Seicho-No-Ie Germany Opens An Office in Frankfurt
In June of this year, Seicho-No-Ie Germany (Freundeskreis in Deutschland e.V.) (Chairman: Mr. Guido Burkner) opened an office in Frankfurt, Hassen. This will serve as the center of its activities.
The corporation was looking for a rental office to use as the center of its activities since it sold its Seminar House in Neustatt three years ago. The new office is conveniently located, about 1.2 km from the Frankfurt Central Station. It can be reached in about 10 minutes by a street car and walk. It was decided to rent it after deliberations at the corporation’s board of directors’ meeting on April 21.
The office is the first and basement floors of a five-story building and has a total floor space of 70 square meters. It has a meeting room, which can accommodate 15 people, an office for the Ordained Minister stationed in Europe, a kitchen, bathroom, shower room and so forth.
Rev. Yuji Otsuka (Ordained Minister stationed in Europe) and part-time clerk are always there, which makes it possible to receive orders for publications and inquiries from Germany and other European countries and provide information on seminars and other events in German, English and Japanese.
According to Seicho-No-Ie Germany, two new Germans, including Mr. Nobert Fischer, assumed Vice Chairmanship at the Annual General Assembly of the Members held in March of this year, which motivated them to rent a new office. Thanks to the effort of Mr. Fischer and others, they found a candidate property in early April. After the on-site checking of the property by Mr. Burkner (Chairman) and Rev. Otsuka, the contract was signed recently.
Rev. Otsuka remarked, “It is thanks to God’s guidance that the new office was opened in the year when Rev. Masanobu Taniguchi assumed Presidency. I am deeply grateful to all the members’ physical and mental and monetary contributions to promoting the Enlightenment Movement in the German-speaking countries. I feel confident that the International Peace by Faith Movement will grow further in Germany and other European countries in the future.”
Mr. Burkner talked about enlightening Germany in the future, saying, “It is thanks to the efforts of Rev. Otsuka and Mr. Fischer that we could open the office. I would like to use this opportunity to translate Seicho-No-Ie materials into German and propagate through publications and further promulgate the teachings.”