The Marburg Mission Foundation is a centre for the transcultural deployment of missionaries in Germany and the other mission countries of the MM.
OUR SERVICES
Transcultural networking
Community foundation and community construction
Community foundation and community building
Service centre
Theological contributions
Diakonia
BRAZIL
Our vision
Social diaconal work
- We consolidate and multiply the social diaconal work in the areas of drug rehab and addiction diseases.
Strengthening the team
- We are expanding the team to be able to contribute to the great missionary challenges among the "Sertanejos".
Missionary movement
- We support the missionary movement from Brazil to Europe, especially to Germany.
Our tasks
Revision work of the Bible
- We Revise the Bible in the Kaingang Language
Training work
- We train and accompany leaders of the Kaingang and their communities.
COOPERATION
Ka’egso and Eipeen Hery
Project number 48302
Revision of the Bible into Kaingang Language
Community building among Kaingang Indians
About us
Where is the location
We live in Queimadas / Ortigueira and work among the Kaingang in the state of Paraná.
What is the area of responsibility
The focus is the translation and revision of the AT into the language of the Kaingang, accompaniment of community leaders, visits to communities and occasional teaching.
What motivates you
We want to be a blessing in the lives of the people who meet us, because we are blessed by God.
GERMANY
Our vision
- Missionaries and MM staff contribute to the revival and encouragement of communities.
- Through foreign missionaries, a community-building movement has begun, in which more and more churches are participating.
- Mission is part of the DNA and expression of life of the communities, which they realize, among other things, through the Marburger Mission Foundation.
Our tasks
- We support mission-engaged communities.
- We visit churches and offer services, Bible evenings, mission theological topics, information events, mission days, etc.
- We regularly inform our mission friends, supporters and interested parties about our work and projects.
- We offer churches the opportunity to participate as a sending or supporting community in the world mission.
- We offer short and long-term assignments.
- Foreign missionaries establish new churches in Germany.
TEAM
Baumann family
Project number 50903
Coordinator [re]NEW Network Europe
About our work
Place of deployment:
Europe (initially but especially Germany from the home office)
Task area:
Coordination and co-management of the Renew network for community formation, revitalization and multiplication. In doing so, we make use of our good network with Brazil and convey Brazilians in mission work to Germany and Europe.
Own motivation:
My longing for revival and devotion to Jesus and the multiplication of discipleship, cell groups and churches
The Rocha family
Project number 50902
Community building Christ Community Stuttgart
About our work
Place of deployment
Stuttgart and the region
Task area
We are pastors of a German-Brazilian community. Our goal in Germany and Europe is to establish and structure communities.
Own motivation
What drives us is the love of Christ who saved us. This love that has changed our lives must be proclaimed. And we have decided to do this for our entire lives. We love Christ and want to obey Him, that is why we are here!
Samuel Kutenski
Project number 50900
Speaker for municipality foundation
[re]new Network Europe
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Höss family
Project number 51001
Community foundation project:K, Freiham (Munich)
About our work
Location:
Freiham (new district in the west of Munich)
What is the area of responsibility:
Church in Freiham and its surroundings rethink and live so that it fits people around us
What motivates us:
We are motivated by God’s love, God’s example in Jesus Christ, God’s creativity and God’s mission. In addition, we are motivated by conversations with Christians as well as people who are distanced from the church and the community. Together with them, we want to set off on the path of what the Church can look like today.
Family Weber
Project number 51002
Church founding experiences Church Chemnitz
About our work
Location:
Chemnitz
Task area
Community foundation in Chemnitz
Own motivation
We have seen for ourselves how people in a living church meet Jesus and begin to follow him with all their hearts. Our vision is that a new church will emerge in Chemnitz in which exactly this happens: people experience Jesus, follow him – and change their city.
More information about the establishment of the municipality: webers.website/en
What motivates us:
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Couple Weidt
Project number 50904
Retirement, Management Board [re]NEW Network Europe
The Harder family
Project number 50914
Community building Bad Canstadt
About our work
Place of deployment
Bad Castadt
Task area
Our main task is to revive the Brazilian German community Stuttgart. The community is small, but has a history of more than 20 years and an enormous growth potential. Bad Cannstadt is also the oldest district in Stuttgart.
Own motivation
God has sent us to Germany with the vision that we proclaim faith, love and hope and new life in Christ.
Balthazzar family
Project number 50913
Community foundation in the Neckartal
Location:
Eberbach
Task area:
Founding a community, praise, children and youth work
Motivation:
Our motivation is the Word that God has given us and sent us to this city. We rejoice to hear God’s voice and follow His calling. We want to reach people for the Kingdom of God, build young people, families and a new community in this place.
