Alliance Mission

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Logo of the Allianz Mission eV
Basic data
Denomination: Evangelical
Legal form: e. V.
Headquarters: Dietzhölztal- Ewersbach
Geographic location : 50.83972 °  N , 8.30194 °  O coordinates: 50 ° 50 '23 "  N , 8 ° 18' 7"  O
Establishment date: 1889
Place of foundation: Barmen
Head of Mission: Thomas Schech
Employee: approx. 180 (as of 2019)
Operation area: 26 countries (as of 2019)
Website: www.allianzmission.de

The Allianz Mission e. V. , a Christian evangelical mission society , was founded in 1889 and is now part of the Federation of Free Evangelical Congregations in Germany . It is one of the largest German foreign missions with a permanent commitment abroad. 140 seconded specialists are currently working in 26 countries around the world and 19 employees are working at the headquarters in Dietzhölztal -Ewersbach in Hesse . In addition, 40 volunteers leave for a year abroad ( IJFD ) every year .

The association is a member of the Working Group Evangelical Missions (AEM) and is committed to the beliefs of the German Evangelical Alliance (DEA). Thomas Schech has headed the Allianz mission since 2016 .

history

The Swedish-American evangelist Fredrik Franson (1872–1908) gave the impetus to found the Alliance Mission in 1889 . Franson traveled all over the world from Europe to China , India and Japan to New Zealand and Australia and held so-called revival meetings , in which not only the faith was described, but also called to a decision for Christ. He preached to thousands of people in 40 countries. 14 missions and community federations trace their origin to Franson.

His visit to Germany left its mark. A Berlin newspaper wrote: The Franson and the Olson, they will not be weary to convert Berlin , the sinful city! . Influenced by Hudson Taylor , the founder of the English China Inland Mission at the time , he tried to win missionaries for China. Taylor prayed for 1,000 missionaries to China. Franson wanted to deliver the first 100 to him . Together with the Wuppertal merchant Carl Polnick , he founded a mission committee.

Soon after this committee was established, a number of young men and women volunteered to serve in China. In the autumn of 1890 Josef Bender, house painter from Frankfurt am Main , Elisabeth Bäumer, housemaid from Wuppertal , and Auguste Schnütgen, daughter of a merchant family from Barmen, were the first missionaries of the Allianz mission to leave with little luggage. This was outraged in the home religious circles for various reasons - some:

  • There was no theologian on the committee.
  • The mission sent without any financial security.
  • A woman as a missionary.

By the end of World War II , over 100 missionaries had been sent to China.

At a glance

  • 1889 The mission was then called the German China Alliance Mission . Alliance, because members from different evangelical denominations worked on the committee.
  • In 1922 it was renamed Allianz China Mission .
  • later Allianz-Mission-Barmen
  • and later an alliance mission.
  • In 1952 the missionaries had to leave China. The Chinese communist government declared them undesirable .
  • In 1955, the first missionaries of the Association of Free Evangelical Churches, which were later taken over by the Allianz Mission, traveled to Brazil .
  • In 1962 the official mission work of the Alliance Mission began.
  • In 1983 the first missionaries were sent to the Philippines in partnership with the Evangelical Free Church of America Mission .
  • Missionaries have been working in Mali / West Africa since 1985 .
  • Missionaries have also been active in Tanzania since 1986 in cooperation with the Inland Africa Church.

Missionaries are now working in Belgium , Italy , Spain and Austria . After the opening of the Iron Curtain, Russian-German Christians made contacts with Minsk in Belarus .

  • In September 2007, the Alliance Mission with the Theological University in the Federation of Free Evangelical Congregations moved into the newly built Kronberg Forum in Dietzhölztal - Ewersbach . This structure was built under the motto "learn-encounter-send" and combines training and mission.
  • The "Friends for Seafarers", a missionary work in the Port of Hamburg, who previously worked for 30 years, have been part of the Allianz mission since 2018.

Mission understanding

  • Mission learns its justification from the commission and salvation work of Jesus Christ .
  • The content of the proclamation is given once and for all normatively in the New Testament .
  • The goal of mission is God's salvation for the whole person.
  • Mission leads to church planting.
  • Mission is the responsibility of the congregation and not of a mission society or a private group of friends.
  • The motivation for world mission arises from the commissioning of Jesus Christ, the love for the people who live without Jesus, and the conviction that Jesus Christ will come again as Lord and Judge of all humanity.

Work areas

  • Social projects like:
    • Kindergartens with preschool
    • Basic medicine
    • Helping people help themselves
    • Tutoring for elementary school students
  • Child sponsorships
  • Children's Relief Fund

Projects

  • Levante ( Portuguese : Get up! ) Is a comprehensive project that aims to help children who live alone on the streets in Brazil.
  • Vijana - youth work in cooperation with the Afrika Inland-Kirche

The Allianz Mission publishes Move magazine every quarter . The Allianz Mission magazine, in which she reports on her work.

literature

  • Elmar Spohn : The Alliance Mission and the Association of Free Evangelical Churches. The history of their relationship and their theological justification , SCM Bundes-Verlag, Witten 2011, ISBN 978-3-86258-002-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedhelm Rudersdorf: Hudson Taylor. His work and his missionary methods ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 33. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bitimage.dyndns.org
  2. ↑ Allianz Mission: Hamburg Mission for Seafarers becomes part of the Allianz Mission. In: Move. November 2018 - January 2019, p. 7