important stories to tell.

Easter has long been associated with spring and the apparent new life in nature as buds and blooms break out on branches that had looked like they were dead. But the comparison of the annual blossoming of nature with the once-for-all death and resurrection of Jesus Christ doesn’t go very far for me. The annual cycle of dying and rising has been part of many religions and cultures, but we believe that the unique events of the cross and of the empty tomb changed history and changed the relationship of God and God’s world.

If we seek something visible to ponder in the light of Good Friday and Easter, perhaps what is happening on the Gulf Coast is more appropriate than what is happening in our parks and gardens.

The coming of spring is annual and expected. A storm with the destructive power of Katrina was not expected, at least by most. Even when its potential seriousness was predicted, almost everyone lived in denial that it would actually happen. Which is more like the crucifixion?

In many areas of our country winter is dark and drab and dreary, even depressing for some. Others shrug off the short days, and some even like the cold weather. Volunteers coming back from the Gulf Coats show pictures and tell stories. Then they all say that the devastation is beyond description, and in many ways incomprehensible even to those who go there. Again, which is more like the crucifixion?

There has been no all-encompassing miraculous intervention by God on the Gulf Coast as happened on Easter morning. But while sin, brokenness, and alienation were defeated on Calvary, they did not disappear. Not many days after Easter God called us into the church to proclaim Christ and meet human need. Maybe there are some more points of contact.

There is a sense of urgency on the Gulf Coast. What will happen when a new hurricane season arrives? Will we be ready? And surely a sense of urgency should characterize our witness to the risen Lord.

Lives are being changed as the disaster response proceeds. For example, one work team reports helping to bring healing to the broken relationships between two neighbors.

There is incarnation in that response. God’s love takes human form as volunteers help rebuild homes and lives. One Gulf Coast resident was quoted as telling a recent work team that all the others have gone, but the Christians are the ones still there and still helping.

As much as I enjoy and have my spirits lifted by flowering dogwoods on a bright spring day, Easter living is much more than that. It has to do with urgency, changed lives, and human action that demonstrate the love of God.

Past, present, and future Gulf Coast volunteers - thank you for your ministry in the name of our risen Savior and Lord. And may the observation of Holy Week, Good Friday, and Easter bring to us all a deeper sense of God’s redeeming love, and a more vigorous response to His call to serve.

(submitted by Bob Sawyer)


Provincial Ties
Published monthly by:
Provincial Elders’ Conference, Southern Prov.
336-725-5811 336-723-1029 FAX
http://www.mcsp.org
Staff:
Robert E. Sawyer, President
Robert E. Hunter, Asst. To the President
Lynn Kale, Executive Asst.
Becky Honeycutt, Secretary


 

Concerns & Celebrations

“BLESSED IS THE ONE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD!”
MARK 11:9

Our prayers are with...


Deaths

Brother Norman Byerly of Winston-Salem, NC passed away March 15. In the Southern Province he served Macedonia, Hopewell, Hope and Mt. Bethel churches. Keep Helen, Wayne, Tim, David and families in your prayers.

We express our love and sympathy to his family and friends.

Illness

Sister Polly Applefield, retired Moravian Minister

Sister Ann Bauguess, mother of Phil Bauguess

Brother John Obenchain, husband of Carolyn Obenchain, Ardmore Moravian Church

Earlette Peek, wife of Bob Peek-Immanuel-New Eden Moravian

Sister Ann May, mother of Tripp May-Bethabara Moravian and grandmother of Russell May, Hopewell Moravian.

Our prayers are with these.

Pastoral

Sister Margaret Leinbach began March 1 serving First Moravian Church in Greensboro, NC as an Intentional Interim pastor. (see Page 6 to learn more about Intentional Interim Ministry).

Congratulations!

Births

Arkon and Rosemary Stewart are proud Grandparents of Lukas Alexander Marshall born on February 18. Lukas is the son of Adam and Tracie Stewart Marshall.

Congratulations!

 

Ordination Anniversaries:
April

George Chiddie 53 years
Richard Spaugh 39 years
Phil Bauguess 31 years
Keith White 27 years
Terrence Alspaugh 18 years
Wayne Byerly 9 years
Riddick Weber 4 years

Congratulations and God Bless You!

