{"id":3509,"date":"2020-08-17T17:22:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.globemission.org\/missionaries\/mission-in-asia\/werner-thelen-and-karin-burkhard-thelen"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:27:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:27:16","slug":"werner-thelen-and-karin-burkhard-thelen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.globemission.org\/en\/missionaries\/mission-in-asia\/werner-thelen-and-karin-burkhard-thelen\/","title":{"rendered":"Werner Thelen and Karin Burkhard-Thelen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-kbs3v9zz-c3efe97fba90254596dde63ddef7629c main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry 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Burkhard-Thelen<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><strong> From:<\/strong><br \/>\nGermany<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joined GLOBE:<\/strong><br \/>\n2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Field:<\/strong><br \/>\nPhilippines<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='hr av-26g3vl-224b7048eb1a1d0a7d06f0fed7093718 hr-default  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_icon_box '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-88ermq-1fa0afd98a5a8039670df05f6fd7a881\">\n.iconbox.av-88ermq-1fa0afd98a5a8039670df05f6fd7a881 .iconbox_icon{\nbackground-color:#002e5b;\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n.iconbox.av-88ermq-1fa0afd98a5a8039670df05f6fd7a881 .iconbox_icon.avia-svg-icon svg:first-child{\nfill:#ffffff;\nstroke:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<article  class='iconbox iconbox_left_content av-88ermq-1fa0afd98a5a8039670df05f6fd7a881 av-icon-style-no-border  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_hr  avia-builder-el-last '  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itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h3>The Philippines<\/h3>\n<p>&#8230; 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Due to a colonial period of the Spaniards, which lasted about 400 years, 90% of the population live in the Catholic faith.<\/p>\n<h3>Who we are<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Werner is also a passionate worshiper. Both of us have been deeply rooted in faith for several decades and have personally experienced God&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-4a1xyd-daaea9cb83c0b885cfd12f4023352a1d\">\n.flex_column.av-4a1xyd-daaea9cb83c0b885cfd12f4023352a1d{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-4a1xyd-daaea9cb83c0b885cfd12f4023352a1d av_two_third  avia-builder-el-19  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_third  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-kbs4k7tq-24e09daa243c5de3042bed7f710adc8d '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h3>Our mission<\/h3>\n<p>We feel that God is calling us to build a preschool for children in Manila within the existing ministry <strong>Help Philippines<\/strong>, to support their families and to participate in church planting. 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