Bernhard Jansa

Bernhard Jansa (born May 17, 1901 in Leipzig ; † March 3, 1967 in Schönebeck (Elbe) ) was a German Protestant pastor and pastor . He was the householder of the Julius Schniewindhaus, a pastoral care home of the Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony in Schönebeck (Elbe).

Life

Jansa came from a family that had belonged to the Moravian Church for generations and grew up in relatively modest circumstances. At the age of 16 he became an active Christian. His Christianity drove him to social action and he lived for a long time with former prisoners in community of property.

Since it was not financially possible for one of his parents to enable him to study, he became a bookkeeper in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia . There he recognized his gift for preaching the word and leading people, whereupon his long-awaited wish to become a pastor was fulfilled. Pastor Johann Christoph Blumhardt had a strong influence on him with regard to unconditional trust in God and the work of the Holy Spirit .

In Bischofroda , Jansa experienced the hardships of the war as a village pastor. He later became a pastor in Sonneberg (Thuringia). There he gave the Anna-Stift Sisterhood, which had become rootless due to the turmoil of the time, a new field of activity, later also in the Schniewindhaus in Schönebeck (Elbe) where the Schniewind-Haus sisters still exist today. In 1957, on behalf of the Provincial Saxon Church, he took over the management of the " Julius Schniewind House " in Schönebeck (Elbe). In a letter that the house church sent to friends after Pastor Jansa's death, it says, looking back on his work:

"Those who were troubled and burdened were refreshed, those who had failed found new courage to face life, those burdened with guilt experienced forgiveness and renewal, calls to service were recognized and accepted, pastors and church workers received understanding pastoral care and spiritual advice, [...]"

His wife died in the winter of 1966. During an evangelism in the Ore Mountains he suffered a fracture in the femoral neck from a fall and he died during his hospital stay after heart and circulatory problems.

Publications

• Bernhard Jansa: Let's look up to Jesus: devotions . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt GmbH, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-374-00118-1 .
• Bernhard Jansa: He gives everyone consolation and hope: gift ribbons . Johannes Verlag, Lahr 1984, ISBN 3-501-00497-4 .

literature

• The charismatic movement in the GDR . In: EZW orientations and reports . No. 10 . Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauung questions, Stuttgart November 1980, p. 8th ff . ( ekd.de [PDF; 300 kB ; accessed on March 15, 2007]).