Evangelical Gnadauer Community Association

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Evangelischer Gnadauer Gemeinschaftverband e. V.
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Basic data
Preses: Michael servant
Secretary General: Frank Spatz
Founding year: 1888 (East-West Association 1991)
Regional member associations: 37 (34 in Germany, 2 in Austria, 1 in the Netherlands)
Memberships 16 deaconess mother houses, 11 works, 11 theol. Training centers
of works: 8 mission societies, 6 youth associations
Members (including friends): approx. 300,000
Gnadauer headquarters in Kassel
Website: www.gnadauer.de

The Evangelische Gnadauer Gemeinschaftverband e. V. is an umbrella organization of regional associations and works and the training centers, missions and diaconal works and institutions belonging to the German community movement . The association works within the Protestant regional churches in Germany. The pietistic organization has been based in Kassel since 2003 .

The association sees its task in strengthening understanding among the communities and creating framework conditions for the work of the members. He makes arrangements with the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), offers training and employee support and invites you to annual congresses.

The German Evangelical Alliance counts the Gnadauer Verband among the organizations closely related to the German Evangelical Alliance .

history

From May 22nd to 24th, 1888, a Pentecost conference with leading representatives of the community movement and their close theologians from almost all parts of Germany took place in Gnadau near Magdeburg to discuss questions of German community life. Of the total of 142 participants, 68 were theologians and 74 were lay people. Among the participants were Eduard Graf von Pückler , Jasper von Oertzen and Theodor Christlieb . The conference is regarded as the first step towards creating a center of the German community movement, whose regional associations had previously worked largely in isolation. The participants of the conference agreed, in spite of their different backgrounds, that the work of lay people in the Evangelical Church must be developed more strongly and did not pursue the intention to separate from the Church.

The roots of this movement are in Pietism . Over time, however, the influences have become more complex.

The association was founded on October 27, 1897 in Berlin under the name of the German Association for Protestant Community Care and Evangelism .

During the time of National Socialism , the work was oriented towards the Confessing Church and distanced itself from the German Christians . After the Second World War , due to the division of Germany, the association split up into the “Gnadauer Verband für Gemeinschaftspflege und Evangelisation e. V. "and the" Evangelical-Church Gnadauer Gemeinschaftwerk in der DDR e. V. ”under the direction of the then General Secretary Johannes Dreßler . In 1991 the two associations merged to form the "Evangelical Gnadau Community Association".

The first chairman (president) of the plant was Count Eduard von Pückler, who held the office from 1897 to 1906. From 1906 to 1911 Walter Michaelis was initially honorary, then from 1919 to 1953 full-time chairman of the association. His successor as President from 1953 to 1971 was Pastor Hermann Haarbeck, previously the director of the Johanneum Evangelist School. Pastor Kurt Heimbucher was chairman from 1971 until his death in 1988 .

His successor was Christoph Morgner , who held the office of association president for 20 years. The previous dean of the Palatinate, Michael Diener, has been serving as President since September 2009 .

On June 3, 1946, the Ostwerk of the association was constituted with the name "Evangelical Church Gnadau Community Work in the GDR". The chairmen were Hans Dannenbaum (March 1946 to October 1947), Arthur Mütze (October 1947 to February 1963), Frithjof Glöckner (July 1963 to December 1972), Helmut Appel (January 1973 to December 1977) and Hans-Joachim Martens (January 1978 until the merger).

Association structure

The Gnadauer head office in Kassel includes the association's office, the Gnadauer archive and the Gnadauer publishing house and offers conference facilities.

The board of directors, which is elected for a six-year term, includes the president, the general secretary, the treasurer and several assessors. The general assembly includes two leading representatives of all associations and works of the Evangelical Gnadauer Community Association. The association has around 100,000 registered members in the affiliated associations.

The association maintains fourteen working groups.

The board of directors

  • President: Michael Diener (Kassel, since 2009)
  • Secretary General: Frank Spatz (since September 2014)
  • Treasurer: Jürgen Schleicher (Kassel)
  • 10 assessors

Association life today

Many evangelical Christians within the regional church have become self-employed today in the form of so-called “community congregations”, since they cannot find a majority for their positions in most regional church structures. Some of these independent congregations within the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) have come together under the umbrella organization Gnadau Community Association. Often these communities are also referred to as "Evangelical Community".

Evangelical communities of the Gnadau community association are not free churches , as their members mostly remain members of the respective Evangelical church community, but this is not absolutely necessary. They are an "internal church missionary organization" that attaches great importance to evangelism and a community that is perceived as authentic. The focus is mostly on how the Bible and its message can be implemented in everyday life. The members help each other through intensive exchanges about their faith in small groups. In most communities there are events similar to those in church parishes.

Since the 1990s, structures with no links to the regional church have increasingly emerged. Local communities exist as Christian communities alongside and independently (also financially) of the official church. These have a free church character. Although this "model 4" is not officially propagated by the Gnadauer Verband, a large part of the communities in individual member associations now exist in this free church structure (e.g. in the Evangelical Society for Germany , in the Ev. Community Association Siegerland-Wittgenstein or in some cases as well in the Herborn community association).

