Projects
Evangelism
The term "evangelism" has been researched in German-speaking countries for over 20 years. The term "evangelism" is understood as an absolutely fundamental topic of a faith that lives only from the communication of the external word - verbum alienum - despite a certain conceptual controversy, which mostly stems from different pre-understandings.
Due to this high relevance,...
Regio-Local Church Development
The term "regional-local church development" refers to the intentional combination of regional planning and local organization of church and parish life with the aim of combining the potential of both levels instead of playing them off against each other. The idea was developed by Michael Herbst (IEEG) and Hans-Hermann Pompe (ZmiR and midi) and follows the logic: "congregational development (local) is complemented and enriched by church development (regional)". At the IMK, we focus ...
Measuring congregational wellbeing
As an increasing number of members is leaving the church, church development debates focus on organizational downsizing, regional cooperation and new expressions of church. A perspective on the quality of the life of the church is often neglected. Therefore, the IMK is developing an instrument to measure the quality of the life of a congregation ...
Completed projects
Innovation lab
The Innovation Lab is one of the further training measures of the Archdiocese of Cologne for all employees in pastoral ministry. This provides them with the appropriate tools for developing something new...
Evaluation Innovationspfarrstellen
Between 2019 and 2021, the Evangelical Church in Württemberg has filled ten "innovation pastor positions" with pastors. The framework for these project pastor positions is the regional church innovation program "New departures".
Together with the SI of the EKD, we have evaluated these and are multiplying the results...