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	Moravians (religion) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Moravian Church in America is engaged in dialogue with a group of Reformed Churches (Presbyterian Church in the USA, United Church of Christ, Reformed Church in America, and Christian Church - Disciples of Christ).
		Moravians have long had close relations with the United Methodist Church, but are not engaged in a formal dialogue.
		The Moravians are also in dialogue with the Episcopal Church of the USA and share in an agreement of interim eucharistic sharing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moravians_(religion) (1856 words)

	Evangelical Lutheran Church in America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Church is divided into 65 synods, one which is non-geographical (the Slovak Zion Synod) and 64 regional synods in the United States and the Caribbean, each headed by a synodical bishop and council.
		The Church is a result of a merger between the Lutheran Church in America (LCA), the American Lutheran Church (ALC) and the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (AELC), all of which had formally agreed in 1982 to unite after several years of discussions.
		As a Lutheran church body, the ELCA professes belief in the "priesthood of all believers", or that all baptized persons have equal access to God and are all called to use their gifts to serve the body of Christ.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_in_America (2747 words)

	A Brief Account of the Moravian Church, Southern Province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		By 1740 the Moravians saw the wisdom of relocating and moved to William Penn’s colony of Pennsylvania, where the Northern Province of the Moravian Church in America was born.
		With the consecration of the Gemein Haus on November 13, 1771, the Festival of the Chief Elder in the Moravian Church, Salem was organized as a congregation.
		An earnest desire of the Moravians in settling Wachovia was to bring the gospel to the natives of America.
	www.moravianarchives.org /history/briefhistory.htm (3112 words)

	East Hills Moravian Church
		Moravian Church, also Unitas Fratrum, American branch of the Renewed Church of the Unity of the Brethren, an evangelical Protestant denomination organized in Herrnhut, Saxony, in 1727 as a reconstitution of the 15th-century Bohemian Brethren.
		The Moravian Church is governed by the conferential system; its ministry is composed of bishops, elders, and deacons.
		Moravian institutions of higher education include Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pa., and Salem College in Winston-Salem, N.C. The official organs of the two American provinces are The Moravian and The Wachovia Moravian.
	www.easthillsmc.org /history.html (744 words)

	Our History * Moravian Church in North America
		The Moravian Church, or Unitas Fratrum (Unity of Brethren), as it has been officially known since 1457, arose as followers of Hus gathered in the village of Kunvald, about 100 miles east of Prague, in eastern Bohemia, and organized the church.
		By 1467 the Moravian Church had established its own ministry, and in the years that followed three orders of the ministry were defined: deacon, presbyter and bishop.
		Moravian settlers purchased 500 acres to establish the settlement of Bethlehem in 1741.
	www.moravian.org /history (976 words)

	Moravian Western District home
		The Western District of the Moravian Church in North America elected the Rev. James Thomson Hicks of Green Bay, Wisconsin, as President of the Western District Executive Board (WDEB) during the 40th Synod of the Moravian Church Northern Province.
		He was ordained a Deacon of the Moravian Church in North America in 1980 and was consecrated a Presbyter in 1989.
		The Moravian Church in North America is comprised of the Northern and Southern Provinces.
	www.moravianwest.org (858 words)

	Religious Movements Homepage: The Moravian Church
		The Moravian Church was actually the renewal of the United Brethren which gives it a rich a history.
		The United Brethren Church was started by John Huss in the 1400's in Czechoslovakia, mainly in the areas of Bohemia and Moravia.
		The Moravian Church exists because of three contributing factors: (1) the revival of Pietism in Germany, (2) the reemergence of an old church, and (3) Count Zinzendorf.
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/Moravian.html (1397 words)

	moravian church information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The Moravian Church in North America - Moravians...
		The Moravian Church is an early Protestant Church, begun...
		Congregation, is a congregation of the Moravian Church in America, Southern Province...
	www.property-gd.com /articles/82/moravian-church.html (462 words)

	Episcopal News Service
		At an April meeting in Sewanee, Tennessee, the churches discussed a draft resolution on Interim Eucharistic Sharing and the possibilities for a shared ministry of bishops, presbyters and deacons in the future.
		The April meeting of the Southern Province of the Moravian Church in America passed a resolution that endorsed the plan to share the Eucharist with Episcopalians.
		The Moravian Church in America is part of the worldwide Unity of the Brethren, consisting of 20 autonomous provinces with about 750,000 members.
	www.episcopalchurch.org /3577_20401_ENG_HTM.htm (310 words)

