Christmas Market at Ebenezer
Presented by Georgia Salzburger Museum The Christmas market was held, Sunday, December 6, 2020 Christmas gifts from the GSS Museum Gift Shop and baked goods were on sale. For Your Pleasure The Christmas Story from Luke 2 was a responsive reading in German by Pastor Mark Cerniglia and in English by the guests. Christmas Hymns were sung by Susan Hartzog, Aileen Tuten, and Robert Peavy and...
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Dan Wilson Memorial Pavilion
Groundbreaking at Ebenezer β November 2020 The GSS fall board meeting was held November 14, 2020 in the Social Hall at the Jerusalem Lutheran Church. There were about 15 present including visitors. After the business meeting, the group moved out to the area between the church and the Fail House for the groundbreaking for the Dan Wilson Memorial Pavilion. Dan Wilson III and his mother, along with Allen Kieffer, the contractor, Claudia Christiansen, GSS president, and the board members were excited to commemorate this long awaited...
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On Saturday, the 14th of March, 2020, the Georgia Salzburger Society (GSS) will hold the annual Landing Day meeting at Ebenezer. All descendants of the Salzburger community and all friends are invited to Jerusalem Lutheran Church, at Ebenezer, to mark the 285th anniversary of the landing of the first transport of Salzburgers in Georgia. β HISTORY FOR THE MARCH GATHERING β “And we vowed to have a yearly thanksgiving in His honor, on which we would use our diary to bring back to their memories the trials of the wondrous Divine Guidance.” ~ Detailed Reports of the Salzburger Emigrants who settled in America, edited by Samuel Urlsperger, Volume I, page 55 β SCHEDULE β The annual Landing Day meeting is held on the Saturday closest to the 12th, and, in this 286th anniversary year, the meeting falls on Saturday...
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Landing Day 2019
The Landing Day celebration has been an annual event for many years. When the Salzburgers, protestant refugees, were exiled from βpresent day βAustriaβ β, they compared their expulsion with the Israelitesβ exile from Egypt. King George II of England heard of their plight, and he and the English Trustees of the Georgia colony extended an invitation to come and settle in the new world. It was a heartfelt sacrifice leaving their loved ones and homes never to see them again. Believing that God would supply their needs, they boarded ships for the new country knowing they would be able to worship the God they loved. They did this unselfish act so we, their descendants, could live in a country where we have religious freedom. General James Oglethorpe oversaw these transports and guided them during their settlement at Ebenezer. The...
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