Hermannsburg Mission Seminary
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The College of Intercultural Theology (FIT) is a resident of Hermannsburg training facility. It takes the place of the mission seminary Hermannsburg. It was part of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Work in Lower Saxony ( ELM), the joint mission work of the national churches Hanover, Brunswick and Schaumburg -Lippe. In six to seven years, pastors have been trained there for the service in the Church worldwide. 26 August 2012 the mission seminary was closed.
History
The Mission Seminary in Hermannsburg was founded in 1849 by Pastor Louis Harms, after some young men from Hermannsburg and the surrounding area had a desire to be sent as missionaries, and have not been adopted by any of the existing missionary societies, as they as farmers and country people the necessary academic education was missing. Thus, the Hermannsburg Mission began as a "peasant mission." The first " pupils " were sent in 1854, having qualified overseas and justified the work of the Hermannsburg Mission in South Africa, where the Evangelical Lutheran. Mission in Lower Saxony ( ELM) still active today.
Even after the Second World War went from Mission Seminar by the seminar leader Olav Hanssen spiritual impulses. It came to the establishment of circles as the group 153, the Epiphaniaskreises and the Evangelical Gethsemane Monastery in Riechenberg near Goslar. Between 1979 and 1993, the seminary of Dietrich man was headed.
College of Intercultural Theology
In succession to the mission seminar, the College of Intercultural Theology (FIT) was founded in Hermannsburg of the churches of Hanover, Brunswick and Schaumburg -Lippe, which takes over the tasks of the seminar since October 2012. The state of Lower Saxony has the technical college recognized by the state. Can be studied there, the courses of study mission science and international diakonia, BA, Intercultural Theology, migration and community leadership and MA Intercultural Theology.
Known graduates
- Reinhard Keding ( born 1948 ), former bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia ( Delk )
- Erich Hertel ( b. 1949 ), bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia ( Delk )