Special Celebration at Covenant Moravian

Covenant Moravian Church, Wilmington, NC will be dedicating their new fellowship hall and sanctuary renovations on Sunday, May 14 at 11am (luncheon following in the new fellowship hall). George Hamilton IV will be in concert on Saturday, May 13 at 7 pm. For additional information call the church at 910-799-9256.

Salem Congregation's 234rd Easter Sunrise Service Salem Square

All members of our congregations are cordially invited to participate in this inspirational service. It will begin in front of Home Moravian Church and conclude in God’s Acre. Ministers, spouses and family members are invited to assemble in the west vestibule of Home Church by 5:45 a.m.

We know that many pastors will be involved in the band, choir or leading other Easter services. Our prayers are with all pastors and congregations as we proclaim together the wonderful message that our Lord is Risen !!

(submitted by Scott Venable)


PEC Report

The Provincial Elders' Conference met on March 21 and began with a time of sharing and intercessory prayer. PEC reviewed plans for synod and several resolutions to be submitted to synod. Call processes continue at Rural Hall and Holly Springs. Margaret Leinbach is serving in an intentional interim ministry at First Moravian Church in Greensboro. Bob Hunter reported on recent contacts with persons considering candidacy for ordained ministry. PEC is considering a program of racial reconciliation and has requested funding support from several sources. There was also discussion on appointments to the following: Music and Worship Commission and the Interprovincial Board of Comunications.

(submitted by Bob Sawyer)

Gemeinschaft Leadership Development Training

The annual training event to prepare August Leaders for all three levels of Gemeinschaft is scheduled for July 13-16, 2006. This event will take place at Higgins Lodge, Laurel Ridge Camp and Conference Center, Laurel Springs, NC. Anyone interested in participating in this training program may obtain registration and/or promotional materials from the Board of Christian Education’s web site (www.moravianboardofce.org), speak with your pastor, or contact Judy Knopf at 336-722-8126 or jknopf@mcsp.org.

Gemeinschaft is a spiritual formation program in which participants meet for prayer, study, fellowship, journal writing, silence, and mutual participation. Groups of five to seven folks meet for 40 weeks, 2 ½ hours each week beginning around August 13th and ending around Trinity Sunday.

The commissioning for Gemeinschaft participants during worship in the local congregation should take place on or around Sunday, August 13, 2006.

(submitted by Judy Knopf)

Christian Churches Together in the USA

About 75 church leaders from a broad cross-section of American Christianity came together in Atlanta March 28 – 31 to formally organize, approve bylaws, and select officers and a steering committee. But more importantly

 

importantly those present continued serious conversations about poverty in America, its causes and its solutions. While prayer, fellowship, and conversation about many topics have been part of the discussions leading up to this meeting, a strong and broad based consensus is emerging that Christians can and must work harder and work together to combat poverty in our country. Those who have participated since the first gathering in 2002 have agreed that there is no reason to establish another ecumenical group unless it would be truly representative of American Christianity. CCT in the USA has identified five “church families” – Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Historic Protestant, Evangelical/Pentecostal, and Racial/Ethnic churches. Those present in Atlanta recently agreed that indeed participation was broad, and particularly in the light of the consensus to address poverty, it was time to organize formally.

(submitted by Bob Sawyer)


Prayer for Star Mountain

For over 120 years the Moravian Church has ministered to people in need in the land of Jesus' life and ministry. For much of that time the ministry was with persons stricken by leprosy. Originally the work was just outside the Old City in Jerusalem. In the 1950's the work was relocated to a Palestinian hillside north of Ramallah and was named Star Mountain.

In 1981 the Unity (worldwide Moravian Church) recognized that since fewer and fewer people were affected by leprosy the ministry should be reviewed. Provision was made for those still under care at Star Mountain, but a new ministry -- that of working with handicapped children -- was a pressing need that our church could meet. On Tuesday, April 11, Star Mountain will celebrate the 25th anniversary of that important work.

The staff, students, and families of the Star Mountain ministry live daily in a situation of great difficulty. Of course the broader context in that region is one of conflict, danger, and insecurity. I hope that our congregations will observe a time of prayer for Star Mountain and for all Israelis and Palestinians in worship on April 9, and that Moravians across the Southern Province will do the same on April 11. Let us pray for the staff and especially the children. Let us pray for the director, Rawda Marouf, the assistant director, Volker Bach, and leaders in the European Continental Province in their ministry of oversight. And let us pray for peace, justice, and security for all in that troubled area.

