German Inland Mission

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The German Inland Mission (DIM) was founded on April 28, 1962 by Jochen Lagemann . The purpose of the foundation was to provide a spiritual home for young Christians through the planting of churches.

history

The work of the German Inland Mission began with mission camps in Holstein under the direction of Jochen Lagemann. This became a plant with numerous employees.

The German Inland Mission has worked evangelistically and church-planting on the basis of the Evangelical Alliance since it was founded . After two identity crises (1990 and 1995), the plant was fundamentally reoriented. The foundation of the church based on the fraternal environment and a redefinition of the strategy for church planting were essential . The focus on church planting is based both on the New Testament mandate (Mt 28: 18-20) and on the social, cultural and spiritual situation in Germany. From 1967–2003, DIM ran the family holiday home “Haus Heidkate” on Schönberger Strand and from 1962–2004 a kindergarten in Laboe.

Church planting

Completed church plantings

  • Arnsberg: 1996-2004, with the employee Baptist church become
  • Attendorn: 1993–1996, changed to the Barmer tent mission with employees
  • Berenbostel: 1988–1990, move to Garbsen
  • Buchenau (near Zwiesel): 1974–1975, affiliation to a Pentecostal church in Deggendorf
  • Fallingbostel: 1970–1986, independent regional church community
  • Garbsen: 1990–2003, autonomous parish of the fraternal community
  • Garmisch-Partenkirchen: 1973–1976, handed over to the Free Evangelical Congregation
  • Gemünd / Eifel: 1973–1984, since then Evangelical Free Church Congregation
  • Großburgwedel: 1982–1987, Free Church Community from 1987. Cooperation with DIM until 1996
  • Großmoor (near Celle): 1973–1975, some went to Nienhagen
  • Kaufbeuren / Allgäu: 1965–1969, Free Evangelical Congregation
  • Laboe: 1967–1984, independent as a branch of the Evangelical Free Church Congregation
  • Kiel-Elmschenhagen in Heikendorf
  • Lütjenburger Land: 1964–1970, partly to the Baptist congregation in Lütjenburg
  • Mannheim: 1995–2004, autonomous parish of the fraternal community
  • Mindelheim: 1990–2000 autonomous parish of the fraternal community
  • Murnau / Obb .: 1976–1980, Free Community Murnau
  • Nienhagen (near Celle): 1975–1984, Free Evangelical Congregation
  • Papenburg: 1986–2000, autonomous community of fraternal congregation
  • Preetz: 1965–1967, Allianz Group
  • Schönberg: 1962–1967, today independent as the Christian community Schönberg / Baltic Sea
  • Vogelsang: 1982–1996, moved from Vogelsang as a Free Community to Kappeln / Schlei.
  • Wahlstedt: 1981–2003, autonomous community of the fraternal congregation

Church planting initiatives

  • Berlin (3)
  • Bodenwerder
  • Booed
  • cottbus
  • Dams
  • Heinsberg
  • Hettstedt
  • Leipzig
  • Obergünzburg
  • regensburg

aims

DIM pursues the goal of leading people to Jesus Christ and enabling Christians to live in a community. The established churches are based on the standards of the Bible, appoint church elders and live the spiritual principle of the "general priesthood". DIM employs full-time and part-time employees to achieve these goals. Church planting is understood to mean the formation of a free church. Jesus Christ is to be the center of church life . The theology, structure, and life of the church are the responsibility of the church planter. The mission agency only provides minimal help in the form of a “guide for church planting”.

See also

literature

  • Art. German Inland Mission (DIM) , in: Ingrid Reimer, Handbook of evangelistic missionary works and institutions in the Federal Republic. Individual presentations - overviews - addresses, Stuttgart 1979, p. 78 f.
  • Art. German Inland Mission (DIM) , in: Handbook of evangelistic missionary works, institutions and communities. Germany - Austria - Switzerland, ed. v. Reinhard Hempelmann, completely revised. Ed., Stuttgart 1997, pp. 118f. ISBN 3-7675-7763-1 .
  • Art. German Inland Mission (DIM) in: Georg Schmid (Ed.), Churches, Sekten, Religionen, 2003, Theological Publishing House Zurich, p. 118, ISBN 3-290-17215-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oswald Eggenberger: The churches, special groups and religious associations. A manual. Zurich 1994, p. 87.