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...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...
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...
...live and work at Haus Villigst are emigrants from the past," says Director Bismarck. "None of [them] wants to return to that past . . . They came from various ideological camps -Nazis, Communists, Social Democrats, Conservatives-and it is important that the essence of life for them proves to be readiness to serve, to do something that liberates one from oneself...
...believe in a small community in which nobody can be sad, fall ill, have his birthday, or be tactless, without being consoled, nursed, celebrated or criticized by all ... When we return to Villigst we may be excited about our work, happy about our possible success and achievement. We then feel we need evening prayers as we need our daily bread. In praying, in singing a religious song, in listening to the Bible, we regain our balance. We recognize our limitations, and humbleness before God sets our human pride back into the right perspective...