(submitted by Bob Sawyer)


Classified

Paid Mission Internships: The Laurel Ridge Youth Mission Camp program is offering two paid internships this summer. The internship is open to young adults interested in mission program development. There are 4 weeks of Mission Camp. Applicants must be able to live at Laurel Ridge June 17th-July 1st and/or July 15th-July 29th. The internship includes a variety of duties including experience in community set-up, daily program operations, and follow-up. For more information contact: Debbie Good-Erickson at Laurel Ridge 1-888-831-5922.

Volunteer Music Director: The Forsyth Jail and Prison Ministries is looking for a volunteer Music Director to work with the inmate choir at the Cherry Street Prison. Chris Gunnell is currently the volunteer Choir Coordinator and will continue to work with the choir in that role. The volunteer Music Director for the inmate choir needs to be able to:

  1. Work with the volunteer Choir Coordinator and the inmate choir to help them develop a ministry of song and music as a witness to Christ’s presence in their lives.
  2. Be available to work with the choir during one scheduled choir practice at the prison chapel each week.
  3. Help the choir choose and prepare songs to be presented during worship services and other occasions both at the prison and at churches in the community.
  4. Provide a Christian witness and help the men in the choir to work towards spiritual maturity as part of their faith journey.

For more information please call Chaplain Robert Wolfe, 336-759-0063, ext 34.
(submitted Robert Wolfe)

Choir Director: Advent Moravian Church seeks a Choir Director to be responsible for directing the adult choir and working with the pastor, organist, and pianist in worship planning. Skills and experience with handbell groups and/or familiarity with contemporary worship are desirable, but not essential. Interested persons should send a resume to: Personnel Committee, Advent Moravian Church, 1514 W. Clemmonsville Rd., Winston-Salem, NC 27127. Questions, please call Pastor Dan Conrad at 336-788-4951.

Secretary: Olivet Moravian seeks a church secretary working approximately 25 hours/week. For more information call the church office at 336-924-8063.

 

Special Discounts on Moravian Book of Worship at Moravian Book
& Gift Shop

The Moravian Book and Gift Shop is offering the blue Moravian Book of Worship (pew edition) at a special discount from now until April 30th. You can replace or add to your collection for the price of $11.00 per hymnal. This is a great opportunity to replace worn out hymnals or just to add to the growing needs of your congregation. After April 30 the price of the hymnal will go back to $18.00.

Also, The Moravian Book and Gift Shop is offering the book, The Image of Loveliness by Joanne Wallace. Ms. Wallace will be one of the keynote speakers at the 2007 Moravian Women's Conference. The price of the book is $12.99 plus tax. This is a good time to get a head start on reading for the conference.

(Vicki Stanfield, Moravian Book and Gift Shop)

*Also check with Interprovincial Board of Communication, 800-732-0591, on special pricing on the 1995 Moravian Book of Worship.

One Spirit. One Will. Zero Poverty.

Bread for the World’s 2006 Offering of Letters seeks to reduce world hunger by persuading Congress to approve a $5 billion increase in poverty-focused development assistance for 2007. Such an increase would put the US on track to honor its commitments to poor countries. Discover your own connection to hungry people around the world and what a difference your letters on their behalf can make. An Offering of Letters kit includes a handbook with information on this year’s campaign, worship resources, other materials to help you organize an Offering of Letters, and a video which illustrates how our work can help hungry families. Order the 2006 Offering of Letters kit online at http://www.breadstore.org, or by calling 1-800-82-BREAD.

(submitted by David Guthrie)

 

The PEC office will be closed on Monday, April 24.


Rick Sides honored with the John Hus Alumni Award from Moravian Seminary

Nominated by his fellow alumni, Rev. Richard L. Sides received the John Hus Alumni Award at the Annual Reunion Luncheon of Moravian Theological Seminary in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on March 10, 2006.

Initiated in 1974, the John Hus Alumni Award gives special recognition to an alum, who, through outstanding service, has brought distinction to the ministry and to Moravian Seminary. Rick's 31-year ministry as a leader of the Moravian Church and community was affirmed by the award.

