Joerg and Petra Nettelroth

From:
Germany

Joined GLOBE:
2015

Field:
Uganda & Germany

Project Number Nettelroth

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We are Petra and Joerg Nettelroth.

Our 4 biological children, 4 children-in-law and 13 grandchildren live on 3 continents in 4 different countries:

  • Corah married to Malcolm Duerod with Joy, Sion, Aron, Mira and Nicolas (Sarajevo BIH)
  • Judith married to Schwarz Manano with Monica, Floella, Amara and Zephaniah (Kampala UG)
  • Nils married to Jana Nettelroth with Elissa and Josias (Bremen D)
  • Jonas married to Brianna Nettelroth with Wynona and ??? (Bradenton USA)

We were born in Germany. Our story with God is extremely exciting and filled with miracles, brokenness and grace.
Ask us about it, our story we love to tell.

What we do…

… with words like counseling (individual, couple, and long-term counseling), coaching, mentoring, discipleship training or similar comes close to what we do.

We do this in Germany (project 115) www.dienettis.net and accompany the project in Uganda (project 439) www.otpawora.org.

We are guided by God in how He wants to equip and encourage people. We help them to discover themselves and to be set free in what God has put into them. From our point of view, this is similar to the way Jesus lived with people. In this, we are something like catalysts that are useful for a time and then are no longer needed.

Why do we focus our help in Uganda on the development of individuals?

  • because it is our vocation to strengthen people in their own identity
  • because it is culturally very difficult in Uganda to initiate processes of personal change in groups.
  • because we think that this kind of help is very effective.
    A country like Uganda needs good schools, orphanages, hygiene, clean water …
    It is good to help here with this. At the same time, we see how people stop working when they are supported financially. Help can make dependent and thus freeze the existing circumstances.

“Why build a school when the mzungus will do it.”

We think it’s good and important to keep doing these things.
At the same time, it takes a shift in thinking, it takes

  • Ugandans to actively change things
  • Ugandans who can multiply such change processes in a culturally adapted way.

This is exactly where we have seen our priority in Uganda with our function as catalysts.

Currently (2023) we see that this process has progressed so far that we could completely release David, the local leader. We continue to accompany him as friends and spiritual parents and watch with great joy how God is building His kingdom with him in this battered region. How the environment is changing, the number of child pregnancies and alcoholics is decreasing.