Category: Chaplain

Bishop Robert will be taking the service on Sunday 17th November at 10.30, both preaching and presiding on this significant occasion.

We have three adult candidates, and seven juniors this year, and they have all been preparing since soon after Easter: meeting to learn more about God, the Bible, Christian doctrine, our Anglican church and liturgy. It has been a rich and joyful time, and we wish each one of them well as they take this next step forward in affirming their faith, and also receive the sacrament of their first holy communion. 

A reminder as the Confirmation becomes imminent, that no photography or video recording during services is permitted. Notices to this effect are displayed all around the church, but after a while, they do tend to become just ‘part of the wallpaper’! This is a general rule, and any potential exceptions must be discussed in advance with the Chaplain, along with receiving the permission of all those likely to be recorded. This applies to any recording, and whether or not you may intend to publish it on any sort of social media platform. When it comes to music, we are subject to performing rights and copyright considerations, and the Data protection and safeguarding rules are there to protect us all. So, please respect the privacy, property and wellbeing of others, most especially when you are in church. Thank you.

Our church building in Zeughausmarkt is there ‘7 whole days’ – so why not spend some time there on a Thursday this month too? 

Every week, the building will be open between 11.00 and 15.00.

So, pop in and visit or take a quiet moment; meet a friend, or have a cup of tea, or bring your summer visitors to have a look around our historic building. There is also a short said Eucharist starting at 12.00 noon each week, and lasting 30 minutes. 

Our chaplain, Jules, will need someone to be officially ‘on duty’ with her during these ‘Open Thursdays’, so if you can volunteer, please sign up on the list in church, or email Jules (chaplain (at) anglican-church-hamburg.de) with the date(s) you can do. Thank you!

THE STB 20 Euro Challenge – PLEASE help your church this Summer.

What’s it for?

To have some fun and to enable each one of us to raise some money for church this summer.

How does it work?

Based on the Parable of the Talents (see below)  you collect a 20 Euro note on Sunday 26^th June or 3^rd July at the 10.30 service. (On loan to you from STB.)

Then, YOU do something creative with it, to make this E20 ‘seed’ money ‘grow’ and bear fruit:

During July, August and September: involve your friends, colleagues, neighbours, family, wherever you are (people you know outside church).

Early October you bring back all the money you have made,

and we ‘harvest’ it to help STB.

The Euro20 Summer Challenge is based on the Parable of the Talents from Matthew 25:14-30.

In this well known Bible story, the master and owner of a property is going to be away for some time. So, he entrusts some money to each of his workers. (The coins he gives them are called ‘talents’) During the time he is absent, the workers use the money entrusted to them to make more money. So, when the master returns he is pleased with their efforts, and says: ‘enter into the joy of your master’ and “well done’. That is save for one, who simply buried his coin, and did nothing to make it bear fruit for the master.

In the Euro20 challenge, we are similarly entrusted with money from our church, and asked, over a three month period (whether at home or on holiday), to make it grow – in the service of our heavenly Lord and master, and saviour Jesus Christ!

Please join in, be creative and help your church!