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Elizabeth Windsor Memorial Scholarship – New Philadelphia Moravian Church

The Elizabeth Windsor Memorial Scholarship was established in 1998 in memory of Elizabeth Windsor, a teenager at NPMC at the time of her tragic death. The Scholarship serves as a living memory of Elizabeth and as an opportunity to encourage and reward outstanding Christian character and Church participation. This document updates and supersedes all prior Joint Board action regarding the Scholarship.

The purpose of the Elizabeth Windsor Memorial Scholarship is to promote, encourage, and reward outstanding Christian character and participation. For high school students, there shall be a demonstration of active participation at NPMC. For post-secondary students, past participation at NPMC as well as current Christian participation in their local school community will be considered. Participation may be considered qualitatively, quantitatively, or both. Recipients of an Elizabeth Windsor Memorial Scholarship may attend any accredited post-high school educational institution consistent with the Internal Revenue Code and may choose any course of study. Each Scholarship is for a period of one year, and may not be renewed.

The Elizabeth Windsor Memorial Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors and students completing their first year at a post-secondary institution (i.e. college, community college, technical school) who are under age twenty-five (25). The applicant must have a quality point average of 2.5 or greater (or equivalent) during the immediate past two (2) years of high school and/or post-secondary education. No person who would be a “disqualified person” with respect to the Scholarship, as defined in the Internal Revenue Code, will be eligible to receive scholarship benefits.

Recipients of the Elizabeth Windsor Memorial Scholarship must be members in good standing of New Philadelphia Moravian Church. All scholarship recipients will be selected by the Elizabeth Windsor Memorial Scholarship Committee based upon the application forms, recommendations, interviews, and such other information and recommendations as the Scholarship Committee shall determine to
be necessary or appropriate.

The number and amount of scholarships awarded will vary from year to year based on the number of qualified applicants, and depending upon the proceeds available in and the income available from the Elizabeth Windsor Memorial Scholarship fund.

Individuals interested in applying for an Elizabeth Windsor Memorial Scholarship will be required to complete the application.

Applications and all completed paperwork may be submitted to the New Philadelphia Moravian Church office on or before May 29. The Scholarship Selection Committee will determine the recipients of the Scholarships prior to July 1 (or as soon thereafter as practicably possible). Any late or incomplete paperwork will not be considered.

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Dear Brothers and Sisters,

“So I will bless you as long as I live; I will lift up my hands and call on your name.” Psalm 63:4

 
Over the last few weeks, since we have had online only services, one of the things that I have missed the most is looking out across the sanctuary and seeing all of you with your hands raised during the final benediction. One of my favorite customs of our church family is when we lift our hands up at the end of worship as a way of raising up a prayer request for ourselves or another. And while I know that you are all continuing to do this as you worship at home, I miss seeing all of your hands raised as we join together in prayer and blessing.
 
In the middle of these unprecedented and uncertain times, we need each other’s prayers and blessings more than ever. Today I invite you to join me as we raise our hands for: 
 

~all who have lost their lives to COVID 19, 

~all who are at high risk of contracting the virus

~all who have lost loved ones to this disease

~all who have lost jobs

~all hospital workers, paramedics, firefighters and all who are working in essential industries.

~all teachers, students, and parents

~all who are separated from loved ones

~all who are in fear, trouble or anguish. 
~all who are alone and uncertain
~all who are struggling to find the good in these bad times
~all who are seeking faith, finding hope, sharing love
~all of our church family at New Philadelphia
 
May the Lord bless you and keep you; 
May his face shine upon you and be gracious unto you; May he lift his countenance upon you, and give you his peace. In the name of Jesus. Amen
 
Remember that you are not alone and you are loved.
 
Pastor Joe
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Join your church family tonight for a time of “virtual” fellowship! 
 
One of the things that we miss most during this time of “stay at home” orders and social distancing is being together as our church family. It is difficult to not be able to see each other and support one another as we face these new challenges in our daily lives.
 
To help us be together, we are going to have a time of weekly fellowship each Wednesday evening beginning at 7:00 p.m. 
 
We will meet via Zoom and you can join in by using this link:  
 
Meeting ID: 846 200 834
Password: 098786
 
Or you can call in at 1 (301) 715- 8592 US
 
I hope to “see” you all tonight!
 
Pastor Joe
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Dear Brothers and Sisters, 

 
     Today is Good Friday. But is it? Is it a “good” Friday? I’m not sure if it is or not. It is certainly unlike any Good Friday that I have experienced. For the 22 years that I have served as a pastor, I have always spent Good Friday with my church family, doing what families do when we grieve the loss of a loved one- come together to mourn, to weep, to pray. It is important to be together in our grief and loss. And that is what Good Friday is. It is when the followers of Jesus come together to grieve. Yet this year we can’t do that.
 
     We can’t be in the same place, we can’t be where we want to be, we can’t be with those we want to be with. We are missing the comfort that we receive from each other. We are feeling lost and alone at a time when we are at our most fragile and vulnerable. 
 
     I imagine that the followers of Jesus felt that same way on the day that they watched Jesus suffer and die on the cross. They couldn’t even properly say good-bye to him. They had to hastily place his body in a borrowed tomb. And then just go. That was it. It was finished. Nothing would ever be the same again. Jesus was gone and their lives, their world, had changed. 
 
     Our lives, our world has changed. Nothing is like it once was. During this most holy week of the Christian year, we can’t be together like we want to be. We are having a hard time finding the hope and the joy in the midst of our grief and loss. It’s hard to find the good on this Good Friday. It’s hard to see resurrection in the face of the death that is all around us. Yet there is hope.
 
    Over the last few weeks, the words of one of my favorite hymns have kept running through my mind: “In our end is our beginning; in our time, infinity; in our doubt there is believing; in our life, eternity. In our death, a resurrection; at the last, a victory, unrevealed until its season, something God alone can see.” (Natalie Sleeth)
 
   Perhaps we can’t see what God is doing during this dark time, but we can see what God did during the darkest time. And we know that He creates belief from our doubts, brings light into the darkness, overcomes death with resurrection. We know that the tomb was empty on the first Easter morning. And we know that no matter where we are, in church or at home, the tomb will be empty on this Easter morning, too. The Lord is risen again and the Lord is risen indeed! 
 
Pastor Joe
 
 
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Our New Philadelphia Moravian Church Facebook page is public.

When we live-stream our services, it is public…SO that means: if the live-stream is from a public page and is open to everyone, you can watch it without a Facebook profile (or without logging in).  

Type this in your web browser’s address bar: www.facebook.com/newphiladelphiamoravianchurch, click on Videos (to the left of the page) and you will be able to watch our services online.

 

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Per the latest CDC recommendations, church member Nancy Leonard has been making cloth facial masks for friends, family, and elderly neighbors.  Her original batch of 12 is gone and she is currently working on a request for more. 

“I started working on them in the morning and hope to have around 16 or 17 made by the end of the day. People have tried to pay me for them, but they are truly a labor of love for me and one small way that I can give back and do something to help during these uncertain times.  I am making mine from scrap/leftover material that I had in my craft room, so they are quite festive and come in an interesting variety of colors and patterns.  I will continue to make them as long as they are needed and as long as I have sufficient supplies to do it.”

Nancy would like to share her masks with our congregation; she’s making and donating masks for anyone who needs them.  You may contact Pastor Joe if you’d like to have one (joe@newphilly.org).

While Nancy claims she is NOT anything close to an expert seamstress, she has designed a method that is super easy … (you only need to be able to use an iron and sew a straight seam on a sewing machine).  If anyone wants to learn how to make masks, she can also teach you pretty quickly.

 

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