As a student, Rick participated fully in seminary life and in 1975 graduated summa cum laude and received the John David Bishop Award. He was ordained into the Moravian ministry after accepting the call to serve as the first year-round director at Laurel Ridge, the church camp of the Southern Province. Rick played an instrumental role in facilitating the development of Laurel Ridge into a year-round camping and conference ministry through the expansion of its facilities and programming.

He served pastorates at Christ and Home Moravian Churches in Winston-Salem, N.C. from 1978-1994. In addition to his pastoral duties, he led annual canoe trips to the boundary waters of Ontario, became a certified Myers-Briggs Type Indicator trainer, and was a much sought after retreat leader. Since 1994 Rick has served as the Executive Director of the Board of Christian Education (Southern Province), offering leadership with a staff that administers provincial youth and adult education, camping programs, stewardship formation, Gemeinshaft, and the Moravian Book and Gift Shop. He has also led numerous educational trips to the Holy Lands.

Throughout his 31-year ministry Rick has been elected to many positions of leadership and currently serves on the Provincial Elders’ Conference and as a Trustee of Salem Academy and College. He has served as a Trustee of the Seminary and as chair of the Central Board of Elders of the Salem Congregation. A community leader in Winston-Salem, he has been an active board member of the Downtown Church Center, AIDS Care Service, Crisis Control Ministry, and a volunteer with Habitat with Humanity.

Rick’s wife, Elizabeth, and their adult children, John and Laura, continue to be a source of great encouragement to his ministry.

 

All alumni of Moravian Theological Seminary are eligible for nomination for the John Hus Award. It is appropriately named for John Hus, one of the great leaders of the Moravian Church, who is revered as a pastor, preacher, scholar and martyr for his faith. Each fall, alumni of the Seminary are invited to make nominations for the Hus Award.

Congratulations to Rick Sides, an alumnus who has been an inspirational leader of his church and community and whose ministry has brought distinction to Moravian Theological Seminary!

Healing Touch
Level 1 Workshop
April 29-30, 2006, 9:00am-6:30pm

Come learn to give and receive Healing Touch. Location: Healing Touch of the Carolinas, 301 Brookstown Ave, Suite 500, Winston-Salem, NC. To register or receive information or a brochure please contact Deborah Larrimore, 336-777-0680 or DLbyriver@aol.com.

Healing Touch utilizes an ancient art of healing through the use of one’s hands. It is a journey to wholeness within the body, mind and spirit.

(submitted by Deborah Larrimore)

2007 Moravian Holy Land Trip

In January of 2006 another group of Moravians from across the United States traveled together to the Holy Land for a wonderful time of Biblical learning, fellowship, inspiration and spiritual growth. Plans are already underway for next year's trip which will take place January 2-11, 2007. The trip is being coordinated by Rev. Rick Sides, Director of the Board of Christian Education along with pastors and Christian educators from both the Northern and Southern provinces. The trip is arranged through Educational Opportunities and also tries to include a visit to Star Mountain Rehabilitation Center of the Moravian Church in Ramallah.

An informational meeting about the January 2007 trip will be held on Sunday afternoon, May 7, 2006 at 5:00 p.m. in the Parlor of Home Moravian Church. Anyone interested in learning more about the trip is invited to attend. For more information or registration materials, contact Br. Sides at the Board of Christian Education (336) 722-8126 or email rsides@mcsp.org.

(submitted by the Board of Christian Education)


Thomforde becomes 15th President of Moravian College and Moravian Theological Seminary

The Joint Board of Trustees appointed Dr. Christopher M. Thomforde as the 15th president of Moravian College and Moravian Theological Seminary. Dr. Thomforde will assume Moravian’s presidency on August 1, 2006.

Dr. Thomforde brings to Moravian an impressive record of seasoned and highly successful leadership in higher education, at colleges and universities that share our clear emphasis on academic quality, our rich and enduring heritage, and our current spirit of progress and renewal. Since 2001, he has served as president of St. Olaf College, one of our nation’s most distinguished liberal arts colleges. Under his stewardship, St. Olaf has enjoyed even greater academic quality, robust enrollments, a significant boost in annual and capital fund-raising, dramatic endowment growth, and a dynamic internal and external community life. We believe that Dr. Thomforde offers the experience, energy, and character needed to sustain our current momentum and lift Moravian to a new level of institutional excellence and distinction.

