Regional Association of Regional Church Communities of Saxony

Regional Association of Regional Church Communities of Saxony
legal form	Registered association
founding	1899
Seat	Chemnitz , Saxony , Germany
motto	Live Bible-oriented • live together • live missionary • live in a relationship
Action space	Saxony, East Thuringia
people	Reinhard Steeger (chairman), Michael Kusche (vice chairman), Jörg Michel (state inspector), Michael Härtel (administrative inspector), Hans-Jürgen Schmahl (secretary)
Employees	approx. 85
Members	approx. 2000
Website	www.lkgsachsen.de

Community house in Chemnitz, seat of the regional association of regional church communities in Saxony

The regional association of regional church communities of Saxony is part of the Evangelical Gnadauer Community Association and extends over Saxony and some parts of Eastern Thuringia in the districts of Greiz and Altenburg .

Work areas

The work areas are divided into evangelism service , the EC youth association , work in the middle generation, senior citizens and women’s work. The heart of the community work is the Bible study . Further branches of work are the singing and string playing service as well as the trombone union and the service for the disabled. The basis for all branches of work is the Bible . The Blue Cross work (in the GDR era AGAS. Working group to ward off addiction risks ) is one of the tasks of the regional church community . The association has 2000 honorary and 85 full-time employees.

history

The roots of the regional church communities go back to Martin Luther and Philipp Jacob Spener , who encouraged the formation of house groups , in order to deal intensively with the word of the Bible in addition to church services . Here every Christian could contribute his knowledge and experiences. Spener is also known as the father of Pietism .

The Saxon Community Association was founded on December 27, 1899 in Chemnitz. The foundation was preceded by both Gnadau conferences, named after the place where they first met, and Saxon meetings, also known as the “Christmas Conference”. Decisive impulses also came from the Evangelical Reichsbrüderbund , of which Johannes Seitz was one of the founders , from the Inner Mission and the Moravian Brethren .

Today the association works at 386 locations in Central Germany.

structure

Community house in Werdau

The association is divided into three regions (west, center and northeast) as well as 32 community districts and 405 local communities and reaches around 9,000 people every week. Most of the local communities are in the Ore Mountains and its foreland . The headquarters of the association is in the community center of the regional church community in Chemnitz . The chairman has been Reinhard Steeger since 2018. The association also has four leisure and rest homes.

Saxon community association
West region		Central Region		North - East region
district	Local communities	district	Local communities	district	Local communities
Zeulenroda	7th	Stollberg	13	Leipzig	6th
Plauen	8th	Thum	14th	Spice up	4th
Klingenthal	9	Annaberg	22nd	Chub	11
Lengenfeld	9	Pockau	24	Riesa	16
Reichenbach iV	13	Zschopau	11	Dresden	13
Auerbach iV	15th	Chemnitz / city	8th	Pirna	8th
volume up	16	Chemnitz / country	17th	Kamenz	8th
Aue	17th	Rochlitz	12	Bautzen	16
Werdau	14th	Freiberg	9	Goerlitz	6th
Zwickau	18th			Ebersbach	1
Glauchau	12			Zittau	8th
Mülsengrund	3
Total:	141	Total:	130	Total:	97