News

Church Council will be meeting on Thursday at 6:30 pm this week instead of the usual Monday. There are important matters at hand and we offer our prayers of support.

Today's service celebrating for the Feast of St Francis marked the end of Junior Church's fund raising project to buy two milking goats. They surpassed this goal by a long way and have raised money for 7 pairs of goats who will be able to produce lots of baby goats so there will be significantly more than 2 goats to provide fresh milk for poorer families.

This a fantastic result and bodes well for the next generation of church fund raising! (Where were these kids when stb400 started?).

Well done Junior Church.

Becket News Issue 52 is hot off the press. For those who can't wait to purchase a hardcopy in church there is a sneak preview version here, also for those who live out of reach of hardcopies.

Enjoy your reading!

Do come and experience Africa in Hamburg! Join us on Saturday 6 October 12:00-18:00 for a joyful multicultural African event. Drumming, Songs, Quiz, Traditional Cuisine, Dancing, Story telling and much more.

Following Deborah Ockert's resignation as churchwarden, we are pleased that Phil Zeni was duly elected unopposed last Sunday to servce as churchwarden until the next AGM.

We are very grateful to Phil for his willingness to step into this important role and offer our good wishes and prayers of support.

We are also indebted to Deborah for her enormous commitment to the church over many years and thank her for doing so much, so diligently, to support the life of our church.

This weekend we Extend a Welcome to Oscars Stämmor, the choir of Oscars Church Stockholm who will be performing
Himmelen inom (Heaven within) – a Swedish Folk Mass by Anders Nyberg. Tickets available at the door from 19:00. Concert 20:00 – ca 21:00.

The choir will be joining us for the Harvest Festival Service on Sunday at 10:30 which will include a baptism.

The Anglican church and the Church of Sweden are in communion with each other through the Porvoo Agreement.

On Sunday, 23 September at 17:00 there will be Choral Evensong at which we are privileged to have the President of the Mothers' Union, Rosemary Kempsell, as preacher. There also will be another chance to hear the Embassy Singers.
Do join us.

This Saturday, 22 September at 20:00, there will be a concert given by the Embassy Singers from Berlin entitled appropriately for this year Jubilee: Royal Music Across the Centuries.
Tickets are available at 10/15/25€ at the door or in advance at the usual concert ticket distributors.
We Extend a warm welcome to our friends from Berlin who will also be singing at Choral Evensong on Sunday 23 September at 17:00.

Just under 1000 people visited the church building on Nacht der Kirchen to enjoy a varied programme that culminated in the Lord's Prayer being spoken in many languages.

Our thanks to everyone for coming and for all helpers who made this event such a success, and particularly to Debbie who coordinated it all!

On Saturday 15 September, Hamburg's churches will collectively be opening the doors to visitors with a varied programme of events. STB is among them. Do join us from 16:00 for a Choral afternoon with guests from the acappellica festival (Gospolitans, Vokalexpress, Monday Monday). Then at 19:00 there will be a Choral Evensong. For the full programme which runs until midnight, click here.