The induction of a new site leader is a God-guided decision that combines professional competence with spiritual calling and is confirmed by the congregation through prayer and blessing.
The text documents the official induction of Carolin Bullinger as site leader of ICF Karlsruhe. The outgoing leadership justifies the decision with the need to better communicate and manage the site, and emphasises that she is both a competent church manager and a spiritual leader. The selection was made after prolonged prayer and joint deliberation within the leadership team, with confirmation from God described as decisive. Carolin Bullinger herself speaks about her personal calling, her fear, and her faith that God will sustain her. She quotes 2 Timothy 1:7 as her guiding verse and affirms that she wants to act not out of fear but out of power, love, and self-discipline. The outgoing leadership emphasises that they will remain pastors of ICF Karlsruhe until their retirement and will work closely with the new site leader. The text concludes with an induction prayer in which Carolin Bullinger is given the mandate of site leader and is blessed.
Analysed with qwen3.8-27b, version v3.
The same standards apply to every tradition, see Values.
Full text in English
and now there is one more very special moment for us as ICF Karlsruhe we had already announced this a few weeks ago that we as leaders of the whole ICF Karlsruhe which includes five locations had been looking for someone who would simply also lead this location in Karlsruhe because we realized that we were no longer able to do many things as well and communicate as well and be there as well and we really kept searching We prayed we thought about it as the leadership team really for a long long time and we had taken one person into focus we also talked a lot about it again we prayed about it also as the leadership team whether God simply confirms it and then in many moments we realized yes here is a confirmation from God it is exactly what is being done that we have on our hearts spoken what our deepest heartbeat is and so we are incredibly happy that we may today officially introduce Ko Bullinger as location leader and I may invite her up on the stage here [Applaus] [Musik] [Applaus] [Musik] B wow clap three more times later we are not finished yet I would also like to welcome your parents and your aunt HT could you at least briefly raise your hand you don't have to stand up but they are sitting there and somewhere something good is coming yes it always is right it doesn't just fall from the sky and that is why we also want to thank you that we may have your Karo here and simply that it is beautiful that you exist also as a family because family belongs to you hey before you say something I am also going to say something now but then you may also say something so that you simply know what is actually happening here now because some are already leaving this morning and saying yes yes now you are retiring and will Karo be your successor then you would not have understood us properly that is something we would not yet entrust to you I am saying now rather we have said that the location as she B already said Karlsruhe needs a leader or a leader and we need someone who does it better than we do because they have more time for it because they can better lead the employees the leading staff because you communicate more and also better at least as I I do so many things schalala and then also forget many things do some things really well and some things not at all and Karo does everything simply really well I think so she does it really well and I she we know that she can do it because she has already done you know a lot is already really good because because you also do that and you can do it but we have not only found a church manager in Caro but we have also found a spiritual leader you will see that and that is your thing because you are also a passionate follower of Jesus you have gone all in for the church and for Jesus and that was important to us because this is not management alone this is always also church and we believe we have found the right person with her we will work closely with you because yes we are still the pastors of EF Karlsruhe multi-site with all its locations until our retirement we promise that here now also solemnly but in any case you are now here in this location we will really speak together about the questions of location leadership we are not going to leave you hanging and say just do it but we are already together and we were already together and have always been a team Ko may also say something yes oh people so what should I say that I am standing here today is simply so crazy for me it is really simply it is really simply yes it is simply amazing and it is simply God's handwriting and I simply want to say a few things my installation words so to speak I have thought a little about one of this song that we just sang many
