Campus for Christ Germany

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Campus for Christ e. V.
(CfC)
CFC-Logo-cmyk.png
purpose Christians win - promote - send
Chair: Andreas Boppart , Kurt Burgherr, Raphael Funck, Andreas Fürbringer, Florian Stielper
Establishment date: 1967
Number of employees: 110
Seat : to water
Website: www.campus-d.de

Campus for Christ e. V. (CfC) is a non-denominational missionary movement . She is a financially independent member of Campus Crusade for Christ International (CCCI, now: CRU). The European level is called Agape Europe .

The campus for Christ Germany, founded in Berlin, has existed since 1967 . V. He became known especially through his student work at universities.

aims

Under the motto "Introducing Christ to the people of our time", CfC works as a missionary movement with various churches, congregations and organizations.

It is the declared goal

  • To win people over to a life with God through word and deed . (Mission)
  • To nurture Christians through mentoring, training and personal help . ( Discipleship )
  • to multiply the message of Jesus Christ and send more co-workers . (Send missionaries to new cities.)

Campus for Christ works on the faith basis of the German Evangelical Alliance . The registered association is a member of the evangelical network-m , the Working Group Missionary Services (AMD) of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) and is affiliated with the Diaconal Work of the Evangelical Church.

history

CCCI was founded in 1951 at the University of California, Los Angeles in the USA by the then businessman Bill Bright . According to Bright's own statement, first and foremost, students, as future key figures in society, wanted to “invite them to a life with God” in order to ultimately reach everyone.

At the beginning CCCI was a pure student work with the aim of world mission. With around 60 branches of work, the organization is now one of the world's largest mission organizations. In 2008, CCCI had 25,000 full-time missionaries and trained 225,000 volunteers around the world.

Campus Crusade vigorously opposed the then growing opposition to Ronald Reagan's Central American policy. The years 1978 and 1979 were determined by intensive evangelism work by the local "Alfa y Omega" (name of Campus Crusade in Latin America), many new members were won. They saw themselves as " shock troops " with a role in an ideological struggle: Communism and theology of liberation should be pushed back and liberal pastors discredited.

Bill Bright received the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, endowed with $ 1.1 million in 1996 . In 2000, Bright appointed Steve Douglass to succeed him as President, the move taking place in August 2001. The US branch of the organization was renamed Cru in 2012 .

CCCI calls on its branches in the various countries to national opinion leadership and self-determination.

American CfC employees first came into contact with German Christians in 1966 at the “World Congress for Evangelism”. In 1967 the “Campus Crusade for Christ e. V. ”(literally: Crusade for Christ on the university campus) in Germany and later in“ Campus für Christus e. V. ”because the word“ Kreuzzug ”has a strong negative connotation in the German-speaking area in contrast to the American“ Crusade ” . Student work, as one of many areas of work, began at the universities in Freiburg and Berlin. From West Germany it worked unofficially in East Germany as the "Matthäus-Arbeit" during the GDR era. In 2015 this work area was renamed Campus Connect . Campus Connect is available at 23 universities in Germany with 40 full-time and 600 volunteer employees.

Today, CfC in Germany has around 110 employees in various work areas. The head office is in Giessen not far from the campus of the university there.

The management of CfC consists of a head of mission and a managing director. Campus leaders for Christ were:

  • Frank Kifer (1966–1968)
  • Dennis Griggs (1968–1976)
  • John Nyquist (1976-1977)
  • Clark Peddicord (1977-1984)
  • Hans-Joachim Hahn (1984–1989)
  • Pastor Jürgen Steinbach (1989–1992)
  • Duane Conrad (1992-2006)
  • Clemens Schweiger (2006-2019)
  • Andreas Boppart (since 2019).

There is also “Campus for Christ” in Switzerland . CfC Switzerland publishes the non-denominational magazine “Amen”.

Branches of work

The work area with the largest audience is the Jesus Project. With the help of the campus' own film about Jesus based on the Gospel of Luke , it wants to provide information and promote faith . The film has been translated into more than 1000 languages. All work areas are supported by our own publishing house, Campus für Christus , with most publications being published by ourselves.

