At its annual conference, the Evangelische Forum für Mission, Kultur und Religion e. V. (Evangelical Forum for Mission, Culture and Religion), briefly named ‘missiotop’, which belongs to the Evangelical Alliance in Germany, congratulated Thomas Schirrmacher an his election as Secretary General of the world Evangelical Alliance. Thomas Schirrmacher has been Chair of the association, and co-founded it in the mid 1980s. Missiotop is unique in the world, because it still succeeds in uniting mission practitioners, leading members of mission societies and missiology teachers and professors in research in one professional society.
Bernd Brandl (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernd_Brandl), Professor of Missiology and longterm colleague and co-board member of missiotop, wrote in the editorial of „Evangelische Missiologie“, the German missiological journal Thomas Schirrmacher is still is connected to as editor: (DEEPLE translation)
https://www.thomasschirrmacher.net/blog/missiotop-has-a-new-chairman/
