Click here as well to view the Calendar

This is a feature for Preschool Parents that allows you to view events taking place on a month to month basis. We hope you will find this feature helpful in your planning for the upcoming year.

Have you ever considered what you would put in the offering..if it wasn’t money? Read this month’s Parish paper to find out what some people decided to do.

A view from the old deck at Higgins Lodge. Did you know that Laurel Ridge now rents rooms to individuals? Meals are included in the price, and it make a nice affordable family get away. Click on the picture for a larger view. Follow this link to check availability.

Contributions Calculator

If you are curious to learn what percentage of your income you are giving to the church or other charities, the link above is a very helpful tool in helping you calculate this figure.

Get involved in our Worship + 2 Ministry!

We appreciate so much your faithful worship attendance at New Philadelphia Moravian Church! We are praying that as a member you will consider doing the following things:

• Find a place in our church where you are growing spiritually, through Sunday school, small group ministries and other fellowship groups.
• Find a place in our church or in the community where you are being empowered to serve others in some way.

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Please prayerfully consider how you can support the ministry of New Philadelphia Moravian Church in the year ahead.

Our Stewardship Theme for 2008 and 2009 is the following:

Forward in Faith, Share the Joy!

How can we measure whether we give enough?

Parish Publishing has a monthly newsletter on the subject of Stewardship and offers these characteristics concerning how we can answer that question. They are:

• Our life is peaceful.
• Our children become generous too.
• We are sensitive to others’ needs.
• We begin to trust in God.
• We see our problems in a new light.
• We feel the Lord present with us.

When I was on Sabbatical, I spent many hours reading books and essays by skeptics, doubters, and militant atheists. I read them so that I could stand before you in the integrity and sincerity of my convictions to advocate the Way of faith. In my reading, I hit upon a two-fold truth. On the one hand, most agnostics and atheists have abandoned faith in God precisely because they cannot reconcile the idea of a loving God with all the pain and suffering in our world, a wold that lives under a sentence of death. On the other hand, when they begin their attack on God, they always begin by attacking the god of the philosophers and deists, in that they usually begin by attacking the philosophical proofs for the existence of God.

I found this interesting because we Moravians have never bothered to defend the god of the philosophers and deists. Rather, we proclaim the God the New Testament calls, “The God and Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ.” Consider if you will the 2nd of the Eight Essentials. It does not proclaim “the love of God” for the world. It proclaims “the love of God the Father for the world.” The mere mention of “God the Father” reminds us of “God the Son.”
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