Operation World reports, ‘The decline of Christianity has drawn believers together. Prayer movements are forming and spreading as are city- and region-wide unity initiatives among churches, a revitalized spirituality and an openness to a new way of doing faith’; and Missionary ECM works with several teams, particularly in the eastern German province of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and in the southwest of the country. In eastern Germany, communism and after that economic difficulties left deep marks in the spiritual lives of the people. The Christian faith is reduced to the margins of society. Many people don't know what the Gospel is all about. ECM desires to bring the Gospel to their attention again by active, living Christian communities, as a new message that gives hope for the future. A large number of refugees from several religious backgrounds live in southwest Germany and are trying to build a new life. ECM helps to support them with that and wants them to get to know the Gospel.