Please join us for the New Church Challenge Annual Meeting, 
Wednesday May 6, at 7:00PM at Cairnwood Village dining room.
We will have a brief business meeting and then watch two short films about people living with disabilities. 

Link to Jitsi Meet platform: New Church Challenge Meeting

Please join us on May 7th, 2025, 7:30PM at Cairnwood Village. We will hold our membership meeting and elections followed by a presentation by Cyndi Glenn and Julie Uber from the Pittsburgh New Church School about their Multi-Sensory Institute for Supporting Children with Language Based Learning Challenges. https://www.pittsburghnewchurchschool.org/

Join us in person or on Zoom.

“Challenges and Strategies for New Church Special Education”

Join us in person at Cairnwood Village Dining Room at 7:30PM, Tuesday, April 30th.
Or join online on Zoom.

Minutes from 2023 Annual Meeting available.

More details at Facebook Event.

Join us for pancakes on Saturday April 13th, 2024 at the Society Building in Bryn Athyn. Details in the Facebook event: Pancake Breakfast

Please enjoy the Fall 2023 New Church Challenger newsletter. Included in this issue is a memorial address for Lisa Mansfield of South Africa. If you wish to hear the address in audio along with comments from Lisa’s father, the service is available at New Church Audio here: Memorial Address.

New Church Challenge invites you to the Annual Membership Meeting to be held on Wednesday, May 3rd at 7:30PM at Cairnwood Village dining room. You are welcome to attend in person or attend via zoom.

A brief business meeting will update you on the activity and financial situation of the organization. There will be the election of the proposed directors: James Cole, Mac Frazier, Nina Kline, and Sarah Wong. 

Following the business meeting will be a presentation by Roxanne Genzlinger and her son Caleb about the Caleb’s Cafe coffee shop in Kempton, and a presentation by Leona Fritch on the Special Education paraprofessional assisting at the Kempton New Church School this year.

James Cole is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: New Church Challenge Annual Meeting
Time: May 3, 2023 07:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Our newsletter is published twice a year and is mailed to all members and donors. We present the Spring 2023 issue online as well. Please read brief biographies of our board members and brief sermon by the Rev. Solomon Keal.

New Church Challenger Spring 2023

Dear Members and Friends,

Please join us for the New Church Challenge Membership meeting tomorrow, Tuesday May 3, at 7:30PM in Pendleton Hall Auditorium at Bryn Athyn College of the New Church. 

There will be a brief business meeting where I will fill you in on the recent activities of New Church Challenge, then the election of board members, followed by a presentation, “Thoughts about Special Education in New Church Schools” by Jessica Baker. Jessica is a recent graduate of the College’s Master of Science in Special Education and a teacher in the Bryn Athyn Church School’s Student Support Center.

If you are unable to attend in person, you may join online where you can see the meeting and presentation and ask questions via chat.

Microsoft Teams link

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If you do not have a Microsoft Teams account you can click on

“Watch on the web instead” and then on the next page below the Sign In option, click Join anonymously.

or dial-in

+1 717-553-4039 United States, Lancaster (Toll)

(866) 658-6779 United States (Toll-free)

Kind regards,

James P. Cole, president

New Church Challenge is pleased to announce a new grant to allow families to more independent living arrangements to their family member living with a disability, within their current homes.

We encourage you to think about privacy and other needs your family member might need and to apply to New Church Challenge for a grant to facilitate these needs.

For more information and the application form, please see New Church Challenge Housing Grant.

New Church Challenge is excited to announce the opening of Caleb’s Cafe, a project made possible by a grant from the Carlson Bequest. See more photos here of this exciting new business!