Author: Jo Dawes

Please click on Pause for Thought for a New Year Message from the Chaplian.

Click here for a Christmas Thought.

Click here to read Bishop Geoffrey's Christmas Message.

Becket News No. 49 is HERE!. Christmas is saved: plenty to read and discuss. Well done to the Editor for another miraculous creation!

And a HAPPY CHRISTMAS to all readers.

The deadline for contributions to the next issue of our church magazine, Becket News, is Sunday, 11 December. Please send your articles and/or pictures to John Finn at BecketNews(at)aol.com.

11 December, we will greet visiting seamen from the HMS ILLUSTRIOUS, which will be in port. Reverend Martin Evans, who previously served as chaplain on the HMS ARK ROYAL which paid a visit to Hamburg this time last year on her last voyage before being decommissioned, will be on board and is looking forward to worshipping with our congregation once again.

STB400 coordination team meets on Thursday, 8 December, at 18:30 h in church. The group welcomes anyone willing to help with the planning and organization of our big 400 year anniversary in 2012.

For families and children: The children‟s Christmas opera “Amahl and the Night Visitors” will be playing at the St Jacobi church on 9 and 10 December at 18:00 h.

STB's choir is playing a part in the Michel's
“Lebendiger Adventskalender”. On each day in Advent there is a short event planned at locations around the Michel.

At 6:00pm on Tuesday 13th December it will held at STB. Do come along and bring your friends.

The Annual Church Bazaar will be taking place in
church
this Saturday 10:30-16:00. There are cakes to be bought, bottles to be won, exotic food to be eaten, lots of things for Christmas, a great choice of English books and more. Do come along!

The church bazaar is a significant source of income: the church does not receive income from other sources, neither from the Church of England nor Kirchensteuer, so shoppers are keenly awaited!

Saturday 12th November the Wanderers are off for a walk from Fischbeker Heide to Kiekeberg length apporx 8km, terrain heathland and woodland paths.

Meet at the Hamburg Hbf on the S3 platform direction Neugraben at the foot of the escalator towards the front of the train (not the Reisezentrum end), in time to catch the 10.48 train. We alight in Neugraben at 11.13 and then catch the 250 bus dep 11.33 to Fischbeker Heideweg arriving at 11.39.

Please wear suitable footwear and bring a picnic lunch. Kaffee and Kucnen before we catch the 340 bus back to Neugraben.

Please do let Cicely know if you intend to come: Cicely-hollingsworth(at)t-online.de, tel: 040/86 07 90.

Monday 7th November ACKH (Churches Together in Hamburg) meting in the Finnish Church.

Tuesday 8th November 6:30 pm – Choir Practice

Saturday 12th November Wanderers Walk details to be posted.