[Dialogue] [Oe List ...] Mystery

Wed May 9 08:19:22 PDT 2018

Thank you so much, Paul.  It would be interesting to see bios of all our
amazing EI/ICA colleagues around the world.

Mary Laura Jones
Grants Resource Development Consultant
1454 W. Fargo Avenue
Chicago, IL 60626
cell: 773 636-2022
mljones2022 at gmail.com

On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 10:12 AM, Paul Schrijnen via Dialogue <
dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

> Beautiful fragments turn into Mystery of life on bustrips between
> Springfield and Chicago.
>
> I did a bit more research on Manfred and Hannerl.
>
> Here is a retirement notice about Manfred from 2007:
>
> As of August 31, 2007, Pastor Mag. Manfred Golda is retired.
>
> Manfred Günter Erwin Golda was born on October 25, 1941 in Klagenfurt,
> where he was baptized by pastor Erich Pechel and confirmed in the preaching
> office Velden am Wörther See by pastor Friedrich Krotz.
>
> Manfred Golda went to school in Klagenfurt and graduated in 1962 from the
> Federal Trade School for Mechanical Engineering. He then spent a year in
> England attending a Bible School of the Torchbearers Missionary Community.
> From 1963 to 1970 he studied theology in Vienna and during this time worked
> in the student church. After passing his exams in January 1970, he was a
> teaching vicar in Vienna's Inner City under the guidance of Prof. Wilhelm,
> and was ordained by the latter on 11 July 1972, assisted by Reverend Adolf
> Rücker (Vienna) and Pastor Friedrich Krotz (Pörtschach).
>
> As of December 1, 1972, Manfred Golda was also pastor of this
> congregation, and in addition to his usual official duties supervised the
> student church, held a lecture at the Protestant Theological Faculty of Old
> Testament Exe- cution, and worked together with the Reformed and Catholic
> Parish of St. Stephen founded the ecumenical bible study.
>
> From 1978 to 1980, Manfred Golda worked at the Institute for Cultural
> Affairs (ICA) in Frankfurt am Main and in Berlin West. The ICA is a global
> institute that develops and communicates participatory methods for
> community work. The work area included various communities in West Germany
> and West Berlin. From 1980 to 1984, Manfred Golda was a parish commissary
> at the Berlin Mission with the main focus on coordinating ecclesial
> partnership work with Africa and the Middle East, organizing seminaries,
> mission festivals, etc.
>
> In 1984, Manfred Golda returned to Vienna and until 1996 was a pastor for
> participants with a focus on the care and counselling of foreign students
> and ecumenical cooperation in higher education.
>
> On 1 September 1996, Manfred Golda was appointed parish priest of the
> pastorate of the parish of A. B. Wien-Währing, not affiliated with the
> pastoral ministry. Together with Pastor Manfred Schreier, he has endeavored
> to ensure that this large parish with kindergarten, school and after-school
> careers is well organized, which in recent years has also meant an enormous
> challenge for the general refurbishment of the church and other buildings.
>
> Pastor Golda was first married to sports teacher Hannerl Regina.
> Laubenberger married, from this marriage come the children Martin Alfred,
> Astrid Christiane and Florian Rainer.
>
> Since 2001 he has been married with Dr. theol. Maria Irene Riebl, an adult
> educator and psychotherapist.
>
> The heart of Pastor Golda probably beats in the wide world, among the
> young churches of Africa. This is visible in his honorary offices as
> chairman of the Mission Council, the Evang. World Mission Working Group
> (EAWM), as a longtime member of the board of the Evang. Associations for
> student hostels and chairman of the Protestant Higher Education Community,
> the executive board of Oikocredit Austria (Ecumenical Development
> Cooperative), the EAEZ (Evang Working Group for Development Cooperation)
> and chair of the synodal committee for world mission and development
> cooperation (WEZ).
>
> Pastor Golda has been particularly dedicated to the "missionary pastor" in
> our church and was assistant at the inauguration of Ghanaian Rev. Rev.
> Timothy Annoh on Pentecost Sunday this year.
> The Evangelical Oberkirchenrat thanks Pastor Mag. Manfred Golda for his
> dedicated service in our church, for the efforts of the young students and
> especially for the vision that Manfred Golda has brought to our church
> again and again and wishes him and his family God's blessing and escort for
> the future
>
>
>
>
> On 9 May 2018, at 00:16, Richard via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>
> *Witness to the Mystery of Life*
>
> I have a long history of ‘baring my soul’ witnesses to the amazing and
> unusual things that happen in my life. There was the foul ball at the Cubs
> game, there was ‘expecting more from strangers’, the Monsignor Egan event,
> etc.. there is a lot of mystery out there if you have the eyes to see it ..
> a “thin places” where the other world that is in this world becomes apparent
>
> Ok, so I get an email from Terry Bergdall forwarding an email from Geri
> Tolman asking if Terry knew how to get in touch with Hannerl and Manfred
> Golda. The Tolmans had been in Frankfurt together with Goldas in 78-79 and
> wanted them to know of Warren’s passing.
>
> When I got Terry’s note I was on a bus returning from Springfield,
> Illinois at an Environmental Lobby day. It is a three-hour bus trip to
> Chicago, so I had time on my hands. I had known Hannerl and Manfred when I
> was part of the Brussels House and even traveled to Vienna to visit them as
> part of an ICA gathering. So I knew they had been or still lived in Vienna.
> So I googled Hannerl Golda.. nothing and then added Vienna. A lot of German
> text and other odds and ends, kept scrolling down and up popped the
> following German paragraph. I would of missed it except for the very end of
> the paragraph it has ICA. I am not sure what it says although when I
> googled Manfred it said in English he was a consultant/coach
>
> *MANFRED GOLDA. A-1080 Wien, Skodagasse 9/2/12. Tel. 0222/42 34 SI. Wi en
> ,Weihnachten 1984. Esteigt. Liebe Verwandte, Freunde und Bekannte! Wenn
> Dich/Sie dieser ... von Berlin nach Wien mitgetragen haben. Es war dann,
> seit wir ... Der Familie geht es sonst gut , Hannerl ist in der ICA-Arbeit
> hier stark engagiert ,.*
>
> I was amazed and when I told Sally about this find she suggested that
> since she is on her way with her sister to Paris we should google ICA
> Paris.. never know the kinds of ICA people still hanging around. Reminds me
> of the Coco movie..need to have pictures and thoughts of people to keep
> them around and in the other world.
>
>
>
> Dick
>
> Richard H.T. Alton 166 N. Humphrey Ave, Apt, 1N Oak Park, IL 60302
> T:1.773.344.7172 richard.alton at gmail.com Don't let the fear of striking
> out hold you back Babe Ruth
> _______________________________________________
> OE mailing list
> OE at lists.wedgeblade.net
> http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Dialogue mailing list
> Dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net
> http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.wedgeblade.net/pipermail/dialogue-wedgeblade.net/attachments/20180509/35395316/attachment.html>