Agnus Dei Church has made arrangements to hold a worship service at the Brawdus Martin Visitor Center, and are inviting the broader Germanna Family.   I met Rev. James R. Shaw at the Visitor Center doing research on Rev. John Casper Stoever (b. 1685 d. 1739) of Hebron Lutheran Church.  Rev. Shaw is the pastor of a church plant in the Fredericksburg area, presently worshipping at the Fredericksburg Campus of Germanna Community College.  (See Rev. Shaw's write up below).   The church plant, Agnus Dei, will be holding a worship service at the Visitor Center tomorrow on the eve of Thanksgiving, and is also planning Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve services at the Visitor Center.   We are planning to bring my little platoon of Anglicans, Presbyterians, and Evangelische Gemeinschaftler staying at our home over Thanksgiving.  We hope you can join us for this special event! Marc Wheat President Germanna Foundation   --------------------------- Rev. James R Shaw http://www.adlutheran.org/ Agnus Dei Lutheran Church Spotsylvania County, VA 540-446-0777 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesrshaw +++ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We the members of Agnus Dei (Latin-Lamb of God) Lutheran Church  invite members and friends of the Germanna Foundation to join us for a Thanksgiving Eve worship service on Wednesday November 26, 2008 at 6:30pm at the Germanna Visitor Center in Locust Gove, Virginia.   We are a newly formed start-up congregation that is associated with the United Lutheran Mission Association. http://www.unitedlutheranmission.org.  Feel free to tell your friends about this unique and new opportunity in the area. Some of our members used to travel 58 miles one way to get to a comparable Lutheran church service. We meet Sunday mornings at 9:00am at Fredericksburg Germanna Community College campus.   The Agnus Dei connection with Germanna is interesting. Until we started holding services at the Germanna Community College in Fredericksburg , we were unaware of the historical connection we had with the Germanna colony of 1717. The people who are starting this congregation have a kinship in theology and practice with Rev. John Casper Stoever (b. 1685 d. 1739) and his son John Jr. (b. 1707 d. 1779). Both men were the first German Lutherans ordained in North America on April 8, 1733 in a barn at Trappe (New Providence), Pennsylvania where the Providence congregation worshiped. John Sr. was the first pastor to serve Hebron Lutheran Church 1733-1734 at the Robinson River Community (former Germanna Second Colony families). He is first recorded as serving communion there on the 2nd Sunday after Trinity ( June 18, 1733 ). John Jr. served as a Lutheran pastor in Trappe, New Holland, Lancaster and Lebanon Pennsylvania.

Ruby Aylor Horvath of the Germanna Association Board and I were both there this evening.  Vespers was said before the little congregation of eighteen people, with the bookcases of Germanna genealogies behind the makeshift altar for this new congregation.   Rev. Shaw may be leading services for Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve at the Brawdus Martin Visitor Center.  --- On Tue, 11/25/08, Marc Wheat <germanna1714@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Marc Wheat <germanna1714@yahoo.com> Subject: [GERMANNA] Thanksgiving Eve Worship Service at Germanna Visitor Center To: "Germanna Colonies List" <GERMANNA_COLONIES-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 4:07 PM Agnus Dei Church has made arrangements to hold a worship service at the Brawdus Martin Visitor Center, and are inviting the broader Germanna Family.   I met Rev. James R. Shaw at the Visitor Center doing research on Rev. John Casper Stoever (b. 1685 d. 1739) of Hebron Lutheran Church.  Rev. Shaw is the pastor of a church plant in the Fredericksburg area, presently worshipping at the Fredericksburg Campus of Germanna Community College.  (See Rev. Shaw's write up below).   The church plant, Agnus Dei, will be holding a worship service at the Visitor Center tomorrow on the eve of Thanksgiving, and is also planning Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve services at the Visitor Center.   We are planning to bring my little platoon of Anglicans, Presbyterians, and Evangelische Gemeinschaftler staying at our home over Thanksgiving.  We hope you can join us for this special event! Marc Wheat President Germanna Foundation   --------------------------- Rev. James R Shaw http://www.adlutheran.org/ Agnus Dei Lutheran Church Spotsylvania County, VA 540-446-0777 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesrshaw +++ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We the members of Agnus Dei (Latin-Lamb of God) Lutheran Church  invite members and friends of the Germanna Foundation to join us for a Thanksgiving Eve worship service on Wednesday November 26, 2008 at 6:30pm at the Germanna Visitor Center in Locust Gove, Virginia.   We are a newly formed start-up congregation that is associated with the United Lutheran Mission Association. http://www.unitedlutheranmission.org.  Feel free to tell your friends about this unique and new opportunity in the area. Some of our members used to travel 58 miles one way to get to a comparable Lutheran church service. We meet Sunday mornings at 9:00am at Fredericksburg Germanna Community College campus.   The Agnus Dei connection with Germanna is interesting. Until we started holding services at the Germanna Community College in Fredericksburg , we were unaware of the historical connection we had with the Germanna colony of 1717. The people who are starting this congregation have a kinship in theology and practice with Rev. John Casper Stoever (b. 1685 d. 1739) and his son John Jr. (b. 1707 d. 1779). Both men were the first German Lutherans ordained in North America on April 8, 1733 in a barn at Trappe (New Providence), Pennsylvania where the Providence congregation worshiped. John Sr. was the first pastor to serve Hebron Lutheran Church 1733-1734 at the Robinson River Community (former Germanna Second Colony families). He is first recorded as serving communion there on the 2nd Sunday after Trinity ( June 18, 1733 ). John Jr. served as a Lutheran pastor in Trappe, New Holland, Lancaster and Lebanon Pennsylvania. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANNA_COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message