Since first having set foot on Japan in 2010 - and after that over and over in short-term outreaches - we have constantly felt that God wants to do something among the young generation, that He wants to pour out his Spirit and bring in a might harvest of souls. For this reason, we are going into that nations with prayer and worship, especially to the hotspots where young people gather. We sense that this is a God-track and will continue to go there ... especially by sharing what God has given each of us and what He has done in our lives. Jesus has set so many of us free from drugs and other bondage and given us new life. This message that He makes everything new is so vitally important in this place, for so many are stuck in drugs and other addictions, are struggling with suicide, depression, etc. Japan's young generation gets severly attacked in these areas, however, at the same time they are so much on God's heart!
Eddi Fuhrmann
In the 90s, Eddi came to Lüdenscheid - straight from prison. Drugs and criminality brought him there. While there, Jesus encountered him and he decided to put all eggs into one baske and go for therapy ... did he have anything to lose? Nothing - but he gained everything! After therapy, aftercare, job, etc., Eddi came as student to the REVIVAL SCHOOL Germany. The missions spark was ignited, however, it took a couple more years before he went to missions. He used those years to let God equip him. Today, Eddi is the leader of HELP-FCJG Vienna, and together with his wife Désirée he goes to Japan on a regular basis aiming to preach and to serve the body of Christ.
Désirée Fuhrmann
Luxembourg is very small ... but Désirée was longing for more. She wanted to get out and live ... and ended up in drugs and everything along the way. Was there still hope for true life or should she give up? Family and friends prayed and those prayers were answered: Désirée decided to go for therapy to House Wiedenhof and gave her life to Jesus. She, too, came as a student to the REVIVAL SCHOOL Germany after her therapy and aftercare. Asia has always had a place in her heart ... and in 2010, God opened the door to Japan. After a number of outreaches she (and Eddi) decided: We want to invest into Japan!
Gather Together
Throughout our many outreaches, we have connecte to many groups in the body of Christ. We sense that this is God's time to gather and to help the body of Christ to access the presence, the power of the Holy Spirt and apostolic teaching. There is so much hunger and so much the Holy Spirit wants to do in Japan.Missions
Our desire is to especially mobilize young people to do outreaches to Japan - young people from Europe as well as from Asia. Furthermore, we want to mobilize Japanese Christians to go to missions. We are seeking ways to do missions trainings with teaching sessions, etc. in order to invest into the Japanese Christians. Team
Eddi FuhrmannIn the 90s, Eddi came to Lüdenscheid - straight from prison. Drugs and criminality brought him there. While there, Jesus encountered him and he decided to put all eggs into one baske and go for therapy ... did he have anything to lose? Nothing - but he gained everything! After therapy, aftercare, job, etc., Eddi came as student to the REVIVAL SCHOOL Germany. The missions spark was ignited, however, it took a couple more years before he went to missions. He used those years to let God equip him. Today, Eddi is the leader of HELP-FCJG Vienna, and together with his wife Désirée he goes to Japan on a regular basis aiming to preach and to serve the body of Christ.
Désirée FuhrmannLuxembourg is very small ... but Désirée was longing for more. She wanted to get out and live ... and ended up in drugs and everything along the way. Was there still hope for true life or should she give up? Family and friends prayed and those prayers were answered: Désirée decided to go for therapy to House Wiedenhof and gave her life to Jesus. She, too, came as a student to the REVIVAL SCHOOL Germany after her therapy and aftercare. Asia has always had a place in her heart ... and in 2010, God opened the door to Japan. After a number of outreaches she (and Eddi) decided: We want to invest into Japan!
This is God's timing for Africa
The Holy Spirit is touching and transforming peoples and tribes in Africa, and we are standing with this move of God in the nations. He calls us to go to the poorest of the poor, to people no-one wants to connect to, so they hear about and embrace God's kingdom. God sends us to the north of Uganda in order to minister and serve the South Sudanese refugees who are sitting in camps and waiting for receive hope.
Tom & Dunja Koch
Tom's Heart is set ablaze for people in Africa. He loves to preach the gospel of God's love and to see the Holy Spirit move and work in power. In 2014, he took part in Heidi Baker's missions school in Mozambique, followed by many outreaches to the nations.
Dunja ministered as pastor on a pastoral team in Berlin; she simply loves Jesus and people. However, then God broke her heart for nations and called her to be a missionary. She loves to see God's love transforming hearts, regions and nations.
Tom and Dunja have been connected to FCJG in Lüdenscheid for many years. Since 2023, they have become part of HELP International. When Jesus asked them, "Will you help me to reach the people in East Africa?", they immediately gave their YES, and are now preparing to set up a pioneer project under HELP International in East Africa.
Our Goals
- We want to make room for the move of God in the nations of East Africa.- We want to bring the gospel ot all tribes, tongues and nations.
- We want to show God's love in action to the poorest of the poor.
- We want to minister and serve the body of Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Welcome to HELP International in Pattaya
I will shake all the nations; and they will come with the desirable and precious things of all nations, and I will fill this house with glory and splendor, says the Lord of hosts.
