Mission Kwasizabantu Germany

The mission Kwasizabantu Germany (KSB) is a mission organization based in Lindach (Schwabisch Gmund) and is a subsidiary of South Africa based in evangelical Mission Community mission Kwasizabantu .

KSB center Lindach

The European coordination of the organization takes place from its center in Lindach.

In the small town, the mission gradually built a large property on Osterlängstrasse. It includes a church service hall, a sports hall, a foyer, classrooms and other rooms.

The main building houses the classrooms of the Domino Servite elementary school as well as the kindergarten, an auditorium, a car workshop , a carpenter's workshop and the administration offices. There are also some rental apartments and guest rooms in the building complex.

Another KSB building complex is located at Osterlängstrasse 43, which consists of three adjacent buildings with rental apartments. There is also a large kitchen with a dining room, a bakery, a bowling alley, guest rooms and other rooms on the lower floor of the building .

Within the KSB center, the Domino Servite School Lindach works with a primary and secondary school train. The school also has a kindergarten.

Municipalities in Germany

• KSB Berlin, Mission House on Hohenzollerndamm
• KSB Central Hesse
• KSB Northern Germany, in Lower Saxony in Bispingen / Steinbeck , with its own center.
• KSB North Rhine-Westphalia
• KSB Southern Germany, Lindach

activities

Church services take place every Sunday in the premises in Lindach and in the individual parishes. There are also training courses for missionaries and other KSB members.

Theology and ideology

Within KSB, people with joint responsibility are called "uncles" and they also call each other that. These "uncles" are usually in leading positions, which results in a pronounced hierarchical structure. This enables a radical dualistic worldview that correlates with a sharp division of good and bad.

This worldview is explained in more detail in the so-called "standard":

According to the will of the founders, the "standard" is intended to convey and bindingly establish a godly and sin-free way of life, whereby the hierarchical gap between the "uncles" and the followers is an important authoritative instrument in the implementation of the "standard".

The phenomena that occurred in the context of the revival in Kwasizabantu such as speaking in tongues and healings led to debates within the scene about the positioning of the work between evangelicalism and charismatics . The founder Erlo Stegen rejects the Pentecostal movement and sees the "gift of speaking in tongues" as something that is not accessible to every Christian. Instead, a theology of gifts is represented, which is based on different allocations of gifts to the individual believers.

organization

The German number of members is around 1000. The German communities are run by three non-profit associations. There are no organized relationships with other Christian communities through Kwasizabantu. After the number of members across Europe was estimated at 40,000, it dropped to probably 10,000 in 2008 following public criticism of KSB.

Friedel Stegen is head of KSB's European section. His brother Erlo Stegen is the head of the parent organization Kwasizabantu in South Africa . In 2019 it became known that the branches of the mission work in Germany and Switzerland had separated from the headquarters in South Africa after serious allegations against them became known.

Sub-organizations

Organizations that officially exist under the auspices of KSB or are linked to it:

• Free Evangelical Community (FEG): Alternative names for the parishes of Kwasizabantu Germany (KSB). These are not to be confused with the Free Evangelical Churches (FEG).
• Sunnyway "children's initiative
• Domino Servite School Lindach : State-approved private school of KSB on its premises in Lindach.
• Christians for Truth eV (CFT :) Organization for the preservation of Christian values ​​in society. The association does the political and cultural work of Kwasizabantu in Germany. The club members are congruent to Kwasizabantu .
• Eurochor eV : The youth choir consists of young people from Europe who either belong to the mission or are close friends of KSB and therefore also represent the same values.
• True Love Waits (sub-organization of CFT): Organization of young people who commit themselves to a signed self-commitment to sexual abstinence before marriage. Since January 2011 the movement has been called preciousyouth in Switzerland . It is active in many European countries, but is still personally and ideologically connected to the Kwa Sizabantu Mission. Since summer 2012 it's called youth'n precious .
• Affected hospital : Lebensrechtgruppe (Switzerland)
• Action Schiphra and Pua : Right to Live Group (Germany)
• Bible and Scriptures Mission Dr. Kurt Koch : among other things, publication of the mission's own writings
• Missionary organization “Help the Next” : Althütte - Erlo Stegen is also the director of the organization
• Club Rugul Aprins : Swiss association for transporting goods to Romania (charitable)
• JIREH Development South Africa : Association to support AIDS orphanage (on the board of cft Vice President Juerg Läderach and his son-in-law E. Duvell)

Web links

• Official website

literature

• Joachim Rosenthal: Kwasizabantu - Erlo Stegen and the awakening among the Zulus CLV. ISBN 978-3-89397-456-6

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TOPIC No. 9/2008 Sectarian group now appears with the innocuous name “FEG”
2. ^ Accusation: "Modern slavery": Serious allegations against the mission organization "Kwasizabantu" , idea.de, report from October 14, 2019.
3. ↑ What is behind "Wahre Liebe Wartet" by Jens Nissen ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 30, 2012 
4. ↑ preciousyouth Switzerland ( Memento from November 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
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6. ↑ firmenwissen.de - Search for Erlo Stegen . Retrieved May 19, 2010.
7. ↑ club Rugul Aprins, Oberrohrdorf . Retrieved May 19, 2010.
8. ↑ JIREH TRUST ( English ) Archived from the original on August 29, 2005. 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. Retrieved May 19, 2010.