General Assembly, Council, Management Team
The organisational structure of the UEM
- The General Assembly (shown here at a meeting in Borkum) is the highest organ of the UEM.
UEM's governance structure
The governing organs of the United Evangelical Mission are established in the Constitution:
- The General Assembly
- The Council
- The Management Team
See a chart of UEM's governance structure
The General Assembly is re-formed every four years, but meets every two years.
The Council comprises 14 delegates from the General Assembly:
- The Moderator (Facilitator)
- Four persons from each of the three regions
- One young person
The Council advises and supervises the Management Team, elects the General Secretary, and appoints the General Secretariat and the Executive Secretaries as members of the Management Team.
The Members of the 2008-2012 Council
The Members of the 2008-2012 Council
German Region
Moderator Deaconess Regine Buschmann
von Bodelschwingh Bethel Institutes
Pastor Birgit Krome-Mühlenmeier
Church of Lippe
OKR Dr Ulrich Möller
Evangelical Church of Westphalia
OLKR Dr Wilhelm Richebächer
Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck
Barbara Roth
Evangelical Church in the Rhineland
African Region
Pastor Juanita Loami Engelbrecht
Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic of Namibia
Lefoko Moagi
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Botswana
Pastor Dr Kakule Molo
Baptist Community in Central Africa
Pastor Dr Anneth Munga
North Eastern Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania
Asian Region
Nathalie Dacanay
United Church of Christ in the Philippines
Pastor Eirene Gulö
Nias Christian Protestant Church
Bishop Eliezer Pascua
United Church of Christ in the Philippines
Pastor Dr Tuhoni Telaumbanua
Nias Christian Protestant Church
Youth delegate
Shalom Grace Tomas
United Church of Christ in the Philippines
The Management Team consists of up to eight persons, all of whom except the General Secretary are appointed for a term of four years.
The UEM Management Team is not to be confused with the "Executive Committee" (Vorstand) described in §26 of the German Civil Code, which at the UEM is known as the General Secretariat and has three members:
- the General Secretary
- the Executive Secretary for Finance and Administration
- one other Executive Secretary
The General Secretary chairs the Management Team as well as the General Secretariat. The General Secretary has an eight-year term and is eligible for re-election.
The Regional Assemblies are organised as committees of the General Assembly. Each of these regional assemblies consists of the General Assembly delegates from that region along with additional delegates from the region. The Regional Assemblies meet once every two years, in the off-years of the General Assembly.
UEM's working structure
See a chart of the UEM working structure
The UEM Constitution allows for a maximum of seven Executive Secretaries, who together with the General Secretary comprise the Management Team.
The members of the Management Team
The members of the Management Team
General Secretary: Dr Fidon Mwombeki
African Region: John Wesley Kabango
Asian Region: Sonia Parera-Hummel
German Region: Angelika Veddeler
Evangelism: Dr Claudia Währisch-Oblau
Justice, Peace, and the Integrity of Creation: Dr Jochen Motte (Deputy General Secretary)
Training and Empowerment: Dr Robinson Butarbutar
Finance and Administration: Jürgen Borchardt (Deputy General Secretary)
The regional work for Africa and Asia takes place in two locations: in Wuppertal and Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) for Africa, and in Wuppertal and Medan (Indonesia) for Asia. The regional offices are headed by the Executive Secretary for Africa and the Executive Secretary for Asia, respectively each of these Executive Secretaries has Deputy Executive Secretaries who are appointed in Wuppertal. The offices in Dar es Salaam and Medan each have their own additional Deputy Executive Secretaries, each of whom has their own Programme Officer. The offices in Africa and Asia are primarily responsible for planning and implementing joint programmes.
As before, the German region takes care of most of the programmes in the conference halls in Wuppertal and Bethel. The Ecumenical Workshop in Wuppertal has been expanded into the Centre for Mission and Leadership Studies Wuppertal; the Ecumenical Workshop in Bethel has become the Centre for Mission and Diakonia, which houses the Programme on International Diaconia.
The Training and Empowerment Division will have its international training programmes expanded further, above all in the areas of Missiology and Leadership. The Training and Empowerment Division also encompasses the UEM's international working areas of work with women, scholarships, the volunteer programme, and the international youth programmes.
Two programme divisions are responsible for the subject areas of Evangelism and Justice, Peace, and the Integrity of Creation.
