Giving · entirely voluntary
Giving · entirely voluntaryNobody here is asking you for money.
This page exists because people ask how giving works, not because we want anything from you. A first-time visitor is expected to give exactly nothing — that is a rule, not a courtesy.
The rule
No plate will ever stop in front of you.
seriously. come empty-handed.
No entrance fee, on any evening
No membership fee, ever
Nobody checks what anyone gives
A lot of people stay away from churches because of a suspicion about money, and it is a fair suspicion. So we will be blunt: there is no entrance fee, no membership fee, no expectation on a visitor, and nobody checks what anyone gives.
Giving exists here the way it exists in any church — voluntarily, from the people who have decided this is their church. If that is not you, this page is simply information. If it is you, everything you need is below.
Where it goes
Four places, and none of them is a salary.
The room itself
Rent, heating, chairs, the sound the band needs to be heard over. The unglamorous half of every evening.
The table
Food for the shared meals, and the quiet help that goes to people in the church who have had a bad month.
Outreach in the Ruhr area
What One Soul Ministry takes onto the street, and what it leaves behind with the people it meets there.
The next generation
The children's corner, the youth circle, and the instruments that get handed to someone who has never played one.
Four places, in plain words. Ask for the detail behind any of them and you get it — including the part of the answer that is unglamorous.
How to give
Ask us, and we send you the details.
Testimony Arena is a registered non-profit — Testimony Arena gUG (haftungsbeschränkt), Herten. Send one message through the form and you will get the bank details back from a person, along with a plain answer to whatever you want to know about how the money is used.
If it is a one-off gift, a standing order, or a donation towards a specific ministry, say which — it is handled the same way either way, without a mailing list attached to it.
The account number is not printed on a public page on purpose. Ask for it and a person sends it to you — with a plain answer to whatever else you want to know.
The better gift
An evening of your time is worth more to us than the money.
Six things in this church need a person far more urgently than they need a transfer — the door, the band, the children’s corner, translation, the meal and the camera. All of them are learnable in one evening.
Either way
The first step is the same for everybody.
Come to a Tuesday or a Wednesday, see whether this is your church at all, and decide about everything else much later.
What happens next
- 01You send one messageTwo fields and a sentence. No account, no newsletter.
- 02A person answers — not an inboxPatience Kozitzki replies herself, usually the same day.
- 03Somebody meets you at the doorOnly if you want it. Otherwise you just walk in.