By Lydian Bernhardt The Unity Women’s Desk (UWD) is working hard to build a network of women around the Moravian world who can support each other, says Julie Tomberlin, coordinator of the Unity Women’s Desk ministry of the Moravian Church. “It’s important to our mission to empower enough women to make an impact,” she says.…
By Lydian Bernhardt Feed hungry children Sister Lorena Gray knew a need when she saw it. Feed hungry children A nurse who lives half the year in North Carolina, half the year in her native Honduras, Gray experienced many challenging situations growing up. She could tell that, with the advent of COVID, hurricanes, drug…
By Sylvie Hauser Board of World Mission Your gifts to the Moravian Health & Healing Field of Interest Fund last year were put to good use! A $2,700 grant to the Moravian Board of World Mission for medical treatments helped save lives at the Clínica Evangélica Morava in Honduras. Your gifts through the Moravian Ministries…
By Lydian Bernhardt Extraordinary bond As a child, Steve Ganss spent many happy hours with his father, Ed, at their church, New Dorp Moravian Church in Staten Island, N.Y. Ed Ganss was, in turn, a member of that church’s boards of elders and trustees, and keeping a close watch on the church’s buildings and grounds…
By Lydian Bernhardt Averitt Rev. Angelica Regalado-Cieza knows what it’s like to be an immigrant, navigating a path through issues as complex as filing health insurance to ones as simple as finding groceries within budget. She knows because she is one. Now the founder and director of Estamos Unidos Moravian Ministry, Cieza has been in…
By Lydian Bernhardt Averitt Rev. Russ Post-May stood on the front porch of the Sunnyside Avenue house known as Anthony’s Plot recently, cell phone in hand, and watched the activity down the street, beyond the band of yellow caution tape roping off the area. A tragedy had occurred in the night. The space heater that…
By Lydian Bernhardt From his youngest childhood, Rev. Matthew Allen knew he had a calling. When other kids would come home from church on Sunday to go outside or watch television, Allen would come home from Friedland Moravian Church in Winston-Salem to play preacher. “I would stand on the hearth and pretend to give a…
By Lydian Bernhardt Extraordinary faith As a young child in Bluefields, Nicaragua, Mélida Hodgson learned to love the simple tenets and spiritual freedom of the Moravian church. When she moved to New York City at age 10 with her family, her fellowship with the church continued at John Hus Moravian Church in Brooklyn, where her…
By Lydian Bernhardt For years, Nancy Harney was a dedicated and joyful church worker at College Hill Moravian Church in Bethlehem, Pa. Church treasurer, co-Sunday School superintendent, board and committee member — she jumped in and did it all. Her husband Rich, however, took a longer path to church involvement. “Nancy got involved at the…
By Lydian Bernhardt Morning Star, O cheering sight! Ere thou cam’st, how dark Earth’s night! The opening lines of favorite Moravian hymn “Morning Star” thrill congregations every Christmas with their beauty and poignancy. But for Mary Jane Dewees of Winston-Salem, those familiar words may also provoke a thrill of familial pride. She is not…