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As from 1745 the Moravian Church, a branch of the German pietism, enters a longstanding collaboration with Paul Rabaut, essentially in order to help meet the Reformed Church’s shortage of preachers during religious interdiction and the period called the “Desert”. Once he had duly examined their doctrine, he welcomed the Moravian envoys during all of his ministry. The outcome was a specific ecumenical collaboration, kept secret and no less unambiguous. Hence two attitudes, the Moravians unable to accept Rabaut’s millenarianism and the leader of the Reformed Church being obliged to strike a compromise between his consistory partly opposed to him and hampered by the infamous reputation of the Moravian Church.