Professional mission

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A professional mission (older term: status mission ) is an association that has set itself the goal of talking to members of certain professional groups about questions of the Christian faith and offering practical help. The majority of the professional missions see themselves as non-denominational, but a not insignificant minority, which is mainly assigned to the Catholic area, work in close confessional ties.

history

In the medieval church, various professions and craft guilds gathered around a patron saint . From this, so-called brotherhoods developed with the aim of securing a special blessing through the intercession of the respective patron saint and promoting the spiritual life within the respective profession.

In the older pietism of the 17th century there are loose associations of devout craftspeople who can be seen as forerunners of the later evangelical professional missions. German journeyman craftsmen were responsible for free church missionary work in the middle of the 19th century and became founders of many Baptist and Methodist congregations on their travels .

Protestant vocational missions in the true sense of the word did not emerge until the last third of the 19th century as a result of the revival movement that had spread primarily in England , the Netherlands , Switzerland and Germany . The waiter mission is one of the oldest professional missions . It was created in 1872 in Cannes in the south of France , where the German parish office of the Evangelical Church had set up a waiter's home for "morally and mentally endangered hotel employees". In 1893, a missionary waiter in Frankfurt am Main created the first German waiter mission, the nucleus of the International Christian Waiter Association founded in 1906 with branches in Switzerland and England. Further professional missions in the initial phase were the inland navigation mission (founded in Berlin in 1877) and the baker mission (founded in 1889, also in Berlin). The roots of the German seaman's mission lie in the first seaman's home built by Johann Hinrich Wichern in Bremen in 1854 .

An important starting point for the formation of the Catholic professional missions was the effectiveness of priest Adolph Kolping (1813–1865) and the journeyman's associations that he initiated and that led to the establishment of the Kolping Society .

More recently, in addition to the professional world, the leisure time and the hobby of working people have come into the focus of the professional missions. A number of independent organizations emerged. Examples of this are athletes calling athletes , the Christian model railway team , Ichtues - Christians in golf , the bible bikers . as well as the evangelical-free church kite sports association Ewigkite.

Goals and working methods

The vocational missions initially focused on members of those professions who, due to their working hours, were only able to take advantage of the church's event offers irregularly or not at all. This included seafarers, employees in the hotel and restaurant trade, as well as bakers and showmen. Another goal of these popular missionary efforts were working people who, in the era of industrialization , streamed from the countryside and from the small towns to the big cities, where they became the proletariat . In addition to special offers that responded to the needs of this group, various professional missions also led to the founding of special diaconal associations that became the sponsors of dormitories and schools for adult education. Literature work also became an important branch of the professional missions' work.

Another aim of the career missions is to bring members of the same or similar occupational fields into contact with one another and to offer them a platform for exchanging ideas about job-specific problems. The regular local meetings and national meetings and conferences serve this purpose.

Many professional missions also see missionary discussions with colleagues, business partners and customers who are distant from their faith, as well as guidance and help, as one of their important tasks.

Professional missions in selection

Logo der Christisten in der Wirtschaft e. V.
Stand of the German Seamen's Mission at the 32nd German Evangelical Church Congress 2009 in Bremen at the Europahafen
Campus for Christ logo

Working people in general

Craft

Services

  • Waiter mission (today: Church service in the hospitality industry )
  • Berlin inn mission

economy

Healthcare

  • Christians in Health Care
  • Catholic medical work in Germany
  • KÄM - Circle of Catholic Doctors Munich - nationwide
  • Association of Christian alternative practitioners

military

Sea and inland shipping

Truck driver

  • Truckermission Cafe on Tour

Circus and showman trades

  • Catholic circus and showman pastoral care
  • Circus and showman mission (today: circus and showman pastoral care )

Artist

  • Community of Christian Artists
  • Community of Christian Magicians V.

