2017 Watch Word for the PWB

2017 Watch Word
On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” John 7: 37-38 NRSV

Thursday, February 22, 2024

2024 Spiritual Life Retreat

 

Following Jesus' Loving Lead to be Set In Motion by God


 

Friday, April 19, 2024 – Sunday, April 21, 2023

Retreat Facilitator: Rev. Christy Clore

 

Laurel Ridge Camp and Conference Center

Higgins Lodge

 

For further information please contact:

The Provincial Women’s Board

 

336.722-4911 or pwbmcsp@gmail.com

Thursday, February 8, 2024

Day of Prayer Services

 


DAY OF PRAYER SERVICES FOR 2024

 

February 14, 11:00am. Home Moravian, Ash Wednesday, Speaker: The Rev. Nancy Johnson Vaders, Director of Outreach for St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem. Coffee Fellowship at 10am. The service will be available in person and live streamed on the Home Church Web page.  Click on Live broadcasts to access the service. https://www.homemoravian.org/index.php/live-broadcasts/

 

February 18, 2:00 P.M., Lovefeast, Christ Moravian, Speaker: The Rt. Rev. Dr. Lane Sapp. Lovefeast. Nursery provided.

 

February 21, 11:00 A.M. Trinity Moravian, Speaker: The Rev. Dana Myers. Lunch will be served after the service.

 

February 28, 11:00 A.M. Ardmore Moravian, Speaker: The Rev. Kelly Moore.  Refreshments will be served at 10:00 A.M.  The service will be in person and online: www.FACEBOOK.com/ArdmoreMoravian/videos 

 

March 6, 11:00 A.M. Bethania Moravian, Speaker: The Rev. Russ May. Coffee served at 10:00 A.M. This service will be in person only.

 


Church Women United plans to have the World Day of Prayer on Friday, March 1st at 11:30 a.m.  It will be held at Unity Moravian Church, 8300 Concord Church Rd., Lewisville, 27023.



March 13, 11:00 A.M. Fairview Moravian, Speaker: The Rt. Rev. Tom Shelton.  The service will be in person and include communion. The service will be available on YouTube and Facebook.

 

March 20, 11:00 A.M. Konnoak Hills Moravian, Speaker: Rev. Margaret Norris.  Lovefeast. The service will be in person and online: http://www.khmoravian.org/  Select “YouTube Channel” at the top of the page.

 

 

 

 

Published by The Provincial Women’s Board, Moravian Church of America Southern Province

 




Monday, November 13, 2023

Contact Update information

Dear Friends,

It is sad to say but we are nearing the end of the year. And as with any new year the PWB will once again be updating our contact list of Women's Fellowship presidents and officers.

Please help us in sending the following information (including name, phone number and email address): 
Church:
President/Contact Person:
Treasurer: 
Study Book Contact:
Prison Cake Ministry Contact:
Day of Prayer Contact:
Date Effective: 

​You are welcome to email to us or print it out and mail it to the address below, whichever is convenient for you!

Look for pledge forms in January and Book Order Forms in February of 2024!

459 S Church Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27101

Thursday, November 9, 2023

And the Quilt Winner is:


Mrs. Julia Horton of Friedland Moravian!
Julia's name was pulled from all the tickets on Oct 7 at the Fall Celebration at Hope Moravian Church!
Congratulations!
Thank you to all that purchased and sold tickets for the quilt. 

 

Thursday, September 7, 2023

Quilt Raffle

 Fundraiser for the Provincial Women’s Board


Every year New Hope Moravian’s Women’s Fellowship makes a beautiful quilt with cross stitched squares that are thematic of the Moravian traditions. Many of the women of the church participate in this project. The quilt is different each year, and it is raffled at the Candle Tea and Bazaar in December.

In 2006 the winner of the raffle happened to be the mother of Pat deBlois, the talented lady that organizes this project and puts the quilt together. Since Pat’s mother has passed away, she has graciously donated the quilt to the Provincial Women’s Board with the intention of raising money for the board.

This quilt looks new and is beautiful. If you want to see it in person, it is on display at Cedarhyrst. The board members will be selling tickets until The Fall Celebration. We will sell tickets at the event and draw the winning ticket before the end of the program. Each ticket is $2.00, and if you buy 10 tickets, you will get one free.

