See Page 1. Question 12 2 out of 2 points What missionary leader started the Moravian Church? Selected Answer: Count Zinzendorf. Selected Count Zinzendorf Answer : Question 13 2 out of 2 points In Luke/Acts, nearly every time a person acted as a “witness,” they did so in a ___________ setting. Selected Answer: public.
Jul 18, 2019 · Question 18 2 out of 2 points What missionary leader started the Moravian Church? Selected Answer: Count Zinzendorf
Mar 08, 2019 · James Hudson Taylor was the first Christian missionary to China and spent fifty-one years working to bring the gospel to those who had never heard the name of Jesus in their own language. In 1865, Hudson founded the China Inland Mission (CIM) because he knew that there were millions of people who needed to hear the message of Jesus Christ.
1761 – The first Moravian missionary in Ohio, Frederick Post, settles on the north side of the Muskingum. 1762 – Moravian Missionary John Heckewelder confers with Koquethagacton ("White Eyes") at the mouth of the Beaver River (Pennsylvania) 1763 – The Presbyterian Synod of New York orders that a collection for missions be taken.
William Carey: Pioneer to India and Father of Modern Missions. William Carey was born in 1761 and is often called the father of the modern missions movement because of his forty-one years of service on the mission field until he passed away in 1834.
6. Hudson Taylor: Founder of the China Inland Mission. James Hudson Taylor was the first Christian missionary to China and spent fifty-one years working to bring the gospel to those who had never heard the name of Jesus in their own language.
He is known for translating the entire Bible into Bengali and transforming culture through business and education.
Born in Scotland in 1824, John G. Paton was a Christian missionary to the cannibals on the New Hebrides Islands of the South Pacific until he died in 1907. His life was filled with trials, as his first wife and their child soon died after his arrival on the island, and many times he had to flee for his life from the natives. However, Paton’s faith withstood testing and he continued to work and preach for several years while also raising support for missionary work. Today, the impact of his life can be seen in Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu. Read the full story about John G. Paton.
Born in 1718, David Brainerd was one of the first missionaries to translate and carry the good news of Jesus to the Native Americans of New Jersey in their own language until the day of his death in 1747. His faith and passionate pursuit of God’s holiness has inspired countless missionaries such as William Carey, Adoniram Judson, and Jim Elliot. His story is still being told today to rekindle the beating heart of missions that every Christian should have: That the love of God would be made known to every lost soul on earth. Read the full story about David Brainerd.
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.”
Jim and Elisabeth Elliot met as students at Wheaton College in Illinois. Jim was a young man whose heart was on fire for God to be known among the unreached, who was inspired by several missionaries such as David Brainerd, William Carey, and Amy Carmichael.
39 – Peter preaches to a Gentile audience in the house of Cornelius in Caesarea Maritima. 42 – Mark goes to Alexandria in Egypt. 47 – Paul (formerly known as Saul of Tarsus) begins his first missionary journey to Western Anatolia, part of modern-day Turkey via Cyprus.
33 – Great Commission of Jesus to go and make disciples of all nations; Pentecost, a day in which 3000 Jews from a variety of Mediterranean Basin nations are converted to faith in Jesus Christ. 34 – In Gaza, Philip baptizes a convert, an Ethiopian who was already a Jewish proselyte.
1674 – Vincentian mission to Madagascar collapses after 25 years of abortive effort. 1675 – An uprising on the islands of Micronesia leads to the death of three Christian missionaries. 1676 – Kateri Tekakwitha, who became known as the Lily of the Mohawks, is baptized by a Jesuit missionary.
382 – Jerome is commissioned to translate the Gospels (and subsequently the whole Bible) into Latin. 386 – Augustine of Hippo converted. 397 – Ninian evangelizes the Southern Picts of Scotland; three missionaries sent to the mountaineers in the Trento region of northern Italy are martyred.
370 – Wulfila translates the Bible into Gothic, the first Bible translation done specifically for missionary purposes. 378 – Jerome writes, "From India to Britain, all nations resound with the death and resurrection of Christ". 380 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I makes Christianity the official state religion.
The Moravian mission at Shekomeko was founded in 1740 by Christian Henry Rauch to convert the Mahican Indians in eastern New York. Today the location of the Mahican village is marked by the monument, above, at Pine Plains in Dutchess Co., NY.
The Moravian Church had been founded during the 15th century in Bohemia and Moravia. Following almost total destruction in the Thirty Years’ War and Counter Reformation, it had been revived in the 1720s.
The Mahicans were an Algonquian tribe and branch of the Lenni Lenape or Delaware Nation who populated the east bank of the Hudson River in what is today eastern Dutchess County, New York, and western Connecticut.
Moravians wrote thousands of anthems, solos, and duets for voices accompanied by chamber orchestra – a rarity in colonial America. In 1783, Moravians in Salem held the first celebration of July 4 in the country with a challenging music program assembled by Johann Friedrich Peter. This work was titled the Psalm of Joy.
The Moravian Music Foundation provides programming consultation for over a dozen professional music groups worldwide, as well as for college and community special events .. The Foundation also serves as music director for the regular Moravian Music Festivals presented by the Moravian Church.
The second type of music is the secular instrumental music in the Moravian collections. This includes some music by Moravian composers, but by far the greater part of the instrumental music is not by Moravians, instead by composers who were the most popular ones in Europe in the middle 18th century and later.