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February 2017

What Will We Be Together?

Have you ever wondered how it feels to be called as pastor of Home Moravian Church? I did—until the day David Guthrie gave me the news that the Joint Board had issued that call to me. Let me share some of the things I’ve been feeling since that day.

First: I’m grateful. Deeply, deeply grateful to the Joint Board for their decision, and for the trust and hopefulness it implies. Grateful to the whole congregation for the warmth of your affirmation and the confidence you have expressed, of which I pray to be worthy. Grateful for the many personal expressions of support and love. And grateful to God, not just for this call but for the many ways God has guided my life toward this exciting time, from my childhood at Home Church, to a love of words that has helped me as a student of the Word, to the summers at Laurel Ridge that opened my ears and heart to a call to ministry as a second career. I am grateful! 1

Second: I’m scared! This is a very big job, and in spite of the four years I’ve been at Home Church in a pastoral role, this is a very new job. It’s a different call with different responsibilities, some of which require me to build skills that are new. Knowing that I have your affirmation and confidence is helpful but also part of the scariness: What if I let you down? It helps me to remember what Rick Sides often said: Whom God calls, God also equips. I have faith that this is so. Still, I have to admit: I’m scared!

Third: I’m joyful. How could I be otherwise? In my four years as associate pastor, I have been filled with joy, thanks to you. We have laughed together so many times; and when we have wept together—also many times— there has been joy in our connection through Christ, which upholds us in grief and loss. There is also deep, abiding joy in doing the work of Christ as Home Church has always done: quietly, but effectively, with deep generosity of time, treasure, and spirit. It is a joy to be part of this giving, living community with all of its history and all of its commitment to the future.

Finally: I’m curious! I’m curious about what will happen as we enter this new chapter in our history. With each new pastor, relationships in the congregation change in some way, creating a new body and unleashing new potential. Who will we be? What will we do in Christ’s name? What will we be together?

If you’re feeling what I’m feeling, I know at least four answers to that last question. We’ll be grateful. We’ll (sometimes) be scared. We’ll be joyful. And I hope we’ll be curious, always open to discerning and exploring what God has in store for us. Curiosity gets me out of bed every morning. Let’s be curious—gratefully, a little fearfully, but always joyfully curious—together, and see what happens next!

—Ginny

Ash Wednesday, March 1, 2017

HOME MORAVIAN CHURCH Sister Fran Saylor 10:00 AM Coffee Hour

10:45 Music

11:00 AM Worship, Nursery Provided

2017 Days of Prayer Sunday, March 5 - Christ Moravian Church, The Rev. Kelly Moore, 2:00 pm Lovefeast, nursery provided Wednesday, March 8 - Trinity Moravian Church, Dr. Debbie Norris Lanier, 11:00 am Worship & lunch Wednesday, March 15 - Ardmore Moravian Church, Dr. Robert Shackleford, 9:45 am Coffee Hour, 10:45 am Music, 11:00 am Worship, nursery provided Wednesday March 22 - Calvary Moravian Church, The Rev. Dr. Nola Knouse, 9:45-10:45 Coffee Hour, 11:00 Worship, nursery provided Wednesday, March 29 - Fairview Moravian Church, The Rev. David Marcus,10:30 am Band Prelude, 11:00 am Worship with Communion, nursery provided Wednesday, April 5 - Konnoak Hills Moravian, The Rt. Rev. Graham Rights, 11:00 am Lovefeast