of you probably didn't know it, it was also sung here for the first time today, because the worship team specially learned it for me so that we can sing it here today, so a big round of applause for the team, it was really [Applaus] awesome, it's not the easiest song, but it became very important to me in the time when they asked me if they would like to give me this calling to be the standard leader, for different reasons, and it says especially in the second verse, so you God make me into something I would never have seen, and that is actually the whole testimony of this position and why I'm standing here today, and what's also so crazy is that the sermon today also really fit perfectly with it, how God simply in my house simply changed things and simply reshaped things that I myself never had on my radar, I didn't come to the ICF with the wish to become the leader here someday, not at all, so that I'm here at all, just ask my parents, it's really insane, simply that I'm here today is really so crazy, God's handwriting, and that's why if you ask me, yeah, Ko, you don't actually have any fear, oh man, I really have fear, definitely, I have, I really have respect for what's coming now, but if you ask me, do you not, then I tell you, no, I don't, because I know that God is calling me, because I know that he will stand for it, not because I can do it, but because he lives in me, and because it's not about my person, but it's about him in me, and I believe that's why, that's why I can [Music] [Applaus] say yes, and that's why the song became important to me on so many levels, because it simply has much more power in me than I would ever have seen, and it's simply so good, just so, that's the testimony, and maybe you also have a verse or so a Bible verse in your life that keeps speaking to you, or that keeps being spoken over your life, and for me it's my confirmation verse, I'm a bit emotional, not so from me, always only from Sebille, Sebille, H, always, yes, yes, yes, that's why we took you, yes, yes, I have such a verse in my life, and it's 2 Timothy 1 verse 7, and it says, God has not given you a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind, and that was spoken to me, I was just a few months in New Zealand, that was spoken into my life again in two different moments, that I don't have a spirit of fear, and it's my wish for this new season that is now beginning in my life, I will not, I will not act from the spirit of fear, and I can tell you, there will be many moments where I think, oh shit, I really have fear, oh yes, it is, it is bigger than what I can do myself, but I will with power, love, and soundness, yes, simply fulfill this position, hopefully through God in me, and I tell you one thing, I'm also really excited, I'm really excited, because I believe that 2025 will also be a really good year, it will simply be a really good year also for us as a church, and I'm so happy, today so many people are also here who have carried this decision with me for a long time, KTI, Dario, all my colleagues who are sitting here, friends who knew from the beginning that I was considering it, my parents, fellow travelers who simply carried it with me, and yes, I'm not standing here alone, but you all with me, and that's why yes, simply [Music] Thank you, Wow, and now I may invite Manuel and Michael up on the stage, who also in the leadership team carry the responsibility together with us, and I invite you to simply stand up and we want to pray together, and you will pray, allow me one more personal word, I am
truly proud if one is even allowed to say proud in the church context that we are a congregation and a church where women can take on their mandate where women and men take on responsibility together and when I look around in our society in our country our church and the whole kingdom of God I believe that it is necessary that women stand up and accept their mandate and Ko you are such a woman and that is why we now want to pray for you together Sibille and Steffen will then still speak the ordination prayer but we celebrate it totally and I am glad that we are here together on this stage today and that you will do this job and we will watch you okay I will start with praying yes dear Father in heaven I thank you with all my heart that we can be here together on this stage and that Karo accepts this job and here I ask you that you bless her with wisdom and with the gift of discerning of spirits that in all things that will now come crashing down on her and decisions that she has to make that she is led by you that she always recognizes what is good what is bad and what is the right [Music] Dear Ko I call over your life and your service that now lies before you also that you do not need to be afraid you are not alone you have us and you have Jesus in you and I pray for much courage yes to say to all that lies before you I pray courage no to say where it is needed no to say I pray that you never have to ask where this Jesus is deep inside you is and he your strength [Music] is and you dear suffering one may one pray for the suffering one may one always pray and one may also always bless them but leaders are also ordained because a leader is set do you understand he is set not because he himself has sat himself in this position you said that well but because God has set her or him in this position and from people this mandate has been confirmed and that was so with you and therefore I want to say that now also in spiritual words so we ordain you here before God and this gathered congregation we ordain you with this mandate to be location leader of Karlsruhe to do this service we support you in what you need what you need from us but we also speak to you the mandate that what God has prepared for you you may also be in the name of Jesus Christ he sends you out with all the authority you need for it and he will give you everything that you [Music] need and so bless you this triune God the Father your good Father who is with you Jesus Christ your Savior and the Holy Spirit who lives in you and will remind you of everything that Jesus has done bless you this God amen amen Amen