This is an organization of Home Church men which provides opportunities
for fellowship, spiritual growth, service projects and study. This
organization offers many ways for men to be involved. See below.
This will be a wonderful time of the year at our beautiful Laurel Ridge Conference and Retreat Center. There will be plenty of free time for fun and fellowship! Saturday afternoon is open for golf at nearby West Jefferson, hiking, reading or simply relaxing. The area around Laurel Ridge in October will be the perfect setting for our weekend of activities.
The retreat will begin at 8:00 p.m. Friday evening and will end with lunch on Sunday. A buffet dinner on Friday at 6:30 p.m. is included in the weekend fee. The registration for the weekend is $125 for double occupancy and $175 for single accommodations. Delicious meals, refreshments and two nights lodging are included in the registration fee. For new members of Home Church from October 2009 through October 2010, the registration fee will be half of the normal registration fee!
Registration is limited to 50 participants, so register now and put the weekend on your calendar. More details will follow in the Men of the Church newsletter as well. Scholarship assistance is also available for the retreat. To register, or for more information, contact Sam Matthews .
Tuesday Morning— Meets 1st & 3rd Tuesday using the Daily Text Scripture verses as a Lesson Guide. Members provide light breakfast. 7:00 am Club Room. See John Dewees for information.
Thursday Lunch—This group uses a book format for study and discussion. Leadership is shared, and the current book being read and discussed is “FINDING MEANING IN THE SECOND HALF OF LIFE How to Really Finally Grow Up by James Hollis, PH.D. Bring your own lunch, and contact Bill Van Hoven for more info.
The Men meet quarterly for breakfast on Sunday mornings for
food, fellowship and a speaker. The breakfasts begin at 8:00
a.m. with a good breakfast and fellowship time. Speakers from
the church and community share interesting topics and then there
is discussion time. Brother Steve Phelps is the President of the
Men of the Church (contact steve.phelps@smithbarney.com)
This two Day event usually occurs on the 1st weekend in October. This year it will be held at Laurel Ridge Camp. See Sam Matthews for more info.
This group greets and assists HMC worshippers from their vehicles and into the church on Sunday mornings. Contact Graham Smith for more info.
This group receives and coordinates the visitation of HMC men that are dealing with medical or hospitalization issues. Contact Ted Bowen for more info.
This group makes candles for our outreach projects on the first Thursday of the month in the Candle Room 8:00—11:30 am (come anytime). Learning is easy, delicious ham and sausage biscuits are brought from home. Contact Richard Henderson or Arthur Spaugh for additional information.
COMING SOON....Christmas Cards
Designed and produced by the Men of Home Church. Card front features Home Church Christmas scenes that we all know and cherish. The inside has a genuine Moravian verse. Available early summer 2010.
The Men of the Church have created greeting cards using photographic reproductions of our beautiful stained glass windows. These cards are blank inside, so they may be used for all occasions. You provide your own expressions, such as: thank you, birthday, anniversary, friendship, get well, sympathy, etc. These cards are on sale in the Home Church office and the Moravian Book and Gift Shop for $15.00 a box of 10 cards and envelopes.
Our beautiful stained glass windows were installed in the 1912-13 renovation of our sanctuary. The original sanctuary with its small, clear glass windowpanes was dedicated on November 9, 1800. The stained glass windows were produced by J& R Lamb Studios, which is the oldest continuously operating ecclesiastical art and stained glass concern in the United States. These windows represent the development of a highly specialized combination of external layered stained glass and careful artistic painting on the interior of the windows. The windows at our church are the largest known collection of Lamb’s early artistic work.
Eight of the ten windows depict scenes of the main events in the life of Jesus Christ. Four tell of His early life and ministry (“The Nativity”, “The Flight into Egypt”, “The Boy Jesus in the Temple”, and “Christ and the Children”) and four depict the Easter Passion (“Christ in Gethsemane”, “The Crucifixion”, “The Resurrection”, and “The Ascension”). The two windows not in historical sequence are “Christ Knocking at the Door” and “The Good Shepherd”. All ten windows are based on early eighteenth century Moravian traditions in which Pastors used oil easel paintings, created by Johann Valentin Height and other Moravian artists, to “illustrate” their sermons. These “gifts of light” have inspired countless thousands of visitors, as well as those who regularly worship at the Church.
All proceeds from sales of these cards are for the benevolent needs of the Outreach Programs of the Men of the Church.
We thank Richard Henderson for coming up with the idea for the cards, John Dyer who photographed the stained glass windows and Mark Goslen for his printing input.
