The well-known evangelist Wilhelm Pahls, born in 1936 in Lower Saxony, will be speaking at Paladina. He is the founder and was director of the Bruderhand missionary organization. Wilhelm Pahls was born in Celle in 1936. He was initially a car mechanic, then a sales representative, then a commercial employee in a motor vehicle company and in between - because he was always on the lookout for new things - he was also a long-distance truck driver for a short time. At the age of 20, he experienced a total life change, a conversion, as the Bible calls it. At the age of 21, he preached his first sermons. At the age of 25, he began his ministry as a full-time evangelist. Since then, he has conducted many evangelistic campaigns - initially mainly in German-speaking countries. In 1960, he was co-founder and later director of the Bruderhand missionary organization. Wilhelm Pahls is one of the best-known evangelists in the German-speaking world. His business trips often took him to Switzerland and Austria, but also to France, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Poland, Romania, Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Mexico, Canada and South Africa. He also became known for his many study trips (Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Greece, etc.). Wilhelm Pahls is married to Johanna Pahls for the second time (after Margrit Pahls, his first wife, died in 1992). He has four children, eleven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren and lives in Wienhausen near Celle, north of Hanover. To the website