Two Young Men on a Danish Dock

In August 1732, two young Moravian men — Johann Leonard Dober and David Nitschmann — stood on a dock in Copenhagen, about to board a ship bound for the Caribbean island of St. Thomas. They were going to share the gospel with enslaved Africans, people the established church had largely ignored. Dober was a potter. Nitschmann was a carpenter. Neither had theological degrees or missionary training.…