The Winter School 2024 is booked out!

An international study and training course for church workers

• To sharpen the vision of an intercultural church
• To develop abilities to recognize and analyze cultural complexities in church and environment
• To practice and improve inter/cross cultural dialogue
• To develop approaches for intercultural diversification in churches.

Worldwide, societies are becoming more diverse. Particularly in urban areas, people from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds live next to each other. This is a challenge for many Protestant churches which tend to be monocultural in their set-up and self-under-standing. How can they incorporate the diversity of the settings they find themselves in?

This international winter school for church workers covers the following areas: Migration, culture and Christianity, church and discrimination, ecclesiology, and intercultural communication.

Participants will receive materials for self-study for preparation, live and study in an intercultural and interreligious environment for two weeks, and develop their own projects to implement in their contexts after their return.

Preparatory team and resource persons:

• Prof. Dr. Bianca Dümling, Tabor University of Applied Sciences, Department of Social Work
• Julian Elf, UEM, International Educational Team
• Rev. Pieter Grove, Uniting Church in South Africa
• Rev. Ebenezer Joseph, President of Conference, Methodist Church Sri Lanka
• Rev. Dr. Norita Sembiring, UEM, International Educational Team
• Rev. Dr. Claudia Währisch-Oblau, UEM, Evangelism Department