14 Facts About Moravian Church

Moravian Church's emblem is the Lamb of God with the flag of victory, surrounded by the Latin inscription "" ('Our Lamb has conquered; let us follow Him').

Moravian Church historians identify the main achievements of this period as:.

The first Moravian Church mission was established on the Caribbean island of St Thomas in 1732 by a potter named Johann Leonhard Dober and a carpenter named David Nitschmann, who later became the first bishop of the Renewed Unity in 1735.

In 1772, the first European-Native American settlement of what later became Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania occurred when Reverend John Ettwein, a Moravian Church missionary, arrived there with a band of 241 Christianized Lenape.

Finally, in 1898, the Moravian Church discontinued their missionary engagement with the Cherokees, and New Springplace, now the Oaks Indian Mission, was transferred to the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church.

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Zeisberger, a significant Moravian Church missionary, implored the converts to remember that they were "one people not two.

Moravians continue their long tradition of missionary work, for example in the Caribbean, where the Jamaican Moravian Church has begun work in Cuba and in Africa where the Moravian Church in Tanzania has missions in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.

Motto of the Moravian Church is: "In essentials, unity; in nonessentials, liberty; and in all things, love".

The Moravian Church teaches that it has preserved apostolic succession.

Moravian Church teaches the necessity of the New Birth, piety, evangelism, and doing good works.

An account of the ethos of the Moravian Church is given by one of its British bishops, Clarence H Shawe.

The Pietist has his sin in the foreground and looks at the wounds of Jesus; the Moravian Church has the wounds in the forefront and looks from them upon his sin.

Moravian Church provinces are members individually of the World Council of Churches and the Lutheran World Federation.

The Northern Province of the Moravian Church voted June 18, 2010 to enter into full communion with the Episcopal Church.