Anskar Church
The Anskar Church Germany e. V. (AKD) is a Christian free church that was named after the first archbishop of Hamburg and Bremen , Ansgar (or Anskar, 801 - 865 ). It sees itself as belonging to both the evangelical and the charismatic movement ; it is also included in the neo-charismatic movement . Your congregations are close to the German Evangelical Alliance (DEA). The Anskar Church has been a guest member of the Association of Evangelical Free Churches (VEF) since November 2007, and has been a full member there since autumn 2014. Since 2013 she has been a member of the Working Group of Christian Churches (ACK) Hessen-Rheinhessen.
The Anskar Church was founded in 1988 by the former Lutheran pastor Wolfram Kopfermann in Hamburg after he left the church and described itself as Lutheran in its initial phase. Wolfram Kopfermann resigned on the 25th anniversary of Anskar on September 22, 2013 and handed over his office to Tillmann Krüger. Since 2005 he has been pastor of the Anskar Church in Hamburg-Mitte, which he has also headed since January 2008. He is also a member of the leadership group of the Evangelical Alliance in Hamburg and in the working group for evangelical theology (AfeT). In April 2019, Krüger moved to the Baptist Peace Church in Braunschweig. Since then, Alexander Hirsch has been the new overall director of the Anskar Church.
There are churches in Hamburg (center and west), Marburg , Nuremberg , Wetzlar and Bad Arolsen, as well as a church planting project in Bayreuth . The Anskar Church Leipzig project, founded in 2000, ended in 2008.
The Anskar Church makes use of the Christian Scouting Society Royal Rangers in its child and youth work .
literature
- Art. Anskar Church (AK) , in: “Workplace Church and City”, Seminar for Practical Theology of the University of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (Ed.): Lexicon of the Hamburg Religious Communities. Religious diversity in the city from A to Z. 2nd edition. Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-926174-55-2 , p. 49f.
- Arnd Heling: The Anskar Church International - Presentation and opinion on a new church in Germany. Evangelical Press Association for Bavaria, Dept. Schriftenmission, 1996, ISBN 3-583-50211-6 .
- Bernd Rother: Church in the City - Development and Chances of Urban Profile Communities. Neukirchener Verlagsgesellschaft, Neukirchen 2005.
- Georg Schmid (Hrsg.): Churches, sects, religions: religious communities, ideological groups and psycho-organizations in the German-speaking area, a manual. 7., revised. and additional edition. TVZ Theologischer Verlag, Zurich 2003. ISBN 3-290-17215-5 .
- Heike Bodecker : A god of healing / Heike Bodecker. Anskar Church. Anskar Church, Free Evang.-Luth. Municipality, Hamburg 1990.
Web links
- Official homepage of the Anskar Church in Germany
- Official homepage of the Anskar parent and founding community (Hamburg-Mitte)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Association of Evangelical Free Churches is growing . In: Mennonews November 20, 2007 .
- ↑ The Association of Evangelical Free Churches now has 12 full members . In: Mennonews December 2, 2014 .
- ^ Anskar Church in the ACK Hessen-Rheinhessen ( Memento from December 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) . Press release from July 5, 2013
- ^ Generation change in the Anskar Church ( Memento from December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) . Press release from July 10, 2013
- ↑ Anskar Church: Living with more passion for Jesus , idea.de, message from September 24, 2018.
- ↑ New general leader of the Anskar Church Germany , ead.de, article from February 23, 2019.
- ^ Parishes and foundation projects of the Anskar Church ( Memento from April 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) ; Retrieved November 3, 2014
- ^ Anskar Church Leipzig e. V .; accessed on March 21, 2014
- ↑ Cf. Anskar Church Hamburg Mitte and Hamburg West ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ German National Library
