Tools for Integration: German Language Classes

As part of their refugee work, the Nehemia Team has been offering German language classes since the beginning of this year. Four women between 45 and 53 years of age, two from Ethiopia and two from Pakistan, are attending the beginner’s course, sometimes joined by...

Nehemia Bicycle Repair Shop

For almost a year now, a small team of Nehemia volunteers has been repairing bicycles to give them to refugees. Over 40 bikes have found new happy owners in this way. Edgar, Aron and Albrecht are the German mechanics who are regulary joined by Abdul from Iran and...

Exploring Life 2016 Shared Apartment

A shared apartment for an international group of five young adults will open in Singerstrasse, Nuremberg in April 1016. As part of the “Exploring Life” program, they will be supported by experienced Nehemia Team members, who will help to be purposeful and future...

Helpcenter Moves Into A New Home

A very special project began in a small village near Prokopyevsk in 2011. It began in order to support single mothers who had no place to live. Two babies came into the world in that same year. The organization “Helpcenter” was officially registered in July 2014. The...

Discovery Trip to Thailand

The girls, scantily clad, are positioned like cheap goods outside one bar after another. This was one of the first impressions to hit the eight-member team of young adults who went with Hans Heidelberger to Thailand on a two-week discovery trip. They found themselves...

Forgotten Children?

„Even if the whole world were to forget the children in our village, God has not forgotten, and that’s why we care for them.“ These words from Pastor Luisa in Melingkat about five years ago, were the catalyst that started the kindergarten project of the Nehemiah Team...

Establishing New Montessori Kindergartens

What would a culturally relevant Christian lifestyle look like in the rain forests of Borneo? This question has been one that the Nehemia Team has been asking for a long time now. One answer that we have found and have put into action for three years now, is the...

Project Week in Kindergartens and Schools

The Nehemiah Team is looking for kindergartens and elementary schools in the region of Franconia who are interested in running a special, week-long project with the theme “How children live in other places – What do you know about Borneo?“  Through this program the...