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[German Version] (Evangelische Mission in Oberägypten; Sudan Pioneer Mission). The Sudan Pioneer Mission, founded in 1900 by Theodor Ziemendorff and committed to missions in the Islamic world, has borne the name mentioned above since 1990. Initially restricted to Aswān, its work, oriented toward medical and diaconal mission, has expanded geographically since 1970. Klaus Schäfer Bibliography Zeugnis und Dienst im Mittleren Osten, EMO reports, has appeared bi-monthly under various titles since 1900.

[German Version] The MBK Mission, a branch of the Mädchen-Bibel-Kreisarbeit (Girls' Bible Study movement), was founded as a registered association in Leipzig in 1925. Its purpose was to promote the participation of women in world mission. Its first field of work was East Asia, particularly China, to which as early as 1926 the first two women missionaries succeeded in going, and to which many other women missionaries were later sent after training at the MBK Bible School. During World War II the MBK Mission found a new center in Bad ¶ Salzuflen. After the end of mission work in China i…

[German Version] is a diaconal mother-house, founded in 1927 by Christa v. Viebahn (1873–1955) for diaconal-missionary work primarily in Germany. Aidlingen belongs in the tradition of communitarianism and is a member of the Gnadau Association. The focal point of the work today are diaconal and evangelistic tasks; of the 358 sisters (1996), only a few are engaged outside Germany, mostly in cooperation with evangelically-oriented missionary societies. Klaus Schäfer

[German Version] Operation Mobilisation (OM) was founded in the United States in the 1950s and has been active in Europe and around the world since the 1970s. On the basis of its Evangelical missionary theology, it defines its task as spreading the gospel and encouraging young Christians to evangelize (Evangelism). This takes place primarily in short-term missionary outreach programs, in which young people are placed in various countries, or on OM’s own “mission ships.” In longer outreach programs…

[German Version] ¶ Evangelically-oriented international radio mission began in 1954 with Trans World Radio (TWR). Evangeliums-Rundfunk International (ERI) was founded in 1959 in Wetzlar as TWR’s German-language partner. The German organization broadcasts radio and television programs in 20 languages via various transmitting stations (Electronic church); in addition, it offers pastoral letter-writing and telephone counseling, distance-learning Bible programs, etc. Klaus Schäfer Bibliography Program guide: TWR magazine ERI Antenne.

[German Version] (EBM) is a cooperative mission of European Baptists in conjunction with the European Baptist Federation established in Zürich in 1954. The Baptist unions from Germany, France, and Switzerland were founding members; others joined later. After beginning in Cameroon, the mission now also works in other countries. Klaus Schäfer Bibliography Mission – Gottes Liebe weltweit. 30 Jahre EBM, 1984.

[German Version] The Schweizer Indianer Mission was founded in 1956; a German branch of this missionary society, established on the principles of the Evangelical Alliance, was founded in 1976. Its purpose is evangelization of ethnic groups in Latin America, especially Indians, with the goal of establishing independent indigenous churches among them. The mission’s areas of operation, where they have training centers and engage in projects of social service, are Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia. Their office is in St. Margareten; the German branch has its office in Trossingen. The SIM-Rep…

[German Version] A missionary society founded in 1904 by J. Seitz in Palestine to evangelize German emigrants, Jews, and Muslims. The mission to Muslims soon predominated, and today it characterizes the work of the Carmel Mission. It is based on an evangelically oriented theology of mission: it is active in many countries in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, in which evangelistic and diaconal missionary programs are implemented. The society's headquarters is in Schondorf, Württemberg (Germany). Klaus Schäfer Bibliography Journal: Mission in der Welt des Islam, 1912ff. (bi-month…

[German Version] The “mission alliance” Licht im Osten (Light in the East) was founded in 1920 by Walter Jack and Jakob Kroeker in Wernigerode, Harz (Germany), where they also opened a Bible school for Russian preachers. After World War II, in 1946, the missionary alliance was reestablished in Stuttgart-Mühlhausen, but since 1956 its base has been in Korntal. The purpose of the mission alliance, which also has autonomous associations in other countries, is to distribute Bibles and Christian litera…

