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Church in Transition: merge Protestant communities: for example, left the Ruhr

municipality mergers may also go easy on the stage. "This is so harmonious expired, that it's scary all right," said the Rev. David Rudat Saarner. And his Broicher colleague Gerald Hillebrand the community meetings accounted for on the Lindenhof and the Wilhelminenstraße were discussed where on Sunday the merger plans, saying: ". There were some critical inquiries, but no contradiction" Against this background, short of the two presbyteries on Sunday evening to the action and adopted the merger. The merger left the town clock is no accident. The first interviews were conducted a decade ago. Since the common church music exists left of the Ruhr, where the community is involved Speldorf. These discussions have been intensified as 2006, two pastors were to retire.

"We of course have the Speldorf asked and they would have liked to have had it, but there is seen still do not have to act and has told us. Do you do time," said Pastor Hillebrand, why the links Ruhr community Speldorf not first with the Fusion fishing boat. Broich Saarn and are therefore willing to merge, because both communities lose 100 a year for church members, they die or quit the church aus.Warum at the community meetings suggested no resistance to the merger, is obvious. Basically, almost anything can go on as before.

"We have a healthy budget and are not a poor devil," said Hillebrand. Broicher the municipal budget is worth one million euros and the amount of Saarn to 1.5 million euros. Therefore, in Broich and Saarn can all churches, community centers and day care centers will receive and all employees will keep their jobs. In the division of parishes and pastoral duties, members of the parish priest teams even more than before synergies . Use Such was the pastor Broicher Hillebrand already as a pastor for about 400 church members in the North German district Saarn responsible Schleswiger around the street.

He just its functions can now take things a little more relaxed, he was following the departure of his colleague Klaus Rosorius since November as a pastor in Broich Einzelkämpfer.Aus of currently vacant half the youth leader position in Broich and the temporary half youth leader position in Saarn wants the new community youth leaders make a full point. Also available in the community kindergartens Lindenhof, the kingdom, the Calvin and at the Otto-Pankok Street extension and conversion works for childcare places under-three year old on the agenda. The only last year built a new organ in the Saarner village church and the restored ten years ago, church on the Wilhelminenstraße see Rudat and Hillebrand than pounds, can proliferate with which the municipality, without having to take in the years to cash in your hand.

There is now paying out due to the demographic changes that the community Broich in 2005 the church was built in 1965 on the abandoned road and Calvin had demolished. "We operate on an equal footing. We have a better look at the overall community and save us a lot of meetings and by-laws," said Hillebrand looking forward to the cooperation in the new community, from August until the election of the presbytery in Spring is headed in 2012 by a joint management committee represented. Another advantage of fusion provides Hillebrands colleague Rudat fact "that our volunteers in the new community have called time must not, how would we do that, if each municipality would continue to work on their own."


The new community-Broich Saarn is 1 August formed. It is 11? 500 parishioners, about 4600 in Broich and about 6900 in Saarn. The Rev. Gerald Hillebrand (Broich), David Rudat, Thomas Jantzen, Jantzen and Verena Jürgen Krämer share parishes 3.7 and conform with national church setting, according to 3000 church members a pastor does. The new church next to the clock will have approximately 50 employees and maintain three churches, three community centers and four nurseries. The churches and community centers are at the Lindenhof, the elder road and at the Wilhelminenstraße involved in the day-care centers Calvin, at the Otto-Pankok and from the Reichsstrasse.


This article was published on 25 January 2011 in the NRZ

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Church in Transition: merge Protestant communities: for example, in the north

"We recognized that a merger is the best way to long to stay efficient and functional," says the Dümptener Rev. Gundula Zühlke (photo), the Agents Committee of the new municipality directs. "We have a larger scope," believes her committee colleague and financial Kirch champion Hans-Joachim Behr, pointing out that the new Luke community was set with its 2.5-million-euro budget in the person of Simon Sandman now has a new full-time youth leader and almost 40 employees from the old to the new municipality were taken. Only one office and a cleaner and a caretaker who lost their jobs.

also has the new community in the wake of the merger process separate from the community centers in the New Town Road in Styrum, at the Helen Street in Dümpten place in the poet Goethe and the district. 2013 is also the task of the youth center planned oasis in the stock street. Retained the churches and chapels in the Oberheidstraße 231, at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße 21a and the Albert Road 86 and 136th Street in the stock The sale of abandoned property as well as a former community center land to the Mellinghofer road will bring new money into the cash strapped church. Faced with dwindling tax revenues and church parishioners financial figures show Kirch master Behr believes that the church must save Luke in the next five years, around 450,000 €. He expects the budget of the St. Mark's church to which accession may be considered later this year than likely, he comes to a total savings of about 700,000 € for the next five years.