Elders Report The Board of Elders met on Monday, January 3, 2017. Sister Nola Knouse led devotions, and the minutes of the December 5, 2016, meeting were approved. On behalf of the Finance Committee, Sister Kathy Barnes presented the budget approved by the trustees. The elders affirmed the work of the committee and the trustees. Committee reports showed a busy and fruitful time at Home Church. Sister Margaret Norris’s report on 2 Christian Education spoke of the incremental and sustainable growth that has come from building relationships in our education programs. The Mission Committee has seen much recent activity, from the mission lovefeast set for January 15, to Tommy Cole’s upcoming trip to Cuba to assess mission possibilities, to Sarah Jennings’ and Fran Huetter’s exciting plan to spend six weeks in Nepal this spring. The attendance report showed attendance holding steady (average 269/week) and excellent attendance at our Christmas lovefeasts (3,462 for the five services, an increase of more than 100 over last year). Rev. Tobiassen outlined the call process for an associate, which will begin with a joint board meeting to develop the position description. The board will set a date for that meeting in the near future. The Board took the following actions: • elected 2017 officers: Scott Rhodes, vice-chair, and Susie Gatland, Secretary. • approved a request by an associate member to return to regular status • a request by a former member to be received again, • and a request from a member to transfer to another congregation • discussed the need to elect two lay members to attend an Intersynodal Conference in February and made a plan for voting • set a tentative date of February 25 for the Joint Board retreat • approved the following building uses: rehearsals for a barbershop group including two members (Fellowship Hall); celebration for a retiring member of the Salem Academy staff (FH); and a “Salem Century Ball” by a group including one member (FH) • agreed to receive, from member Bert Bahnson, a portrait of Emma Fries Bahnson to hang in the Club Room. After a review of correspondence, the meeting closed with intercessory prayer for the congregation.

—Ginny

Trustee Report

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Mark Your Calendar:

For children through 5th grade and their families Sunday, April 2, 12:15 pm-2:00 pm (includes lunch) Sponsored by the Youth Fellowship

Wednesday Night Fellowship Lecture Series February-May 2017

Feb 1-Feb 8 Nola Knouse and Barbara Strauss: Our Liturgical Heritage Explore liturgies in the Moravian Book of Worship over four sessions. We will explore historic links of General Liturgy I, seasonal and topical liturgies, biblical sources in the liturgies, special liturgies, services for Holy Communion and the Psalms and canticles.

Feb 15 Arthur Spaugh: Home Moravian’s beginnings Venture (virtually via film) through Salem to learn about Salem Moravians’ first places of worship. Then, also via film, explore Home Moravian’s nooks and crannies as we learn about our building’s history. This film session will be followed by an inside walking tour for any interested participants. 4

Feb 22 Paul Myers et al: Home Moravian’s Clock Before his retirement from Home Moravian’s maintenance team, Paul Myers was filmed by Mark Wright demonstrating Home Church’s clock. It has since been worked on by David Graf. Hear about this historically significant piece of Home Moravian’s architecture.

Mar 1-Apr 5: Lenten Communions Apr 12 Holy Week Service Apr 19, May 3, and May 10: Moravians in Salem Apr 26 Children’s Choirs Play

Meals for WNF February 1 - Potluck, fried chicken provided February 8 - Jerusalm Sampler - Hummus with pita wedges; Fattoush (chopped Arabic salad); roasted chicken with fennel and clementines; basmati and wild rice with chickpeas, currants, and herbs; and duvshanyot (spice cookies) for dessert. February 15 - Stuffed (large) shells with homemade sauce, mixed greens salad, homemade bread, and strawberry pretzel jello dessert February 22 - Taco Night - choice of shredded chicken, ground beef, or mixed veggies with taco fixings - soft and crunchy tacos - sopapillas for dessert

American Red Cross: Our community is fortunate to have very loyal donors from Home Church who give blood and platelets (P) throughout the year. We thank the following for their time and generosity in 2016: Beth Baldwin (P), Sandy Baldwin, Ted Bowen, Cathy Guidetti (P), Karl Kapp, John Mickey (P), Bob Miller,

Suzanne Miller, Paul Morse, Gordon Nifong, Laura Piner, Trish Putnam, Keith Robinette and Susan Spence. Join them in donating life-giving blood at the Red Cross on Coliseum Drive. Call 336-403-1770 or go to www.redcrossblood.org. Please sign the church donor book in the canteen.