[German Version] Methodism (Methodists) came to Germany in the context of missionary/evangelistic activity inspired from the United States and Great Britain. The first Methodist theological colleges set up in Germany in the mid-19th century, called Missionshaus (Mission house) or Missionanstalt (Mission institute), provided training for inland and overseas mission. In the 20th century German Methodists became increasingly involved in the tasks of world mission, generally in close association with the worldwide Methodist communion. To…

[German Version] The West-Europa Mission, a missionary center founded in Wetzlar 1974 by the publisher Hermann Schulte, is dedicated to mission in the spiritually impoverished (in its view) Western European countries of France, Spain, Belgium, and Italy, which have also been neglected by missionaries. It supports missionaries in partner organizations in these countries, engages in mission through publication and radio ministry, supports a Protestant school and correspondence Bible courses, facilit…

[German Version] Inspired by an English model (Society for Promoting Female Education in China, India and the East), the Morgenländische Frauenmission, M.F. for short, was founded in ¶ Berlin in 1842. In 1846 the call to women to participate in the mission led to the first sending of a woman teacher to India, in cooperation with a British mission; but this was at first met with reserve on the part of German missionary societies. From 1863, in cooperation with German missionary societies, women teachers were deployed in Ind…

[German Version] (DMG; German Missionary Fellowship). The uniqueness of the DMG, founded in 1951, consists in the fact that it does not have its own fields of work, but facilitates German missionaries' work with existing international or national missionary societies or with indigenous churches through the publication of a list of needs. The DMG works in partn…

[German Version] The Christusträger (“Christ-bearers”; cf. “Christophers”) are a Protestant religious community committed to discipleship and service to the poor. Since 1977/1978, they have been organized as independent communities of brothers and sisters, each with its own emphases in its missionary and charitable work in Germany and abroad; in 1963 they began a ministry to lepers in Pakistan, later extended to other countries. Klaus Schäfer Bibliography Monatlicher Freundesbrief der Bruder- und Schwesternschaft.

[German Version] (also called: Armenisches Hilfswerk) e.V. J. Lepsius founded the Deutsche Orient-Mission in 1895 as a mission to Islam (Islam: VI, 2). As a consequence of the bloody persecution of the Armenians in Turkey, Lepsius declared solidarity with the Armenians and became their public spokesman. Against the background of German policy toward Turkey in World War I, this led to his resignation from the German Oriental Mission and the founding of the Dr. Lepsius-Deutsche-Orient-Mission. In 1937, this work became subject to the Berlin Mission (BM). Klaus Schäfer Bibliography H. …

[German Version] The Jerusalemsverein (Jerusalem Association) was founded in 1852 in Berlin as an association to promote missionary work among Germans, Jews and Muslims in Palestine. In addition to evangelistic activity, missionary diaconal tasks (esp. in the area of education) were of particular importance. Since World War II, cooperation with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Jordan (ELCJ), which had arisen from the work of the Jerusalemsverein in 1959, has been central. A pivotal focus is on t…

[German Version] e.V. (CBM). Obeying a diaconal mission principle (“preaching without words”), Ernst J. Christoffel founded a first home for blind (Blind, Charities for the) and physically disabled persons as well as orphans in Malatia, Turkey, in 1908; other homes followed in Iran. A circle of friends supporting the Christliche Blindenmission im Orient (Christian Mission to the Blind in the Orient) was initially concentrated in Potsdam. After World War II, the …

[German Version] (EMW), was founded in 1975 as the umbrella organization for ecumenical world missions in West Germany. In 1991, it merged under the new name Evangelisches Missionswerk in Deutschland with the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Evangelischer Missionen which had been established in the German Democratic Republic in 1964. Its headquarters is in Hamburg. The 24 members and ten part…

[German Version] (EDI; Gospel Ministry for Israel). Founded in Württemberg in 1971 and ¶ rooted in the involvement of Swiss and south-German Pietist groups in the mission to Jews, the association, with headquarters in Leinfelden-Echterdingen, seeks to awaken greater understanding for the Jewish people and to promote witness to Christ among Jews. Klaus Schäfer Bibliography Newsletter: Gesandt zu Israel, six times per annum Annual: Kirche für Israel A. Burchartz, Jesus für Juden?, 1997.