German East Asia Mission

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The German East Asia Mission (DOAM) is a German Evangelical Lutheran mission association . The geographic field of operations of the association was initially China and Japan , later Korea was added. The German East Asia Mission is a member of the Evangelical Mission in Southwest Germany .

history

Mission Middle School in Tsingtao, 1925

The East Asia Mission (OAM) was founded on June 4, 1884 by the Swiss Protestant clergyman Ernst Buss as a General Evangelical Protestant Mission Association in Weimar . Under “general” one understood the church-political non-partisanship and supranationality as well as the openness towards all church groups. From 1885 Pastor Wilfried Spinner was the first missionary to Japan in Tokyo and Yokohama and Ernst Faber was the first missionary to China in Shanghai and later in Tsingtau . The East Asia Mission used the term “ literary mission ” to which the missionary activity of the philosophically very knowledgeable Ernst Faber fit perfectly.

While there were still 60 associations in Germany in 1887 that raised donations for missionary work, by 1896 in the Palatinate alone - where the focus of the homeland work of the East Asia Mission lay - the number increased to 140 supporting congregations.

During the Second World War the Swiss and German branches of the East Asia Mission became increasingly distant, and in 1948 the German East Asia Mission (DOAM) and the Swiss East Asia Mission (SOAM) separated for good. When Germany was divided, another branch was founded in the GDR .

In China the missionary work had to be completely stopped due to political developments in 1952; Christian communities in Japan, on the other hand, still exist today.

In 1972 the German East Asia Mission was involved in the founding of the Evangelical Mission in Southwest Germany and in 1974 in the Berlin Mission . So she was involved in the Evangelical Mission in Germany . From 1992 onwards, contacts with the Freundeskreis in the former GDR, which had arisen from the branch association after the division, were also resumed and integrated into the joint work.

The entire archive of the German East Asia Mission has been in the central archive of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate since 1977 . It includes 3000 glass pictures, 1500 photos, 1000 clichés and files over 14 meters.

To mark the 120th anniversary of the East Asia Mission, an exhibition entitled “International - intercultural - interreligious. Pictures and texts from the East Asia Mission (1884–2004) ”.

Individual evidence

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Commons : Deutsche Ostasienmission  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files