Inspire
Empower
Broaden horizons
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CHURCH ON EQUAL FOOTING is a fascinating network of organisations, associations and churches across church groupings. One question is close to the hearts of all its partners: how can we as a church live interculturally in the future?
How can we escape from a mostly monocultural church life? Would it not be amazing if today’s church reflected the colourfulness and wealth of languages and cultures promised us for the end of the age? A Mission Statement was formulated, putting into words the heartbeat of “Church on Equal Footing”:
EQUAL FOOTING
Living interculturally as a church
The world is at home in Germany today.
God calls us from our limitations into a new worldwide fellowship in our local area.
We acknowledge that we are brothers and sisters and receive one another as a gift from God’s hand.
We learn to structure our fellowships together in all matters.
In this way we experience church as a foretaste of heaven.
Church on Equal Footing is a Germany-wide network, rather than an association or organisation. At the biannual meetings which so far have taken place in the form of “strategy workshops”, we experience one another as a fellowship in encouragement and mission, inspired and bound together by the Holy Spirit.
We are convinced: for a “CHURCH ON EQUAL FOOTINGl”, you need people with burning hearts, but also knowledge, skills and courage.
We are therefore developing practical projects for all three of the above-mentioned areas.
How
will
CHURCH ON EQUAL FOOTING
achieve this?
Who is involved?
“Church on Equal Footing is a matter close to my heart. Only a church that overcomes boundaries has a future!”
﹣ Bendix Balke
Pastor of an intercultural Church (in Bad Kreuznach)
Bendix Balke coordinated the work with international churches at the church offices of the Evangelical Church in Germany from 2018 to 2020.
What do people say?
Geschäftsführung
Johannes Weth und Steve Ogedegbe
Stiftung Himmelsfels
info@gemeinde-auf-augenhoehe.de
Koordinationsteam
Bendix Balke
bb@bendix-balke.de
GEMEINDE AUF AUGENHÖHE wird koordiniert vom EJW.