We would love to help you sell a few tickets for us. If you do not know a board member, you can get tickets at Cedarhyrst from Cindy (336-72-4911 or pwbmcsp@gmail.com). If Cindy is not there, Heather also has tickets.

If this is not convenient for you, leave a message for Cindy at the office and we will call you back and try and
get tickets to you.

Many thanks to Pat deBlois for the quilt and the Women’s Fellowship at New Hope for making it.

Pam Prevatte

Thursday, August 24, 2023

August Serving and Sharing Newsletter

 The Provincial Women’s Board presents:

Serving and Sharing Newsletter

August 2023

From Our President:

Dear Sisters,

As Fall approaches we are making preparations for the Fall Celebration which will take place on October 7 at Hope Moravian Church.  Please put this on your calendar, and you will be getting more information soon.  We will also be hosting our luncheon for the female pastors on November 13 at Christ Moravian Church.  Some of us will be traveling to West Virginia on September 30 for our annual meeting with the representatives from the Northern Province.

The Conference Committee is working hard to pull together the plans for the Women’s Conference to be held in June 2025.  We are grateful for these ladies who are volunteering their time to planning this event.

I want to take this opportunity to encourage each church and each Women’s Fellowship to please share with us what you are doing.  I love having the opportunity to go to different events at our Moravian churches.  You do not have to write a long article, but we would love to be able to publish more of what is going on at your church.  Especially, if you have events (fundraisers) happening, let us help you get the word out in advance of your activity.  Are you doing Bible studies that you might open up to others?  Are you having special speakers that might interest other Moravians?  Please send us an announcement so that this newsletter can be a way to invite others to your church.

I hope you all have had a great summer.  I cannot help but to look forward to fall and winter and the end of heat for a while.

 

Blessings to you all.

Pam Prevatte

PWB president

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fundraiser for the  Provincial Women’s Board

 

Every year New Hope Moravian’s Women’s Fellowship makes a beautiful quilt with cross stitched squares that are thematic of the Moravian traditions.  Many of the women of the church participate in this project.  The quilt is different each year, and it is raffled at the Candle Tea and Bazaar in December.

 

In 2006 the winner of the raffle happened to be the mother of Pat deBlois, the talented lady that organizes this project and puts the quilt together.  Since Pat’s mother has passed away, she has graciously donated the quilt to the Provincial Women’s Board with the intention of raising money for the board.

 

This quilt looks new and is beautiful.  If you want to see it in person, it is on display at Cedarhyrst.  The board members will be selling tickets until The Fall Celebration.  We will sell tickets at the event and draw the winning ticket before the end of the program.  Each ticket is $2.00, and if you buy 10 tickets, you will get one free.

 

We would love to help you sell a few tickets for us.  If you do not know a board member, you can get tickets at Cedarhyrst from Cindy (336-72-4911 or pwbmcsp@gmail.com).  If Cindy is not there, Heather also has tickets.  If this is not convenient for you, leave a message for Cindy at the office and we will call you back and try and get tickets to you.

 

Many thanks to Pat deBlois for the quilt and the Women’s Fellowship at New Hope for making it.

 

Pam Prevatte




 


 

Grace Moravian Church     Craft and Vendor Fair

1401 N. Main Street, Mount Airy        Fellowship Hall


Saturday, November 4, 2023

10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

 

Indoors and Outdoors

Featuring many different handmade crafts as well as direct sale vendors

(Moravian Art & Crafts, Crocheted items, Embroidery, Kitchen stuff with bling, Fabric crafts, and many more)


Hot Dogs lunches are available for purchase

Dessert choices are available for purchase

Sausage biscuits are available for purchase at 9 AM

Interested vendors, please contact the church office M – F between 9:00 AM and 1:30 PM for an application. Application deadline is October 23rd, 2023. Call 336-786-5627 or e-mail office@gracemoravianchurch.org.



Palm Beach Moravian Women’s Fellowship Report

To God be the glory! The women of the Palm Beach Moravian Women’s  Fellowship have planned and executed several activities that are noteworthy.  During our March meeting we planned our Father’s Day celebration. We then came up with the idea of a Sacrificial Offering during the Lenten season. We are pleased to report that both activities were very successful.