Public service

Christian Police Association logo

Academics

campus

Student Mission Logo

literature

  • Paulus Scharpff: History of evangelism. Three hundred years of evangelism in Germany, Great Britain and the USA , Giessen and Basel ²1980, ISBN 3-7655-2214-7 , pp. 273–281.
  • Paul Gerhard Möller: professional missions . In: Erich Geldbach (Ed.): Evangelisches Gemeindelexikon . Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1978, ISBN 978-3-417-24566-0 , p. 59, column 2 - p. 61, column 1.
  • Karl Holl: The history of the word occupation , in: Collected essays on church history, Vol. III, 1928, pp. 169-219.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Gerhard Möller: Professional missions . In: Erich Geldbach (Ed.): Evangelisches Gemeindelexikon . Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1978, ISBN 978-3-417-24566-0 , p. 59, column 2 - p. 61, column 1.
  2. ↑ In the Roman Catholic people's mission, status mission is a missionary event aimed at members of certain age- or gender-specific groups. Compare with: Franz Xaver Bischof : Volksmissions. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 30, 2013. Retrieved August 23, 2017 .
  3. ↑ For example: Association of Catholic Doctors in Germany - short . In: bkae.org . Retrieved August 23, 2017.
  4. ↑ See list of patrons in connection with work and profession
  5. ^ Paul Gerhard Möller: Professional missions . In: Erich Geldbach (Ed.): Evangelisches Gemeindelexikon . Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1978, ISBN 978-3-417-24566-0 , p. 60, column II.
  6. ↑ Official website of the German Baptists (historical background) - quote: "Above all, the traveling craftsmen have contributed a lot to the expansion of the Baptist congregations." ( Memento of February 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Paul Gerhard Möller: Professional missions . In: Erich Geldbach (Ed.): Evangelisches Gemeindelexikon . Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1978, ISBN 978-3-417-24566-0 , p. 59, column II.
  8. ↑ Later name: Christian guest house mission , today: Missionary service in the hotel and restaurant industry ; Paul Gerhard Möller: professional missions . In: Erich Geldbach (Ed.): Evangelisches Gemeindelexikon . Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1978, ISBN 978-3-417-24566-0 , p. 61, column I.
  9. ^ Homepage of SRS - Sportler ruft Sportler eV ; Accessed May 19, 2010
  10. ^ Homepage of the christian model railway team eV ; Accessed May 19, 2010
  11. ^ Homepage of Christians in Golf ; Accessed May 19, 2010
  12. ↑ Homepage of the BIBLE BIKER ( Memento of the original from September 12, 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. ; Accessed May 19, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bibel-biker.de
  13. ↑ Ewigkite.de: Idea ; accessed on May 6, 2015
  14. ^ Paul Gerhard Möller: Professional missions . In: Erich Geldbach (Ed.): Evangelisches Gemeindelexikon . Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1978, ISBN 978-3-417-24566-0 , p. 60 f; many professional missions publish their own journals; For example: Lebensbrot , young baker (baker's mission), waiter's messenger (today: the messenger in German, Serbo-Croatian, French, Spanish and Italian; waiter's mission), Christ-Post (Christian postal association), route and destination (Christians on the railway)
  15. ↑ Gottfried Bohl: Article washing, cutting, praying ... , in: Church messenger of the Diocese of Osnabrück 22/2006; Quote: "According to Schuh's observations, the conversation in the barber's chair is easier than elsewhere. Whether with marital crises, illnesses or problems with the children - the customer can" slowly open up "when cutting or perming.
  16. ^ Website of the Christian Bakers and Confectioners Association ; Accessed September 3, 2008
  17. ↑ Gottfried Bohl: Article washing, cutting, praying ... , in: Church messenger of the Diocese of Osnabrück 22/2006; the same: Article pastoral care between perm and hair dryer. The Association of Christian Hairdressers is celebrating its centenary , in: Kirchenbote des Diocese Osnabrück 16/2004, p. 3
  18. ^ Website of the Church Service in the Hospitality Industry , Bavarian State Association ; Accessed September 4, 2008
  19. ^ Website of the Berliner Gasthausmission ; Accessed September 4, 2008
  20. ^ Website of the International Association of Christian Business People ; Accessed September 4, 2008.
  21. ^ Website of Christian Businesspeople in Switzerland ; Accessed September 4, 2008.
  22. ^ Homepage of the Christians in BASF ; Accessed August 19, 2010.
  23. ↑ Internet presence of Christians in the automotive industry ; accessed on November 10, 2017
  24. ↑ Internet presence of the Christians at Audi ; viewed on November 10
  25. ↑ Internet presence of the Christians at Daimler ; accessed on November 10, 2017
  26. ↑ Internet presence of the Christians at Volkswagen ; accessed on November 10, 2017
  27. ^ Website of Christians in Health Care , accessed September 4, 2008.
  28. ^ Website of the Catholic Medical Work in Germany ; Accessed September 4, 2008.
  29. ↑ ( page no longer available , searching web archives: website FIGHTING ), accessed on 9 October of 2008.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.katholische-aerzte-muenchen.de
  30. ↑ Website of the Association of Christian Alternative Practitioners , accessed on September 4, 2008.
  31. ↑ Association of the Evangelical Binnenschiffermission (Ed.): 100 Years Church on the Stream , Mannheim 1970.
  32. ↑ Homepage Café on Tour ( Memento of the original from July 7th, 2010 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. ; Accessed July 22, 2013.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cafe-on-tour.com
  33. ^ Website of the Catholic circus and showman pastoral care ; Accessed September 3, 2008.
  34. ^ Page of the Association of Christian Artists , Freiburg (Catholic)
  35. ↑ Homepage of the Community of Christian Magicians: Who are we?
  36. ^ Website of the Christian Post and Telecom Association ; Accessed September 3, 2008.
  37. ^ Website of the Christian Police Association ( memento of December 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 3, 2008.
  38. ↑ Rail Hope: A railway Bible for the DB executive Richard Lutz , idea.de, report of 17 December of 2019.
  39. ↑ Website of the Evangelical Christian Traffic Personnel in Switzerland ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 4, 2008.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ecv-online.ch
  40. ↑ Self-introduction of the study group Word and Knowledge