• Sr. Dr. Lea Ackermann, Boppard, founder and leader of Solwodi (Solidarity with Women in Distress)

• Sunny Akpan, pastor

• Dr. Bianca Dümling, 33, Boston, USA, Assistant Director Intercultural Ministries of Emmanuel Gospel Center. Voluntary member of the Forum for Intercultural Relations in Together for Berlin, Vice-chairman of the Werner Pfetzing Foundation “Himmelsfels“ (Spangenberg), Author of "Immigrant Churches in Germany: Places of Integration”.

• Margit Förster, Leader of the Berlin advisory center for Solwodi Germany e.V.

• Jörg Gerasch has been married for 25 years and is the father of five adult children and a two-year-old. His first calling is to be a family person. After studying theology in Hamburg he started several churches in Germany. He returned to Berlin thirteen years ago to serve in a young church. For the past eight years he has been the leading pastor in the Josua Church in Berlin-Spandau and has gathered broad experience in life together in this district. The Josua Church has “arrived” in this district and its influence on the community is appreciated.

• Matthias Gibhardt, is a teacher, deacon (educated at Evangelical School Tabor), missiologist. He is currently working on his master’s thesis on diaconal work in communities for his degree in social transformation (Marburg) . In October 2008 he began the development of [face] Evangelical Family Center in the Märkisches Viertel, which he also leads. He is active in his district and is the chairman of the board for the the Diaconal Organization Reinickendorf e.V. Matthias is 33, married and has four children, eight years old and younger.

• Torsten Hebel, Evangelist, Comedian, Blu:box, Berlin

• Uwe Heimowski, pastor and couselor, Gera

• Matthias Henkert and his wife have worked for over six years with stoffwechsel e.V. In Gorbitz (a social trouble spot) they started a project together with their church with the goal of reaching entire families, and accompanying them during their special circumstances. It is God’s and their desire to see families healed, abortions and divorces decrease and children growing up in safe environments.

• Thomas Hieber, is a missionary with the German Missions Fellowship (DMG). He worked for nine years in Eastern Africa with the intercultural service. Since 2007 he has lived in Berlin and worked with Interserve in partnership with Together for Berlin. His vision is to be a bridgebuilder between Christians and churches with immigrant backgrounds and German churches. He is the leader of the Forum for Intercultural Relations. He is married with two children.

• Kerstin Kaie, is 47 and currently in the final phase of her graduate studies in Cross Cultural Leadership (Theology) at Across. She is a volunteer for AIMS in Germany and for the Forum for Intercultural Relations within Together for Berlin. She has lived in the Soldiner Neighborhood –a social trouble spot—since 1998. There she worked on an image-boosting marketing campaign for the district from 2007 through 2009 as a part of the program “Socially Integrative City”.

• Ralf Knauthe, has seen over the past 18 years how God has built His Kingdom in Dresden through stoffwechsel e.V. When he experiences how hopeless “cases” become, through God’s love, hopeful people, then there is a new metabolism (“stoffwechsel”) in their hearts—this is his passion. In 2005 he replaced Sabine Ball as the leader of the organization and is continually in awe of how God can use this small organization to accomplish great things. Ralf is married to Guni.

• Joshua Lupemba, 25, Berlin, Pastor of Christ International Church, Co-Founder and board member of „Typisch Deutsch e.V.“, Coordinator of Youth United, a developing intercultural youth network within Together for Berlin.

• Dr. Alfred Meier, has been a lecturer for Missiology and Historical Theology at the Theological Seminary Rheinland (Neues Leben e.V.). He studied theology and missiology at the Theological Seminary of the national FeG (Ewersbach), at the Academy for World Missions (Korntal), at the Faculty of Evangelical Theology (Vaux-sur-Seine France) and at the University of South Africa (Pretoria). In 2001 he received his PhD of Divinity. From 1988 to 2006 he worked with the Alliance Mission in Mali in the areas of church planting, theological teaching and as a long term leader of the work there. From 2001 to 2006 he worked on the development of an ecumenical free Academy for Theology and Missions for countries of the West African Sahel. He is 51 years old, married with three children.

