{"id":330824,"date":"2019-03-13T18:27:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T17:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webdev.flars.net\/seeking-together\/"},"modified":"2019-03-13T18:27:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T17:27:51","slug":"seeking-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/seeking-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking together"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>20 years of <em>Together for Europe<\/em>: 7 \u2013 9 November 2019 in Ottmaring and Augsburg \/ Germany.\u00a0Visit of the regional Bishop Axel Piper<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Toward the end of February, 16 representatives of <em>Together for Europe<\/em>\u00a0met in Ottmaring to prepare the meeting of the \u2018Friends\u2019 which is scheduled for 7 \u2013 9 November 2019. This international network came about 20 years ago; this provides a good enough motive to remember the early steps and to develop further prospects for the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>Axel Piper, who has been regional Bishop of the Lutheran Evangelical Church of Augusta and Svevia since January 1, 2019, made his first visit to the Ecumenical Centre of Ottmaring. On that occasion he met Gerhard Pross, Ilona Toth, Herbert Lauenroth and Diego Goller, besides members of the preparation team\u00a0 of <em>Together for Europe<\/em>, and this allowed the Bishop to have a better understanding of the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Based on his experience Bishop Piper\u2019s vision of the Church is: not structures, but \u201cpersons who are seeking together\u201d. At the same time, Piper says that \u201cit is sufficient to be curious \u2013 in the best meaning of the word\u201d. Thus, he is eager to fulfil his new assignment, \u201cto know new persons, new challenges and to contribute toward a new form and a new beginning in the Church and society\u201d. Therefore, he found the initiative <em>Together for Europe<\/em>\u00a0\u201cquite interesting\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, he has already booked himself for the meeting of the &#8216;Friends of <em>Together for Europe<\/em>\u2019 (7 \u2013 9 November 2019).<\/p>\n<p><em>Beatriz Lauenroth<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Foto:\u00a0<b>\u00a9\u00a0<\/b>Maria Kny<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 years of Together for Europe: 7 \u2013 9 November 2019 in Ottmaring and Augsburg \/ Germany.\u00a0Visit of the regional Bishop Axel Piper Toward the end of February, 16 representatives of Together for Europe\u00a0met in Ottmaring to prepare the meeting of the \u2018Friends\u2019 which is scheduled for 7 \u2013 9 November 2019. This international network [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Axel Piper Joins Together for Europe in 2019","_seopress_titles_desc":"Discover the impact of Together for Europe at the 20th-anniversary event with Regional Bishop Axel Piper, Nov 7-9, 2019 in Germany.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2403,2435,3136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2019-ottmaring-20-years","category-experiences-reflections-and-interviews","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}