2024 flyer HOLY WEEK Services and events–click here if you want to print!

Upcoming Special Services:

• Sunday, November 19th, 11 a.m.               Thanksgiving Lovefeast
• Sunday, December 3^rd , 11 a.m. & 12 noon      First Sunday of Advent & Advent Lunch   
• Sunday, December 10^th, 11 a.m.                Children’s Christmas Program
• Friday, December 22^nd, 6 p.m.                 Candlelight Service
• Sunday, December 24th, 11 a.m. & 6 p.m.       Christmas Eve Lovefeasts

ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT BREAKFAST BUFFET 

WHAT:  All-You-Can-Eat Breakfast of scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, gravy, biscuits, pancakes, apples, grits, juice and coffee (regular & decaf)

WHO: Sponsored by Christ Moravian Church

WHEN: Saturday, November 11, 2023 from 7:30 am to 11:30 am

WHERE: Christ Moravian Church Fellowship Building at 919 W. Academy Street, Winston-Salem

COST: $10.00 for adults and children age 6 and up and $5.00 for children age 5 and under.  Take-out will also be available.

WHY: Raise money for the Outreach Fund which helps people in our church and in the community.

Christ Moravian Church warmly welcomes Bishop Lane Sapp this Sunday, October 15th!

Lane Sapp is a native of Winston-Salem, NC. He grew up at Clemmons Moravian Church where he was ordained in 1987. Lane is a graduate of High Point College and Moravian Theological Seminary. He was the founding pastor of Good Shepherd Moravian Church and recently completed a 27-year pastorate at Calvary Moravian Church. Lane currently serves as Director of the Commission on Ministry for the Moravian Church, Southern Province. Lane was elected a bishop of the Worldwide Unity in 2002.

Lane is married to Lilyann Sapp (née Baker) and they have twin sons, Jonathan and Charles. Lilyann is a retired registered nurse.

 

Rev. Sandra Thigpen was born in Louisville, Kentucky and was relocated to Chicago, Illinois at the age of two. She made a profession of Jesus Christ, at the age of twelve, and became a member of the Hill Street Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky while visiting her grandparents. She is the mother of one child, Brian Christopher Thigpen, two beautiful girls, Cristina and Cassandra and great-grandmother to four; Kendrick, Chandler, Chloe and Clare.

In 1991, Rev. Thigpen became the first female Chaplain to serve in an adult male correctional facility in the state of North Carolina. She served as an Associate Chaplain at Forsyth Jail and Prison Ministries seven years and Assistant Senior Chaplain for three years. Her work involved ministry in three facilities – the Forsyth County Law Enforcement Detention Center, The Forsyth Correctional Center (Cherry Street Prison) and Forsyth Juvenile Detention Center.

Additionally, Rev. Thigpen served as Chaplain at the North Carolina Baptist Hospital while completing studies in Clinical Pastoral Education. She was a licensed Clinical Social Worker 18 years with the Kentucky School System; Clinical Social Worker with the Jefferson County Government; Coordinator of Prison Fellowship Ministries; Community Liaison for the Kentucky Department of Corrections – Eddyville State Penitentiary and Associate Chaplain for the Kentucky Correctional Institute for Women.

Rev. Thigpen has worked with the homeless, advocated for rape relief victims and has been the facilitator for Family Leadership Training; Women’s Issues; Life Skills Development; Spiritual Renewal and Spiritual Retreats with the N.C. Baptist Hospital, numerous denominations as well as the Moravian Churches of the Southern Province and Caribbean.

In 1997, she was awarded the National Women of Achievement Award for Religion. Reverend Thigpen was 1999 Keynote Speaker for the International Moravian Women’s Conference and the Millenium Speaker for the Virgin Islands Moravian Women’s Fellowship Conference in September of 2000. She was involved in Short-term missions to Africa where she trained Missions Teams, preached and taught Biblical Stewardship in 2001 & 2002. She traveled to the Holy Land in 2006 to enhance training by learning more about the land of Jesus’ birth and ministry. Rev. Thigpen became the first African American Woman to the Pastorate in the Moravian Church in America. She served as Pastor to St. Philips Moravian Church, the oldest African- American Church yet standing in Winston-Salem, North Carolina for three years and Pastor of Grace Moravian Church, Queens, New York. When asked for biographical data, she responds, “Just tell them that I am a servant of God, everything else is unimportant.”

There will be worship service in Winston-Salem at the church at 11 a.m., in addition to the Laurel Ridge worship service.  No Opening Exercise and No Sunday School this week.  🙂

See Newsletter and last week’s bulletin for Laurel Ridge information.

Happy Fall!!!

Spread the Word!!!  Saturday, October 28th  8 a.m.-1 p.m.!  

WF 2023 Fall Festival Flyer

There will be no services this Sunday, 9/17/23.  See letter from Pastor Reed below.  Stay well.

Friends,

Take a break from the heat and come support our own Matt Pace as he gives the sermon this Sunday at 11 a.m.!

Jack Crater – Regis College

Lora Glen – NC State University

Tinley Riddle – W. Forsyth High School

Kendall Wright – E. Carolina University

He is Risen! Happy Easter!

April 9, 2023 Easter

Holy Week Readings:

  Sunday, April 2^nd – Palm Sunday 11 a.m. Worship Service

  Monday, April 3^rd – Friday, April 7^th nightly @ 7 p.m.

                  Maundy Thursday –communion

                  Good Friday — Lovefeast   

THIS SUNDAY!  March 12, 2023

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Easter 2023 at Christ Moravian Church 

Palm Sunday Sunday, April 2^nd, 11 a.m. Worship Service

Holy Week Readings Monday, April 3^rd – Friday, April 7^th nightly @ 7 p.m.                   

        Maundy Thursday –communion Good Friday – Lovefeast

Easter Egg Hunt!! Saturday, April 8^th @ 10:30 a.m.   

February 19, 2023

 See the Women’s Fellowship Bulletin Board for sign-ups!

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