Important World Mission News There are some very, very exciting things being planned.

Br. Tommy Cole will be going to Cuba in February for ten days. He will be seeking ways that our congregation can support and assist work happening in Cuba. A Mission Trip to Cuba is being planned for October.

Sunday, February 19 - Please plan to stay after church for the famous Charlie Clabern Chili and Tomato Basil Soup Luncheon. The luncheon will be at 12 o’clock noon in Fellowship Hall. We ask you to bring a dessert to share. Proceeds from the luncheon will go toward a Mission Trip to Nepal by our two members, Fran Huetter and Sarah Jennings. These sisters will be leaving on March 1 and retuning on April 17. They will be teaching English in the Moravian School.

Saturday, April 23 will be our third Shredding Event. Please save all important documents for shredding. Start TODAY!!!! Proceeds from this event will go toward the Cuban Mission Trip planned for October.

As you can see we have lots of excitement to share. Please come join us on our committee or our activities. Mallie Graham, head of World Mission Ministry Team

Senior Friends will meet with our RCC partners at Messiah Moravian Church on Monday, February 13th, at 11:30 am, for a potluck luncheon and a presentation by Dr. Don Frey titled "Moravian Understandings 5 of Nature--God's Creation." Don has taught Economics at Wake Forest University for more than 35 years, publishing two books. As a member of Home Moravian Church he has headed the Earth Stewards Team since its inception.

Don will share about how the early Moravians cared for the environment in Wachovia and Salem, and how Christians of today think about environmental concerns.

Messiah Moravian Church is at 1401 North Peacehaven Road, about a half mile southwest from Robinhood Road.

Inquirers’ Classes to Begin The spring series of Inquirers’ Classes for those who are interested in joining Home Church, or learning more about the church, will be held from February 5 through February 26. The classes cover Moravian history, theology and governance, and Home Church and its ministries. New members will be received in worship on Sunday, March 5.

Compromising to Eat What Is Good for Our Planet Even when food is abundant, diet remains of great interest to people—especially for reasons of health and fitness. Recently, environmental concerns and animal-welfare concerns have emerged as new reasons to watch what we eat.

As widely practiced, agriculture is hard on our planet’s natural systems. Increasing land in agriculture causes deforestation and diverts or pollutes earth’s scarce fresh water supplies. Livestock production, especially, emits massive amounts of climate- changing greenhouse gases. Agriculture, when livestock production is included, produces about 30% of world-wide greenhouse gas emissions according to a Scientific American article (Feb. 2009, p. 75.)

Livestock production also raises troubling ethical concerns about the treatment of animals. With some exceptions, livestock are subjected to severe overcrowding and unnatural diets at feedlots, which leads to related ailments, behaviors, and possible mental anguish. Philosophers now debate what kinds of rights to better treatment animals might have. And there are good biblical grounds to believe that animals have rights to decent treatment (for example, see Deuteronomy 25:4, and New Testament references to that text). In short, what we eat may encourage agricultural practices that should give us indigestion.

There may be a low-tech solution. If many people took up vegetarianism, then environmental and animal-rights issues would be alleviated. Crowded feed-lots for cattle, and crowded poultry operations, would be reduced. A direct consequence of less livestock production would be reduced emissions of climate-changing gases and reduced use of valuable land to produce prodigious amounts of food for animals.

At this point, the discussion gets personal. Though the case for vegetarianism looks compelling, I suspect that a lot of people may be like me: long-ingrained carnivorous habits are difficult to drop. And meats add something tasty to a meal that vegetables (even vegetables that as a gardener I’ve grown myself) can’t completely 6 compensate for. And there are other rationalizations—such as the extra bother needed to balance an all-plant diet so as to get enough protein.

So, where does that leave people like me? Surely some responsibility falls upon us to address the environmental and ethical problems created by what we eat. We need to do our share to improve this. But it doesn’t seem likely that many of us will become vegetarians in the near future. Is the only option to continue eating meat as we always have, but with a bad conscience?