From 1996 to 2000, Dr. Thomforde served as president of Bethany, College, Lindsborg, Kansas. During the previous decade, he served as chaplain of Susquehanna University; Susquehanna awarded him an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree in 2001. From 1978 to 1986, Dr. Thomforde was pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Dansville, New York, where he did extensive work at nearby Attica prison. He served as an instructor in philosophy and religion and assistant chaplain at Colgate University from 1974 to 1978. Dr. Thomforde taught Medieval European History and Western Languages at Tunghai University in Taiwan from 1969 to 1971.

Dr. Thomforde earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in 1969, a Master of Divinity degree from Yale University in 1974, and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Princeton Theological Seminary in 2000.

Dr. Thomforde is married to Dr. Kathy Gardner Thomforde. Their children are Rebecca, 32; Sarah, 31; Jonathan, 28; Claire, 19; and James 17.

Please join me in congratulating and welcoming Dr. Thomforde and his family to Moravian!

Submitted by Priscilla Payne Hurd, Chair, Joint Board of Trustees

 

The Impact of Intentional Interim Ministry

A corporation may be only slightly impacted when its CEO leaves. New leadership is quickly reinstated and typically business resumes as usual. When a pastor leaves a church, the congregation is, broadly speaking, tremendously affected. Unlike a corporation, business in congregations does not resume as usual after a disruption in church leadership.

Typically we want this “interim time” to be just an inconvenient link connecting the congregation’s leadership under Pastor A to leadership under Pastor B. When the interim time is understood this way, a congregation’s Joint board’s goals are: 1) maintain the congregation as best it can; 2) initiate as little change as possible; and 3) complete the required congregational review forms quickly in order to get names of pastor candidates. The interim time is perhaps a congregation’s greatest short term opportunity to positively influence their future.

Our history in the Southern Province shows that time between called pastors normally ranges from eight to twelve months with ten months being the average length of time a congregation is between called pastors. With a trained intentional interim pastor, a congregation has the opportunity to use this time to capitalize on the pastor transition in a positive way. The research of congregation’s (both Moravian and non-Moravian) interim times suggests that there are many opportunities uniquely present between called pastors. These opportunities include 1) increased congregational vitality; 2) renewed sense of the congregation’s identity and mission; 3) a present understanding of and confidence in the congregation’s unique gifts as a community of God; 4) empowered laity; and 5) a clearer sense of commitment to partner with their next called pastor.

The Southern Province has one ordained pastor serving under call as an Intentional Interim pastor. Margaret K. Leinbach has been serving as an Intentional Interim pastor since February 2004 when she began her ministry at Fries Memorial. Presently she is serving at First Moravian Church in Greensboro, NC.

(submitted by Bob Hunter)

Great Sabbath Service of Music

Saturday, April 15, 7:00 p.m.
Home Moravian Church, Salem Square
Moravian Anthems, conducted by Dr. Richard Cook—everyone is invited to attend!

(sponsored by Salem Congregation)


From The Provincial Treasurer’s Office

Health Insurance – Bad News, Good News. We have now renewed our Provincial health insurance with Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina. As you would expect, our premiums have continued to increase. Unfortunately this is driven by very poor claims experience. From September 2004 to September 2005, our trailing twelve month claims costs have increased almost 30%! Not only have prescription drug usage and costs increased but we have also seen a significant increase in doctor and hospital costs. That’s the bad news. The good news is that our premiums have gone up only 6.7%. This “relatively minor” increase was accomplished in part by increasing the doctor visit and prescription drug copays. While this does cost our employees more money, we had anticipated this and encouraged everyone to consider this when they were signing up for our 2006 Flex Plan. At least this way, these increased amounts can be paid by an employee with pretax dollars.

Sales Tax Refunds – How would you like to receive a discount on almost everything you buy at the store? Well, that is what Churches can get due to their non-profit status. I am sure that most churches already file for sales tax refunds (or have sales tax exemption certificates), but if you don’t, you are walking away from “free” money.

