Evangelical family working group

The Protestant arbeitsgemeinschaft family eV (af) is the family political umbrella organization of Protestant , family-related institutions and organizations at the federal level , state level and regional church level . The Family Education Forum operates a service point under the eaf umbrella .

activities

The eaf is a registered association recognized as a non-profit and is committed to the needs and social concerns of families in politics and the Evangelical Church . To this end, she works across departments in the policy areas relevant to the family. The association magazine Familienpolitische Informations appears four times a year .

Members of the eaf are regional associations active at the regional church level and nationwide Protestant professional associations. In the Family Education Forum, Protestant family education centers and institutions at the federal level have come together to form a working alliance.

ISSN  0176-9146

history

The Evangelical Action Group for Family Issues, EAF (since 2005 eaf; since 2014 evangelical working group family, eaf) was founded on September 10, 1953 in Bethel.

Cooperation with other family policy associations in the Working Group of German Family Organizations (AGF) developed . From the beginning the Evangelical Church in Germany supported and promoted the work of the EAF; Likewise, it was and is supported by the Diakonisches Werk der EKD / Diakonie Deutschland with professional expertise. Furthermore, the work of the eaf is financially and materially funded by the Federal Ministry of Family

In 1963 the EAF moved to the seat of the federal government in Bonn.

Already in the founding years of the EAF and subsequently in the individual federal states and regional churches, state working groups / state associations for family issues came together, which were incorporated into the EAF as members in 1964. The circle of nationwide professional associations that became members of the EAF also expanded.

In 2002 the EAF federal office moved to the seat of government in the capital Berlin.

In 2014, the family education forum with a service point was created within the eaf. The Family Education Forum leads the field of work of the dissolved Federal Working Group of Evangelical Family Educational Centers and Family Educational Centers (BAG) e. V. continues in a new form. As a result of this expansion in 2014, the “Evangelical Action Group for Family Issues” was renamed “Evangelical Family Working Group”.

literature

Schöningh, Insa (2009). Family as a topic in the reform process of the Protestant churches? Results of a survey in the regional churches and social welfare organizations. In epd documentation 16/2009 (pp. 47–50).

Keil, Siegfried (2005). 50 years of Federal Republican family policy from an evangelical perspective. In Jörg W. Althammer (Ed.), Family Policy and Social Security: Festschrift for Heinz Lampert (pp. 152–182). Bochum: Springer.

Keil, Siegfried (1988). Changes in the relationship between church and family since the beginning of the Federal Republic of Germany using the example of the Protestant church. In Rosemarie Nave-Herz (ed.), Change and Continuity of the Family in the Federal Republic of Germany (pp. 198–221). Stuttgart: Enke.

Learning to Live a Family - Tasks and Problems of Family Education. A report from the practice of the Federal Working Group of Evangelical Family Educational Centers (no year). Federal Association of Protestant Family Education Centers (ed.), 8504 Stein

Web links

• https://www.eaf-bund.de/de/verband/die_eaf
• https://www.eaf-bund.de/familienbildung/ueber_uns/forum_familienbildung

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Protestant working group family. Retrieved July 1, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Members | eaf. Retrieved July 1, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Members Forum Family Education | eaf. Retrieved July 1, 2020 . 
4. ^ AGF: AGF - The member organizations of the AGF. Retrieved July 1, 2020 . 
5. ^ Conference of Church Works and Associations in the EKD (KKWV). Retrieved July 1, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Diakonie Germany: 05.2019: family in transition. Retrieved July 1, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Family education and family counseling. Retrieved July 1, 2020 . 
8. ^ Siegfried Keil: 50 years of federal republican family policy from an evangelical perspective . In: Jörg W. Althammer (ed.): Family policy and social security: Festschrift for Heinz Lampert . Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg, p. 141-169 .
9. ^ Forum family education . Retrieved July 1, 2020 .