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Johann Matthies

Europe and Central Asia

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Johann serves as Multiply’s European Mission Development Director and as the Regional Team Leader for Europe and Central Asia. In partnership with ICOMB (International Community of Mennonite Brethren) he mobilizes European partners, churches, and schools for world mission and resources Multiply workers and projects within this combined region.

Extensive academic training and intercultural church planting experience has equipped Johann and his wife to oversee church planting, short-term mission teams, and the resourcing of churches to respond to various social and humanitarian crises. Johann is also involved at LCC International University, a thriving Liberal Arts Christian University located in Lithuania. Johann and Hedi live in Germany.

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The Pickaxe Project

Will you help inspire Gospel renewal in Germany, through creative cultural engagement?

$19773.55 Needed

Embrace Central Asia

This project is serving to plant churches in the Central Asian region through the efforts of a national leader.

Multiply Europa

This project gives leadership and coordination to Multiply initiatives in eight European countries.

Earthquake Relief

Growing Central Asia

Workers in Central Asia are providing a meeting space for a local congregation and helping support those in need...

East German Church Planting

Will you help bring the Gospel to the least reached in Germany?

September Rain

“I was kneeling before Jesus Christ,” Ashraf told me. “He was standing there, right in front of me, looking at me. He...

On Fire

Meet Arghun, an elderly Mongolian woman who was transformed by God. This heart-warming story shows how acts of...

Modeling Love in a Climate of Fear

The refugee crisis is not over. In many ways, we are only just beginning to see the effects, and the fruit, of this...

Ribbons of Grace

Last week, my daughter, Abbie, and I spent a couple of hours repairing some broken pottery. Mine was an earthenware...

Goal

David was shy, until he scored his first goal.

Snowstorm

Tariq was on his way home when he got caught in the snowstorm. He and his son had traveled by car to share the Gospel...

The Hike

It was just after nine in the morning and the sun was finally coming out from behind the clouds. The weather was...

Small Church in a Hard Place

Not only was it in a part of Central Asia with very few churches, it was in a part of the city known as a hotbed of...

Special Permission

Tariq seemed destined to be a troublemaker. Most of his life, he was in conflict with the police, first as a...

The Dreaded Shopping Trip

“You do remember,” I added jokingly, “that we are only going to the grocery store!” “This is actually my first time...

Radical Transformation in Central Asia

One of our global workers in Central Asia related to us this story of a passionately devout Muslim who came to faith...

Plugged In

It is just after 4:00 PM on a Friday, and I am out on the streets in Dortmund. I am glad to finish work early today,...

Making Things Possible

My friend Viki works at a kiosk next to the subway station here in Dortmund. One Tuesday after work, I spontaneously...

Drawing the Divine

It was already half past six, and the basement was uncomfortably cool despite the heating being turned up. I shivered...

Ask God Which Town

In 2006, Ivana (not her real name) and her husband moved with their five children from Germany to Canada, where they...

When the Sent are Sent Away

Kateryna Oliferovski was completing a church internship in Dortmund, Germany, when the war in her Ukrainian homeland...

When Spring Comes Again

She had just received news that her sixteen-year-old daughter was trapped in Mariupol and her son, a soldier, had...

Teamwork in Dortmund

A new church in Dortmund was a bold vision. The German city was known as a place where churches were in steep...

What About the Demons?

She first reached out to our church in Dortmund via Instagram. The message read, “Hello, I am homeless. But I trust...

Blue Stains and God’s Grace

“Johanna, Johanna, the paint has spilled!” The girl who met me on the basement stairs was distraught, and my heart...

Pritzkaus Prepare for Potsdam

In 2000, we returned to Germany after studying for four years at Columbia Bible College in Abbotsford, BC, Canada. At...

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