But the new Lukas community wants to not only save but also invest. So shall the Styrum Immanuel church tower further restored and the child care center at Kunterbunt Schildberg for the care of under-three year olds and expanded. The neighboring building that was formerly used by the Protestant Family Education Center, will be for the previously prepared at the Helen Street Headquartered youth floor. The reconstruction and expansion of the kindergarten Kunterbunt fails with 620,000 euros to book, from which the municipality must take 225,000 euros. 100 percent of the town is estimated at 300,000, however, the tower restoration fund in € Styrum need.

Zühlke, Behr and church architect Volker Schrödter agree that the candidate who also situated in the north St. Mark's Church community is appropriate and desirable, and signal the call of the new openness Lukas community. Social marketing concepts, as now discussed for the community center on Winkhausen Knappenweg holds Schrödter in times of falling church tax revenue for a principle worth considering option for solving financial problems.

The new Luke Town: The 1 January 2011 in Mülheim north formed Luke Lutheran congregation consists of the former municipalities Dümpten, locust and Styrum. The new Community has 12? 000 members and five ministers. From 2013 it will be four. For comparison, in 2005, the three new towns in the old part of town together Lukas still almost 13 800 members?. If the parish Markus 1 June would join the new community north 17? 000 members and three ministers from Markus.Bis to elect a new presbytery in 2012 the congregation is led by an authorized committee, chaired by Rev. Gundula Zühlke of five representatives of the old was composed of communities and appointed by the Kreissynodalvorstand is. The members of this Committee were represented on 30 January, with a Mass at the Church at Immanuel Styrum Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße to office.

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Because the helpers need help, or help as not only a benefit concert by the Caritas Foundation can

Because the number of church members back the number of church tax payers to get the social services of the Caritas significantly less money from the diocese than they did years ago. "We do not want to connect to the Western Wall and reflect instead on our creativity," said Caritas board member Hans-Theo Horn recalls the founding of the Caritas Foundation.

After a lead time of three years, she went in 2007 to start and now has a capital of 60,000 € accumulated. In addition to private donations and donations went to the endowment and proceeds from previously six charity concerts, each under the motto "recorded" notes against the emergency "money for a good cause. The seventh benefit concert is on 30 January, by 17 clock in St. Mary of the birth Althofstraße under the baton of Werner Schepp (photo) on the stage.

music lovers who listen with 15 € for the concert ticket is not only good but also do good to expect a tuneful program of Christmas choral music from England and choral music by Johann Sebastian Bach. Come out to play musically with a project and the youth choir of the parish of St. Mary's Assumption, the cantor Werner Schepp us his colleague Jens Christian Vogel from St. Mary Birth and the Folkwang students Jens Hilger (piano) and Julia Uthmann (harp).

sees the number of concertgoers Caritas board also Horn "as a barometer for the appreciation of the social work of Caritas." The six previous benefit concerts at the historic St. Mary's Church Church Hill was well attended. Although the Charity Foundation in first time this year will distribute income, you need given the current interest rate no great imagination to develop, to imagine that must be made with the current share capital of no great leaps. Therefore, at the Caritas Foundation is currently on the principle of hope, hope for tax-favored contributions, donations, or project-based grants.

The first returns of the Foundation Board would like to let you get the industry Horn Cafe at the Caritas Centre at Hing mountain road. Here are mentally ill people a day structuring employment offer. Come to Horn and his colleagues at Caritas director Regine Arntz and Urban Dean Michael Janssen sometimes not, like King Sisyphus ago, when they witness how the demands on the Catholic social organization, because poverty increases, but decrease the available church tax money?

Horn answered this question so again happy with his life motto: "Not the Beginning is rewarded, but the perseverance!" And so he remains convinced "that cause the church to go."

more information on Charity Foundation you can get at Hans Theo Horn by phone: 0208/481545, by e-mail: hans-theo@horn-mh.de or visit: www . caritas-muelheim.de

This text was published on 28 January 2011 in the Ruhr word: For more information about the Catholic weekly newspaper of the Ruhr diocese, see: www.ruhrwort.de

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A conversation about the desire and the burden of a new beginning with the job-seeking Wojciech Brzeska

"every beginning there is a magic that protects us and helps us to live." For instance, the writer Hermann Hesse, in "stages" has-written poem. But what about the magic of new beginnings when we, as Wojciech Breszka if you look at a new job, look for, because one has lost his job. For the NRZ Brzeska I talked to about the joy and burden of a new beginning in difficult times.