The answer may be in incremental change—half-way measures, if you will. Half-way measures have a bad reputation. But consider the other side. Incremental changes made by lots of people can make a substantial difference. Presumably, two people dropping half their meat consumption would do roughly as much good as one person eating no meat at all. Further, two people may be more likely to take a half-step than one person would be likely to go whole-hog (so to speak) and convert to complete vegetarianism.

Half-way measures like this may even have good surprises hidden in the numbers. Because some meats produce far more greenhouse emissions than do others, it is possible to cut greenhouse emissions by half, or more, while still eating as much meat by weight. For example, a given weight of pork produces only about one-fourth the greenhouse emissions as the same weight of beef. Poultry and fish produce even more dramatic reductions. If one’s diet cuts back on the amounts of meat eaten, as well as the types of meats, the reduction of greenhouse emissions would be magnified further.

Is this perfect? Hardly. Vegetarians still are more environmentally friendly. And while cutting down on meats, and substituting meats, helps with greenhouse emissions and other kinds of pollution, some ethical problems are qualitative. Remaining feedlots would persist in crowding of animals in conditions that are difficult to justify morally.

While there may be some fixes for this, such as purchasing only pasture-raised meats, it is clear that half- measures are not perfect. However, they are a starting point from which better may emerge. The apostle Paul pointed out how starting with one virtue could lead to another and then to another.

Donald Frey for HMC Earth Stewards, Feb. 2017

Source used: Nathan Fiala, “The Greenhouse Hamburger,” Scientific American, Feb. 2009. Michal Webber, “More Food, Less Energy,” Scientific American, January 2012.

This is the second blog concerning food provided by the Earth Stewards in 2017. The first entry was published on the website and Facebook in early January. The first blog was entitled “Genetically Engineered Foods and Earth Stewardship.” The Earth Stewards blog will focus on food in 2017.

Personals

Best Wishes to: Abby Frye and Christopher Rike, who were married on December 3. Hospitalized Recently: Leigh Beavers, Deborah Cates, Teresa Cude, Lloyd Disher, Ann Fishel, Manford Haxton, Phil Johnson, Scott Johnson, Paul Morse, Katherine Petree, Barbara Rominger, Melissa Rosebrock, Kathy Scarborough, Gwynneth Winters Sympathy To: ... Betty Hunter on the loss of her brother, Philip Howe, who died on December 7 in Jasper, Alabama. ...The family of Jane McDaniel Shouse, who died on December 17. ...The family of Betty Lou Douglas Minnis, who died on December 19. ...Rebecca Harris on the loss of her father, Julian Harris, who died on December 22 in Asheville. 7 ...Paul Puryear on the loss of his father, Dr. Elmer L. Puryear, who died on December 30 in Greensboro. ...Bill Witherow, whose mother, Jane Gray Witherow, died on January 11. ...Earl Guill on the loss of his mother, Jane Minetree Guill, on January 12. ...Hastings Hill Yates on the loss of her husband, Thomas Yates, on January 20.

REMINDER: The policy for inclement weather at Home Church is if the Winston-Salem Forsyth County School system closes schools then ALL activities are cancelled at Home Church.

Save the Dates! HMC at Samaritan Inn Saturdays, April 29, May 13, and May 20.

2017 Daily Textbooks may be purchased in the church office during office hours. Paperback - $9 Large print - $11

HMC Choir and Men’s Chorus Schedule for February 2017.

The HMC Choir will rehearse from 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM, Thursdays, February 2, 9, 16 and 23 in RB-5. The Men’s Chorus will rehearse from 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM Thursday, Feb 9 and 23 in RB-5

February 5 - Blessed are the Pure of Heart, Choir February 12 - Live in Harmony, One With Another, Choir February 19 - Teach Me, O Lord, Choir February 26 - Praise Thou The Lord, Men’s Chorus

Upcoming opportunities for the Band: Sunday, February 5, 9:30 a.m.: “First Sunday” prelude. Tunes selected by the leader.