	New Philadelphia Moravian Church: Index
		This Moravian Covenant for Christian Living is an attempt to state in clear arrangement and contemporary form a document which has long served the Moravian Church.
		That such a revision of the Agreement should have been made is entirely in harmony with the spirit of the early Moravian Church which believed that all forms should be updated and made relevant to the present life of the Church.
		The Moravian Covenant in its original form was adopted by the Moravian Church at Herrnhut, Saxony, as the Brotherly Agreement on May 12 of the year that marked the Church's spiritual renewal, 1727.
	www.everydaycounselor.com /archives/sh/covenant.htm (2551 words)

	Following Our Shephard to Full Communion - I. The Journey to Full Communion: Recommendations to the Churches
		The Northern and Southern Provinces of the Moravian Church in America, hereinafter termed the Moravian Church in America, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America hereby agree that in their respective assemblies there shall be one vote to accept or reject, without separate amendment, the resolutions which follow.
		The Moravian Church in America and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America hereby
		The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Moravian Church in America hereby authorize the establishment of a joint commission by June, 2000.
	www.elca.org /ecumenical/fullcommunion/moravian/FOS/fos_i.html (543 words)

	Rolling Hills Moravian Church
		In the 1950s, flush with the excitement of the Quincentennial, the Southern Province launched a campaign to extend the Moravian Church into Florida.
		Rolling Hills was one of the four churches begun in that campaign.
		The idea was to seek out Moravians already living in Florida who would form the core of a new congregation, and then have the church grow along with the neighborhood.
	www.rhmoravian.org (388 words)

	About * Moravian Board of World Mission
		BWM nurtures historic and vital partnerships with Moravian Churches in Alaska, Costa Rica, Eastern West Indies, Guyana, Honduras, Labrador, Nicaragua, and Tanzania.
		The Moravian Church in America is a member of the National Council of the Churches of Christ, USA, and the World Council of Churches.
		The Unitas Fratrum (Moravian Church) is, therefore, aware of its being called in faith to serve humanity by proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
	www.moravianmission.org /vision/about.phtml (454 words)

	The Moravian Church - Faith and Values.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		In 1735 German Moravian missionaries of the pre-Reformation faith of Jan Hus came to Georgia, in 1740 to Pennsylvania, and in 1753 to North Carolina.
		They established the American Moravian Church, which is broadly evangelical, ecumenical, liturgical, “conferential” in form of government and has an episcopacy as a spiritual office.
		The Northern and Southern Provinces of the church operate on a semi-autonomous basis.
	www.faithandvalues.com /channels/mrvn.asp (300 words)

	Central committee document - Applications for Joint Membership, Associate Council and IEO
		The Moravian Church in America, Northern Province, and the Moravian Church in America, Southern Province, which are founding members of the World Council of Churches and have been full members since 1948, are applying for the status of joint membership as Moravian Church in America.
		In the proposed new version the primary function of the Council is stated in these words: “To facilitate or establish a Christian church in Nigeria that worships one God in the Trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and accepts the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments”.
		This is partly due to the formation of the Christian Association of Nigeria in 1991, which includes the Roman Catholic Church and the Evangelical and Pentecostal churches and of which the CCN is itself a member.
	www2.wcc-coe.org /ccdocuments2003.nsf/index/gen-5.1-en.html (1324 words)

	Moravian Church Northern Province Home Page - Resolution Listings - Abortion
		RESOLVED: The 1990 Synod of the Moravian Church, Northern Province, reaffirms the 1974 Provincial Synod statement on abortion; and be it further
		RESOLVED: The Moravian Church, Northern Province, shall withdraw its membership from the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights and direct the Standing Committee on Church and Society to explore membership in RCAR as a committee and, following consultation with the Provincial Elders' Conference, the committee shall determine its relationship with RCAR.
		RESOLVED: that the Moravian Church encourage its members to accept with empathy persons who are dealing with an unwanted pregnancy, and in accord with convictions assist in all possible tangible ways.
	www.mcnp.org /Documents/Resolutions/Abortion.asp (1099 words)

	Welcome to the Moravian Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The Moravian Church - Background, Belief and Practice - a brief statement on the background, belief and practice of the Moravian Church, published by the British Province
		The Moravian Church and the Missionary Awakening in England
		of the Moravian Church in South Africa, Western Cape Province 1869-1980.
	www.moravian.org.uk /pages/bookroom_customs.html (357 words)

	Talks will explore the possibility of communion with Episcopal, Moravian, Cumberland churches
		LONG BEACH, June 30 --The General Assembly concurred on Wednesday with the recommendation of the Committee on Catholicity and Ecumenical Relations that the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) engage in "church-to-church" talks with the Episcopal Church, the Moravian Church in America, the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America.
		He said the two churches "absolutely like each other in every respect," and that full communion is the objective of the talks.
		The Episcopal Church has about 1.2 million members; the Moravian Church, which is an international church, has about 30,000 members; the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, whose membership is predominantly white, has a membership of about 100,000; and the Cumberland Church in America, which is predominantly African-American, has about 30,000 members.
	horeb.pcusa.org /ga212/News/ga00138.htm (515 words)

