125th ANNIVERSARY OF THE CLERICAL ASSOCIATION FOR HOME MISSION

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125th ANNIVERSARY OF THE CLERICAL ASSOCIATION FOR HOME MISSION

Post by aukepalmhof » Wed Jan 19, 2022 8:16 pm

On 15 October 1987 Denmark issued one stamp of 3Kr. in commemoration for the 125th Anniversary on 13 September 1987 of the Clerical association for Home Mission, the stamp shows us two holly men standing in a wooden boat, pulling in a net.

The Home Mission is a clerical association within the framework of the Danish National Church, and its duty is “on the Evangelical-Lutheren basis of our church to call on personal belief in and imitation of Jesus Christ”
The Home Mission is active in some 1,100 Danish parishes and owns about 700 houses in which the good work is carried on with meetings, bible classes and arrangements for children, youngsters and grown-ups. The Association employs about 150 persons all over the country, who preach the gospel and are engaged in missionary activities. The Association is moreover engaged in publishing activities, it issues various magazines, tapes and records, owns a film-distributing company, has its own travel agency and operates three temperance hotels. Financially the Association is run by means of voluntary gifts and contributions from friends of the Home Mission.
The stamp features the association’s logo.

More on the association is given: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_As ... in_Denmark

Source: Watercraft Philately July-August 1988 page 12.
Denmark 1987 3.00Kr. sg 857, Scott 846.
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