EBWU Election Conference, Hanover, Workshops
EBWU Election Conference,
May 30 - June 2, 2013, Hanover, Germany
Workshops
Workshop 1 – Diaconic ministry in Hanover
The needy person comes first!
Diaconic ministry in the spirit of the gospel is a ministry for people whose needs are not recognised in a society. How do we realize which people are in need of support? What kind of help can a diaconic ministry provide? How can our churches support such a ministry?
Some examples from the work of the Diakoniewerk Kirchröder Turm, Hanover:
- Therapy for traumatised people
- Young Care – a ministry for young people who were badly injured
- Return – a specialist department for people suffering from the excessive use of media (e.g. internet)
Michael Borkowski, born 1950. He is pastor and director of the Diakoniewerk Kirchröder Turm, an organisation for social services in Hanover. He is also mentor/counsellor , family therapist and traumatologist.
Workshop 2 – My life dream
What moves us deeply we can communicate by using creative means. We become acquainted with a participative method of working with a mixed (language, age, level of education...) group of women.
Irmgard Neese leads the department for elderly people in the German Baptist union. As such, she is looking for new ways to work for and with people, who are in the second half of life.
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Claudia Sokolis was born in 1973 and she is a pastor in Templin (Brandenburg) since 2006. She also teaches music & rhythm to children, and it is important to her, that also adults learn to express their faith not only with soul and mind, but also with the body.
Tuula Bockemühl-Simon was born in 1974, of a Finnish mother and a German father. She has a Master's degree in Intercultural Studies.
Tuula is married and has two children. She loves to sing and play the violin in different worship teams. She also has discovered a passion for creative dance and its ability to activate the human being as an integral whole.
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Nicole Witzemann was born in 1975. She is a pastor and she works for the Frauenwerk and for the ecumenical council in Berlin. She is married and has one son. As a teenager she lived in Nigeria for ten years. That experience made her aware of global issues such as poverty and justice.
Heike Heider worked for a fair-trade initiative in Marburg. Since then it is important to her, to make congregations aware of fair-trade issues. In February 2012 she has started a Micha-Challenge-local group in Marburg.
Workshop 5
– How Hannah learned to stand up and live!
– A bibliodrama Workshop
Bibliodrama offers a wholistic approach to a biblical text. With the help of body exercises and movement, role play and creative work, we will begin to experience Hanna's wonderful process of "Standing Up" with all our senses and feelings. We will learn to bring our own story and Hannah's story together, to rediscover the moments in our own life where we may encounter God and begin to stand up again and live.
Margaret Lincoln M.A., author of two books, teaches Bibliodrama and other courses on spirituality at Stephansstift, Hanover. As a British native who has studied German language and literature, she is also an English Coach. She is married and has four daughters and six grandchildren.
Workshop 6 – When God Laughs with Us:
Spirituality and the Gift of HumourHumour is rarely seen as a significant part of our spirituality. Many of us can appreciate a good joke, but rarely do we think about any deeper meaning and function of humour in our Christian discipleship. In this session, we will consider humour as a gift and as a tool in opposing injustice and bringing changes in our own lives and the lives of others.
Dr. Lina Andronoviene is a Lithuanian, born in the port of Klaipeda, and since her early days has been involved in the life of the Baptist church there. She never thought she would be a theologian, and had focused her energies on English language, literature, and creative writing.
However, some years ago, due to an almost accidental visit to the International Baptist Theological Seminary (IBTS) in Prague, it dawned on her that theology did include literature and the rest of humanities, and two passions became one. Lina serves as Course Leader in Applied Theology at IBTS and is also Acting Director of the Non-Residential Bible School of the Baptist Union of Lithuania.