Under the motto “You are a God who sees me” from the creation story, the newly founded Ottobrunn group of the “Association of Christian Churches in Bavaria” (ACK) invited to an ecumenical summer service on the Eichendorfwiese on Sunday. As ACK Ottobrunn, the Evangelical-Lutheran Michaelskirche, the Freie Evangelische Gemeinde München-Südost and the Catholic parish association Vier Brunnen create a more binding foundation for ecumenical cooperation. They undertake to fill the guidelines of the Charta Oecumenica of 2001, such as unity and cooperation in the cooperation of the churches, with life.
Around 140 visitors experienced how the evangelical dean Mathis Steinbauer explained in his sermon that God values all people as unique, regardless of their religious orientation. The Catholic pastor Martin Ringhof emphasized that ecumenism corresponded to Jesus’ desire for togetherness and Pastor Andreas Müller from the Free Evangelical Church emphasized that this would be brotherly and prosperous. Ecumenism is part of Ottobrunn’s DNA, said Ottobrunn’s Mayor Thomas Loderer, after all the “Salettl”, the garden house of the Gasthaus zur Schwaige, was the first “church” for all denominations in 1918. The managing director of ACK Bayern, Georgios Vlantis, praised the founding of the local formation as a “forward-looking step” and named it the 25th member of the Bavarian ACK.