Looking ahead: Sunday, March 5, 9:30 a.m.: First Sunday in Lent prelude Sunday, March 26, 2:15 p.m.: Easter Band Rehearsal. Home Church Sanctuary

Find the Home Church Band on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/HomeMoravianChurchBand). If you would like to be added to the email notification list please contact Art Sorensen ([email protected]).

Gregor BellChor Rehearsals will resume in February, after the month of January off. The BellChor rehearses at 5:30 pm on Thursdays (February 2, 9, 16, 23) in the bell room (next to men's choir robing room).

Please contact [email protected] to inquire about joining the group.

8 2017 Moravian Southern Province Inter-Synodal Conference Public Worship & Presentation February 17, 2017 at 7:00pm New Philadelphia Moravian Church

We invite all Southern Province Moravians to join us on Friday, February 17 at 7:00 pm in the sanctuary of New Philadelphia Moravian Church (4440 Country Club Road). We’ll worship together and hear a presentation from the Rev. Dr. Craig Atwood, who will take us through a history of Moravian congregations and the implications of that history for our future. Brother Atwood is Professor of Moravian Theology and Ministry and Director of the Center for Moravian Studies at Moravian Theological Seminary in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Others will share about current, creative ministry efforts as well as not-yet-realized ideas about what the church can be.

Being the church in the twenty-first century calls us to new challenges and demands bold action. This Friday night program is one part of an Inter-Synodal Conference, Living the Essentials Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow. Appointed congregational and program representatives from across the Province will continue working that weekend to explore possibilities for a vibrant future, one that brings us closer to living as God calls us to live and opens the way for God’s spirit to renew us and give us new energy for ministry.

-Provincial Elders Conference, Moravian Church Southern Province

Women’s Fellowship I stopped making News Year’s resolutions after coming across a high school notebook that recorded my same New Years resolutions 17 years earlier—get more exercise, eat more fruits and vegetables, and go to bed earlier! Items of personal care that too many of us fall short on keeping.

What’s been more helpful is to take to heart these words from A Liturgy for Morning Prayer: “New every morning is your love, great God. And all day long you are working for good in the world. Stir up in us a desire to serve you…” Or as a wise friend would often pray: “God, what are you up to today, and how can I be a part of it?” By taking these words to heart, I get a daily chance to “repent” to return anew to God’s love and be a part of the larger workings of God’s love in the world around me. It helps me to notice and focus on the numerous blessings around me and what God invites me to be a part of, or to be thankful for in receiving.

No matter the time of year, it is never too late to begin again—to repent! Turning away from what is unhealthy for us and our world and towards the wholeness and health God longs for each of us to be a part of.

May this New Year be one where your life is the one changed as you reach out in love to other members of the Home Church family, and the community around us.

Margaret Leinbach-Home Circle Leader

News from the Unity Women's Desk - Since 1911, March 8 has been designated as “Women’s Day” in the . In the early 1970s, the United Nations declared the day “International Women’s Day” to be celebrated worldwide. It is a day to recognize the significant contributions women have made to our world.

On March 8, 2017, there will be an International Women’s Day Celebration in Winston-Salem. The 9 celebration is being sponsored by and Academy, the Unity Women’s Desk, Home Moravian Church, and the Home Moravian Group #42 of the Women’s Fund. The celebration will start at 1:00 p.m. in the Salem College Student Center and continue throughout the day with workshops, displays of organizations that serve women in Forsyth County, a Holy Communion Service, and speakers. Brochures are available in the Rondthaler Building foyer. Registration is only $10.00 and includes dinner with table conversation about issues facing women today. Please join us as we seek to learn more about the concerns of women here at home and around the world. For more information, contact the Unity Women’s Desk at [email protected] or at 336-765-4559.