As you have seen the change in the new year?
The job loss is already a big event, especially when this experience twice in a short time must make and the fault and for purely operational reasons. What made me say goodbye to my job more bearable were the very warm solidarity of my colleagues who have shown me that it was not for me and my work was much appreciated. It feels good to have in such notice a difficult situation of change that people think of and sympathize.

Is it hard to motivate yourself after such a setback for a new beginning?
I am a devout Christian. And let me make in this situation because I know that my professional life is predetermined by God and I will not now fall into the void. For I know a strong ally on my side and so on can also give my worries to a higher authority.
experience the alternation between job loss and job search is not there for the first time such a thing as you the routine?
I am now a bit quieter than the first time, but I would not call it routine. Because that job loss and job search are too serious a matter. But I am already strengthened by the experience that it worked once before in my life with a new career. And I am confident that this time again out well.

Have you in your situation for the new year what good intentions?
I was not passive. And I am not going to be. My first intention is to make every effort to get a sequence point, so my job search is not too long and I will be back soon with both legs in the working world. I also want to maintain contact with my former colleagues or to brush up. I would also make 2011 more sports and do something for my health. I think, for example, to the to the swimming and cycling. For I am become as desk workers in recent years is very unsportsmanlike.

In real life you have to scramble even, to move forward. What gives you the power to find your faith?
I am an optimistic person. Added to this is my family who gives me strength and I repeatedly shows that it deals with my situation and me to mind, that it was not up to me, that I have now lost my job.

you as a father but also a material liability. Sets the job search under pressure?
I feel this responsibility, some pressure, but also as a motivation in career start and had the confidence that will help me in my 14 years of professional experience to quickly find a new job.

Could you imagine, quite a fresh start in a new job?
Why not, if the new job would correspond to my ideas and values. I finally had in my previous work life to get incorporated into new areas. I see a new beginning as an opportunity.

feeling your leisure as involuntary as a job seeker burden?
You have to structure the day-conscious and can not push things on the back burner. We must not wait for job offers, but must look actively for them and approach them. But I do not feel that my time as a jobseeker slowly passes. Sometimes makes it fun to have more time for things that must be done in the house and the one during the occupation had no time.

you with your moving from Poland to Germany ever started again. Helps you this experience in their present new beginning?
That was a very different situation because it was a voluntary and conscious decision taken. This was for my wife and me no adventure and no leap.

the person: Wojciech Brzeska was born in 1965 in Sosnowiec, Poland, and studied after high school in Krakow and Katowice Germanistik. In 1988, he decided together with his wife to relocate to West Germany. In 1995 he graduated from the University of Essen for a master's degree in Germanic and theology courses. He then graduated from the Academy of the TÜV Rhineland in Dusseldorf additional training as a journalist and public relations from 1996 to 2006 was responsible for the press and public relations for the Catholic parish church and the Caritas. After the dissolution of the Catholic Press Office, he joined 2007 Mülheim social Holding, which operates the city's nursing homes. Here he remained until the end of 2010 worked as a PR consultant and as an executive assistant. Brzeska is the father of a 15-year-old daughter.

This text was published on 19 January 2011 in the NRZ

Freezy Freekies Pumas For Sale

The ARTelier Rudziok offers a new crime comedy again great fun on a small stage

The man can kill a fellow, at least on paper, or rather on the stage. And this is said with due respect: hilarious. The speech is the author and artist Armin Rudziok who does not live by, but for his art. The man earns his living as a finance officer and dumps his first detective comedy "Death of a financial officials" just a colleague to bless this life. "I'll take it out to me. For I am even one," jokes Rudziok. He adds, however, added mildly: "The murder victims have been disclosed for any other occupational group can come. "Entertaining KomödieRudziok who knows from his day job," that is in each tax return a life story, "an entertaining comedy with many strange characters and even more wit wrote that pass in the art studio Rudziok on Heelweg 10 in Winkhausen across the stage is.

far from the North Road Rudziok operates with his wife Martina a small room theater where he was seen already with several staged readings of the more sinister and macabre nature. That's ridiculous trade for him, uncharted territory. But he has, as the dress rehearsal of his play was to enter with success. His wife Martina, who themselves already have some comedies "The dear neighbor" or the "best friends" has written for leading art studio, this time directing and embodies the not so funny, but just so hilarious widow of the Dr. Grace. So much was revealed before. The woman doctorate in the courthouse that values its title, is strongly suspects. Because she has forgotten in its tax return a small savings account with two million € and therefore a problem with the murder victim.