Sister Maren Marten
Project number 46101
Speaker for Community & Mission
Place of deployment
East Germany
Task area
- Establishment and expansion of new community contacts, primarily in East Germany
- Maintaining relationships with communities and their groups that already have contact with the MM
- Supporting communities that want to "take on mission" (at home and abroad)
Own motivation
- My love for Jesus and *East Germany ()*Thanks to my biography
- the personal experience that missionaries must know and LIVE on the importance of support from home communities
JAPAN
Our vision
"People should find for the knowledge of salvation through Jesus Christ, their life should be changed into a lifestyle serving the living God."
Other missionaries
- Over the next five years, we will strengthen our team with at least two new missionaries.
New ways
- Due to the changing social conditions, we accept new challenges for our work and open up new fields of work.
- We want to find new ways to continue to say the Gospel of Jesus Christ culturally relevant in word and deed.
New municipalities
- In areas hitherto unreached by the Gospel, we will establish new churches.
Missionary life
- We want to accompany and promote already existing churches on the way to missionary and independent churches and help their members to develop a missionary lifestyle.
Our tasks
Creation and building of the community
- Through contacts with neighbours, the offer of language and cooking classes, discussion groups and religious services, we establish new churches. The aim is the independence and integration of the new community into the Japanese Synod.
Promotion of spiritual life
- In pre-existing churches, we promote the spiritual life and spiritual growth of church members.
Cooperation with other Christian works
- We cooperate with other Christian churches and works in special events and evangelistic actions.
Supporting missionary work
- We offer short-term employees in the leisure camp and in the communities.
COOPERATION
Couple Pfeiffer
Project number 41112
Land management,
Municipal building Kobe
About our work
Place of deployment
Yamanomachi (a community in northern Kobe in a rural area)
Task area
Country management for the team in Japan
Community building in the community in Kobe
Own motivation
Andrew received Jesus’ call to Japan at the age of 18 at a time when the Wall still divided Germany. In 1990 he met Shoko at the Bible School in Liberty Corner, USA. Both began to prepare for the service. Shoko completed her theology studies in Tokyo, Andreas in Marburg and in Trinity/Chicago (D.Min.).
The work of the Kaschner family has been continued by both since 2009. In the first years, the church grew up with 11 newly baptized members, who now actively lead the church. Together we pray for our unreached neighbourhood. A new housing estate is currently being developed in front of our building, the potential of which is a great encouragement for new children and adults.
Marianne Dorn
Project number 41106
Municipal building Kobe
Sanda municipality
About my work
Where is the location:
Kobe and Sanda
What is the area of responsibility:
supporting community work, especially in the children's service area, evangelism of new neighbors.
What motivates you:
God gave me a heart for the people of Japan a few years ago. This love and the experience that God does miracles motivate me.
CAMBODCA
Our vision
"People should find for the knowledge of salvation through Jesus Christ, their life should be changed into a lifestyle serving the living God."
Our tasks
Creation and building of the community
COOPERATION
Chanty and Christian Schneider
Project number 40601
Creation and building of the community
About us
Where is the location:
Cambodia, near Phnom Penh. Rural area
What is the area of responsibility:
Various tasks. These include:
Khmer and math lessons, children's programs, swimming lessons, football training, neighborhood help
What motivates you:
We love Cambodia and the Cambodians even more. We want to convey the Gospel to children and adults through our lives and proclamation. We want people to get freedom in their hearts and not have to live lives of fear and uncertainty.
PERU
Our vision
- Independent, stable churches who witness the Gospel and members who actively participate in it.
- Pastors with good biblical theological training, especially in the villages.
- Renewed and spiritually strong families who are able to cope with their own problems.
- A theological training institution offering a sound education and highest possible academic degrees.
Our tasks
- We offer a church-approved training program for leaders and employees of the communities and accompany them
- Through worship services and Bible days, we encourage and strengthen church members.
- We help people and families in need and accompany them spiritually.
- We support the village communities as consultants in decision-making processes and problems.
- We promote the improvement of nutrition, hygiene and health in the village communities.
COOPERATION
Family Ottinger
Project number 48903
Municipal Building and Seelsorge
About our work
Married couple Salazar
Project number 48900
Community building in Andahuaylas and region
About our work
Place of deployment
City of Andahuaylas and villages of the region
Task area
Promotion and support of village communities through worship services and Bible days, training for leaders and pastoral care of individuals and families in emergency situations.
Own motivation
We have come to know Jesus Christ and this has shaped and changed our lives. He gives us forgiveness and love. We want many people in the highlands of Peru who are trapped in hopelessness, fears and conflict to experience this love and forgiveness by knowing and following Jesus Christ.
