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Feel free to request to collaborate and bring your family missionary profiles along. Profiles must be set to public.The word "mission" originates from 1598 when the Jesuits sent members abroad, derived from the Latin missionem (nom. missio), meaning "act of sending" or mittere, meaning "to send". The word was used in light of its biblical usage; In the Latin translation of the Bible, Christ use...
Passengers of the Irene in 1749== Please add your Moravian Church ancestors who arrived on the ship "Irene" from Europe to New York to settle Pennsylvania to this project. From Moravian Church In 1741, David Nitschmann and Count Zinzendorf led a small community to found a mission in the colony of Pennsylvania. The mission was established on Christmas Eve, and was named Bethlehem, after the Bibl...