Each year, in Herrnhut, Germany, members of the Provincial Board of the European Continental Province draw a Watchword for the year for each Province of our world-wide Moravian Church. These texts are drawn for a collection dating to the 1700’s.

The 2023 Watchword for the Southern Province is:

Nehemiah 9:31 – “Lord, in your great mercies you did not make an end of your people.”

The doctrinal or teaching text for January 1st, 2023 from the New Testament is:

For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. Matthew 7:8

The prayer for the day, as found in the U.S. edition of the Daily Texts is also fitting:

"Lord, thank you for the gift of curiosity, the hunger to know more of you, and the desire to grow deeper roots into the soil of your grace and love. We ask, Lord, and you respond. Amen."