RUSSIA
Our vision
New missionaries
- After the end of the war, we want to send missionaries to Russia again.
Strong communities
- We promote community understanding and lead communities to personal responsibility
Evangelism and discipleship
- The parishioners of ten parishes live multiplicative disciples and have started with the foundation of daughter parishes.The people with whom we have contact in the parishes live and share their faith in an appealing way in their everyday life.
Our tasks
- We work with leaders of the Luth. Church in Omsk and accompany them on the way to a multiplicative model community of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Ural, Siberia and Far East (ELKUSFO).
- We accompany existing communities and encourage their members to build different circles and groups (house circles, child and youth work, family and senior work, visiting service).
- For their voluntary work, we train community employees theologically and guide them in their tasks.
- We provide a Russian Bible reading.
COOPERATION
Alexander Scheiermann
Project number 46002
Ural, Siberia, Far East, Bishop of ELKUSFO.
About my work
Place of deployment
Ural, Siberia, Far East
Task area
Lead and suffer, pray and hope, responsibility and contempt, be courageous and humble.
Alexander is bishop of ELKUSFO.
Own motivation
God, give me the serenity to accept things I cannot change, the courage to change things I can change, and the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.
SPAIN
Our vision
New missionaries
- Over the next five years, we will expand our team with at least two new employees.
Prayer Movement
- The Prayer House ORAR Barcelona is a busy place – it is where people pray day and night. Also in the leisure area of L’Arcada There are regular retreats and events around prayer and praise. From this place comes a prayer movement that spreads throughout the country.
The ORAR L’Arcada Prayer House is an art workshop where people express their encounter with God in a creative way.
Discipleship
- "Knowing God and making Him known" – is the guiding principle and focus of the discipleship school of YWAM Vigo. Through inspiring teaching, living together and serving, the participants deepen their relationship with God. With renewed enthusiasm for Jesus, they return to their hometowns and bring change there – whether through new ministries, a lived mission in everyday life or even through church foundations.
Our tasks
Promoting prayer
- We promote the prayer life of individuals and communities through seminars, leisure, training and praise days. Our goal: to create spaces where people can meet God and grow spiritually
Living disciples
- In the Discipleship Training School from Youth with a Mission (YWAM) in Vigo we accompany young people to deepen their faith and to discover and develop their gifts from God.
Fighting trafficking in human beings
- A particular focus of the school is on the fight against human trafficking. We impart knowledge about causes and connections, carry out prevention work and help those affected – both locally and internationally.
Empowering families
- Through diverse offers for local families, we pass on our faith at the relationship level. We encourage parents to recognize their potential and consciously assume their responsibility.
Combining pastoral care with art
- In our pastoral school we train Christian mentors. We use creative methods such as art therapy.
Enable short-term deployments
- We offer employment opportunities for short-term employees.
Personnel
Tamar and Philip Geppert
Project number 49102
Prayer House in Barcelona
About our work
Where is your location?
We have the privilege to live and work in Barcelona.
What is the area of responsibility
We want to set up a house of prayer in Barcelona, where people pray incessantly, because we believe that prayer is the most powerful thing we can do. Speaking to the Creator of the Universe personally. Do you want to participate?
Because we love creative expressions and have been working with artists in Spain for several years, creativity is always part of us and our prayer life.
What motivates you
We have experienced the profound difference of consciously seeking and involving God in our everyday life and want to pass on this treasure. In this generation of distraction, we want to invite people to rediscover their intimacy with God and fight for them. Inviting Jesus everywhere opens the doors to the mystery of his actions, often in ways we could not have imagined before, because he loves to spend time with his children.
Nadine and Steffen Hollmann
Project number 49104
Discipleship School YWAM Vigo
About our work
Place of deployment
Moaña and Vigo
Task area
discipleship school and language studies at YWAM Vigo, with the aim of leading them together in the future and
build a family and café work in Moaña with the missionaries on site.
Own motivation
We want to be a beacon for the people here on the ground and pass on God’s love to you through relationship work that we have experienced ourselves. We believe that Jesus can change hearts, people and societies, and send his ground staff to different places in the world.
TAIWAN
Our vision
New missionaries
- Over the next five years, we will strengthen our team with at least two new missionaries.
New municipalities
- We continue to establish communities among Thai guest workers.
Mission Theology
- We engage in the formation of theologians and promote a culturally independent missionary theology.
Consignment
- We offer local communities the opportunity to participate actively in the world mission through missionary missions.
