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"Stuttgarter
Zeitung - Strohgäu und Umgebung" July 11, 2012:
A Missionary in Austria Mission is still a current matter in Gerlingen, says Jürgen Schilbach, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Rebmann Foundation Gerlingen/Germany. Translated into English from the German text of Klaus Wagner
Herr Schilbach,
the We are attempting to keep the memory of the old
missionaries alive. This memorial should also be a sign that missionary
work begins at home. Different people associate mission with very
different things, on the good side people think of aid work for instance, on
the bad side people think of subordination, etc. Here we wish to portray the positive side of mission. What role does
Gerlingen still play today in world–wide mission? We still have serving missionaries from Gerlingen,
for example Hans–Georg Hoprich who has been in Burgenland since 1998. That means Herr
Hoprich is working as a Protestant in Catholic It’s not about being Protestant or Catholic,
but about Christian values. In ‘Holy
Korntal’*) missionaries are still being trained. Shouldn’t
Gerlingen also be seen as ‘pious’ in view of its missionary
history? We are labelled ‘pietist’ and
‘pious’. For us the church is part of the wider community. On the other hand
the significance of the church is diminishing in our society. Is a missionary
museum still relevant? Precisely so. For us, the question is how we can still win people
for Christ. The history of mission is part of the history of the
town. Even the 125th anniversary of the
Gerlingen YMCA being celebrated this year is important. Each has its place. |
A
Gerlingen Man in China Visitors from Hong Kong come to the Strohgäu*) - to find the roots of their church which has 10,000 members
Wilhelm
Maisch from Gerlingen and Thomas Tsang from Wilhelm
Maisch from Gerlingen went to “We
are looking for our roots,” said
Thomas Tsang, “Through Wilhelm Maisch we have become an
independent
church.” In
The
Tsung Tsin Mission of Hong Kong was one of the
very early churches established in The
visitors were impressed not only with the Rebmann
House and the missionary room but also with the history of Gerlingen
especially
with regards to missionaries. This
part was undertaken by Imanuel Stutzmann who
knows every nook and cranny of Gerlingen. On
the subject of mission he didn’t go back to
Adam and Eve but started with the Basel Mission House which was set up
in 1815. Many
farming lads were sent there to become
missionaries. Among
them were several Gerlingen men – and a
forefather of Wilhelm Maisch by the name of Jakob was one of the first. His
Christian name links him to Thomas Tsang and the
Christians from |
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