Missionary Services Working Group
The Missionary Services Working Group (AMD) is a professional association and also part of Diakonie Deutschland in Berlin. It deals with all aspects of the missionary mandate of the church, especially in preaching and diakonia.
AMD initiates missionary projects, supports evangelistic engagement and offers instruments for church building and Bible-related work. It promotes the connection between mission and diakonia. In addition, she develops material for community practice and issues publications that are intended to help expand the missionary competence of volunteers and full-time workers.
Belong to the organization
- the offices for missionary services or offices for community service of all 20 EKD member churches,
- 75 independent organizations and associations that feel committed to missionary work and do this under the umbrella of the evangelical church.
Ulrich Fischer is the chairman, Pastor Hans-Hermann Pompe is the general secretary.
activities
The offers and activities are grouped under different themes
- Missionary Education
- Faith courses; Information about various belief courses as well as belief courses developed by AMD itself , namely "SPUR8", "Emmaus - on the path of belief, stages of life -" religious instruction for adults
- the action churches in tourism with symposia for church leaders
- Network for Christian cafes and pubs
- Missionary Church Development
- Development of faith courses such as Spur8 or the follow-up course noticeably.believe.leben
- Specialist conferences on various topics, such as predicant work and Fresh X projects
- A project group and annual meetings for House District Labor
- Suggestion and development of material on various topics
- Missionary-diaconal profile development
- Networking of projects in diaconal institutions and in parishes,
- Specialist conferences for visiting services and community diaconia
- Courses for employees in diakonia
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Bible study and interpretation
- yearly elaboration of a Bible week as part of a Bible week conference of Catholic and Protestant theologians
- Support of the ecumenical study group for Bible reading
- Literature and magazines
- Focus community; AMD theological journal published six times a year (until 2019)
- Study letters as a supplement to the focus on community, in each of which one topic is dealt with in depth. There are series of study letters on the Bible, diakonia, church building, religions and pastoral care. (until 2019)
Affiliated groups
The working group includes over 90 organizations, both from regional and free churches and independent groups, including for example
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The AMD cooperates with the Greifswald Institute for research into evangelism and community development .
Members of the trust council
Chairman
- Ulrich Fischer , Regional Bishop i. R.
Deputy Chairperson
- Philipp Elhaus, Pastor, Head of Missionary Services of the Hanover Regional Church (Hanover)
- Annegret Puttkammer, provost, (Propstei Nord-Nassau)
- Martin Westerheide, pastor, director of the spiritual armament center Krelingen (Walsrode)
Members
- Christoph Anders, Director, Ev. Missionary work in Germany (Hamburg)
- Matthias Ansorg, Pastor, Community Service of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany (Neudietendorf)
- Michael Diener , President Ev. Gnadauer Community Association (Kassel)
- Thies Gundlach , OKR, Vice President of the Church Office of the EKD (Hanover)
- Katharina Haubold, CVJM / Youth Evangelization Working Group (Kassel / Berlin)
- Michael Klitzke, Managing Director proChrist eV (Kassel)
- Hansjörg Kopp, pastor, general secretary of the YMCA Germany (Kassel)
- Ingo Neserke, Pastor, Office for Missionary Services, Evangelical Church of Westphalia (Dortmund)
- Christoph Nötzel, Pastor, Center for Congregation and Church Development, Missional Church, Ev. Church in the Rhineland (Wuppertal)
- Christine Reizig, pastor, Evangelical Church Anhalt (Dessau)
- Friedrich Rößner, Deacon, Office for Community Service Nuremberg
- Werner Schmückle, (Stuttgart)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b AMD :: Working Group Missionary Services. Retrieved June 18, 2018 .
- ^ Diakonie Deutschland: Missionary Services . In: Infoportal - Diakonie Deutschland . ( diakonie.de [accessed June 18, 2018]).
- ^ Members :: Working Group Missionary Services. Retrieved June 18, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Regional Church Offices :: Working Group Missionary Services. Retrieved June 18, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Freie Werke :: Working Group Missionary Services. Retrieved June 18, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Members of the Confidence Council :: Missionary Services Working Group. Retrieved June 18, 2018 .
- ^ Courses on topics of faith :: Missionary Services Working Group. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 15, 2017 ; accessed on June 18, 2018 . 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.
- ^ AMD - Working Group Missionary Services: Bible Week. October 12, 2014, accessed June 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Focus on the congregation :: Missionary Services Working Group. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 28, 2016 ; accessed on June 18, 2018 . 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.
- ^ Study letter :: Missionary Services Working Group. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 29, 2016 ; accessed on June 18, 2018 . 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.
