After a decade of overseas work in India from 1957 to 1967, Scheuermeier resumed the role of a Minister, this time at Kirchberg, Bern from 1967 till 1981.
Scheuermeier came to India in 1957[1] and undertook language studies in Kannada for a year and began to teach at the Basel Mission Theological Seminary (BEMTS) at Mangalore.
By this time, ecumenical conversations were taking place to merge the Basel Mission with the Church of South India.
[4] As a prelude to it, the two vernacular medium (Kannada) Protestant regional seminaries in Karnataka affiliated to the Senate of Serampore College (University), namely, were merged in 1965 resulting [3] in the formation of the Karnataka Theological College in the premises of the erstwhile Basel Mission Theological Seminary in Mangalore.
The continued representation of the EMS in the Church of South India synods[7] as well as in the Society[8] of the United Theological College, Bangalore attests to this fact.