Missionary work Werner Heukelbach
| Werner Heukelbach Missionary Foundation | |
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| legal form | Foundation in North Rhine-Westphalia |
| founding | 1946 |
| founder | Werner Heukelbach |
| Seat | Bergneustadt-Wiedenest |
| motto | "... Christ in you, the hope of glory." The Bible: Colossians 1:27 |
| main emphasis | Scripture mission, radio mission, audio-visual media |
| Action space | Germany and worldwide |
| Chair | Günther Kausemann, Bernd-Udo Flick and Friedhelm Schönwald |
| Managing directors | Manuel Maier |
| Website | heukelbach.org |
The Missionswerk Werner Heukelbach is a non-denominational Christian mission society with evangelical character, named after its founder, the preacher Werner Heukelbach (1898–1968). It has its German headquarters in Bergneustadt in the Bergisches Land and another one in Zofingen in Switzerland and one in Gleisdorf in Austria.
The foundation was set up by Werner Heukelbach, who belonged to the Free Church Brethren movement , from 1946/47 in his place of birth Wiedenest , which is now a district of Bergneustadt. In the following 20 years it endeavored to spread the Christian faith with millions of small letters (information booklets, brochures, tracts, calendars, etc.) and newspaper supplements. Mid-1960s was the Mission Werner Heukelbach the largest font missionary work in Europe. Radio broadcasts (from 1958 to 2015 via the Marnach medium wave 1440 kHz), telephone messages and tent missions were added later. In the meantime, there is a dedicated radio station, RadioHBR , which can be received via the Internet and broadcasts short devotions, Bible lectures, sermons and Christian music all day.
The mission work names the Bible and the preaching mandate contained therein as the basis for its work . This results in the goal defined by the foundation "... to pass on the message of Christ and his work of redemption on the cross to people of all ages."
After Werner Heukelbach's death, the founder's mission work was led by the mission leaders Manfred Paul (1978–2002) and later Rudi Joas.
Web links
- heukelbach.org
- Website of the radio station RadioHBR (Heukelbach Bible Radio)
- Evangelists: Breathe In Letters , in Der Spiegel, September 23, 1959
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinhard Hempelmann (ed.): Handbook of evangelistic-missionary works, institutions and communities. Christian publishing house Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 978-3767577633 , p. 270
- ↑ DM 5 (1965), issue 42, p. 22.
- ↑ Our mission. In: Foundation Missionswerk Heukelbach. Retrieved on June 4, 2020 (German).
- ^ Foundation Missionswerk Werner Heukelbach (Hrsg.): A small story of a big concern - Heukelbach . SH01 15 2004 1 edition. SH01. Bergneustadt, S. 26 .