At our July meeting we were invited by the men of the congregation to participate in a church picnic, which we planned for, on August 9, 2023. This took place in a park in Royal Palm. At this event, we played games, served hamburgers, hotdogs, jerk chicken, corn, ice cream, fruits, drinks, and other delicious foods.

We also donated school supplies to the children. This was very satisfying, and we hope to make it an annual event.

Currently, the Palm Beach Moravian Women are planning to replace the windows in the Palm Beach Moravian Church. We are waiting for the estimate to move forward. We are confident that the same God who has led us to successes in previous ventures is willing and able to see us through with this one also. So, we continue to give Him praise, honor and glory.

 

Macedonia Moravian Women

In March 2022, the Women's Fellowship donated $2,000 to the church general budget to help pay for a water leak problem in our fellowship hall.
In the summer of 2022, Dorcas Circle led our women to support Ray of Hope mission and school located in Kenya. In September,  Dorcas Circle and Lola Douthit Circle met jointly to hear Michael Tesh's presentation and news concerning Ray of Hope and his family's work there.  We were happy to collect about $400 to support Ray of Hope, and glad that Michael's mother, Donna Tesh, was able to be with us. 
In October 2022, Dorcas Circle collected warm winter clothing items for City with Dwellings of Winston-Salem.  Eileen Dunn made two trips with her car filled with scarves, gloves, socks, hats, etc. 
 The November 2022 project consisted of joint efforts with the preschool families to provide food items and paper products for Our Daily Bread food pantry at Fork Episcopal Church of the Ascension.
In April of 2023, the Dorcas Circle assembled lunch bag donations for City with Dwellings.   Eileen Dunn delivered 20 lunch bags to Augsburg Lutheran Church, and coffee and sugar donations.
Ongoing support for Davie County Family Promise include collecting clothing, food, gas gift cards, and providing meals for homeless families.  In May 2023, we donated cleaning supplies, clothing, gift cards, over the counter medications, and diapers size 1-3 for Family Promise.
Current plans include making hygiene kits for City with Dwellings and making blankets for Cancer Services of Davidson County. 
The Women's Fellowship has a Holbert food chopper and several freezers for sale.  We are also planning to make soup to sell this fall as a fundraiser.
We support the ongoing work of our Prayers and Squares quilt ministry with prayers and donations.
Last, but not least, we support our church Meal Mission ministry. This ministry provides home cooked meals to shut-ins and sick in our church and community on two Thursdays each month.  Members of the church volunteer to cook and deliver meals. 

Macedonia celebrated its 167th Anniversary on May 24, 2023.  Of the forty-four Moravian churches in North Carolina, only nine are older than Macedonia.  Thanks to Salem churches for sending ministers across the Yadkin River many years ago!
Submitted by Sharon Boger
Contact:  Eileen Dunn

 

Friedberg Moravian Women’s Fellowship

The Circles continue during the summer providing meals, gift cards and visits to sick and shut-ins.

On August 17, 18 and 19 the 10th Annual Tag Sale was held in the Family Life Center. Items from the sale were donated to Sunnyside, Shepard’s Center and Habitat of Forsyth and Yadkin Counties. Distribution of the funds will be decided in October.

Circle 4 will be sponsoring the Fall Children’s Consignment Sale on September 21-23.

Folks are invited on September 23rd to another250th Anniversary Events from 1:00-3:00 including the Historical Room open to the visitors, a guide will be located in God’s Acre, a tour of the facility, photo slideshows in the Youth room and in the Fellowship Hall and our Art Gallery in the Youth Room. At 3:00 a Communion Service will start in the Fellowship Hall and for those wishing to walk to Adam and Maria Spach’s Rock House Site a Communion Service will start at the site at 4:00.



 

FAIRVIEW

Fairview has four active circles. Each circle has assigned shut-ins and service men that are remembered on their birthdays, holidays, and other special occasions with cards or gifts. Each circle and the Women’s Executive Board also remember four special young men during the year.

On the second Saturday of each month, we sponsor a Food Drive for the Pantry at Bethabara. Each month we have a have a special project for Community Outreach that we invite the congregation to join us. They have been:

May – a food drive for Sunnyside Ministries

June – Christmas in July for Senior Services

July – school supplies for Speas Elementary School which is in our neighborhood

August – Salem Pregnancy Care Center

FOOD seems to describe a lot of what we do at Fairview. In addition to making chicken pies, we have been busy in the kitchen cooking up other treats. On May 9th,  we had our first Soup and Salad Luncheon since before the pandemic. On June 4th, we served a catered meal for the Mission Awareness Dinner.

