150 years ago, Christian Friedrich Spittler, co-founder of the Basel Mission, now Mission 21, and founder of the Pilgrim Mission St. Chrischona, died. The story of his final resting place reflects the rapid development of Basel.
What moves the parishes in Kalimantan, Indonesia? What are their problems and what are their possibilities?
A unique major event: Last weekend, more than 5,000 teenagers and young adults celebrated the anniversary of the Reformation at the Protestant youth festival ReformAction in Geneva. A young delegation from Mission 21 was also there.
Daniel Gloor actually works as a lecturer at Sabah Theological Seminary (STS), a partner of Mission 21, in Malaysia. At the moment, however, he is staying in Amman, the capital of Jordan. Why? He is there on a sabbatical for five months. In his new newsletter, Daniel Gloor gives an interesting insight into the multifaceted capital and personal hurdles: At the entrance exam for an Arabic course, he was so nervous that he misspelled his name. He passed anyway. With his deepened knowledge, Daniel Gloor would like to be able to answer the questions of his students at the Theological Seminary (STS) in Sabah, Malaysia even better in the future. In his newsletter he has also dealt with the use of the word "Allah". Let us surprise you!
A ghost in a student dormitory, Jesus as Superman and arm wrestling until you drop: In his new newsletter, Daniel Gloor surprises us with observations from his everyday life in Malaysia.
The new newsletter from Indonesia describes impressively the biggest academic celebration of the Theological College, the "Wisuda".
For Claudia Zeising, ecumenical co-worker of Mission 21 in Tanzania, 2016 was a difficult year. She had to say goodbye from afar to her father, who passed away at the age of 85.
Usually Tobias Brandner writes his newsletters from Hong Kong, where he lives and works as an ecumenical co-worker of Mission 21. His current letter, however, reaches us from Chiang Mai in Thailand, where he is teaching for a few months as a guest lecturer at Payap University.
How does a female Protestant pastor live in Indonesia? What can she achieve and what difficulties does she have to overcome? Enta Malasinta answers these questions in the new newsletter by Uwe Hummel. Hummel, ecumenical co-worker of Mission 21 in Indonesia, interviewed Enta Malasinta to find out for which reasons people in Kalimantan study theology and what perspectives there are for evangelical pastors in a majority conservative-Islamic society.
In her new newsletter, Claudia Zeising takes readers on a journey to the island of Zanzibar.
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