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During that week, church members — young and old — sorted vegetables at the West Texas Food Bank, tended a community garden and fed the homeless. That morning Dawn, 53, was ready to work. She ...
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In accepting other creeds of the Christian Church (such as the Apostles’ Creed, Nicene Creed, and the Augsburg Confession) and in its practice, the Moravian Church is guided by these words: “In essentials, unity; in nonessentials, liberty; and in all things, love.” The essentials in “In essentials, unity…” are God creates us, God redeems us and God...
The Moravian Church recognizes the sacraments of baptism and of holy communion. The customary method of baptism is sprinkling, and the church administers the sacrament in the name of the Triune God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit). When infants are baptized, the sacrament carries with it the responsibility of parents, sponsors and congregation to lead...
The name Moravian identifies the fact that this historic church had its origins in ancient Bohemia and Moravia in what is the present-day Czech Republic. The Moravian Church, or Unitas Fratrum (Unity of Brethren), as it has been officially known since 1457, was organized in Kunwald, about 100 miles east of Prague , by a group led by a man named Gre...
In the 16th century, the Unity of Brethren flourished and developed a rich devotional life. Using a hymnal and catechism of its own, the church promoted the Scriptures through its two printing presses and provided the people of Bohemia and Moravia with the Bible in their own language. Bitter persecution, which broke out in 1547, led to the spread o...
The eighteenth century saw the renewal of the Moravian Church through the patronage of Count Nicholas Louis von Zinzendorf, a pietist nobleman in Saxony. Some Moravian families fleeing persecution in Bohemia and Moravia found refuge on Zinzendorf’s estate in 1722 and built the community of Herrnhut. The new community became the haven for refugees f...
After an unsuccessful attempt to establish a Moravian settlement in Georgia (1735-1740), the Moravians settled in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, on the estate of George Whitefield. Moravian settlers purchased 500 acres to establish the settlement of Bethlehem in 1741. The two communities of Bethlehem and Nazareth became closely linked in their agricultura...
It was through meeting Moravian leaders such as August Spangenberg and Peter Bohler that John and Charles Wesley came to a full understanding of the gospel and experienced true conversion. But ...
2 days ago · During that week, church members — young and old — sorted vegetables at the West Texas Food Bank, tended a community garden and fed the homeless. That morning Dawn, 53, was ready to work. She wore dark gray sweatpants and a T-shirt that read “Religious Liberty For All.”. Her wavy brown hair framed her pale face.
The Moravian Church, or the Moravian Brethren (Czech: Moravská církev or Moravští bratři), formally the Unitas Fratrum (Latin: "Unity of the Brethren"), [3][4][5] is one of the oldest Protestant denominations in Christianity, dating back to the Bohemian Reformation of the 15th century and the Unity of the Brethren (Czech: Jednota bratrská) found...
There he discovered Brethren who longed for the rebirth of their ancient church, holding tenaciously to a prophetic word spoken by an ancestor that their persecuted church would yet live. With...
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5 days ago · At this West Texas church, “the Lord’s work” is helping the poor, not rewriting state law. Led by co-pastors Joe and Dawn Weaks, Connection Christian Church, a 118-year-old congregation in ...