On June 17th, we were honored to recognize nine of our 90+ year old members and their guests with a birthday party and Holy Communion. On October 7th, we will serve dinner to guests from the Shepherd’s Center. We also offer a meal to bereaved families within our congregation.

On two mornings in July, we met to make candles for this year’s Christmas Lovefeasts. They are waiting to be trimmed in November. We are currently sponsoring the packing of 100 shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child.

Our big upcoming project for the fall is our Fairview Fare on November 11th from 8am until noon. It will feature vendors, homemade baked goods, a country store, an odds ‘n’ ends table, country ham and sausage biscuits for breakfast, hot dogs and pinto beans for lunch, AND Chicken pies and Moravian slaw. We still have space for vendors. If you are interested, contact the church office at (336) 768-5629.

Submitted by Melinda Yarbrough

Christ Moravian

Summer will soon be slipping away –with this will come many events. Fall Bazaars at many churches.  Our church will be no different.

Our ladies have been loyal as we continue to prepare chicken pies to sell all throughout the year, plus stocking up for our Fall Event.                          

Due to the generosity of our ladies, we have been able to keep our prices down as all items are donated. Price remains:   5” $5.00; 10” $10.00. 

The third quarterly general meeting of 2023 was held Sunday July 16 with lunch prior to the meeting.

Our Fall Event date has gone back to the last Saturday in October 28, 2023 8AM to 1 PM. with a big focus on our basement sale, bake sale, light breakfast food, chicken pies and spaghetti casseroles (frozen).

Unfortunately our special friends list of our members continues to increase. One of our primary concerns is that we never forget these people who were an active working part of our church until health denied them this.

Have marked our calendars for Sat., October 7, Fall Celebration at Hope Moravian Church.

Jo Brown, President 

 


New Philadelphia will be having its HOLIDAY TREASURES SALE ON Saturday, November 5th from 8-12.

CHICKEN PIES and BAKE SALE goods will also be available at that time.


 

From Rev. Jeff Carter at Forsyth Jail and Prison Ministry:

Annual Prayer Circle – Friday, September 15, 5:30pm
Construction around the jail has been completed which opens all streets surrounding the jail for prayer partners. Our annual prayer circle will be Friday, September 15th at 5:30pm, at 201 N. Church Street. The estimated number of adults and children needed to cover the four streets is 500 people. Please advertise at your church this community opportunity to pray for inmates and staff inside the jail. Contact brooke@forsythjpm.org with the number of people from your church who will be participating on this special Friday. This year, inmates at the jail will receive a copy of A Genesis to Revelation Guide to PrayerThose who would like to give toward the cost to providing this book for distribution to inmates can visit the ministry’s website, please visit the ministry’s website, https://forsythjpm.org/donate/.


For years, the Provincial Women’s’ Board has been a major contributor to providing cakes, cupcakes and cookies for the Thursday evening Yokefellows ministry at the Cherry Street Prison of which I supervise. If you are not familiar with this particular ministry, it is one of the largest weekly gatherings of offenders and volunteers besides our Sunday afternoon worship services at the prison. In a nutshell, it is a listening, sharing ministry for the men at Cherry Street in which we have approximately anywhere between 8 to 14volunteers along with about 70 men from the prison. Individual tables are set in place in the downstairs and upstairs portion of the chapel and a couple volunteers sit at each table. As the men enter the building they line up to receive their goodie, a cup of coffee or cold cup of water and sit at a table of their choosing. After everyone has been served, our theme song is played which alerts everyone we will now begin our time. There is a welcome, announcements and an icebreaker to get conversations going. Once conversations begin, you can hear the multitudes of voices talking and sharing; some laughter, some serious conversations about life. After about 35 minutes, I ask if anyone is leaving the prison camp, “legally” this week. There is always a chuckle and one, two, maybe three men will raise their hands. We set chairs out for them to sit in as volunteers pray over them. We finish with general prayer requests and a benediction. Your contribution to feed the men sweet snacks is one of the highlights of our Yokefellows Ministry and keeps them coming back each week. In nourishing their bodies with a goodie or two, you are nourishing their souls. I thank you for your weekly contributions and steadfast commitment to this ministry. You are impacting lives for Christ!

