Marburg Mission Foundation
The Marburg Mission Foundation (also just called Marburg Mission ) is an evangelical mission organization based in Marburg . The Marburg Mission is part of the German Diaconal Association (DGD) in Marburg. It is the foreign mission of the 280 parishes and communities of the Federation of Evangelical Communities (BeG).
history
The foundation of the Marburg Mission goes back to an initiative of the China missionary Friedrich Traub (1873-1906). The deaconess Elisabeth Gramenz was the first missionary to be sent to China in 1909 as a member of the China Inland Mission . She was followed by other deaconesses and from 1929 also missionaries to the Yünnan area under the name "Yünnan Mission in the Association of China Inland Mission". The work of the missionaries expanded to areas in Japan , Taiwan and Thailand when work in China was no longer possible, and was then named “Marburg Mission”.
Following a request from Brazil , the director of the DGD, Theophil Krawielitzki , sent two missionaries to Brazil in 1932, who were soon followed by other deaconesses and missionaries on missions among Germans. The activities of the Marburg Mission led in 1947 to the establishment of a local church, the "Associacao das Igrejas de Cristianismo Decidido". The so-called “Marburg Brazil Mission” was involved in the work of the Marburg Leaf Mission, which is also part of the DGD , until it became part of the Marburg Mission in 1989.
After the Second World War , the mission resumed its activities under the name “Marburger Mission GmbH”. In 1970 the Mission expanded its work to Uganda , in 1988 to Spain and 1993 to Russia . Peru joined in 1996, Germany in 2011 ( reverse mission ) and Albania in 2013 . The Marburg Mission is currently (2015) working in 10 countries on the continents of Africa , Asia , Europe and South America .
Her focus is on church planting, church building, theological training and diakonia (work for the disabled and drug rehabilitation). Various Bible translation projects were also supported. Since 2011 she has also been running reverse mission in Germany. In 2014 the “Christ Church Essen” in Essen-Rüttenscheid emerged with the help of a mission family received from Brazil .
Since January 1, 2003 the organization has been called the “Marburg Mission Foundation”.
Memberships
The Marburg Mission Foundation is a member of the Working Group Evangelical Missions (AEM), the Federation of Evangelical Communities (BeG) and the network of the German Community Diakonie Association (DGD) based in Marburg, both of which are in turn members of the Evangelical Gnadauer Community Association . This is part of the European Inner Mission Movement (EURIM).
Web links
- Website of the Marburg Mission Foundation
- Website of the "Igreja Critianismo Decidido" , the "Church for Decisive Christianity", which emerged from the work of the Marburg Mission in Brazil, with parishes a. a. in Curitiba , Guarapuava , Londrina , Maringá , Porto Brasilio , Rogate , Rolandia (all in the state of Parana , southern Brazil, Portuguese / Brazilian)
- How Smilinguido came to Germany. Story of the rainforest ant Smilinguido, a rag doll (cuddly toy) that every child in Brazil knows. In turn, it emerged from the work of the publishing house “Luz y Vida” of the “Church for Decided Christianity”.
Individual evidence
- ^ K. Brandt: Marburg Mission . In: Helmut Burkhardt and Uwe Swarat (ed.): Evangelical Lexicon for Theology and Congregation . tape 2 . R. Brockhaus Verlag, Wuppertal 1993, ISBN 3-417-24642-3 , p. 1293 .
- ^ History. Archived from the original on November 2, 2011 ; Retrieved November 2, 2011 .
- ↑ Ursula Wiesemann: My life for language research . Bundes Verlag GmbH, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86258-044-6 ( sendbuch.de ).
- ↑ From Germany to Brazil and Back The Two Ways of Mission in the 21st Century. Retrieved October 10, 2015 .