Month: May 2025

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING –  Our Churchwardens and Church Council

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At this year’s Annual General Meeting, the following individuals were elected as Churchwardens and Lay Members of the Church Council.

We give thanks for their willingness to serve and ask the congregation to pray for them as they take on these responsibilities.

May God guide and strengthen them in their ministry and in their work for the life and mission of our church.

Wardens
Angeline Wilson
Norbert Schoen

Lay Members
Penelope Loehrig (Council Secretary)
Monica Schofield (Treasury Liaison)
David Delaire
Jo Dawes
Jonas Karlsson
Idowu Ogunleye
Nolene Sheppard
Emmanuel Saarkodie
Irene Windsor

We also extend our heartfelt thanks to those who did not stand for re-election this year, after faithfully serving on the Church Council for many years.

Peter Alexander
Nissi Marapatla
Madeleine Resühr

We are deeply grateful for their dedication, wisdom, and the time they have given to the life of our church.

May God bless them in all that lies ahead, and may they continue to know His guidance and peace.

Hamburg marks 80 years since the end of WWII

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Servicemen and women from the UK, from the wider Commonwealth and from Germany and Ukraine – together with local inhabitants of Hamburg – gathered at Ohlsdorf Cemetery in Hamburg on Thursday, 8 May 2025.

Led by Canon Colin Williams, they marked the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, commended those servicemen whose remains are interred there to God’s safe keeping and prayed for peace. Wreaths were laid by representatives of the UK and German Armed Forces. At the conclusion of this time of
prayer, the Last Post was sounded in honour of those whose sacrifice had made possible the end of hostilities in Europe on 8 May 1945.

Ohlsdorf Cemetery is the largest non-military cemetery in the world. Covering 389 hectares, the parklike cemetery is also Hamburg’s second largest green space. Among its many graves is a Commonwealth War Graves site containing more than 2,500 burials, mostly of British and Commonwealth servicemen who lost their lives in the First and Second World Wars. The Second World War plot alone contains 1,466 burials, mostly of servicemen who died with the occupying forces, or airmen lost in bombing raids over Germany.

REMEMBERING The Revd Roger White, Chaplain of STB, 2001–2011

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On 16 May, members of the congregation past and present joined Roger’s wife, Heidi, his children Rachel and William, and family and friends to remember and give thanks for his life.
The service reflected on both Roger’s personal life and his dedication to ministry, and included a touching eulogy given by Rachel.

Canon Colin Williams used the Easter message to convey Roger’s remarkable qualities as a priest.

A smaller service followed at Ohlsdorf for the interment of Roger’s ashes and to lay flowers at the STB-owned grave plot.

Roger will be fondly remembered and much missed by all who knew him.

If you would like to make a donation to STB in Roger’s memory, please donate to our bank account (Englisch-bischoefliche Gemeinde, IBAN DE46 2005 0550 1280 1464 22, BIC HASPDEHHXXX), marking the payment ‘Roger White’. Thank you.