After 89 years of meeting together, the people of Advent
Moravian Church were officially organized as an
independent, self-supporting congregation on
June 22, 1924. It was the result of a merger of the two
area Sunday Schools which became associated with Friedberg
Moravian Church.
The small band of Moravian men and women who were
instrumental in the formation of Advent Moravian
Church had a vision of a church in their community
that would hold to the beliefs of the Moravian doctrine and a
church that would be accessible to more people in their community. :
A movement for a Moravian Sunday School was begun among the families
belonging to Friedberg Moravian Church, but living in the Pleasant Fork
Community. Advent Moravian Church can trace her beginning to the
Cool Springs Sunday School, organized in December 1832, and later began
meeting in the Pleasant Fork Sunday School and Church.
Objections were raised by non-Moravians of the
Moravians using the Pleasant Fork Church.
On September 27, 1896, a Building Committee was
elected to proceed with the erection of a proposed
Moravian Church in the junction of the Old Salisbury
and West Clemmonsville Roads. The building was completed and the name
"Advent" was chosen. A Community Building was added later.
Advent Moravian Church was used for the first time as a place of
Divine Worship on September 12, 1897.
Completed and first occupied March 20, 1939
With God's blessings, Advent Moravian Church
continued to grow and a larger Church was
completed in 1939. As Advent continued to grow,
a larger Sanctuary became necessary, and this
building became the Sunday School Sanctuary.
In 1968, an additional Education Building was
built on the West side of the Sunday School Sanctuary
that houses the class rooms for Sunday School and is also
used today for our new Pre-School Program.