"This is a true bean counter who sees only its own records, but not the people. This one fellow wants a financial officer," his fictional colleagues Rudziok characterized by the Tax Office Mülheim-outer city, which he of course play itself is, as the scrap dealer Alfons Mocke, the landlady of the fleet Jacqueline Koslowski Constance (played by Dana Bruning) from the Café Bizarre would like to put his junkyard feet.

Mocke, which an audit is coming up, has as much a motive as the café owner. For the usually dutiful financial officer was indeed a day when their guest, but has had only ever write. Or is murder of officials in the end to the account of the great male hairdresser Uschi Liebhardt, really cute played by Anica Isermann, the finds from the tax office not so great because of their professional independence, he always bureaucratic stones may legt.Man in the way and look forward to the end and open Quicktime mitlachen.Apropos laugh. Colleagues have also actually laughed when they heard of Armin Rudzioks criminal and comic theater ambitions. "Yes, they have. And some have even already signed up for a performance," the Autor.Und confirmed that he goes to the proof that financial officials understand quite fun.

registration (for reasons of space are needed) and information Rudziok the art studio at the phone number: 0208/444 209 48 Additional information on the event calendar can be found at: http://www.artelier-rudziok.de/

This text was published on 20 January in the NRZ

Bart Hits Homwe With A Chair

For ten years, Donum Vitae also offers in Mülheim, not only in abortion advice and help: an interview with consultant Ulla Höhne

Where one door closes, another opens. "This proved true wisdom of the French writer Moliere on 2 January 2001. For then the door opened pregnancy conflict counseling office of the association Donum Vitae (Gift of Life), after the doors of the Catholic crisis pregnancy counseling centers by ordered by Pope John Paul II's departure from the statutory pregnancy conflict consultation had closed. For the NRZ I spoke with donum vitae consultant Ulla Höhne about the work that she and her Mrs Betty van Bubat Hasseln and administrative specialist Ilse Roberts does.

Given the history was the establishment of Donum Vitae and the opening of its own advisory body quite tricky. Who supports you in the beginning?

We have been supported by very many committed Christians, who were of the opinion that the Catholic Church is not the pregnant women in the conflict must be left alone. There were also people from the area of Charity who have made strong for us. I am thinking, for example, Anne Terhune, who to this day as volunteers in support of our Board Association committed.

What qualifies you and your colleague for the difficult task of abortion advice?

I am social worker and my colleague, a social scientist. I also have additional training as a systemic family counselor. And my colleague is also trained as a therapist interview.

How will your finances work for people seeking advice free?

80 percent of our budget is funded by the state. The remaining 20 percent are from municipal grants and from membership fees our currently 60-member association and from donations.

What makes the profile of the crisis pregnancy counseling in Donum Vitae?

We offer a Christian, what many women is important. We also advise Muslim women who come to us willingly. We benefit from positive word-of-mouth and the fact that we not only offer abortion counseling, but also advice and help with partnership conflicts, domestic violence, prevention and education issues and in monitoring of women after the consultation for have chosen their child.

How many Women seeking advice from you?

Last year, we have 570 consultations with 315 women out. For comparison, in our first year counseling center was visited by 97 women, with whom we have had at that time 179 consultations. We can look forward to an ever-growing popularity.

How has your counseling work changed since 2001?

It is harder and become more complex, because most women have more and multilayered problems. I can not remember, for example, that would be the first year a woman with a violence problem in their partnership came to us. Meanwhile accumulates this problem, especially in connection with unwanted pregnancies. Previously, no women came to us in need of grief counseling, because they have lost a child or with the burden of abortion are not clear.

What do you see the reason for this shift in emphasis?

I believe that today more women dare to go with their problems to the public and talk about their problems. And even today we have problems in the eye and talk to them, to which we have not thought ten years ago.

also looking for men Your advice?

rarely full. Every year, I may have one or two men in counseling who are not as clear with the decision of their partner. About 75 percent of our consultations we exclusively with women and about 25 percent of couples. Often women are also aware of at first alone in our consultation in order to be clearly independent from their partners about their own decision.

The counseling center of Donum Vitae at the Castle Street 8 to 10 Monday through Thursday from 9 to 17 clock and Friday from 9 to 14 clock by phone: 969 15 15 or by e-mail to: muelheim@donumvitae.org reached

This text was published on 9 January 2011 in the NRZ

Cheerleader Gets A Weggie

hit the right note: The music in the monastery Saarn goes into its 25th Years

What to do with a monastery, nuns pray in the long no more and work? Prior to this question were the friends of the 1214 and 1808 founded dissolved Cistercian monastery in Saarn, was restored as the old monastery 25 years ago with money from city, state and diocese. "We wanted to open the monastery and its church and outside the liturgy of worship for as many citizens," recalls former Cultural Affairs Hans-Theo Horn, To date, he is also on the Executive Committee of the monastery Saarner friends.

