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Below are photo’s taken by Paul Rochester, December 2007 of the Lititz Moravian Church, Manchester, Jamaica lovingly restored following the damage caused by Hurricane IVAN September 11, 2004. With help of donations & fund raising from the Park Lane congregation in 2005 repairs to the roof were carried out and as you can see services and schooling resumed immediately and is now fit for the next 100 years! Many many thanks.

The Moravian Church in Jamaica founded and continues to oversee nearly 50 educational establishments at all levels in Jamaica.The church has always considered education to be an important part of its mission and as a result established 46 schools and two colleges. The first school, at Lititz, was also the first primary school of any kind in Jamaica. The Lititz All Age School in St. Elizabeth is the successor to the first primary school established in Jamaica. It accommodated about 300 students. It is one of the total of 46 schools established by the Moravian Church on 68 parcels of land across Jamaica this church in Watson's Hill Manchester parish being one of them. Where ever the Moravians founded a church, they also built a school

above, Lititz Moravian Church - Order of Service, December 2007

The Jamaica Province of the Moravian Church (formally The Moravian Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands) is part of the world wide Moravian Unity.The work of the Moravian Church in Jamaica started with the arrival in 1754 of missionaries Zecharias Caries, Thomas Shallcross and Gotlieb Haberecht from England at the invitation of the Foster and Barham families, owners of several plantations in St Elizabeth. They landed on the coast of St. Elizabeth, deliberately shunning the towns and opting to remain mostly in the rural areas to serve the large slave population. There first base was on the Bogue.

Photos taken by Paul Rochester, December 2007