What a powerful promise: The longing of the peoples on earth will be fulfilled! We believe that God will reveal His glory in the world's biggest redlight district in Pattaya in a new dimension. What will it look like when oppression and injustice will be shaken, when darknes gets confronted with God's light? Presently, when you walk the streets of this district, you can see the longing of the people for embrace, freedom and healing. Jesus is the way to the Father, and He can give what peoples are longing for!
Our team is preparing to go to the streets and to make Jesus known, to take in drug-addicted women into our community so they will be set free and start with Jesus all over again in life. Parallel we are want to gather Christians and train them to become effective followers of Jesus. The gospel is God's ultimate power for salvation, thus we preach it - first of all in Pattaya, but also throughout Thailand and its neigbouring countries.
Pattaya - we will go
At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.”
Vision
We are aiming for transformation of the world’s biggest redlight district. Our mission combines three elements: The City Mission called „Worship & Mission“, the international missions training, and we are dreaming of mercy ministries among women in the redlight. As mentioned in Hebrews 12:26, we are also longing for this city and its people to be shaken by the power of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Current development
Over the past months, we have adjusted our strategy to make it happen. Right know our Pattaya team consists of four people, who are preparing to go, to live and to minister in Pattaya. Simon and Karin Schöttlers have already lived in Thailand and gained experience. Our current steps are getting well prepared to meet the requirements of serving in Thailand. This includes gaining knowledge in administrations, intercultural competences, setting up a framework for sending students and staff to other nations as well as team building.
New Beginning
When we had HELP's missions conference in Pattaya in 2022, we were able to make further preparations for the start of the ministry in Thailand. As team we went to Pattaya's city hall to pray for the government and to bless the district. Furthermore, we started to build relationships to ministries and language schools in town and received councel of an attorney regarding the application for a HELP International Foundation. As team we are meeting regularly for prayer in order to spiritually model and prepare for this new chapter.
Coming Close
In the near future, we will need a place to host our team and the vision. We favor a building, which has the capacity and is available, too. The mainhouse shall host a team, while the extension is close to perfect to accommodate students of the REVIVAL SCHOOL or outreach teams! The house shall become the headquarter for outreaches to Pattaya, however, it is also meant for equipping and training as it will be the launching pad for students to go to other nations.
We are very grateful for the many donations we have already received. Every donation is supporting and enabling our team to make Jesus know in Pattaya.
The Team
May we introduce the new HELP Thailand team to you:
Simon Schöttler
Simon grew up within the HELP/FCJG community in Luedenscheid/Germany and studied Social Works and Social Management. After finishing the Revival School on the Move he came straight from Texas to Bangkok in October 2017 to join the previous team in Thailand. The nations were moving him for a longer time: Short-term outreaches to other nations and cultures, even when eleven years young and also with teenager-teams, stirred up a hunger to take the gospel to nations. Today Simon has already spent four years of missions in Thailand. Currently he is part of our HELP administration in Luedenscheid and leads the new Thailand team. Since end of 2020 he and Karin are happily married and have one child.
Karin Schöttler
Originally Karin comes from Southern Germany, but since 2008 she is part of our FCJG-community in Luedenscheid. She joined the staff-team of the Wiedenhof drug rehabilitation and later worked as a professional educator for traumatised children nearby Luedenscheid. For several years she was part of the band ‘Petra Feddersen and Friends’ where she played the keyboard. After eleven years Karin was drawn to the nations. She is part of the team in Pattaya and her desire for new missions-students sounds like this: „To invest into young people, to assist them to hear and receive their very own calling from God for their lives and to release them into it - that is my passion!“
Elisabeth Hartel
My heart beats for Jesus and the nations. Already as a young adult I lived abroad for a few years and went on short-term outreaches to different nations. I experienced God's love and power and how He repeatedly changed my heart for these nations and people. During my masters studies I was part of FCJG/HELP Vienna and God spoke again about missions and specifically about Thailand. After a time as a staff member of the REVIVAL SCHOOL in Lüdenscheid I am now part of the HELP pioneer team in Pattaya and I am excited to see what God has prepared in Thailand.
Salome Wüthrich
Salome is Swiss but grew up as a missionary kid in Mongolia . When she returned home in 2012 to graduate school she decided to give her whole life to Jesus. Her next step was joining the Revival School, where God called her to Thailand.As a Social Worker it’s her joy to now bring the true answer for their needs: Jesus! He alone gives hope, future and life. People shall be healed and changed by his power. Also Salome loves to worship Jesus in public and to lift the name of Jesus in the darkest places.
Welcome to HELP for all Nations
»Why have you missionaries come from Germany to the US?«, is a question we often encounter. We are here because God has called us to go to the State of Texas; specifically to its capital Austin. Back in Germany we have started praying for Texas without having even set a foot onto this state. We know that God has called and commissioned us to train missionaries for world missions in Austin and to send them from here to the nations. The answer to this recurring question simply is this, »We are here, because God has called us and we have answered this call. And we are here because we want to be the answer to Jesus’ Great Commission with our lives – ›Go and make disciples of all nations.‹ (Matthew 28:29)
