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Knowing, Being, Believing. Haus Villigst was a typical farm estate, battered and sagging under waves of wartime billeting, when Hellmut Keusen discovered it in 1948. He promptly persuaded the Evangelical Church of Westphalia that this was just the place to try out a new idea...
...Haus carries on three different but related programs. One helps students (currently 37 boys and six girls) through college and into life at the same time. Likely candidates, selected from schools all over Germany, are invited to Haus Villigst for a screening period; those who pass are accepted on six-month trial. During their first term at Haus Villigst, students do no studying at all. Instead, they take jobs as regular workers in Ruhr mines and factories. Their wages pay for their college expenses the following year. During this first half-year, students live a close community life...
...universities they attend, Haus Villigsters are encouraged to form similar discussion groups, to take vacations together, and to return to the Haus as often as possible, both as undergraduates and after, as they would to their own families...
Another element of the work at Haus Villigst is the care of teen-age apprentices (currently 29) who spend three years at the Haus, sharing the community life of the students. A third aspect of the program brings industrialists into contact with workers as Christian equals to air their problems together in the common context of the Gospel. In such gatherings it is not uncommon for Roman Catholics (with diocesan permission) to meet and pray with Protestants...
...Right Perspective. To help him run Haus Villigst, 43-year-old Hellmut Keusen has two fellow directors, Novelist Willy Kramp, 44, and Labor-Expert Klaus von Bismarck, 40, great-grandnephew of the Iron Chancellor, and a U.S. couple, the Rev. John Healey, and his wife Kay, on missionary assignment from the Presbyterian Church...