“MIA: Mission in Action” Moravian Youth Convo 2025 in Miami, Florida, was an incredible week of fellowship, learning, worship, and fun with participants and staff from Jamaica, Antigua, Barbados, Trinidad, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, and Wisconsin. Program and worship times were led by the Rev. Dr. Riddick Weber, the Rev. Brian Dixon, Acolyte Monique Richards, and BWM staff members. We had the blessing to visit both New Hope Moravian Church and Prince of Peace Moravian Church, as well as other local sites, including South Beach, the Everglades, and the Marlins stadium (for a Miami Marlins vs. Milwaukee Brewers game!). Much of our free time, program time, and worship time was spent sharing songs, activities, and experiences from our home areas, so that participants left with new resources to use as they step into leadership roles. We are deeply grateful to everyone who supported this event by assisting with the planning, traveling to be on staff, and welcoming us as we arrived in Florida.
Throughout the week, we reviewed the purpose of Convo, to ensure that we were hitting the mark, and by the time planes took off to go home on Monday, we agreed that we had managed to check all of these boxes…
- Give young people of the denomination from all over the world an opportunity to meet.
- Give young people a wider vision of our denomination, not just as the little church on the corner, but as a church serving the world.
- Encourage young people to consider their life’s work in Christian service.
- Build community as we share the spiritual pilgrimage, experience Moravians in a different culture, and serve the community we find ourselves in through mission and outreach.
