Thursday, March 3, 2011

Lumix Digital Telescope

The GAW and charity ...

The cleaning lady at the Lutheran School Escuela Belén in a poor district of Santiago de Chile is Catholic. Of the total 45 women and men who work there, no one is Lutheran, although among them are supporters of the small Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chile. Which is not difficult, because the Church is characterized by great breadth and freedom of thinking and has also made on issues of human rights a name. Helmut Frenz, former bishop of this church and winner of the Nansen Refugee Award The United Nations stands for. would
This Lutheran school with Catholic, Pentecostal and nondenominational employees and students, however, it no longer without the Gustav-Adolf-Werk. At a critical point was the diaspora of the EKD there and the lack of money collected. An act of love and not only on the "brethren", even if the recipient of the donation, the Evangelical-Lutheran community reconciliation, the support of the school. This small minority community was so devotedly behind their school, they would probably have gone for their failure to object.
The theme of GAW, "Let us do good unto all men, but in the household of faith "(Galatians 6:10), is aimed at minority churches and their communities such as in Santiago de Chile. The GAW is aware of the responsibility to support minorities, so they take responsibility and charity practice can - and indeed to everyone! That the "brethren" must not be overlooked is the importance of GAW. Because - who else makes yet? In the nine years as pastor of the Evangelical-Lutheran community reconciliation I have experienced in some poor neighborhoods in Santiago. Well as church aid organizations, including evangelical character, which in the Lutheran Makers diaconal institutions make life difficult.
awareness is the GAW to his motto. And it is deliberately to strengthen minorities. Not so that they seal themselves sectarian, but that the multilingualism of the Gospel has the space.
In the article "Evangelical cleaning lady looking for," Kassel Sunday paper of 6 February 2011 appeared, the ambivalence of love in its concreteness prominent. Limits the charity to those whom you are close, because there is - as with family members - the responsibility is greatest? It's all about playing off against each other in need? The GAW is aware of the challenge, Lutherans, Reformed and United Christians stand by and support them in their involvement in their societies. Here is an example charity lived without limits, based on the suffering.
It is currently offered in our church situation to look at our sisters and brothers who live out their faith as a minority. Above all, it is good for us in Germany to take the responsibility seriously and Diaspora Diaspora works such as the GAW not to call into a number of organizations that cut themselves and take no responsibility for the remote neighbor. The Catholic
cleaning lady was glad to be in the Escuela Belén work, because we blew another, a freer spirit. I wish I had had time at school in Santiago, a Lutheran cleaning lady. Why not? That did not. And the cleaning woman question has never been the decisive one. The most important thing was that the school continue to exist and offer children from poor neighborhoods a chance to education and better life could, regardless of faith. - Rev. Enno Haak

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