Contact Café for Asylum-seekers

The Nehemia Team has responded to the isolation and the needs of asylum-seekers by opening a café in rooms owned by the Lutheran Church in Hasenbuck, Nürnberg This began in December 2014 with a weekly meeting on Thursdays at 4.30pm. Asylum-seekers from the...

Nehemia-Consultations Regarding the Conflict in Ukraine

From March 12 to 15, 2016, the leaders of the Ukrainian, Russian and German Nehemia Teams met in Prague for consultations on the conflict in the Ukraine, the suffering caused by it, and the growing tensions, violence and separation resulting from it. The participants...

Human Dignity is Inviolable – a song project of God’s VIPs

Human dignity is inviolable (Article 1 of the German Constitution) – The value of a person cannot be infringed upon. The songwriter Jo Jasper, from Nürnberg, took a trip to Thailand, looking for answers to the question of the value and dignity of a human being. Based...

Love opens eyes

Conflicts and crises seem to be escalating across the globe. Maybe some of you feel as I do: I feel helpless, like a small, insignificant little wheel in the machinery of time, hardly the kind of part that could make a difference. Resignation takes hold, or perhaps a...

The Nehemia Pepper Project

Pepper (normally of quite high quality) is a traditional crop of Borneo. The local small farmers receive a fair price from the Nehemia Team – significantly more than if they sell to local middlemen. The handmade pepper containers are also manufactured in the villages,...

Nehemiah Schools in Pakistan

An alarming situation – Official statistics released by the Federal Education Ministry of Pakistan give a desperate picture of education for all, especially for girls. The overall literacy rate is 40 per cent, while only 22 per cent of girls are literate. The...

V.I.P. Project in Siberia

Old women, young mothers with babies, men and women who were drug addicts, and a couple of older, handicapped men – in total over 40 people live crammed together in a former kindergarten in a Siberian rural village near Prokopyevsk. The building is dilapidated and is...

Education as a Human Right

Access to a good education is nothing to take for granted in Pakistan. Many children, particularly from the Christian minority (about 1.6% out of a population of 180 million) hardly dare to dream of it. The Pakistani Nehemiah Team has opened two schools in order to...