Save the date: March 12, 2017. The Unity Women’s Desk (UWD) is planning a very special celebration on Sunday afternoon, March 12, in the Fellowship Hall at Fairview Moravian Church from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. There will be interactive displays of the work of the UWD, food from around the world, and announcements about the future of the UWD. At 3:30 there will be a worship service in gratitude for all the Lord has done to help the women of the world-wide Moravian Church.

Brochures are available in the vestibule of the Rondthaler Building. For additional information, you may contact us at 459 South Church Street, (336-725-6413) or at [email protected].

Please join us for this very special event to learn more about the Unity Women’s Desk and how you can insure the future of this valuable work with our women around the world.

February Birthdays 1 Jesse Beasley Sarah Tucker Tommy Redmon Joseph Troop Jan Henderson 7 David Covington Kitty S. Rominger 23 Don Britt Jennifer Troop Lisa Crosswhite Jim Salzwedel Ryan Cook Alex Vogler Sallie Dupier 15 Julia Frye 24 Annie Fulk 2 David Cook Nancye Tothill Barbara Furbeck Joe Inabinet Don Ingram Ryker Wilson Reavis Lounsbury Christopher Nagy Robert Pfohl 8 Linda Anderson Audrey Lynge 25 Jay Barrett Ellie Rhew Geraldine Köpe William Overton Lynnette Delbridge Ashley Sanders Frank Spence 16 Anne Herman William Rogers Don Stovall Erdmuth Venable Nikolai Vogler Montine Wilkinson 3 Matthew Beavers 9 Clement Caddell 17 Allyson Buie 26 Kaky Berry Suzette Brown Stephanie Inabinet Mona Cofer Colleen Ransom Dottie Cook Gabriel Maneen Charles Gibson Katherine Tschumper Bryson Parker Kelly Nykodym Bert Lain 27 Sarah Atwood Katherine Vance Louise Pulley Anne Lounsbury Martin Backstrom 4 Frank Frye, Jr. Jackson Spivey Patrice Reaves Frieda Harris Karen Hanagan 10 Beverly Angell 18 Caroline Holtzman Jim Shaffner Jeanette Hurt Charles Ryan Greg McKnight Jonathan Walser Bailey Inabinet 11 Molly Bennett 19 Zara Phillips 28 Sarah Graham Jack Kubicki Tom Brown Spencer Pruden Ruth Mickey 5 Richard Davis Cindy Craig Grace Ross Caroline Pariz Ward Fisher Stephanie Crumpler 20 William Avery Ann Rose Linda Goslen 12 Melissa Hoffman Christopher Miller Amie Scott Jeanette Oakley Mikhaila Leinbach Linda Pettit CameronSoutherland Lee Tierney Michael Overton Laurie Shore Corinne Wilkinson Robert Wilkinson 13 Brenda Dalton Don Swan 29 Page Dancy 6 Lynn Black Tommie Deviney 21 Elizabeth Gaylord 10 Rachel Fletcher Laura Hayworth Madeline McAdams Martha Gravely Sarah L. Hunter Hollis Mickey Roy Honaker 14 Marilyn Devnich Marianne Triplette Meredeth McPherson Adrienne Livengood 22 Jack Frazier Shirley Miller Elizabeth Mulloy Kitty Johnson Nancy Starbuck Terrie Preslar Michael Masten Lisa Tuttle

