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Johann Matthies

Europe and Central Asia

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Johann serves as Multiply’s Regional Team Leader for Europe and Central Asia, resourcing Multiply workers and projects in this region. As a member of the ICOMB Ministry Team (International Community of Mennonite Brethren) he mobilizes regional and global partners, churches, and schools for world mission.

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projects

Growing Central Asia

Workers in Central Asia are providing a meeting space for a local congregation and helping support those in need...

East German Church Planting

Will you help bring the Gospel to the least reached in Germany?

Light in the East

Light in the East (LITE) is a ministry which facilitates kid’s camps and the building of playgrounds for children in...

Dortmund Church Planting

PräsentKirche is a new church-planting project in Dortmund, Germany, that aims to live out the parable of the wedding...

Germany Vision Tour: May 19 - May 28, 2025

The Pickaxe Project

Will you help inspire Gospel renewal in Germany, through creative cultural engagement?

$12401.17 Needed

stories

September Rain

“I was kneeling before Jesus Christ,” Ashraf told me. “He was standing there, right in front of me, looking at me. He...

On Fire

Meet Arghun, an elderly Mongolian woman who was transformed by God. This heart-warming story shows how acts of...

Modeling Love in a Climate of Fear

The refugee crisis is not over. In many ways, we are only just beginning to see the effects, and the fruit, of this...

Ribbons of Grace

Last week, my daughter, Abbie, and I spent a couple of hours repairing some broken pottery. Mine was an earthenware...

Goal

David was shy, until he scored his first goal.

Snowstorm

Tariq was on his way home when he got caught in the snowstorm. He and his son had traveled by car to share the Gospel...

The Hike

It was just after nine in the morning and the sun was finally coming out from behind the clouds. The weather was...

Small Church in a Hard Place

Not only was it in a part of Central Asia with very few churches, it was in a part of the city known as a hotbed of...

Special Permission

Tariq seemed destined to be a troublemaker. Most of his life, he was in conflict with the police, first as a...

The Dreaded Shopping Trip

“You do remember,” I added jokingly, “that we are only going to the grocery store!” “This is actually my first time...

Radical Transformation in Central Asia

One of our global workers in Central Asia related to us this story of a passionately devout Muslim who came to faith...

Plugged In

It is just after 4:00 PM on a Friday, and I am out on the streets in Dortmund. I am glad to finish work early today,...

Making Things Possible

My friend Viki works at a kiosk next to the subway station here in Dortmund. One Tuesday after work, I spontaneously...

Drawing the Divine

It was already half past six, and the basement was uncomfortably cool despite the heating being turned up. I shivered...

Ask God Which Town

In 2006, Ivana (not her real name) and her husband moved with their five children from Germany to Canada, where they...

When the Sent are Sent Away

Kateryna Oliferovski was completing a church internship in Dortmund, Germany, when the war in her Ukrainian homeland...

When Spring Comes Again

She had just received news that her sixteen-year-old daughter was trapped in Mariupol and her son, a soldier, had...

Teamwork in Dortmund

A new church in Dortmund was a bold vision. The German city was known as a place where churches were in steep...

What About the Demons?

She first reached out to our church in Dortmund via Instagram. The message read, “Hello, I am homeless. But I trust...

Blue Stains and God’s Grace

“Johanna, Johanna, the paint has spilled!” The girl who met me on the basement stairs was distraught, and my heart...

Pritzkaus Prepare for Potsdam

In 2000, we returned to Germany after studying for four years at Columbia Bible College in Abbotsford, BC, Canada. At...

Milly, the Runaway

We had just finished settling the children when my colleague suddenly asked, “Where is Milly?”

The Blocked Pipe

Something had to be done. For weeks, the water in our bathroom sink had been draining more and more slowly, and now...

Celebrations in Heaven

Vision for Mission - September 2024

Give the Fuss to God

In the beginning it was so dry. We were sad that our ministry was not working, that we were not reaching our...

The Lies we Believe

It was getting dark outside, and I was sitting alone at home. I wanted to be with the team, but I needed a moment for...

Why 500 Years of Anabaptism Matters

Vision for Mission - June 2025

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George & Nicoleta

Walter & Ina Reimer

Heinrich Rempel

Johanna Neudorf

Benni & Franzi Hermann

B & C - C0775

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