Friends aroundthe world

Reverend Rafael Dreyer is ecumenical Co-Worker of the Evangelical Mission in Solidarity in Ghana, in the Presbyterian Church of Ghana. He reports how an exchange between children’s groups in Ghana and Germany took place.

Sunday School leaders and staff of the Indonesian EMS member churches met in March 2020 in Makassar, Sulawesi for a four-day Children's Service workshop with intensive exchange and forward-looking impulses.

The international team of the EMS Children's programme is currently working on a booklet upon peace for the international use in Sunday Schools internationally. It will be published at the end of the year. Stay curious!

The World Council of Churches focuses on children and describes how the corona pandemic is affecting children worldwide. It warns of drastic consequences for their health and education. We present the WCC declaration in the blog.

Dr Hyun Sun OH from South Korea is pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Korea (PCK) and Representative for Theology and Education in Space Elizabeth near Seoul. Since October 2019 she also works for the EMS children’s programme. Find out more about…

The Church of South India published a Green Protocol Guideline, addressing 12 points to promote sustainable development practices within their churches and institutions.

In order to strengthen international relations, the programme offers actions and booklets in different languages. Here is a brief overview…

The Church Congress in Dortmund was a great success. According to the organizers, hundreds of thousands of visitors attended. And EMSO was one of them.

Pastor Heekyung Jeong for YDKEM (Youn Dong Kids English Ministry) in Seoul, South Korea is using the DIVERSITY booklet in the children's worship service.

Pastor Heekyung Jeong from South Korea has designed a Children's Service for the centenary of the Korean Independence Movement, which will be celebrated in all Korean churches. She is now happy to share this special service with the world.

Agnes Kübler, coordinator South-North exchange in the EYVP, gives us insights into the voluntary exchange of the Evangelical Mission in Solidarity (EMS).

Every year the EMS offers worship materials on Epiphany. In 2019, the focus is on Japan and the artist Sadao Watanabe. Emso, the elephant, took a close look at his painting "The Three Wise Men" for the Children's Service.

Katrin Klöpfel is pastor of the Protestant parish Herleshausen-Nesselröden and answered our questions about the children's service of her parishes in an exciting way.

Pastor Solomon P. Benjamin has visited the CSI St. Mark’s Cathedral in Bangalore, India, and gives us an insight into the Shepherds’ Symphony’s bond to the song He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands.

Emso got a letter from India today and now he can’t wait to tell you all about his good Friend, Evelyn. In our new booklet “DIVERSITY: We are the children of the world,” you will be able to hear a lot more from her, soon.

The elephant, named Emso, excited the young and the old at the Conference for Children’s Service by the Evangelical Churches in Germany in Stuttgart from May 11th-12th, 2018. Many children shaked hands with Emso and many pictures were taken. Emso is…

Woo Hyeong, a 9-year-old boy from South Korea, introduces himself. He is part of our new booklet “DIVERSITY: We are the children of the world”.

We are happily working on the DIVERSITY booklet which will be coming soon. But today we already want you to get a tiny inside look into the booklet.

The children in our EMS-Network are talking open-hearted about their believes and their churches. No…

Today we would like to deliver an insight into the working process of the new booklet of the children’s programme called “DIVERSITY”. It is exciting to work with people worldwide on such a project.

In the new children’s service about Epiphany, Emso and the children discover the feast of Epiphany. Therefore Emso travelled to Jordan und tells us what he discovered there: a wonderful artwork! Be curious!

Frank Fabian Daffa was born and raised in Tanzania. Here he gives us an insight of the children's service there.

Reverend Heekyung Jeong from Southkorea gives us an insight into the children’s service in the presbyterian Youndong-Church in Seoul. The children dealt with the topic of peace and they made peace doves.

Eric Napoleon Cuadrasal from Sabah, Malaysia was part of the South-North-Exchange of the EMS Ecumenical Youth Volunteers Programme (EYVP) in 2016. Today he gives us an insight of the children’s service in in his church.

An UNESCO paper named “Leaving no one behind” reveals that 263 million children are out of school. Here we give you an insight of the study.

Solomon P. Benjamin is pastor and Liaison Secretary for East Asia and India. Today he talks about children's service in India.

Mega Kamase Sambo from Toraja Church tells us how Sunday school in her church in Indonesia looks like.

Jasmin Huttenlocher und Vanessa Kluge are in charge of the Sunday School Service of the Swabian town called Heinigen in the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg. We interviewed them for you:

The 36th German Evangelical Church Assembly (Kirchentag) takes place in Berlin and Wittenberg from 24 to 28 May 2017. Emso, the Elephant will also be there! Come and join us!

50 days after celebrating Easter, Christians worldwide celebrate the next festival: Pentecost. In 2017 the Lutheran Church of Württemberg, Germany hosts a very special festival on White Monday in Stuttgart: The celebration of the worldwide church and…

The FAIR TRADE exhibition in Stuttgart has been the first big event in public for Emso, the walk-act-elephant. Many children attended the workshop on fair trade bananas and – together with Emso – they discovered the fair and unfair elements in banana…

Emso is now a two meter high blue puppet and is on the way for children worldwide. It took a lot of needle stitches, but finally the elephant made out of cloth has arrived in Stuttgart. Today I want to explain to you what this is all about and why.

Global Learning with children is exciting and fascinating. Today we will have a look on three more basic principles that are important in the field of Global Learning.

Global Learning with children – what exactly is this? There are six basic principles on Global Learning which are important to us in that context. Let us start with three of them.

Pipit, the little Bird, is curious and enquiring and she loves to get to the bottom of things. Today, she follows the traces of the festival of Epiphany.

The Elephant Emso accompanies Children on their journey worldwide. In his first blog he describes the aim of the Children´s programme of the Evangelical Mission in Solidarity. Emso tells what he and Pipit the Birds have to do with the programme.

The elephant Emso met Frank Otfried July, Bishop of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg, on September 14 and presented him with the new workbook DIVERSITY. Emso reports.