Our tasks
Bethesda
- At the Bethesda home in Hualien, we offer children and young adults with disabilities a place of love and acceptance. The love of God motivates us to promote them holistically, to expand their social abilities and to show perspectives in life. This is done through medical-therapeutic, pedagogical and spiritual-spiritual offers.
Prisoner mission
- We visit domestic and foreign prisoners and offer them pastoral talks, life counselling, language and Bible teaching and religious services on site.
Guest Workers Mission
- We work among the guest workers from Thailand and offer them language, music and computer lessons and invite them to get to know the Triune God through worship and evangelistic actions.
Municipalities
- We establish new Thai communities and support existing ones in building their work.
Theological education
- Through a thorough theological formation, we empower future pastors and community leaders to meet and help societal and religious challenges. This is done in cooperation with the China Lutheran Seminary in Hsinchu.
COOPERATION
Daruni Wuu
Project number 42102
Thai Guest Workers Mission
About my work
Simone & Joachim Schmid
Project number 42105
Lecturer in Church History
China Lutheran Seminary, Hsinchu
About our work
Place of deployment
Hsinchus
Task area
Theological education, mother-child work
Own motivation
We want to help the Christian communities in Taiwan to bring the message of Jesus Christ into their society.
We do this through theoretical training, such as teaching, lectures and sermons, but also by providing concepts for the
Community work, such as mother-child groups, is presented and put into practice.
Nikorn and Sirikan Wongkittikhun
Project number 42102
Thai Guest Workers Mission, Taichung
About our work
Mirjam Wentland
Project number 42200
Management of the home Bethesda, Hualien
About my work
Place of deployment
Home Bethesda (Hualien)
Task area
Management of the home Bethesda
Own motivation
Everyone who comes into contact with Bethesda should find his invaluable value in Jesus, get to know Jesus personally and also experience salvation.
THAILAND
Our vision
New missionaries
- Over the next ten years, our team has expanded with six new missionaries.
We create communities and support community founders.
We train community founders.
Participation in world mission
- We offer local communities the opportunity to participate actively, through mission and accompaniment, in the world mission.
Diakonia
- The dormitory for the children and the meeting center for the people of the Eastern Lawa is firmly established.
Through our service, we fulfill the diaconal mission of the community in an exemplary manner.
Theological education
- In four years, employees will again work in formal theological training.
Our tasks
Municipal building
- In the Thai-German community Chiang Mai (TDG), we offer German-speaking and their partners a spiritual home.
Educational work
- We offer German-speaking children a solidly recognized German school education at the Christian German School Chiang Mai (CDSC).
Diakonia
- In the Eastern Lawa dormitory, we provide access to secondary schools and provide a home for social orphans.
Short-term operations
- We offer various applications for short-term employees.
COOPERATION
Martin & Kirsten Hofmann
Project number 40103
Thai-German community Chiang Mai
About our work
David and Christa Nescholta
Project number 40205
Vorstandsarbeit der Christlichen Deutschen Schule Chiang Mai, Gemeindebau unter dem Stamm der Eastern Lawa
About our work
Place of deployment
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Task area
Vorstandsarbeit der Christian German School Chiang Mai
Foundation Marburg Mission Thailand
Arbeit unter dem Stamm der Eastern Lawa
Motivation
We contribute to ensuring that children of different nationalities receive a well-founded German school education based on Christian values. This is intended to enable students who later go to Germany to have the smoothest possible future there. On this basis, Asian children should be given access to good education according to the German curriculum.
We support the people of the Eastern Lawa mountain tribe by operating a dormitory for children of their tribe, so that they grow up in a sheltered and loving environment and receive a good educational basis for their later life. In addition, we carry out support projects in the villages of the Eastern Lawa to help people practically through the love of God in their need.
Olga and Timo Lion
Project number 40207
Project manager of the residence hall Lawa, Chiang Mai
About our work
Where is your location?
Chiang Mai, Thailand
What are your responsibilities?
The educational and pastoral accompaniment of vulnerable children of the Eastern-Lawa people in the children's dormitory in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
What motivates you?
In Jeremiah 29:11, God promises his people that he has thoughts of peace over them and that he wants to give them a future and a hope. The words of God from Jeremiah also apply to vulnerable children from the Eastern Lawa people. God has thoughts of peace for them, and we can bring this good news to these children. God wants to give them a future and a hope, to participate in this gift, what a privilege! The children should get a home through the children’s dormitory, they get a chance for education and learn in this place that Jesus loves them!
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We promote a world where everyone counts.
NETWORK ESTAFRIKA
Our mission: to promote peace. Networking of specialists. strengthening education.
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We work for community foundation, revival and multiplication in Germany and Europe.
