Aid Action Martyrs Church
| Aid campaign Märtyrerkirche (HMK) |
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| legal form | Registered association |
| founding | 1969 |
| founder | Richard Wurmbrand |
| Seat | Uhldingen-Mühlhofen , Germany |
| motto | Help for persecuted Christians |
| method | financial and material support for Christian communities and institutions in countries of persecution |
| Action space | Worldwide |
| people | Manfred Müller (Head of Mission) |
| Website | www.vervielte-christen.org |
The Aid Campaign Märtyrerkirche eV (HMK) is a non-denominational aid organization for persecuted Christians , which was founded in 1969 by the Romanian Lutheran pastor Richard Wurmbrand .
activity
The HMK provides financial and material support to Christian communities and institutions in countries of persecution, mainly in Islamic , Hindu and Buddhist countries, as well as countries where communist systems suppress Christians.
She maintains projects on emergency aid, reconstruction, training, child aid, legal aid, evangelism, medical aid, survival aid and help for self-help and produces brochures, books, image and sound carriers about her work and the situation of the afflicted Christians, offers lectures in parishes and School classes and maintains a permanent exhibition on the persecution of Christians at its headquarters in Uhldingen-Mühlhofen.
organization
The HMK works with other Richard Wurmbrand organizations such as Voice of the Martyrs (VOM) in the International Christian Association (ICA).
The German association is recognized as a non-profit organization. The chairman of the board is Ernest Ahlfeld, his deputy is church councilor Rolf Sauerzapf and the mission leader is Manfred Müller. The work is financed entirely from donations. The HMK bears the donation seal of the German Central Institute for Social Issues (DZI), the German Donation Council and the German Evangelical Alliance .
Periodicals
- Voice of the Martyrs , published monthly; Edition 2010: around 15,000 copies.
literature
- Reinhard Hempelmann (Hrsg.): Handbook of evangelistic-missionary works, institutions and communities . Stuttgart: Christian publishing house, 1997. ISBN 3-7675-7763-1
- HMK Yearbook Lands of Martyrs
Web links
- Literature from and about aid campaign Märtyrerkirche in the catalog of the German National Library
- Aid campaign Märtyrerkirche (HMK) - website
Individual evidence
- ↑ HMK: Our Story , persecuted-christen.org, accessed on April 18, 2017.
- ↑ VOM Offices Around the World ( Memento from August 14, 2010 on WebCite )
- ↑ HMK: About Us , traced-christen.org, accessed on April 14, 2017.
- ↑ DZI Spenden-Siegel , dzi.de, accessed on April 18, 2017.
- ↑ Information from STAMM Die Medien-CD 2010 on the voice of the martyrs