A New Start for Exploring Life’s Living Community 

With a wonderful new team, consisting of four young adults, ages 20-24, a new season has begun for Exploring Life’s living community. Since October 2017, the students with various courses of studies (civil engineering, applied chemistry, interior design and social...

Electricity for Burkina Faso!

Burkina Faso is one of the poorest countries in the world. Only a very small percentage of the population has access to electricity. Many people therefore lack an essential prerequisite for the self-responsible improvement of one’s own life situation. Within the...

The nehemia team, 30 years strong – or: Why Jesus needs your fish

It really is true: the nehemia team has been around for 30 years now. If you’ve been sharing our journey from early on and still can’t believe that number, just take a look in the mirror! Time hasn’t stood still at all. It’s been 30 intense years full of challenges,...

A Sweet Cinnamon Delight In Rural Miwani

Who would have thought that the people of rural Miwani would struggle to choose between buying a loaf of bread and indulging in a cinnamon roll? Don’t get it wrong, there’s no joy in watching the rural folks debate between the basic loaf and the tantalizing sweet...

Five things I was taught by refugees

My husband and I have been working with a Contact Café by the nehemia team for 2,5 years now. We meet every Thursday at 4.30 pm to give Germans and refugees an opportunity to get to know each other, have tea, conversations, intercultural inputs or to go on a faith...

Aid shipments from Franconia

Several aid shipments from Franconia made their way to Ukraine again this summer. We are so grateful that Avid & Hanni Feldhoff of „Oase Hersbruck“ and Friedrich Dorsch of „Lasst uns gehen“ in Heiligenstatt and their staff make these shipments possible again and...

An inclusive elementary school is being developed

Uzhgorod/Ukraine: The nehemia team is supporting the project of the Ukrainian nehemia team to start an elementary school in Uzhgorod in 2018 which is based upon Montessori pedagogy. Target groups are especially children from marginal groups: Roma families, orphans,...

Dayaks in Fürth’s Town Hall

A delegation of “Dayaks” (indigenous people from Borneo) was welcomed by Mayor Dr. Thomas Jung in the Fürth Town Hall. Part of this delegation of Indonesian local politicians were the nehemia employees Wolfgang Oelschlegel and Deckhy Gedeon. Fürth’s...