Applications go to the executive committee via the regional president.
Each region elects its regional president and decided on its own structure. Every fourth year a world conference takes place with meetings of the delegates of the member associations, with worship, Bible studies, addresses, lectures, group discussion, workshops, singing and celebrating. The delegates elect the president of the World Federation and the members of the executive committee who are nominated by the member associations. The executive committee is the management board. Structure History 1836 Foundation of the first Deaconess House by Theodor and Friederike Fliedner in Kaiserswerth on the Rhine.