The goal of the project

Pro Mission is an initiative for the promotion of the missionary training of our students. The goal of the project is to empower students for an effective missionary service, by helping their personal development with crucial practical experience. They shall be enabled to practically taste the areas of evangelization, church refocusing, church planting and intercultural mission. Therefore, three big subject areas were integrated into the curriculum: 

Evangelistic missionary missions: When deployed in evangelizations at home and abroad, students are involved in the preparation, active implementation and follow-up of evangelistic series in teams. As a result, they experience the need for process-based work, individual steps by people to make a decision and the challenges associated with such projects (e.g. intercultural). Success stories as well as difficulties offer learning experiences for how mission can work and what role the participants play in it.

Study trips: By visiting model communities in Germany and other European countries, students get to know a representative number of successful mission projects. Both church planting and churches that have gone through realignment processes and are now successfully doing missionary work will help future preachers to broaden their horizons by experiencing methods and options for successful missionary work. Study trips are undertaken to the following countries: Germany, England, France, Italy, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, USA.

Research: Accompanying research into mission projects as case studies is also an important part of the Pro Mission project. The respective communities and mission teams benefit from such analyzes, on the one hand, and the students, who can apply the methods learned during their studies here. Under the supervision of the lecturers as project managers, for the first time both extensive studies on specific Adventist mission projects in Germany (BA and MA theses) and shorter research on the missionary activity of individual congregations can be created.