The new discovery of fellowship challenges the Church. While meetinghouses are closing and diaconal communities are getting smaller, new neighborhood networks and caring communities are emerging. What do you have to learn? Something new to discover? In the course of the corona pandemic, as in other transformation processes, social ruptures, growing loneliness and a strong longing for community are evident. Shrinking rural areas and new concepts of neighborhood development challenge the church and diakonia to re-understand themselves as actors in civil society. The book explores the changes in...