{"id":6442,"date":"2024-10-01T17:45:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T21:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/?p=6442"},"modified":"2024-10-01T17:45:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T21:45:17","slug":"harvest-thanks-worship-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/harvest-thanks-worship-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"HARVEST THANKS WORSHIP TRADITION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-34b7e4da5e3830f556cfbee2b8308b16\"><em>Please note that the below announcement from the Lovettsville Newsletter has already occurred. This post has been created after a LHS website outage.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>HARVEST THANKS WORSHIP TRADITION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>at New Jerusalem Lutheran Church<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>September 29, 2024<br>(Oktoberfest Sunday in&nbsp;Lovettsville)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The<em>&nbsp;Erntedank<\/em>&nbsp;(Harvest Thanks, in German), was a liturgical tradition long before the original Munich Oktoberfest in 1810, whose timing coincided with autumn harvest thanksgiving activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Harvest Thanks worship will include members of Zion Lutheran and Bethel Lutheran (who, together with NJLC, formerly were the single Lutheran parish in the German Settlement) and also by members of St. James UCC (formerly called the German Reformed Church), truly representing the German origins of&nbsp;Lovettsville.<br><br>The Harvest Thanks worship at NJLC will be followed by a potluck&nbsp;<em>Fr\u00fchschoppen,&nbsp;<\/em>a meal of wursts (sausages), pretzels, and other food associated with Oktoberfest.&nbsp;<em>Fr\u00fchschoppen<\/em>&nbsp;is a German and Austrian tradition of a brunch, usually on Sundays after worship, in which friends and family gather to visit over the brunch meal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10:00 am, September 29, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Jerusalem Lutheran Church<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12942 Lutheran Church Road<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lovettsville, VA 20180<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please note that the below announcement from the Lovettsville Newsletter has already occurred. This post has been created after a LHS website outage. HARVEST THANKS WORSHIP TRADITION at New Jerusalem&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6443,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442\/revisions\/6443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}