Detlef Krause

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Detlef Krause in 2010

Detlef Krause (born September 13, 1952 in Engelbostel near Hanover) is a German missionary , evangelical theologian , pastor of the Württemberg regional church and was director of the Liebenzeller Mission from 2003 to 2017 .

Live and act

Krause grew up with his two older brothers in Engelbostel. His father from Silesia and his mother from Pomerania moved to Hanover as refugees. After his parents divorced, he first came to a children's home in Hanover and, at the age of ten, to foster parents in Völksen . After completing secondary school, an apprenticeship as a gardener in Hameln and obtaining the technical college entrance qualification , he worked for two years as a development worker in Puno , Peru , through the German Development Service. From 1975 to 1980 he studied theology at the theological seminar of the Liebenzeller Mission . From 1981 he worked as a missionary in Manus (Papua New Guinea), where he married in 1982. Part of his missionary congregation work was the establishment of a parish district as well as the establishment and management of the theological training facility Maria Molnar Bible Training Center . He became division team leader of the Liebenzell Missionaries and adviser to the Evangelical Church of Manus (ECOM). In 1992 he graduated from Biola University , a private Christian university in the US state of California, with an MA in Intercultural Studies . From 1995 onwards, as Mission Director, succeeding Ernst Vatter , he was in charge of foreign work at the headquarters of the Liebenzeller Mission in Bad Liebenzell and, in 2003, succeeded Hanspeter Wolfsberger as its director. He was introduced during the Whitsun Mission Festival, where the bishop of the Württemberg regional church, Gerhard Maier , also awarded him the title of pastor. He held this office until December 2017. From 1995 to 2008 he was a lecturer in missiology at the theological seminar of the Liebenzeller Mission. Until 2017 he was the leader of the Missionsberg congregation there .

Krause promotes a changed understanding of mission . According to him, mission has nothing to do with sectarian expansions on the part of Christians. “Mission means calling people to personal faith in Jesus Christ. And that is also necessary in Germany. What has not changed is that mission always also has a diaconal and social component. Missionaries continued to this day for better living conditions. However, the motive of the actors must remain clear in every engagement, namely the transmission of God's love ”.

Until his retirement in 2017, he was on the board of the Gnadau community association , from 2014 chairman of Hilfe für Brüder , member of the association committee of the Liebenzeller community association , and a sought-after speaker at many conferences and meetings such as Christ's Day or the youth conference for world missions .

In March 2014, Krause was invited to a top-level discussion with Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann on the controversial Baden-Württemberg education plan 2015 , where he and other church representatives such as Steffen Kern , Hartmut Steeb , EKD council member Tabea Dölker, chairman of the main committee of the Baden state synod, Pastor Theo Breisacher, Pastor Gerrit Hohage from the Baden Christ Movement, the then Rector of the Albrecht Bengel House, Rolf Sons , the Director of the Christian Guest Center Schönblick, Martin Scheuermann and the head of the Friedrich Hauß Study Center, Pastor Udo Zansinger for a revision of the current working paper began. He encourages joining the "For Freedom and Self-Determination" Declaration and responding to attacks attempting to curtail Christians on constitutionally guaranteed freedoms.

Private

Detlef Krause is married to Beate. The couple have four sons and live in retirement in Maisenbach (Bad Liebenzell) .

Publications

  • with Karl Kalmbach : Winding paths in Papua: how God writes history. Experience reports from missionaries in Papua New Guinea (1955–2011) , SCM Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-7751-5339-3 .
  • Co-author: Leuchtstoff 2: 62 devotions to the annual slogans 1939-2000 , Born-Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-87092-497-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Von Mensch zu Mensch , talk group with Detlef Krause ( memento from November 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), swp.de
  2. ↑ The calling . In: Winding Paths in Papua: How God Writes History , 2011, p. 113ff.
  3. ^ Pastor Detlef Krause new director of the Liebenzeller Mission ( memento of April 25, 2003 in the Internet Archive ), liebezell.org.
  4. ^ Official change of staff at the head of the Liebenzeller Mission , idea.de, report from January 14, 2018.
  5. ^ Lecturer at the Theological Seminary ( Memento from July 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), liebezell.org
  6. ^ Krause: Vita ( Memento from October 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Head of the Missionsberg congregation ( Memento from May 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), missionsberggemeinde.de
  8. ↑ Mission - Invitation to Believe Something Immoral? ( Memento of July 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), idea.de
  9. ↑ Liebenzeller Mission also calls for faith in Jesus in Germany ( memento of March 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), schneider-breitenbrunn.de
  10. ↑ Declaration by the Evangelical Gnadauer Community Association ( Memento from March 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), gnadauer.de
    We are a missionary organization and we want to remain one , openbroadcast.de
  11. ↑ Steering Committee Help for Brothers e. V. ( Memento of December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), gottes-liebe-weltweit.de
    Information on personnel changes: ideaSpektrum , edition 22/2017, p. 9.
  12. ↑ Member of the Association Committee of the Liebenzeller Community Association ( Memento from March 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), lgv.org
  13. ^ "Tolerance - Mission - Freedom" , sermon on the motto of the Pentecost Mission Festival ( Memento from March 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), erf.de
  14. ↑ Speaker at the men's day of the Liebenzeller community association ( Memento from March 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), schwarzwaelder-bote.de
  15. ↑ Christmas Day with Pastor Krause ( Memento from March 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), swp.de
  16. ^ "Marble, stone and iron breaks ..." , address at the youth conference for world missions in Stuttgart ( Memento from March 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), erf.de
  17. ↑ Kretschmann: Keine Verinnungslehrplan ( Memento from March 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), lebige-gemeinde.de
  18. ↑ Top discussion on the education plan: Evangelicals hope for improvement ( Memento of March 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), idea.de
  19. ^ Committee declaration for the APS Congress in Marburg ( Memento from March 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), lgv.org
  20. ↑ Winding paths in Papua (PDF; 1644kB) , excerpt from scm-haenssler.de
predecessor Office successor
Hanspeter Wolfsberger Director of the Liebenzeller Mission
2003–2017 		Johannes Luithle
personal data
SURNAME Krause, Detlef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krause, Detlef Helmut Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German evangelical theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Engelbostel