Special services and events, all in English language.
Everyone is welcome – Please invite your friends, family, colleagues, and neighbours!
You can download a PDF version of the below flyer HERE.
Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany at STB
Author: Dorothee Möller
Could you help sometimes with Junior Church?
If you think you might be interested, please get in touch. JC is held during each Sunday morning service, and we are very keen to recruit and train additional helpers so that we can keep this important ministry going for our children of primary school age.
(Currently, we only have three regular helpers, and this is simply not enough to cover each week!)
So, please have a think about it, and if you have any questions talk to Nissi Marapatla, our JC leader. You will be supported, and can choose the weeks when you are on duty to assist.
Thank you!
Countdown to 2023 Church Bazaar
Yes, just over one month left until the annual STB Bazaar (Saturday 18th of November, 11.00-17.00)!
You can download the flyer HERE.
All your favourite stalls, delicious food from around the world, and a couple of surprises too! Plus, a big push to ‘go green’ – using paper and wooden items on the food stalls instead of plastic (and if you want to join the initiative, bring your own plate, mug and cutlery with you from home, or re-usable containers for take-aways. Thank you.)
If you have time on your hands, we still need your help with the preparation: just contact Eric Lord (in case you don’t have Eric’s email address, please send a note to communications@anglican-church-hamburg.de and we will get you in touch with him). The more the merrier!
Baking for the cake stall and café is always needed; plus items for the British produce stall. And, if you want a free work-out on the day, please stay on for 15 minutes after the bazaar closes, to help us put all the furniture back into position for the next morning. The ‘pew moving team’ is lead by churchwarden Christian Nweze.
The Bazaar Team ’23 looks forward to hearing from you.
Harvest Festival coming up on 1st October
Please come to the thanksgiving, and bring a gift of non-perishable food with you. We will gather these together during the worship, and then afterwards take the foodstuffs to the local Salvation Army, so that your donations can be used to help others.
Bring & Share Lunch – 24 September, after the Service
Please stay on after the service, so that we can share food and fellowship together. Becket Mix will be making toasties and waffles to start us off; if you wish, please bring something of your own to eat and/or drink too. All welcome, and the more the merrier!
NEW: Bible Study, every Friday afternoon in July
A short thirty-five minute session each week, 15.15 – 15.50, looking ahead at the lectionary readings for the coming Sunday morning’s service. The Bible study will take place in Zeughausmarkt, so you can attend in person. Alternatively, you are welcome to join on Zoom simultaneously if you wish.
You can find the Zoom link in the July edition of the STB eNews. Alternatively, you can request it by contacting Revd. Jules at chaplain@anglican-church-hamburg.de.
Open Thursdays returns for a third summer
The church building will once again be open each Thursday during the three summer months of July, August and September between 11.00 and 14.00.
Pop in for a cup of tea, a chat, to visit the English bookstall, or to show your friends around St. Thomas.
Each Thursday someone from St. Thomas is also needed to be officially ‘on duty’ (along with the Chaplain), welcoming those who come in, brewing up as required, giving information, and generally keeping a watching brief. The sign up list for this (very pleasant!) duty is in church, or you can write to the Chaplain instead, if you would like to extend a welcome on one or more of the ‘Open Thursdays’.
Director of Music, and/or Organist sought
We are currently looking for person(s) who could play the organ in our services, and potentially lead our music at St. Thomas. As the only Anglican Church in north Germany, this is a unique opportunity to work in this rich, satisfying and distinctive tradition. Remuneration will not be huge, but there is a mini-job on offer for the right person.
The full vacancy description can be downloaded in PDF format here. It includes contact details for our Chaplain and our choir leader who interested candidates can contact for an informal discussion.
The Arts Society of Hamburg presents the Church Record
Some of you will remember reading about the Church Recording project, organised by The Arts Society of Hamburg, whereby a small group of volunteers has recorded the contents and features of the inside of St Thomas à Becket in Hamburg to a high professional standard. The end result is a large, wonderfully bound book, which will be presented to the church after the morning service on Sunday 25 June.
This Record is the culmination of approximately 5 years’ work and its presentation has been delayed by Covid and by the church being closed in the winter as far as services were concerned. During the course of the research many interesting historic facts came to light as the team documented the memorials, metalwork, internal stonework, woodwork, textiles, pictures and documents.
We (the group of volunteers) very much hope that as many of you as possible will come along to this presentation and view the Record, which will thereafter be the property of the church.
A more detailed article will appear in the next Becket News giving you some background and history in respect of Church Recording.
Pat Pledger
(Co-ordinator of the Church Recording Team)
Bring and Share ‘back home’ lunch, Sunday 16th April, after the service
The big re-union! Please bring something to eat/drink, invite your family and friends, and allow time to stay on and chat. This will be our first Sunday back in our own Church building in Zeughausmarkt.