Regional church community

House of the regional church community in Niederschlema

The regional church communities (LKG) are organizationally independent groups belonging to the community movement within the regional Protestant churches with the status of free works. They are organized in regional and supraregional community associations that have come together in the Evangelical Gnadau community association . The community associations and the individual communities are financially independent of the regional churches.

Since the end of the 19th century, numerous regional church communities emerged in Germany . The first community was founded in Augsburg by the factory owner Ernest Mehl .

Most regional church communities have the legal form of a registered association and are financed through donations. They are usually led by an elected board of directors. Many communities employ a full-time minister or community pastor . In addition to church services, which are often deliberately held at different times than in the local regional churches, the focus of the work is on group lessons with Bible study and prayer.

Web links

Commons : Regional Church Community - collection of images, videos and audio files

Evangelical Gnadauer Community Association

Individual evidence

↑ See our mission statement. LKG - Regional Church Community Association of Bavaria (accessed on March 22, 2014) and agreement of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Saxony and the Regional Association of Regional Church Communities of Saxony e. V. (PDF) Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony, November 16, 2013, accessed on May 15, 2019 .
↑ How church resignations are prevented. (PDF; 764kB) ( Memento from March 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Idea , 23/2007.
↑ Christoph Mehl : Christian Entrepreneurship and Diakonie - The director of the Augsburg worsted spinning mill and founder of the deaconess mother house Hensoltshöhe (Gunzenhausen / Franconia), Ernest Mehl (1836–1912). uni-heidelberg.de, WS 1992/93, contributions to diaconal science NF 4.
^ J. Ohlemacher: community movement. 4. Organization. In: Helmut Burkhardt, Uwe Swarat: Evangelical Lexicon for Theology and Congregation. Vol. 2. R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1993, p. 729.

[1] See our mission statement. LKG - Regional Church Community Association of Bavaria (accessed on March 22, 2014) and agreement of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Saxony and the Regional Association of Regional Church Communities of Saxony e. V. (PDF) Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony, November 16, 2013, accessed on May 15, 2019 .

[2] How church resignations are prevented. (PDF; 764kB) ( Memento from March 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Idea , 23/2007.

[3] Christoph Mehl : Christian Entrepreneurship and Diakonie - The director of the Augsburg worsted spinning mill and founder of the deaconess mother house Hensoltshöhe (Gunzenhausen / Franconia), Ernest Mehl (1836–1912). uni-heidelberg.de, WS 1992/93, contributions to diaconal science NF 4.

[4] J. Ohlemacher: community movement. 4. Organization. In: Helmut Burkhardt, Uwe Swarat: Evangelical Lexicon for Theology and Congregation. Vol. 2. R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1993, p. 729.