Mission work midnight call

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The Midnight Call Mission is an evangelical mission . It is headquartered in Dübendorf , Switzerland, and has branches in numerous countries around the world, including Lottstetten in Germany and Haifa in Israel . Arno Froese heads the American branch of the mission work.

history

The mission work was founded in 1956 by the Dutch eschatologist Wim Malgo (1922–1992) in Switzerland . It is strongly aligned with the end times depicted in the Bible and committed to Christian Zionism .

The name “midnight call” goes back to a Bible verse in the Gospel of Matthew: “At midnight there was a loud calling: See, the bridegroom is coming! Go out to meet him! ”( Mt 25 : 6  LUT ) In addition, in the early days of the mission work, evangelistic radio programs were often actually broadcast at midnight, as they were cheaper at this time. The aim of the Midnight Call Mission is to reach people with the gospel of Jesus Christ and to point out his return.

Radio work

Shortly after the foundation of the mission work, individual radio programs were broadcast on Radio Tangier from April 1956 . At the same time, the program booklet Mitternachtsruf was launched, which later developed into an independent missionary document and today, with around 140,000 copies (28,000 of which in German), is aimed at radio listeners and other interested parties. The radio broadcasts in German and some other European languages ​​spread the eschatologically oriented message of Wim Malgo , who several times dated the biblical end of the world to the years between 1968 and the 1990s. Norbert Lieth has continued the work since Malgo's death. Later the work used the frequencies of Radio Monte Carlo , then those of Radio Luxemburg . With the establishment of Radio Neue Hoffnung in 1998, the programs were broadcast on this web radio and, from 2005, also on satellite. Today, various events in current world affairs, especially in Israel, the European Union, Russia and other countries, are interpreted as signs of the end times and are thematized in the broadcasts of the Mission and the magazine.

Periodicals

In addition to the monthly magazine Mitternachtsruf , the Mission also publishes the magazine Nachrichten aus Israel .

literature

  • Rüdiger Hauth: ... next to the churches. Communities that want to live their faith in a special way. Christliche Verlagsanstalt, Neukirchen-Vluyn, 10th edition 1995, pp. 81–90: "The time is near - Missionswerk Mitternachtsruf"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jump up ↑ Holding onto the Word of God in Stormy Times , Idea , article July 11, 2019.
  2. ↑ Information from Relinfo.ch: Article on the Missionswerk Mitternachtsruf , accessed on November 17, 2010