May God bless you. Chaplain R. Jeff Carter

[We don’t normally share thankyou notes that are sent to us, but the Women’s Fellowships of the Southern Province are the ones that make the Cake Ministry happen. Thank you to all who participate. The Provincial Women’s Board is only the communication and scheduling end of this. With that said, thank you Sister Linda Worley of Hope Moravian and Sister Faye Bricca of Bethania who do all the foot work for the PWB.]

 

From Ardmore:




 

Unity Women's Desk needs volunteers in the Winston-Salem area to help us assemble paper Moravian Stars for our October 14 celebration. We are meeting Thursdays from 2-5 pm at Home Moravian Church - 2nd floor in the Christian Education Building. You will find more details on the registration form here: https://forms.gle/zyz8PYwxgZb1CmYx9!

Please register so we know how many people to expect. We have space for about 8 volunteers at a time. If you can't access the registration form, email Sandra Dorr    sorie4e@gmail.com

We can schedule alternate times for small groups! Just let us know what works for you!

We assembled 12 last week - 130 to go!!!

Thank you Home Moravian Church for hosting our project!



 

South Branch Ukranian Supper

Advent Moravian, Community Fellowship, Hope Moravian, Hopewell Moravian and Konnoak Hills Moravian Churches want to thank all who shared our South Branch Conference Supper Supporting Ukraine on August 2nd. We were very pleased to forward to our Board of World Mission a $4,850 check to increase the Board’s outreach to the New Generation School in Kiev. 

 

     Following a band prelude, a very nice hotdog supper, and a time of singing, Bishop Chris Geisler from the Mission Board offered an overview of the Board’s work in various Moravian mission areas.  He then focused on the inspiring service teachers at the New Generation School are giving under the duress of war.  We were especially moved by letters Chris shared from the two teachers our donations will support.

      Brother Geisler came to us by way of Zoom, having tested positive for the Coronavirus earlier in the day.  The technology miraculously worked beautifully with no hiccups.  We are no less grateful for Chris traveling to Winston-Salem from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

    The evening ended with our collective prayer for the peace of Ukraine.  Thank you once again to all who planned, prepared, and participated in wonderful and inspiring evening.

Submitted by Martha Johnson\Konnoak Hills

 


 

Meet the Provincial Women’s Board Members

We plan to respond to questions that some of you have asked about the members of the Provincial Women’s Board (PWB), what they do on the Board and how they ended up here: First of all, any woman who is a member of the Moravian Church in the Southern Province is eligible to serve on the Provincial Women’s Board. Generally speaking, they serve a four-year term and may be re-elected for another four-year term

In their own words:

Diane Clifton

My husband, Don, and I have been members of Kernersville Moravian Church since 2015. We both grew up in the Methodist church.   We retired from the corporate world in 2014.  I joined the Provincial Women's Board in 2018 and served as the Financial Chair for several years now. I have really enjoyed being part of such a great group of ladies and have learned so much.  

I stay very busy at church, but in my spare time, I enjoy gardening, reading, quilting, watching British mysteries on TV and listening to eclectic music. We have granddogs and that takes up quite a bit of time. 

 

Vicki Stanfield

Vicki Stanfield has been a member of the PWB (Provincial Women’s Board) since 2016. She is a lifelong Moravian. She was baptized as an infant at Mizpah Moravian, grew up at Friedland Moravian, married into the Trinity congregation, and has been a member of Friedberg Moravian for the last 30 years.

Vicki is a product of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth Schools. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a degree in elementary education and a masters in library science.  She spent most of her career as an elementary school librarian. She served as a member of the NC Children’s Book Award Committee and was awarded School librarian of the Year for the state of North Carolina by the NC School Library Media Association.

After retirement Vicki became the book buyer for the Moravian book and gift shop in old Salem, and after that, was as a teaching assistant and storyteller for the preschool at Friedberg Moravian. She recently completed a stint with the Forsyth county schools working with a preschool literacy grant.

Vicki was appointed to the PWB in 2016. She has worked with the Prison Cake Ministry and served 2 terms as vice president coordinating the Days of Prayer during the pandemic.  She will complete her term on the board in April 2024. Serving on the board has been a blessing.