Current Guest at our Mission House
...Rainer Kiefer (v.r.), Director of EMW, with our board (f.l.): T. Pauler, J.W. Kabango, C. Währisch-Oblau, A. Parlindungan, V. M. Dally, J. Motte and D. Krismawati (sitting). (Photo: M. Pauly/UEM)
Think tank global learning
"Global Learning in Ecumenical Perspective" (GLEP) - this was the topic of a four-day think tank of the VEM in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. (Photo: S. Vecera/UEM).
El Pacific Miyisa Binagha studied telecommunications management and comes from Goma (DR Congo). Since April 2019 he has been working as a south-north volunteer for one year in the Wuppertal Mission House. (Photo: El Pacific Miyisa Binagha).
Our next group of North-South volunteers visiting for the first time our Mission House (photo: Martina Pauly/UEM).
Scholarship holders of UEM met in 2019 to establish an international network. UEM has already enabled hundreds of talented people to receive an academic education. (photo: UEM)
U - E - M wanted! The three letters of our logo on the outer facade of our office in Bielefeld-Bethel was stolen more than once. (Photo: Matthias Börner/UEM)
Become a development worker in Germany! In our South-North volunteer service, young people (aged 18-28) spend one year volunteering in Germany. More infos under "participation" on this website. (photo UEM)
Technology against Hunger. Modern greenhouse in Parapat, North-Sumatra (Indonesia). (Photo: M. Pauly/UEM)
Above the clouds of the Usambara Mountains... Sunrise at Masusu viewpoint, near the Lutindi Mental Hospital for mentally ill and addicted people. (Photo: Werner Blauth/UEM)
Tea picker at Lake Toba (North Sumatra)
The monthly income of the workers is 30 Euros, plus work clothes, rice and oil for the whole family. (Photo: Matthias Elsermann/UEM)
Sunday Service in Bafoussam: Women dressed all in white celebrate the Sunday service in Bafoussam, in western Cameroon (photo: Sonia Parera-Hummel/UEM)
Meditation in a Francescan monastery, the present educational institution Haus Ohrbeck in Georgsmarienhütte, the venue of the last German Regional Assembly in 2019. (Photo: UEM)
Covid-19: Our regional office in Northsumatra being disinfected by a co-worker from the UEM member church HKI in Pematangsiantar. (Photo: UEM Asia)
All over the world, women do hard physical work on construction sites like this woman in Magemba in the Usambara region of Tanzania, who transports stone for stone on her head. (Photo: Marie Noelle-Leuer, UEM)
One of the first church buildings in North Sumatra belongs to the Karo Batak Church (GBKP) and is located near Berastagi. Today the church houses a photo exposition of the first European missionaries. (Photo: UEM)
Enjoy your holiday! Participants of the International Ecumenical Leadership Training for young adults in Tanzania, here in Zanzibar in 2017. (Photo: Jonas Thomas/UEM)
In times of Corona... the blessing is given, as here in the Javanese GKJW church, in accordance with the rules of distance. (Photo: GKJW)
Together we will win - united against Covid-19, a song by Raffin Imboko Beondo with a message to the world (mixing desk of the recording studio in Kinshasa, photo: Raffin Imboko Beondo)
"Fridays for Future": UEM volunteers at the Climate March 2019 in Wuppertal (Photo: Lisa Bergmann/UEM)
"The Good Samaritan" - patchwork carpets of a women's cooperative in Rwanda. (Photo: Ramona Hedtmann/UEM).
"The story of Christmas" - patchwork carpets of a women's cooperative in Rwanda. (Photo: Ramona Hedtmann/UEM).
Annual motto 2021: "Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful!" (Luke 6:36) - Photo: UEM
"Live my Life" - an award-winning musical by young people from Botswana, Namibia & Germany. The partnership project: By exchanging their smartphones, the young adults virtually swapped identities. (Photo: Marion Unger/UEM)