The rules are fairly straightforward as to what does or doesnot qualify. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to give Lois Crain (the resident expert) a call at (336) 722-7922, ext. 1003 or to call your State Department of Revenue or check last year’s Provincial Ties at http://mcsp.org/newsletters/ news_apr2005.htm#treasurer.

2005 Church Audits – Audits of all Churches are due in to the Treasurer’s Office by May 15, 2006. Instructions and forms went out via e-mail to all Church Treasurers and Trustee Chairs in late February. If no one at your Church seems to have gotten this information, please give us a call and we can e-mail it to you or send it via regular mail.

Provincial Financial Board
It is hard to believe that by the time you read this the current Provincial Financial Board will have had their last meeting. At the 2006 Synod, a new Board will be elected. I want to personally thank Gary Kniskern for his leadership as chairman. We have dealt with many difficult issues over the last four years. I want to also thank Libby Ayers, Paul Jacobs, Bob Sawyer, Wayne Shugart, Rick Sides and David Stanfield. Paul and David are running for re-election but so are eight other very qualified candidates. I am looking forward to “training” a new crop of recruits.

(Submitted by Ted Leinbach, Provincial Treasurer)

 

Sabbath Weekend

Post College / Young Adults
April 28-30, Laurel Ridge

Come enjoy light devotional activities, singing, good food, worship on Sunday morning, and plenty of time to relax, sleep, enjoy the mountain, see old friends and meet new ones! Special this year will be the Spiritual Spa on Saturday morning led by Joseph Ratledge, Wake Forest Divinity School student. For registration or information call or email Brad Bennett at 336-722-8126 or bbennett@mcsp.org. (Fee: $50 for weekend)

(submitted by Brad Bennett)

YAMs! Young Adult Moravians

The YAMS are single or married, post-college age and active. YAMS come together for support, prayer, fellowship, Bible study and fun. They meet every Monday night, 7:30 p.m. at Fries Memorial for Bible study. They meet once a month for potlucks at rotating churches, have an annual retreat at Laurel Ridge, and do various mission projects and special get-togethers. For more information or to join their e-mail list, contact:

Whitney Lamb - 336-922-0846 -
lambgrl24@netscape.net

Virginia Pope - 336-969-0990 - vleighpope@hotmail.com

Matt Davis - salmo15@earthlink.net

Tiffany Walton - 336-240-8931 - SeVeNtYSiX7676@aol.com

(submitted by Brad Bennett)

Mission Awareness Dinner

Moravian Mission News
from Around the World

Africa, Czech Republic, The Gulf Coast

May 7, 2006 - 5:30 p.m.
Friedberg Moravian Church

Special Features: Praise Music by Clemmons Moravian, Slides and Music from Honduras, Board of World Mission Report, Mission Group Displays

Paid dinner reservations due April 17 - $10.00 - Mission Society, 500 South Church St, Winston-Salem, NC 27101

(submitted by Sheila Beaman)


Address Book

Judith Justice
11775 SW 138 Ave, Miami, FL 33186
305-388-5882 (h)
nhmiami@yahoo.com

First Moravian (NC): office@greensboromoravian.org

George Chiddie: gchiddie@triad.rr.com

 

Mission Shop becomes World Villages

The Mission Shop on Reynolda Road closed on March 18. It will reopen as World Villages at 37 Miller Street (next to Whole Foods) in the near future. Watch for the Grand Opening!

Gifts...with a mission in mind


Moravian Church in America, South
Provincial Elders’ Conference
459 South Church Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27101

Address Correction Requested

 

For Your Calendar: April

Educators 12:30-1:30 @ Resource Ctr Apr 6
Easter Band Practice Apr 9
Star Mountain 25th Anniversary Apr 11
Holiday Apr 14
Southern Province Synod Apr 19-23
Lunchtime Lectures-The Salem Town Clock, 12:15pm, Richard Starbuck Apr 20
Salem College Founders Day, 4:15pm Apr 21
Prayer Day-Bd of Evangelism&Home Missions. Apr 30
Moravian Ministry Association-10:30am-Trinity.. May 4
Educators 12:30-1:30 @ Resource Ctr May 4
St. Philips Anniversary Celebration-4pm May 7
Mission Awareness Dinner, Friedberg, 5:30.. May 7


Deadline for the May Issue of Provincial Ties is April 27

 

 

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