Gedanken – Thoughts | Berichte – Reports | Erfahrungen – Experiences
Today the world wide partner churches of the Protestant Churches in Hesse and Nassau and of Kurhessen-Waldeck will meet at 1 pm (German Time) for an International Service „Meet and Pray“ on the occasion of 4th of Advent. You can follow it life on YouTube
I took the foto today in the morning. It speaks for itself!
After nearly two years my first visit to partners abroad. Wonderful to reconnect, to sit face to face, to listen to our sisters and brothers, to discuss about these challenging times and to enjoy simple Libanese food!
Corona bedingt war die Verabschiedung in den Ruhestand immer wieder verschoben worden. Aber gestern war es soweit: in einem Gottesdienst in der Berliner St. Elisabethkirche haben wir Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel nach über 20 Jahren als Direktorin von Brot für die Welt und der Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe in der Ruhestand verabschiedet. Ein bewegender Moment.
„Brot für die Welt verabschiedet Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel“ weiterlesen
Dear Brothers and Sisters in our worldwide ecumenical fellowship,
We celebrate Easter in year 2 of the pandemic.
Our life and work have changed profoundly.
This year we send our signs of hope for Easter with a song in which is sung at the end:
“Until all are fed we cry out; until all on earth have bread. Like the One who loves us each and every one we serve until all are fed.”
This is our hope for the world – for this we sing, pray, cry out and act!
Blessed Easter
Im 1700. Jahr jüdischen Lebens in Deutschland setzen der jüdische Landesverband und christliche Kirchen in Hessen mit der bundesweiten Plakataktion „#beziehungsweise – jüdisch und christlich: näher als du denkst!“ ein Zeichen für mehr Verständnis und gegen Antisemitismus! „#beziehungsweise – eine Aktion startet“ weiterlesen
This year everything is so different as we approach Christmas and the New Year. At Christmas we celebrate that God became man and came into this fragile world. At the same time, it brings with it the hope that destruction, violence, fear and suffering will not have the last word if we give space to God’s love and peace. How important this hope is, I have felt just in this year in which so much was different than planned. I take this hope and longing with me into the new year and wish you a blessed Christmas and a good start into the new year.
Heute am Erntedankfest haben wir in Nackenheim die Aktion „5000 Brote – Konfis backen Brot für die Welt“ für die Evangelischen Kirchen in Hessen und Nassau (EKHN) und von Kurhessen-Waldeck (EKKW) mit einem Gottesdienst eröffnet. „Konfis haben gebacken – „5.000 Brote für die Welt““ weiterlesen
At Pentecost we as a Christian community celebrate our unity in diversity!
For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind (2 Timothy 1,7)
After many weeks of lock down we again started today on Pentecost Sunday to open our churches and to celebrate our Services – but with strict hygienic conditions.
During this times of lock down the church bells rang every evening at 7:30 pm; we lit a candle and prayed in different languages. As the Corona Pandemic is still a challenge for all of us around the world and people are still suffering not only from the Virus but also from hunger, unemployment, isolation and loneliness we are asked for continous prayer. But we will do it now in our services.
Our common prayer will still be available in 29 languages under the following link: TOGETHER
The Corona Pandemic is still a challenge for all of us around the world. People are suffering not only from the Virus but also from hunger, unemployment, isolation and loneliness because of the worldwide lockdown. We continue to pray in the evening at 7:30 pm when the church bells are ringing; we light a candle and put it in the window thinking of the people suffering from the crisis. Our prayer is now available in 29 languages.
As we are once through we start again sending our prayer into the world: today to our Kisuaheli speaking sisters and brothers!
More languages are available under the following link: TOGETHER