• Andrea Meyerhoff, social education worker, Master in Intercultural Studies, board member of Together for Berlin. Since 2002 she has led the Islam Forum which she started within Together for Berlin. She is also involved in founding the “Civic Platform Neukölln” together with the group "Friends of Jesus and Neukölln". Andrea is 43, married with two children.

• Axel Nehlsen was pastor in the Märkisches Viertel in Berlin (West) from 1977-1988, then leader of the city center mission ministry at Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church 1988-2002. He has served as the full time managing director of the initiative Together for Berlin since October 2002. He is a member of the boards of the German Evangelical Alliance, the Christian Volunteer Agency and the Internet Mission Berlin. Axel is 60, married with three adult children, and lives in Berlin.

• Andreas Rauhut, Berlin

• Winfried Rudloff, Christusgemeinde Berlin

• Dr. Heinrich Christian Rust, book author and Pastor of the evangelical free church „Friedenskirche“ in Braunschweig. He has been on the board of the Institute for Church Development and World Mission (IGW) in Germany since 2009. He is married to Christiane and is the father of three adult children

• Dr. Rainer Schacke has lived with his family in Berlin since the mid-nineties. As a theologian and publicist he has long term experience in evangelical media work and Christian projects in an urban context. His dissertation was on the topic of church development and milieu theory (www.kirche-und-milieus.de). He has a lectureship for Urban Missiology at Theological Seminar Rheinland and is the editor-in-chief for the magazine Neues Leben. Together with his friends, he is also active in the Evangelische Kulturwerkstatt in Berlin’s central district.

• Ulf Schinke, political scientist

• Gerhard Schönborn was for many years the office manager for Together for Berlin. He is the initiator of the internet portal christen-in-berlin.de, founder and chairman of the board for the organization Neustart e.V. - Christliche Lebenshilfe, which runs a contact café for drug addicts and prostitutes near a red-light district. He is active in the Forum for criminal offenders and in the organization “Afrimany”. Gerhard is 50, married with one son, and lives in Berlin,

• Harald Sommerfeld studied math and theology and then worked as pastor and teacher. He is the chairman of the board for the network Together for Berlin and is particularly involved in its intercultural work. In the fall of 2007 he became an independent consultant for urban transformation consultant for urban transformation because he wanted to see Christians get involved in the communal life of their city. Moreover he is on the board of a Christian Hertha BSC-Fanclub, on the council of African Christians in Berlin and Brandenburg (RACIBB) as well as in Afrimany. Harald is 58, married with four adult children.

• Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stock, Woltersdorf/Berlin

• Ute Strelow, has been active in the Apostle Peter Church in the Märkisches Viertel for over thirty years. She has attended the discipleship school in Holmestad Manor. For seven years she and her husband were staff members and later regional leaders for New Life for Families (currently called “Team.F”). She has been a member of the church leadership team since October 2010. In January 2011 she became the chairman and voluntary managing director with the tasks of spiritual leadership, grant applications, change management, networking and presentations. Ute is 48, married and has six children between the ages of 11 and 23.

• Henriette von Wulffen, is a social worker and volunteer manager with an MA in intercultural work and conflict management. Her master’s thesis was about voluntary work with „amnesty international“. In February 2005 she began developing the Christian Volunteer Agency for Together for Berlin. It is now an independent organization which she leads. Moreover, she does freelance work, e.g. as an advisor for the national Competence Center for Volunteer Management and for the Academy for Volunteering in Germany. Henriette is 35 and lives in Berlin

• Keith Warrington and his wife, Marion, are New Zealanders and have lived in Germany for 39 years. They work for the international missions organization “Youth with a Mission”. Keith counsels and accompanies church and community leaders with the goal of supporting Christians in discovering their calling and living it out creatively. Keith and Marion have four adult children and have recently moved to Berlin.