Work of the Southern Moravian Women

These are just a few of the photos that were taken this weekend. I would be happy to add any that you send me. Remember you can click on any of the photos and view them larger. A sweet welcome from the terrific staff at Laurel Ridge Camp and Conference Center . The view from the deck as we arrived on Friday after noon. The gift bags are waiting... Creativity- a gift for the soul. Rev. Nola Knouse challenged us to see Jesus when we look in the mirror . "He knows us and he still loves us". All the participants on Saturday morning. PWB member's being introduced, a good time was had by all. S'mores by the fire on Friday night, a must when you are at camp! A tasty breakfast on Saturday morning to get us ready for a day of spiritual renewal and lots of great times. President of the PWB, Tamra Thomas and The Rev. Dr. Nola Knouse, our facilitator for the weekend retreat.

Descriptions of Study Books 2013-14 Moravian Heritage and Our Life Today by Nola Reed Knouse will be our Bible Study Book . The background for this study guide arose over ten years ago in conversations with people asking that age-old question, “What’s Moravian?” Not “What’s a Moravian,” so much as “What kinds of things make up this thing called Moravian?” In study and reflection, the Rev. Dr. C. Daniel Crews, Archivist of the Moravian Church, Southern Province, and I identified six aspects of Moravian life and faith that we identified almost as ideals – things that, while they couldn’t be quantified or sometimes even clearly defined, were something like second nature to many Moravians; ways of thinking that keep surfacing in our studies of Moravian history and theology; attitudes and values that we don’t seem to need to justify to ourselves. We put these together into a lecture first presented at the Bethlehem Conference on Moravian Music in October of 2000, “Nothing If N...