Hamburg Hub Leadership Announces Transition
Nov. 21, 2021
We have a strategic leadership transition announcement to make! Marko and Maxie Pretorius who have so excellently led the Hamburg hub will be transitioning to a vital new role in All Nations to focus on cities beginning in January 2022! Over the next few months of transition, Juergen and Monika (who founded the hub) will be providing guidance and leadership as they mentor Salome Klahn during an interim transition period to be the next Hamburg hub leader (exact timeline of the official leadership transition and more information are forthcoming)!
We are so proud of Marko and Maxie. Over the past three years they have rallied our multi-cultural team in Hamburg and empowered our workers to serve the Muslim diaspora community. They are so very loved by their teammates!
Starting in January 2022, Marko and Maxie would like to pursue their core passion which is to reach cities to serve neglected peoples in the context of church movements! They will be working with Gerhard and Marinda Barnard and All Nations' Win a City, an All Nations ministry launched this year to unleash disciple-making movements (DMMs) in cities! Likewise, Gerhard and Marinda, who are on our International Leadership Team (ILT), will also be transitioning from Senior Pastor of Logos Church to lead Win a City full-time as it focuses on multiplying urban church movements. Unleashing urban Kingdom movements is a major All Nations focus: more than half of the world’s population are now in cities! And, we are excited to see these two dynamic couples partner to raise up “city catalysts” around the world! See below -- we want you to hear directly from Marko and Maxie’s hearts about their journey, past, present, and future!
“We are very proud of Marko and Maxie, who developed an excellent cross-cultural team here in Hamburg. They implemented strong family values into the team and led with a strong spiritual focus. These values will be a major foundation for all the churches we are planting. Marko and Maxie became very respected by spiritual leaders in the city, who felt the fresh wind that comes from them. We are standing with them in this transition to a work, which is so needed and is also very dear to our hearts. They surely will be missed, but we know that our cooperation will just shift to a new level.” -- Juergen Kramer
Let us support Marko and Maxie as they transition to their next season, along with their twin girls, Sophia and Anne. We love you, Marko and Maxie!
With a grateful heart,
Mary and the ILT
(Juergen and Monika Kramer, Gerhard and Monika Barnard, John and Mary Ho, Pam Arlund, Sally McClung, Matt and Elizabeth Chen)
Dr. Mary Ho, DSL
All Nations International, Inc. | International Executive Leader
Reaching the neglected globally -- the least, the last, and the lost
A Personal Message from Marko and Maxie Pretorius:
"We love our All Nations family! Mouyassar (on staff at ANHAM) regularly corrects me (Marko) when I use any other word other than ‘family’ to describe All Nations: “please Marko, this is my family, really.”
Thinking back, we can only smile at how we started with All Nations. After a long and painful season of running away from God, we had an encounter with Jesus that radically changed our lives. He captured our curiosity. Through people like Floyd and Sally we learned that His life is to be lived and experienced as true and authentic. We have been the beneficiaries of incredible Jesus followers that walked the long intentional road of discipleship with us. Motivated by them, we fell in love with this beautiful but often messy process of serving others in the same way. We are so thankful for the promise of renewal and growth offered to us through Jesus, and for the inspirational gift of community to help us on the journey. It is through the generosity of others that we’ve learned that growth cannot happen in isolation. --Not the Jesus way. But in sharing our lives in service of others and allowing others to serve us is needed for us to find our place and passion in this world. In this regard, the focus and passion of the All Nations family has played such an important role in our growth as leaders.
We are touched and grateful for the opportunities we have been given to serve, learn, lead and build within All Nations. Most recently was the opportunity to help build the Hub in Hamburg. We are thankful to the ILT for this opportunity. But above all, we are thankful to the rich friendships who took on this work with us. Honestly, it was not easy and if not for the people that shared the burden with us we almost gave up several times.
Today we’re thankful for a dynamic multicultural team who is passionate about Jesus and his mission. We’re thankful for local partners and leaders that have fallen deeply in love with the vision and mission of All Nations. We are very thankful for a focused and competent hub team serving this community. We are inspired by the faithful leaders from the refugee community that has since become citizens, passionate disciple-makers and leaders within ANHAM. We are touched by a culture that is empowering, where we expect heaven to come to earth and know that our King is at work in our city. Above all, we are enriched and grateful for the life-long friends we’ve made. We have been gratefully changed by Jesus with the lessons we’ve learned, and for our increased passion to simply and vulnerably share our lives with others!
And yes, our lives changed quite dramatically recently! After giving up on the dream of having our own children, Jesus blessed us with twin girls! It has been a wonderful miracle! This family growth impacted our community family. We sensed the timing for local leaders to take on what we’ve started and it created an urgency in us to ask Jesus what is on His heart for ANHAM and for our young family.
At the same time the ILT generously asked us to commit to leading for another five years. We were blown away by their faith in us, but after praying and considering the invitation we clearly felt that our roles needed to change. We are thankful by empowering leaders that at first did not want us to go, but who then generously offered to help us make the transition. We’re also appreciative for passionate and competent local leaders that have been on the pioneering adventure with us right from the start. Knowing this, we have asked to be released from Hub leadership in Hamburg. In the process of praying, listening and speaking with mentors we felt Jesus inviting us to have faith for:
Increased fruitfulness for ANHAM under new leadership, and
Increased fruitfulness for our family as we shift to serve and build in more Jesus communities.
In the process of praying through the transition and what Jesus is asking of us, we were reminded of our passion in serving neglected communities -- especially neglected communities in dense urban areas and we are excited about the opportunities to pursue this passion within our All Nations family!
Honestly, this has been a hard process for us. Our hearts are attached to the people with whom we have experienced rich Jesus life with, and the awesome momentum and the work of leading the ANHAM Hub. This is probably how it is supposed to feel! Please know that we are not in a rush to leave Hamburg and sense that Hamburg is a big part of the work we will be doing in the future. With you, we are excited to venture onward with our All Nations family. The harvest is ripe and ready. Our King is on the move! Maxie and I realise it is a joy to work with you, and to see you lead others to Him so He will be worshiped by all the peoples of the earth!” Thank you for changing our lives to be more like Jesus.
Warm regards,
Marko and Maxie Pretorius
All Nations Hamburg
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