Getting to know the DMG

In a recent blog I mentioned my attendance at a mission conference put on by the Deutsche Missionsgemeinschaft or German Missionary Fellowship at their headquarters at Buchenauerhof near Sinsheim Germany (see picture). The DMG is unique among missionary sending agencies, not because of its focus on a particular field, but because of a lack of one. The DMG, with over 300 missionaries has no mission field of its own. Instead, it serves as matchmaker, linking up its missionaries with mission agencies around the world. For example, if a particular missionary feels called to work in church planting in Japan, the DMG will link them up with an agency that is doing that kind of church planting.

But why go with the DMG instead of just going with the agency itself? The reason is that some mission agencies have not German sending arm. By seconding missionaries to other agencies, the DMG thus enables German missionaries to serve in a wide variety of mission fields while maintaining a sending and support base in Germany.

If you would like to read more about this mission and their work (yes, they have an English translation!) see their website and look particularly under the link: DMG . . . a model.