A current project in the association is the project Zahnrad, which has existed since 2003, in which the active work increasingly towards interlinking the different generations of the communities with one another.

In January 2013, the future congress “daring new things” took place in Erfurt with around 2,500 full-time employees and volunteers. The focus was on the spiritual life, the founding and refilling of congregations and communities as well as social and diaconal responsibility .

The Gnadauer community association rejects homosexual partnerships . Rather, the association considers a change or healing of sexual orientation to be possible. The association has publicly stated that a “change from practiced homosexuality to fulfilling heterosexuality” is possible and has already happened. The association calls for people to speak to those who are “affected” and to advertise “lovingly and clearly for the community understanding of homosexuality and possible change”.

List of affiliated plants

Community associations

Youth associations

  • Christian Youth Association in Bavaria (cjb)
  • German Youth Association " Decided for Christ " (EC)
  • The apis. - Evangelical Community Association Württemberg e. V.
  • Community youth Palatinate
  • Youth work of the Evangelical Society for Germany
  • Youth work of the Blue Cross in Germany

Theological training centers

Missionaries

Deaconess Mother Houses

The institutions united in the "Association of German Community Deaconess Mother Houses":

The institutions combined in the German Community Diakonieverband (DGD):

  • Deaconess Mother House »Altvandsburg«
  • Deaconess mother house Bleibergquelle
  • Deaconess Mother House »Hebron«
  • Community Deaconess Mother House Hensoltshöhe
  • Deaconess Mother House Lachen
  • Deaconess Mother House »Neuvandsburg«
  • Zendings-Diaconessenhuis (Netherlands)

links

The Gnadauer Verband is a member of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Missionäredienste (AMD), a professional association of the Diakonisches Werk of the Evangelical Church in Germany , and since 1984 part of "EURIM" (European Inner Missions), an informal network of intra-church pietistic movements in Europe. The Gnadauer Verband was a member of the Conference of Confessing Communities in the Evangelical Church of Germany (KBG) from 1974 to 1991 . In 1991 the Gnadau Community Association left the Conference of Confessing Communities on the grounds that the conference was essentially held together by rejecting modernity .

Periodicals

  • Life from the word. Gnadauer Bible reading . Quarterly publication (since 1977), ISSN  0722-2734 .
    • before: Bible reading sheets. Instructions for daily fruitful Bible reading . (1916-1976), ISSN  0722-2742 .
  • We: traveling together. Magazine of the Evangelischen Gnadauer Gemeinschaftverband eV Frequency of publication: bimonthly , 3,500 copies (2003–2020), ZDB ID 2112708-6 .
    • before: On the road together. Journal of the Evangelical Gnadauer Community Association . Frequency of publication: monthly (1995–2002).
    • previously: Gnadauer Community Gazette. Monthly magazine of the German Association for Community Care and Evangelization eV (1921–1994).

