Clemmons Moravian Church began as the vision of Edwin Theodore Clemmons, who was born in Clemmons, then known as Clemmonsville, October 17, 1826. A grandson of Peter Clemmons, for whom the community was named, Mr. Clemmons became the owner of a hotel in Asheville and operated a stage coach line. He was living in Salem when he died December 20, 1896.

Wishing to benefit both the Moravian church and his native community, he provided in his will for the Moravians to establish a congregation and a boarding school in Clemmons, instructing them to erect a church, a school, and a parsonage, and to purchase land to be subdivided into lots of an acre each and sold to Moravian families to build on at one dollar per lot. Children of these families were to attend the Moravian School free of charge.

About a hundred residents of the community gathered in the second story room of a store operated by Carlos and Edward Strupe on October 29, 1899, for the first service. On August 13, the following year, the congregation was officially organized with the reception of 36 members. By the end of the year, the charter roll had grown to 45 members. The Reverend James E. Hall was called from the Friedberg congregation to serve as the first pastor.

Three rooms in the former Douthit store were prepared for the beginning of school, which opened in October, 1900, with the Reverend J. Kenneth Pfohl, a recent graduate of Moravian Theological Seminary, as principal. Other faculty members were two recent graduates of Salem College: Miss Bessie Whittington, who later became Mrs. Pfohl, and Miss Nannie Bessent.

The cornerstone for the school was laid in April, 1901, and the building completed in October for the beginning of the second school year. A dormitory for girls and another for younger boys were built to provide accommodations for boarding students. The older boys were housed in the second floor of the school. The church building specified in Mr. Clemmons' will was not constructed due to the failure to realize the necessary amount from the estate.

While plans were being completed for the school building, the congregation met for worship in the Methodist Church. The destruction of that church by flfe during a storm on May 25, 1901, forced the Methodist and Moravian congregations to move into the old store which was also serving as the temporary school. Five months later, the congregation moved into the new school building, sharing that faculty with the school for 25 years. The 1901 statistics indicate a membership of 70 with a Sunday School enrollment of 54 pupils and 8 teachers.

In 1915, the school became a Farm Life School, supported by state and county funds. It was finally consolidated into the emerging Forsyth County public school system, moving into the newly erected Clemmons School building in 1925. At this time the congregation became the sole occupant of the building and undertook extensive renovations to provide a faculty which would more efficiently serve its purpose as a church. The original school building continues in use as an education building.

For more than forty years after the school had left, the congregation used the remodeled auditorium as a sanctuary until moving into a new sanctuary completed in March, 1968. The former sanctuary was converted into classrooms and restrooms. The total cost of the new building and renovations was approximately $158,000.

The latest building program was completed in March, 1984, and provides five classrooms, a nursery, office, fellowship hall with banquet seating for 350 persons, and kitchen. The cost of this building, exclusive of furnishings and fees, was $695,000.

A preschool and Mother's Morning Out, begun in 1977, meets in the old education building, with a morning program serving 155 children three months through five years of age. When the new education unit was erected, a child care center was opened in 1984. It has an enrollment of 86 children six weeks through five years of age in full-day care and an additional 30 in a before and after-school program.