Werner Thelen and
Karin Burkhard-Thelen
From:
Germany
Joined GLOBE:
2019
Field:
Philippines
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Werner Thelen and
The Philippines
… are a beautiful island state. They consist of 7746 partly paradisiacal islands of which about 880 are inhabited. The Philippines are located in Southeast Asia, they lie in a triangle between Taiwan, the island of Borneo and Indonesia.
About 21 million of the inhabitants of the Philippines are considered poor and live in terrible conditions. More than another 20 million people have only mini-jobs to keep their heads above water.
Due to a colonial period of the Spaniards, which lasted about 400 years, 90% of the population live in the Catholic faith.
Who we are
We are married, have 6 children. Karin has a solid education as an educator with numerous further training courses in the areas of trauma, attachment behaviour, prayer pastoral school and family system. Werner completed an apprenticeship in industry and for many years was responsible for 150 people.
Werner is also a passionate worshiper. Both of us have been deeply rooted in faith for several decades and have personally experienced God’s glory in many situations in life. We therefore believe that God wants to bring people out of terrible poverty and is looking for people who are willing to make themselves available. God has placed children in need on our hearts and has commanded us to help them.
Our mission
We feel that God is calling us to build a preschool for children in Manila within the existing ministry Help Philippines, to support their families and to participate in church planting. We try to act as holistically as possible.
Our key elements are (graphic in german):