Together with his late friend Leo Werry he came in 1986 with the idea to bring music to the monastery. "The first concert by a Cologne Ensemble, which played medieval music, was attended not just good," Horn tells the story of a difficult beginning. But the monastery's friend and his colleagues remained true to its motto: "Not the beginning, but the perseverance is rewarded." And they were rewarded.

The Müülheimer of the Savings Bank and the Leonard Foundation-sponsored Music in the monastery Saarn, which now starts with a three-King concert in her jubilee year has became an audience magnet that not only music lovers from all over the country, but also well-known musicians from Germany and abroad, such as the Vienna cathedral organist Peter Planyavsky, his Paris Kollgen Philippe Lefebvre from Nottre lady or the Trinity choir Cambridge tighten.

church musician Werner Schepp, who heads the program of the music series for 20 years as artistic director, estimates the number of concert-goers at the monastery at about 3000 per year. They hear in the monastery and its church Saarn St. Mary's Assumption is not only chamber choir and organ concerts, but also children's musicals. But the Epiphany concert with the ensemble Harmonie Universelle and the mezzo-soprano Cornelia Mary Orenstein inspired 200 people to chamber music by Telemann, Buxtehude and Hammerschmidt. "We have become well established, because we are spiritual impetus and a binding framework that match the beautiful atmosphere of the monastery, the music friends as musicians is equally enjoyed," says Werner Schepp, the success story of music in the monastery Saarn.

For more information, visit: http://www.musik-im-kloster-saarn.de/

This text was published on 14 January 2010 at the Ruhr word

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If "Desk Murderer" Why will RWE employees voluntarily to the retirement home were

In the of the Mülheim social Holding operated nursing home on the break could be approached before Christmas by a fine mess freuen.Dafür provided seven ladies and two gentlemen from the brand communication of the utility RWE. The employees of the company that decreases our current customers tend to be more and more money for our daily current tasks, a day before Christmas back something they missed by a former storage room in the nursing home Dümptener a new coat of paint.

provided with about 50 liters of paint, the office workers in blue overalls and a bright and friendly atmosphere in the formerly drab storage area, the future of the people as a group room for common craft and other recreational activities used to be soll.Die RWE employees brought with them not only their labor, paint and brushes, but also money for craft supplies. "We wanted to do something more permanent, what remains and do not pass by the day," said department director Sabine Schmitt wilting, why their colleagues and for one day for painting in the nursing home, went instead to bowl together or to organize a trip for the residents.

"As a joint operation with the one in the end can still do something good for others, brings more than any coaching or team building seminar at the climbing because the colleagues once in a completely different environment and meet in a relaxed atmosphere can learn ", said her colleague, Klaus Dörner alder." They are really good. The room looks already great, and in two to three hours, we are done, "praised caretaker Sigi Gutsche the craftsmanship of the guest workers from RWE's offices was not just for Head Schmitt wilting, referring to the visibility of successful teamwork." The was a first for us, but certainly not the last joint action as part of Companius. "With this project, RWE, the voluntary commitment of its employees for charitable projects. But people also are welcome to volunteer for a good cause, not working for the Group are.

This text was published on 30 December 2010 is in NRZ and WAZ

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As the senior day care center of workers' welfare and the youth center as a bridge between the generations

Usually in a senior day care to more leisurely. But this Monday ensure young people from the youth center at the George Street that is in the old day care center of workers' welfare on the railway road rather turbulent approaching.

The intergenerational Christmas party where Santa Claus can pluck from the youth center Mike Vojar again and again to have his beard, but also a colorful mix of music, dance and Singing to see and hear get is part of the "Old meets young" which they brought the social worker Vahide Tig from the Youth Centre George Street and the head of the old day care center on the railway road, Elke Dohmann-Jurkewiecz in 2009 on his way.

"The point is that young people and seniors who have them in everyday life no contact with each other to know each other and respect for learning," said Tig about the project, regularly at the senior citizens and young people from the city center and Eppinghofen together talk, learn, play, tinker, or celebrate the move. "Such meetings are like a small seed that looks long term and bear fruit, "believes the 74-year-old Manrianne Seger. And the 14-year-old Filipp Fischer finds it in this context," interesting to get to know people who have experienced something in their youth entirely different than I do "

Awo employee Domann-Jurckiewicz leading this afternoon in an angel costume from the program, describes the relationship work between generations and cultures as "a long and difficult path that is worth it."

A text on the subject was published on 23 December 2010 and WAZ NRZ