A selection of around 60 work areas worldwide:

  • Athletes in Action (AiA) is a work project among professional athletes.
  • Marriage and Family conducts marriage weekends and aims to help strengthen marriages and help them establish themselves in faith.
  • The Campus Connect student work is at the heart of the movement.
  • Living Vocation (until 2010: Matthew work ) trains volunteer workers for congregations through seminars and personal support.
  • Crescendo wants to invite classical professional musicians to believe in Jesus Christ.
  • The team of academics wants to bring the Christian worldview to the fore in the academic space.
  • Campus for Christ's "message" is recognized by the United Nations as a non-governmental organization.
  • Global Aid Network gGmbH (GAiN) is an international aid organization and, as a partner of Campus for Christ, provides humanitarian aid worldwide.

criticism

The campus group in Chemnitz was criticized in 2005 by Gaynial , a Chemnitz group for homosexual and bisexual students. Campus for Christ had distributed a CD that dealt with 30 topics related to student life on over 500 HTML pages and recommended one on the evangelical-conservative organization Wuestenstrom among several hundred Internet links . Gaynial saw this as a recommendation to cure homosexuality. The editors of the CD distanced themselves from this interpretation.

In autumn 2007 the forum for men in Saxony offered a seminar “Homosexuality: unchangeable - changeable?” As part of the “Day for Men in Saxony from 9 to 90”. One of the two speakers stated that he had experienced a change in his homosexuality towards heterosexuality, although when asked, he said that he had found women sexually attractive before. The LSVD Saxony criticized the recommended literature as deficient in homosexuals and propagating therapies to change sexual preference.

Publications

Periodicals

  • ! mpulse. For contagious faith (from year 2008, issue 4), frequency of publication: quarterly
    • previous titles: Impulse (1978–1985), Impulse for Missionary Christianity (1986–2008, volume 3)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Justin Wilford: Sacred Subdivisions: The Postsuburban Transformation of American Evangelicalism. NYU Press, New York 2012, ISBN 978-0-8147-2535-1 , p. 36
  2. ↑ Bethany Moreton: To serve God and Walmart. The making of Christian free enterprise , Harvard 2009, p. 224
  3. ↑ Pablo A. Deiros: Protestant Fundamentalism in Latin America . In: Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby (eds.): Fundamentalisms Observed (The Fundamentalism project; v. 1) , Chicago / London 1991 , p. 163
  4. ^ Templeton Price: Previous Winners
  5. ↑ Milestones: 2000 - Present ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2012 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. on www.cru.org @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cru.org
  6. ↑ Press release Cru - The name of Campus Crusade for Christ in the US ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2012 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. , June 2, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / demossnews.com
  7. ↑ "Campus for Christ" renames student work , idea.de, message from August 27, 2015.
  8. ↑ Campus for Christ Switzerland .
  9. ↑ https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?query=vlg+all+%22campus+f%C3%BCr+christus%22&method=simpleSearch
  10. ↑ Current. Campus for Christ, archived from the original on July 16, 2010 ; Retrieved on July 16, 2010 : "Start of name change 20 years after the Wall came up with a name: Matthew's work becomes" vocation living ""
  11. ^ United Nations : DPI / NGO Directory , accessed October 14, 2008.
  12. ↑ Permalink: http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/stud/religion/cfc/cms/content/view/25/45/ ( Memento from May 19, 2008 on WebCite )
  13. ^ Opinion. Forum for Men in Saxony, archived from the original on October 14, 2008 ; Retrieved September 27, 2010 .
  14. ↑ Report Men's Day. Men's Labor Saxony, archived from the original on October 14, 2008 ; Retrieved October 14, 2008 .
  15. ↑ a b LSVD Sachsen e. V., HuK Chemnitz / Erzgebirge e. V., Human Traffic e. V .: Erlebnisbericht-Campus_fuer_Christus.pdf , undated.
  16. ^ LSVD Saxony: Psychological violence is not pastoral care! dated January 2, 2008.
  17. ^ LSVD Saxony: Press release of the LSVD Saxony of October 17, 2007