DMG interpersonal
DMG interpersonal | |
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legal form | Registered association |
founding | August 12, 1951 |
founder | Hans and Pauline Beck |
Seat | Sinsheim , Germany |
motto | So that people meet God |
main emphasis | Christian aid organization with 405 employees in 80 countries |
method | Ecclesiastical u. social projects, emergency aid, agricultural development, AIDS prevention, training, medical work, help for street children, etc. |
Action space | worldwide |
people | Günther Beck and Andrew Howes |
Employees | 405 |
Website | www.DMGint.de |
The Christian organization DMG interpersonal , based on the Buchenauerhof near Sinsheim - Weiler, is the largest evangelical mission and aid organization in Germany with 405 employees .
aims
The DMG enables young people as well as Christian specialists and theologians to work as missionaries across cultures within the framework of more than 100 international partner organizations and churches in 78 countries around the world. To this end, it offers a short-term assignment program (6–24 months) for young people aged 18 and over, medium-term assignments (two to four years), long-term assignments (from two years) and a "50plus program" that enables older Christians, people to help in other countries with their experience and professional knowledge.
The employees want to live the Gospel in word and deed, alleviate hardship, help people holistically, contribute to the spread of the Christian faith and to the development of Christian communities in the countries of assignment on four continents. This happens in close partnership and cooperation with local people, churches and Christian organizations.
Work areas
The employees work around the globe in the following areas: "Building Christian communities, pioneering work, theological teaching service, children, youth and student missions, emergency aid, hunger relief, linguistic research, Bible translation , literature production, evangelism , radio missions, medical services, agricultural development aid , Flight service, AIDS and hygiene advice, help for street children, training of teachers, nursing staff, educators, etc. "
history
Hans and Pauline Beck founded the "German Mission Community, Association for Charity e. V. “(DMG) at a mission conference in 1951 in Beatenberg (Switzerland), together with other participants. For Hans Beck, this step was also a thank you that God had kept him in World War II. The organization had its first home headquarters in a small attic apartment in Stuttgart-Korntal. As the first foreign employee, Helmut Gaertner was sent to Spain in 1953, where he produced Christian radio broadcasts. Gaertner was later involved in founding the ERF in Germany. As early as the 1960s, DMG had around 100 employees working around the world. In 1971 the Christian aid organization moved to the Buchenauerhof in Sinsheim. Today around 400 people are employed in various projects around the world. Over time, the DMG built up a network of partnerships with more than 100 churches and nonprofit organizations around the world, in whose projects and areas of responsibility it places Christians with a sending congregation in Germany as employees. In January 2014 the DMG was renamed DMG interpersonal. The new logo was combined with the slogan “So that people meet God”.
Pastor Günther Beck (previously Head of Public Relations) and Andrew Howes (Human Resources Manager Africa) have been running the plant as a tandem in succession to the previous Director and first Chairman Detlef Blöcher since May 2018 .
Worldwide cooperation
In cooperation with 105 local parishes and international partner organizations and aid agencies, DMG employees work in the following countries and parts of the world:
- Europe: Albania, Belgium, Germany, France, Greece, Italy, Croatia, Netherlands, Austria, Eastern Europe in general, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, Slovakia, Spain, the Czech Republic and the Ukraine.
- Asia: India, Indonesia, Japan, the Orient, East Asia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Thailand and Central Asia.
- Africa: Angola, Ethiopia, Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Cameroon, Kenya, DR Congo, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, North Africa, Zambia, Senegal, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Swaziland, Uganda, Tanzania and Chad .
- America: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Haiti, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and the USA.
In addition, around 50 short-term employees and volunteers are currently working around the world through DMG.
The employees come from Protestant regional and free churches as well as various Christian communities from around 20 countries, most of them from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. These Christian communities send their employees to other cultures (ideally); in terms of labor law, the employees belong to DMG.
membership
DMG is a member of netzwerk-m and the Working Group Evangelical Missions (AEM). She is committed to the guiding principles of the Evangelical Alliance . This binds them in theological terms and in the principles governing the use of donations. In detail, this means, among other things: “Donations are used in such a way that the statutory purposes are achieved with the greatest possible effectiveness and economy, taking economic aspects into account. The fundraising campaign must be true, clear and factual. It has to uphold human dignity. General and specifically earmarked donations are to be used in accordance with the statutory and actual provisions. No donor or circle of friends addresses are bought, sold, rented, rented or exchanged for fundraising purposes. "
Honors
- Dietrich Schmoll , who worked for the DMG medical service for many years , received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .
- The DMG mission doctor Ursula Schmitz, who died in 2009 and worked for 20 years in the Christian Hospital Tank in north-east Pakistan, was posthumously awarded the Republic of Pakistan’s highest order of merit in 2010 .
- The theologian Andreas Hahn from DMG, who works in Wroclaw , was honored with the Johann Tobias Beck Prize 2010 from the Working Group for Evangelical Theology in December 2010 . The award is endowed with 1000 euros in prize money.
- The former DMG missionary Rose Schwarz received the Federal Cross of Merit for high services to the common good, especially for her work in the AIDS orphan project “Neema ya Mungu” (Through God's Help) in Kenya , which today looks after around 600 orphans .
Publications
- DMG-informed magazine , circulation: 44,000, distribution mainly in Central Europe, also as an e-paper
- Books and audio books for children and adults
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.dmgint.de/ueber-uns/wer-wir-sind/geschichte-der-dmg.html
- ↑ www.dmgint.de , accessed on May 31, 2019
- ↑ IdeaSpektrum , edition 11.2015, p. 13.
- ↑ The new DMG logo. Retrieved May 28, 2014 .
- ↑ epd Südwest - April 21 to May 20, 2007. Evangelical press service , archived from the original on June 22, 2009 ; Retrieved on October 18, 2014 (in the section: “Experience mission and make it come alive”): “On May 13, the DMG, as one of the largest evangelical mission organizations in Germany, is offering a“ World Mission Experience Day ”at Buchenauerhof, the DMG announced. "
- ↑ Description ( Memento from March 25, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) at the Working Group of Evangelical Missions
- ↑ International partner organizations
- ↑ Self-description on www.dmgint.de: Who we are
- ↑ Presented here: http://www.kurzeinsaetze.de/
- ↑ See http://www.dmgint.de/einsaetze.html
- ↑ E.g. the Kale Heywat Church in Ethiopia
- ↑ According to self-statement on dmgint.de .
- ↑ For example, after the severe earthquake in Haiti in January 2010, self-description on www.dmgint.de: Erdbebennothilfe Haiti ( memento from January 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) or Haiti: "I am saved, the little girl calls, I am saved" , Report in the Ärzte Zeitung
- ^ For example, the construction of a deaf center in Central Asia, see: DMG website .
- ↑ Self-description on www.dmgint.de: Who we are
- ↑ Project news at DMG.
- ↑ DMG - we introduce ourselves , accessed on July 1, 2020.
- ^ History of the DMG. Retrieved May 28, 2014 .
- ↑ Change at the top of the Missionswerk DMG interpersonal , idea.de, report from April 22, 2018.
- ↑ z. B. Serving In Mission (SIM; PDF; 1.7 MB) ( Memento from November 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ SIM Links that Liberate: Partners in Sending - DMG Germany. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 7, 2010 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ DMG (09/2016): Employees 2016/2017. Pages 3–8.
- ^ Activity according to Factum ( memento of October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) in the 1970s.
- ↑ DMG (09/2016): Employees 2016/2017. Pages 9-11.
- ↑ https://www.dmgint.de/nachrichten/nachrichten-details/neun-jahre-das-ziel-vor-augen.html
- ↑ Brief description at Malawi-Bible.net ( Memento from November 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ DMG (09/2016): Employees 2016/2017. Pages 12-15.
- ↑ DMG (09/2016): Employees 2016/2017. Pages 16-20.
- ↑ https://www.dmgint.de/nachrichten/nachrichten-details/jahresrueckblick-2018-ein-herzliches-danke.html
- ^ Membership list ( memorial from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) of the RMJ
- ^ Institutional list of members of the German Evangelical Alliance.
- ↑ German Ev. Allianz - Donation Seal: Principles for the use of donated funds and public relations. Retrieved August 2, 2010 .
- ^ Cross of merit on ribbon for Dietrich Schmoll. State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg, archived from the original on June 28, 2010 ; Retrieved June 28, 2010 .
- ↑ Ev. News agency idea - Pakistan: Missionary doctor honored posthumously with the highest order. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 3, 2010 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ^ Johann Tobias Beck Prize - The winners and their work. Retrieved June 9, 2018 . . Andreas Hahn received the award for his work: Canon Hebraeorum - Canon Ecclesiae. On the deutero-canonical question in the context of the justification of Old Testament scriptural canonicality in more recent Roman Catholic dogmatics (= Studies on Theology and the Bible, Volume 2). LIT-Verlag, Berlin, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-90013-5
- ↑ Download the journal as PDF