Adelshofen life center

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Lebenszentrum Adelshofen
Community Adelshofen e. V.
(LZA)
logo
legal form Registered association
founding 1958
founder Otto Riecker
Seat Adelshofen (Eppingen) , Germany
motto Honor God together, live in community and serve people
main emphasis Life and service community of around 80 people
Action space Germany
people Wilhelm Faix , Heidi Schilbach, Martina Luschnat, Dora Schwarzbeck, Hubert Weiler, Matthias Böker (Head of the Life Center)
Website www.lza.de

The lebenszentrum adelshofen (LTA) is a free evangelisches Missionswerk evangelical embossing within the Evangelical Church in Baden with a community , a theological training facility and a convention center in Eppingen- Adelshofen , Nordbaden.

history

It all began with a spiritual awakening in 1955 in the local parish under the then local pastor Otto Riecker (1896–1989). The Adelshofen Bible School was founded in 1958 from this departure . The Adelshofen community , an evangelical brotherhood and sisterhood, grew out of this in 1962 . Over the years, donations have largely been used to create various usable meeting and conference rooms in addition to residential buildings. Matthias Böker has been the overall manager of the plant since 2013, succeeding Oskar Föller.

Community

The community of Adelshofen is an order-like evangelical community of (as of January 2014) 23 celibate sisters and eight brothers. Together with employees they are responsible for the life center. In addition to fulfilling their diverse tasks in the life center (teaching at the theological seminary in Adelshofen, camps, events, conferences as well as kitchen and housekeeping), the sisters and brothers increasingly work in congregations in order to fulfill their preaching service. A family community and a community of three women are connected. The founder and leader of the family community is Wilhelm Faix .

Theological seminar

The theological seminar Adelshofen offers theological vocational training (community education), an academic postgraduate course and conferences and seminars for non-students.

Annual team

The annual team is a discipleship program for young Christians between the ages of 18 and 24 who complete a year of voluntary social welfare or federal voluntary service for one year in the life center .

Seminar paper

The life center offers holiday programs, seminar weeks and day seminars for children, teenagers, young people and families. The main focus is the further training of full-time and voluntary church employees. On request, the life center takes on the preparation and implementation of missionary weeks and special events in congregations, to which employees and teams can be requested and invited. In addition to the offers for community development and community counseling, pastoral care is another focus of the work.

literature

  • Oskar Föller: The Adelshofen Community . In: Ordenskorrespondenz , Vol. 58 (2017), Issue 1, pp. 33–40.
  • Dora Schwarzbeck: A house full of young people. Community of Adelshofen . In: Anna-Maria from the Wiesche, Frank Lilie (ed.): Kloster auf Evangelisch. Reports from life together . Vier-Türme-Verlag, Münsterschwarzach 2016, ISBN 978-3-89680-904-9 , pp. 17-21.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.lza.de/kommunitaet/geschichte/
  2. ↑ Reinhard Hempelmann (ed.): Handbook of evangelistic-missionary works, institutions and communities . Christian publishing house Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 978-3-7675-7763-3 , p. 236 f.
  3. ^ Evangelical Theology - Mitteilungen , Edition 19/2 (2013)
  4. ^ Community of the Adelshofen Life Center , accessed on June 28, 2018
  5. ^ Homepage Theological Seminar Adelshofen , accessed on June 28, 2018
  6. ↑ LZA homepage , accessed on June 28, 2018

Coordinates: 49 ° 10 ′ 5.1 ″  N , 8 ° 53 ′ 38 ″  E