YMCA Germany

We welcome the General Assembly

of ymca europe

Kassel, Germany – May 22th, 2009

Germany

Germany

Population> 82 million inhabitants

Religion

> 62 % Christians

> 32 % no religion

Standard of living

> Gap between rich and poor is growing

YMCA in Germany

-> Largest Ecumenical Youth Organisation in Germany

333,000 Members 2,200 local YMCAs, 150 Christian Youth

Villages

61,000 Volunteers, 840 Professionals

YMCA in Germany

Challenges in Germany

> Young people from a poor social background tend to get a poor quality education.

> How will they find a job?

Challenges in Germany –> Our Response: Education

Our response to this huge challenge is:

Education

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> CVJM-Kolleg

> YMCA University

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Bildungswerk gGmbH (Training Centre)

> A training institute for Christian youth work since 1928> Founding member of the International Coalition of YMCA Universities

> Main subjects: Theology and Social Work> 90 residential students and 120 part-time students (E-learning)

Hochschule

Challenges in Germany

> lack of personal relationships

> secularized value system

> patchwork-religion

> lack of a personal relationship with God

Challenges in Germany -> Our Response: Youth Work

> Children and Youth Groups:Boys & Girls Clubs / Teen Clubs / Young Adult Clubs

> Clubs for adults and families

> Drop-in centres / Youth activity centres / Youth cafés

> Camping programmes

Drop-in centres / Youth activity centres / Youth cafés

Our Response: Youth Work

42,000 people in Sports Groups

Coordination of German National Championships> table tennis, handball, volleyball, basketball, soccer, indiaca

Organisation of European Championships> handball, table tennis, basketball and volleyball

Support of sports groups within local YMCAs

“Train the Trainer”

120 TEN SING Groups

Creative Youth Work with teenagers

Music • Show • Choir • Band

Dancing • Drama • Creativity

Audio Engineering • Light • Sound …

International Department

> Relations to Partner YMCAs all over the

world

> Exchange programmes

> Programmes in support of youth

in developing countries

> Projects to reduce poverty and misery

> Emergency aid for displaced persons

and

victims of disasters

We love our guests

MS Waterdelle

YMCA member movements all over Germany

• CVJM-Landesverband Sachsen-Anhalt > Magdeburg

CVJM-Landesverband Sachsen > Dresden

CVJM Thüringen e.V.Ev. Jugendwerk> Erfurt

CVJM-Landesverband Schlesische Ober-lausitz > Görlitz

Arbeitsgemeinschaft der CVJM Deutschlands> Kassel

Christliches Jugenddorfwerk Deutschlands (CJD)> Ebersbach/Fils

CVJM-Westbund> Wuppertal

Evangelisches Jugend-werk in Württemberg

> Stuttgart

CVJM-Landesverband Bayern> Nuremberg

CVJM im Norden> Hamburg

CVJM-Landesverband

Baden> Karlsruhe

CVJM Pfalz Ev. Jugendverband > Otterberg

CVJM-Ostwerk Landesverband Berlin-Brandenburg > Berlin

CVJM-Gesamtverband in Deutschland Im Druseltal 8, 34131 Kassel, Germany

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The “Paris Basis”

The basis for all YMCAs worldwide

“The Young Men’s Christian Associations seek to unite those young men who, regarding Jesus Christ as their God and Saviour, according to the Holy Scriptures, desire to be his disciples in their faith and in their life, and to associate their efforts for the extension of his Kingdom amongst young men.“

(1855)

History of the German YMCA

1823: The roots of the German YMCA reach back to the foundation

of an association of young men for the purpose of missionary work in “Barmen-Gemarke” in the Ruhr Area,

by 16-year-old F. W. Isenberg.

1844: Foundation of the first YMCA in London by George Williams.

1855: Foundation of the World Alliance of YMCAs and the Paris Basis.

1883: The first German YMCA was founded in Berlin.

The German YMCA today

The National Association of the YMCA in Germany (CVJM-Gesamtverband) is the umbrella organisation of the Christian youth work carried out under the names:

> „Christlicher Verein Junger Menschen“ (CVJM)[Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA)]

> „Evangelisches Jugendwerk in Württemberg“ (ejw)[Protestant Youth Movement Wuerttemberg (South West)]

> „Christliches Jugenddorfwerk Deutschlands“ (CJD)[Christian Association of Youth Villages}

YMCA Germany

13 Member Movements

2,200Local

YMCAs

330,000Individual Members

Structure of the German YMCA