In just a decade, the number of evangelical Christians in Germany has doubled - and Ghana-born evangelical Rev. Edmund Sackey Brown has grand plans to ride this new wave. In 2011 he purchased a former Edeka supermarket in Mülheim an der Ruhr, in the heartland of Germany's industrial region, and converted it into an evangelical house of worship: The House of Solution.
He is convinced that within 10 years his 600-member congregation, comprised mostly of African immigrants from the surrounding areas, will swell to 5,000. He has pledged his commitment on the number plate of his Mercedes "MH FJ 5000" (Mülheim for Jesus 5000). "Centuries ago, Europeans came to Africa with the word of God. But these days Europe is a godless center. It needs redeeming," says Sackey Brown, "My mission is to re-Christianize Europe."
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