literature

  • Kurt Heimbucher (Ed.): Committed to the order. The Gnadauer community movement. Brunnen Verlag, Giessen 1988, ISBN 3-7655-5743-9 .
  • Reinhard Hempelmann (Hrsg.): Handbook of evangelistic-missionary works, institutions and communities. Christian publishing house Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 978-3-7675-7763-3 , p. 147 ff.
  • Michael Diener: Staying on course in stormy times. Walter Michaelis (1866–1953), a life for the church and community movement (TVG Church History Monographs). Brunnen Verlag, Giessen 1998, ISBN 3-7655-9422-9 .
  • Friedhelm Jung: The German Evangelical Movement. Basics of their history and theology (also: Marburg, Univ., Diss., 1991). 3rd, expanded edition. Publishing house for culture and science, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-932829-21-2 .
  • Dieter Lange: A movement is breaking through. The German communities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and their position on the church, theology and Pentecostal movement. Brunnen Verlag, Giessen 1990, ISBN 3-7655-9359-1 , p. 116.
  • Joachim Cochlovius : Community Movement . In: Theologische Realenzyklopädie 12 (1984), pp. 355-368.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Belong to the Evangelical Gnadauer Community Association. IdeaSpekrum 7.2017, page 24
  2. ↑ Evangelical Gnadauer Community Association: Imprint. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 28, 2010 ; Retrieved October 28, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gnadauer.de
  3. ↑ Dieter Lange: Committed to the job. The Gnadauer community movement . Ed .: Kurt Heimbucher. Brunnen Verlag, Gießen 1988, ISBN 3-7655-5743-9 , p. 17 .
  4. ↑ Dieter Lange: A movement breaks out. The German communities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and their position on the church, theology and Pentecostal movement . 3. Edition. Brunen Verlag, Giessen 1990, ISBN 3-7655-9359-1 , p. 85 .
  5. ↑ Dieter Lange: A movement breaks out. The German communities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and their position on the church, theology and Pentecostal movement . 3. Edition. Brunen Verlag, Giessen 1990, ISBN 3-7655-9359-1 , p. 94 .
  6. ↑ Dieter Lange: A movement breaks out. The German communities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and their position on the church, theology and Pentecostal movement . 3. Edition. Brunen Verlag, Giessen 1990, ISBN 3-7655-9359-1 , p. 116 .
  7. ↑ Reinhard Scheerer: Confessing Christians in the Protestant Churches in Germany 1966-1991. History and shape of a conservative evangelical awakening. Haag and Herchen, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-86137-560-5 , p. 27.
  8. ↑ Christoph Morgner: Evangelical Gnadauer Community Association. In: Helmut Burkhardt and Uwe Swarat (ed.): Evangelical Lexicon for Theology and Congregation . tape 1 . R. Brockhaus Verlag, Wuppertal 1992, ISBN 3-417-24641-5 , p. 574 .
  9. ↑ The history of the Evangelical Gnadauer Community Association. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 2, 2010 ; Retrieved November 2, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gnadauer.de
  10. ^ Jörg Ohlemacher: Pückler, Count Eduard von (1853-1924) . In: Helmut Burkhardt and Uwe Swarat (ed.): Evangelical Lexicon for Theology and Congregation . tape 3 . R. Brockhaus Verlag, Wuppertal 1992, ISBN 3-417-24643-1 , p. 1634 .
  11. ^ Gerhard Ruhbach: Michaelis, Walter (1866-1953). In: Helmut Burkhardt and Uwe Swarat (ed.): Evangelical Lexicon for Theology and Congregation . tape 2 . R. Brockhaus Verlag, Wuppertal 1993, ISBN 3-417-24642-3 , p. 1339 .
  12. ↑ a b Werner Paschko: Committed to the order. The Gnadauer community movement . Ed .: Kurt Heimbucher. Brunnen Verlag, Gießen 1988, ISBN 3-7655-5743-9 , p. 51 .
  13. ^ Gerhard Ruhbach: Concord book / formula. In: Helmut Burkhardt and Uwe Swarat (ed.): Evangelical Lexicon for Theology and Congregation . tape 2 . R. Brockhaus Verlag, Wuppertal 1993, ISBN 3-417-24642-3 , p. 890 .
  14. ↑ Werner Paschko: Committed to the order. The Gnadauer community movement . Ed .: Kurt Heimbucher. Brunnen Verlag, Gießen 1988, ISBN 3-7655-5743-9 , p. 53 .
  15. ↑ H.-J. Martens: You, Lord, have called us. 100 years of Gnadau joint venture . Ed .: Evangelical-Kirchliches Gnadauer community work in the GDR. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-374-00585-3 , p. 377 ff .
  16. ^ Minutes of the general meeting of the Evangelical Gnadauer Verband 13. – 15. February 2014, Bad Blankenburg
  17. ↑ Organigram ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on: the association's website @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gnadauer.de
  18. ↑ Preses report 2012, p. 4 fn. 3 gnadauer.de ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gnadauer.de
  19. ↑ [1] , Government criticizes therapies for gays, Panorama
  20. ^ Community associations. (No longer available online.) Evangelical Gnadauer Community Association, archived from the original on December 10, 2010 ; Retrieved December 10, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gnadauer.de
  21. ^ Youth associations. (No longer available online.) Evangelical Gnadauer Community Association, archived from the original on December 14, 2010 ; Retrieved December 14, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gnadauer.de
  22. ^ Theological training centers. Evangelical Gnadauer Community Association, archived from the original on December 14, 2010 ; Retrieved December 14, 2010 .
  23. ^ The Gnadau Theological Seminar is History , idea.de, message from June 22, 2015.
  24. ↑ Outer Mission. In: gnadauer.de. Archived from the original on September 26, 2010 ; accessed on January 28, 2020 .
  25. ↑ Mother House - Origin and Center. Deaconess Mother House Bad Harzburg, accessed on June 10, 2017 .
  26. ↑ a b Deaconess mother houses. (No longer available online.) Evangelical Gnadauer Community Association, archived from the original on December 15, 2010 ; Retrieved December 15, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gnadauer.de
  27. ↑ Believe, live and serve together. Hensoltshöhe Foundation, accessed on June 10, 2017 .
  28. ^ Evangelischer Gnadauer Gemeinschaftverband eV: Today. (No longer available online.) Evangelical Gnadauer Community Association, archived from the original on December 15, 2010 ; Retrieved December 15, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gnadauer.de
  29. ↑ EURIM: Map & Links. (No longer available online.) EURIM, archived from the original on December 15, 2010 ; accessed on December 15, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eurim.net
  30. ↑ Friedhelm Jung: The German Evangelical Movement. Baselines of their history and theology. (Zugl .: Marburg, Univ., Diss., 1991) 3rd, extended edition, Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-932829-21-2 , p. 107; or Reinhard Scheerer: Confessing Christians in the Protestant Churches in Germany 1966–1991. History and shape of a conservative evangelical awakening. Haag and Herchen, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-86137-560-5 , p. 23 ff. And p. 160 f.
  31. ↑ Reinhard Scheerer: Confessing Christians in the Protestant Churches in Germany 1966-1991. History and shape of a conservative evangelical awakening. Haag and Herchen, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-86137-560-5 , p. 160 ff.
  32. ↑ After 100 years it's over: Gnadauer Verband: out for the “we” magazine , pro-medienmagazin.de, report from June 29, 2020.