February Events 4:45 pm Children’s Choir rehearsal 1 4:45 pm Children’s Choir rehearsal 5:45 pm WNF supper, FH 5:45 pm WNF supper, FH 6:30 pm WNF Program, CE 101 6:30 pm WNF Program, CE 101 10 9:00 am Circle 6, P rd 7:30 pm WF Board meeting, P 11 9:00 am Confirmation Retreat, 3 flr nd 2 12:15 pm MOC lunch group, CR 12 10:00 am Worship (2 Sunday Ushers) 5 10:00 am Worship (1st Sunday Ushers) 11:00 am Coffee Fellowship 11:00 am Coffee Fellowship 11:15 am Inquirers’ Class, P 11:15 am Inquirers’ Class, S 11:15 am Sunday School 11:15 am Sunday School 12:15 pm Youth Fellowship 12:15 pm Youth Fellowship 13 12:00 pm Circle 7, CR 6 7:00 pm Elders meeting, CR 5:00 pm Circle 3, P 7 7:00 am MOC breakfast group, CR 6:30 pm Circle 5, BH 10:00 am Bible Study, CR 7:00 pm Trustees meeting, CR 1:00 pm MOC 3, CR 14 12:15 pm MOC lunch group, CR 5:30 pm Christian Education, RB 225 15 4:45 pm Children’s Choir rehearsal 8 2:00 pm Prayer Shawl Ministry, P 5:45 pm WNF supper, FH

6:30 pm WNF Program, CE 101 10:00 am Bible Study, CR 7:30 pm World Mission mtg., P 1:00 pm MOC 3, CR 16 11:30 am Sr. Friends, 22 2:00 pm Prayer Shawl Ministry, P Messiah Moravian Church 4:45 pm Children’s Choir rehearsal 12:15 pm MOC lunch group, CR 5:45 pm WNF supper, FH 19 10:00 am Worship (3rd Sunday Ushers) 6:30 pm WNF Program, CE 101 11:00 am Coffee Fellowship 23 12:00 pm Earth Stewards Ministry, CR 11:15 am Inquirers’ Class, P 2:00 pm Book Club, CR 11:15 am Sunday School 26 10:00 am Worship (4th Sunday Ushers) 12:00 pm World Mission Chili, FH 11:00 am Coffee Fellowship 3:00 pm Music@Home Concert, S 11:15 am Inquirers’ Class, P 20 8:30 am Church Office closed, 11:15 am Sunday School Presidents’ Day holiday 12:15 pm Youth Fellowship 21 7:00 am MOC breakfast group, CR 27 5:15 pm Finance Co. mtg, RB 225

Provincial News

Bold Like Jesus : Cross+ing Borders Conference - You are invited! February 2-4, leaders and members from the Lutheran, Episcopal, AME Zion churches and our Province gather for the 3rd annual “Bold Like Jesus” Conference, at Trinity AME Zion Church, Greensboro, NC. Our own Sam Gray will be one of the keynote speakers. The theme focuses on: Breaking down barriers, building bridges, and blessing the world. Cost: $65. You may register at www.BoldLikeJesus.WordPress.com. 11

Hidden treasures from the vault - What goodies can Director Nola Reed Knouse discover tucked away in the Moravian Music Foundation collection? Find out with “Even MORE Fun Finds in the Vault,” the “Lunchtime Lecture” of the Moravian Music Foundation and Moravian Archives at 12:15-12:45 p.m. Thursday, February 9, at the Archie K. Davis Center (the “Archives building”) in . The lecture is free and open to all, and you are invited to bring your lunch (it isn’t provided). Parking is free in the Salem College Fine Arts Center parking lot off Salem Avenue.

For a joyful affirmation of God’s Love: The Love That Never Falters, you are cordially invited to a a benefit concert presented by the choir of Advent Moravian Church, on Sunday, February 26, at 3:00 p.m. at the church, 1514 West Clemmonsville Road. The choir will sing a variety of their favorite anthems, including Moravian favorites, two anthems written by living Moravian composers, spirituals and jubilant songs of faith and assurance. The choir will be directed by Advent choir director Anne Griffin and accompanied by organist Donald L. Armitage and flutist Nola Reed Knouse. A band prelude, conducted by G. Van Krause, will begin at 2:30 p.m. and a reception will follow. Admission is free and an offering will be received, designated for a scholarship for a student to attend the 25th Moravian Music Festival this July.

“Moravian Mania” question: In most Moravian churches which hold a Watchnight Service on New Year’s Eve, what hymn would you expect the band to play on the stroke of midnight? Answer: At the stroke of midnight the band will play “Now Thank We All Our God.”

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