Evangelical association for the Schneller schools

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The Evangelical Association for the Schneller Schools eV (EVS) is a registered association. The office is based in Stuttgart .

The EVS supports and accompanies the work of the Johann Ludwig Schneller School in Lebanon (Khirbet Kanafar) and the Theodor Schneller School in Jordan ( Amman ).

The EVS is one of the 28 members of the Evangelical Mission in Solidarity eV (EMS) . The EMS is an association of 23 churches and five mission societies in ten countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe. She is committed to worldwide mission and church cooperation.

history

In 1860, Christian Friedrich Spittler commissioned Johann Ludwig Schneller from Württemberg to found an orphanage in Jerusalem. Christian children who had lost their parents in the religious unrest in Lebanon and Syria should be accepted. Schneller traveled to the then province of Syria and came to Jerusalem in November 1860 with nine children. This was the beginning of the Syrian Orphanage .

In 1889 the " Evangelical Association for the Syrian Orphanage " was founded in Cologne to support and support the facilities in the Middle East. With the help of donations from Germany, the orphanage was continuously expanded. At the end of the 19th century, the Syrian orphanage was already housing over 200 children. After Johann Ludwig Schneller's death in 1896, his son Theodor and later his grandson Hermann continued the orphanage. At the beginning of the Second World War, however, the German institution in Jerusalem was closed and was not allowed to continue even after the re-establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.

Theodor Schneller's sons decided to continue the work in the neighboring Arab states. In 1951 Hermann went to Amman with seven children and then to the Lebanese Bekaa plain . Not far from Zahlé , in Khirbêt Qanafâr (Khirbet Kanafar), the Johann Ludwig Schneller School (JLSS) was opened on March 24, 1952 . Today it is worn by the National Evangelical Church of Beirut (NECB).

Ernst Schneller, who took over the management of the Evangelical Association for the Syrian Orphanage in Cologne from his uncle Ludwig Schneller in 1949, was one of the initiators of the Theodor Schneller School (TSS) in Amman, Jordan on November 11, 1966. He left Cologne for this purpose to Amman. Today the TSS is sponsored by the Bishop of the Episcopal Church of Jerusalem and the Middle East .

In 1994 the Evangelical Association for the Syrian Orphanage was renamed " Evangelical Association for the Schneller Schools eV ".

The association currently has 296 members.

Areas of activity

The EVS supports and promotes the work of the Schneller schools in the Middle East as well as the associated work in the parishes and the care of the friends' groups.

The task is in particular to enable children in need in the Schneller schools to be educated, as well as to provide school and vocational training. This is done by accompanying the sponsoring churches in their responsibility and contributing to the further development of the schools.

The association is a founding member of the Evangelical Mission in Solidarity (EMS) and sees its work as part of the worldwide ecumenical relationships in the EMS fellowship. The EVS therefore works closely with the EMS office, the management of the EMS member churches in the Middle East and the Schneller schools. In addition, the association coordinates its support with the Swiss Association for the Fast Schools in the Middle East (SVS) and the Friends of the United States of America.

The Schneller Foundation - Education for Peace

On November 11th 2007 the EVS founded the " Schneller Foundation - Education for Peace ". The income is intended to secure the future of the two Schneller schools in the long term. When it was founded, the foundation capital was 1,085,000 euros. Thanks to numerous endowments, it was able to be increased to almost two million euros (as of 2019).

As is usual with a foundation , only the income from the endowments may be used for the work of the Schneller schools. In particular, Christian peace education, as it is practiced today in both schools, is to be promoted. The peaceful coexistence and mutual tolerance of the different religions and traditions is an essential educational goal of schools.

The Schneller magazine

The "Schneller Magazine" appears four times a year in German and English. Current topics from the Arab world are described and linked to the life of the students at the two schools. The "Schneller Magazine" places a special focus on the situation of Christians in the Middle East. The magazine is produced in cooperation with the school principals on site and is written by Katja Dorothea Buck and Dr. Uwe Gränke edited.

The magazine has a circulation of 12,000 (as of 2019).

literature

  • More quickly. Magazine about Christian life in the Middle East. Edited by the Evangelical Association for the Schneller Schools eV in the Evangelical Mission in Southwest Germany eV, Stuttgart, ISSN  0947-5435
  • Evangelisches Missionswerk in Südwestdeutschland eV (Hrsg.): The Schneller schools. Beginnings in Jerusalem, three generations - three tasks, Levantine panorama. Evangelical Mission in Southwest Germany, Stuttgart 1993.
  • Jakob Eisler: The Syrian Orphanage and the Schnellers "Dynasty" . In: German Association for the Study of Palestine (ed.): Treatises of the German Palestine Association. Volume 36. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-447-05826-1 .
  • K 8 - Syrian orphanage (files) 1825, 1853–1996, State Church Archive Stuttgart

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Evangelical Association for the Schneller Schools eV - City of Stuttgart. Retrieved May 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Imprint: EVS. Retrieved May 12, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Jakob Eisler: Syrian Orphanage Jerusalem. In: Württemberg Church History Online. Retrieved May 24, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Jakob Eisler: The Syrian Orphanage and the "Dynasty" of the Schnellers . In: German Association for the Study of Palestine (ed.): Treatises of the German Palestine Association . tape 36 . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-447-05826-1 , pp. 58-70 .
  5. ↑ Jakob Eisler: Germans in Palestine and their share in the modernization of the country . In: German Association for the Exploration of Palestine. (Ed.): Treatises of the German Palestine Association . tape 36 . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-447-05826-1 , pp. 68 ff .
  6. ↑ Regional Bishop: Schneller schools face powerlessness. Evangelical Mission in Solidarity eV, November 4, 2019, accessed on November 4, 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b Statutes of the Evangelical Association for the Schneller Schools (EVS) eV (PDF) November 13, 2016, accessed on May 24, 2019 .
  8. ^ Homepage of the EVS. Retrieved May 24, 2019 .
  9. ↑ THE SCHNELLER MAGAZINE. The Evangelical Association for the Fast Schools (EVS), accessed on May 12, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Katja Dorothea Buck, Uwe Gränke: Schneller Magazin . Between fascination and incomprehension. Ed .: The Evangelical Association for the Schneller Schools (=  134th year . No. 1 ). No. 1 , ISSN  0947-5435 , p. 34 .
  11. ↑ K 8 - Syrian orphanage (files) (1825, 1853-1996). Retrieved January 4, 2020 .