	Mount Carmel Ministries - Daily Texts
		The Daily Texts are translated into English by the Moravian Church in America.
		By 1812, after Count Zinzendorf had died, the Moravian Chruch established that all watchwords would be drawn by lot from a selection of around 2000 suitable Old Testament texts.
		Some years later, the Moravian Church began to include an accompanying "doctrinal" text relating in theme to the daily watchword.
	www.dailytext.com /dailytexts/Heritage.php (538 words)

	Moravian Church Genealogy Links: Protestant Church Records of Colonial America
		The Moravian Church is an early Protestant Church, begun in Europe in 1457.
		Descendants in Moravian settlements in Bethlehem, Nazareth, PA.
		John Casper and Hannah were married by Lot, at the Moravian congregation in Bethlehem, PA. John Casper was ordained, and sent to Moravian church at Oldman's Creek, Salem Co., NJ.
	www.enter.net /~smschlack (905 words)

	Glenwood Moravian Church
		Glenwood Moravian Church is a congregation of over 100 members situated on the edge of the University of Wisconsin Arboretum on the west side of Madison in the Dudgeon-Monroe neighborhood, across the street from the Dudgeon School Center.
		The congregation is a part of the body of Christ ministering to its local community and to the larger community.
		Glenwood recognizes and affirms its roots and heritage in the Moravian Church, and seeks to relate to persons from all backgrounds.
	www.madison.com /communities/glenwood (156 words)

	MMFA :: Who We Are (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The MMFA is an agency of the Moravian Church in America, a Protestant Denomination with over 500 years of history focusing on faithful living and Christian unity.
		Part of the worldwide Moravian Church, the Moravian Church in America is comprised of the Northern and Southern Provinces, serving nearly 160 congregations and 50,000 members in 17 US states and two Canadian provinces.
		The Moravian Ministries Foundation is an Interprovincial agency, chartered in the State of North Carolina and an IRS approved 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation.
	www.mmfa.info /who.html (179 words)

	New Philadelphia Moravian Church: Index
		Several Moravian Churches have linked to it from their own web sites, and links are o.k.
		Hutton's history is limited in that it only traces Moravian history into the early days of the 20th Century, but it is certainly the best history of the Moravian Church now on the web.
		New Philadelphia Moravian Church is one of the churches profiled in Rev. Steve Nicholas' book on Evangelism.
	www.npmc.org (1206 words)

	Moravian Church Southern Province: Synod Web Site
		Ella Christian Shelton (Grandparents Lillian and Tom Shelton-Pastor Friedberg Moravian) was born September 5 in Clearwater, FL to Tommy and Mara Shelton.
		Moravians who minister around the world, such as those from the Dillingham Moravian Church serving as medical missionaries in New Guinea under Wycliffe and others setting up new clinics in Uzbekistan.
		Some churches plan a day of worship, education and service with the entire faith community where they attend to one particular area of need in the lives of children.
	www.mcsp.org /newsletters/news_oct2003.htm (2714 words)

	Adherents.com
		Of the world's 510,000 Moravians, 60% are in Tanzania and South Africa.
		Moravian Church: Total of 3 regional divisions reporting separately: Alaska Province, Northern Province, and Southern Province.
		"Congregations of the Moravian Church continue to be concentrated in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, though some are scattered around the [U.S.] The mission tradition is reflected in the fact [that] three-fourth [sic] of the world's Moravians are in Africa or the or the Caribbean Basin...
	www.adherents.com /Na/Na_457.html (2149 words)

	Spiritual Growth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Expressions of the Heart was first published by the Board of Christian Education in 1999 as an outgrowth of the Spiritual Growth Commission of the Board of Christian Education, Moravian Church In America, Southern Province to be a journal of spiritual writings and art by Moravians.
		Its purpose was to provide writings, poetry, hymns, art and book reviews that express the spiritual life of Moravians today.
		Please email Susan Hudson, or call her at (336) 722-8126 if you are interested in purchasing back issues.
	www.moravianboardofce.org /other/start.htm (242 words)

	Calvary Moravian Church - Winston-Salem, North Carolina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Calvary Moravian Church has been serving downtown Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina since 1893.
		Calvary Moravian Church is a congregation of the Moravian Church in America, Southern Province, or Unitas Fratrum, and is one of the thirteen local Moravian churches of the Salem Congregation.
		The Moravian Church is a worldwide Protestant Christian denomination.
	www.calvarymoravian.org (53 words)

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