Our new Family Services which will take place on the third Sunday morning of each month, starting September (at least that’s the plan!)
Do you play an instrument / sing in a band? Would you like to take part in this more informal service, on a regular or occasional basis?
Repertoire will be varied, but include worship and children’s songs, as well as some more traditional hymns. Rehearsals will be on the day, at 09.45, just before the service, and we are especially keen to attract some new musicians. (Our choir and organist have 3rd Sunday mornings off!)
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 26th June or 3rd 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 onthe 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!
Over the last year, we have established a number of regular services beyond our Sunday morning service. Not everyone might be aware of them yet! So, here is a current overview.
The link to the Zoom meetings is published monthly in our newsletter, the STB e-News. If you do not receive this newsletter yet, but would like to, please get in touch with us at info (at) anglican-church-hamburg.de.
In person at Zeughausmarkt:
Thursdays, 12:00 PM
Mid-week Service
Holy Communion (BCP), said service (ca. 30 mins, with optional tea and coffee time after the service)
Please always double-check the calendar for the mid-week service, because while we do offer this service regularly, there are occasional gaps when it does not happen.
Not only have we moved back onto our own building, but we have also recently re-started our traditional tea and coffee time after the Sunday service. This also means that our church rota is back, and we are always looking for people for any of the following tasks:
Readers
Intercessory prayers
Crucifer
Sides people
Flowers
Tea and coffee
If you can help with any of these, please simply sign up – you can find the current rota on the notice board at the entrance.
We are going to have a church picnic on Sunday 26th June, after the morning service, in Planten un Blomen.
At last, a chance for us to relax and ‘get together’ as the wider church community. Please bring your own food and drink, and something to sit on if you need it. We will walk across after the 10.30 service, and find a good spot somewhere in the park. Please invite family and friends, young and old, to come along and join in.
The tradition in the Church of England (Anglican Church) is to go to a high place at dawn on Ascension Day, to celebrate the ascension of our Lord. This would usually be a church tower, or the summit of a nearby hill – but we don’t have either of these, so we’re going on to the roof of the Ecumencial Forum instead.
God is gone up with a merry noise, with the sound of the trumpet!
Please email chaplain@anglican-church-hamburg.de to book your place.
After the long COVID-related break, we are happy to announce that we are offering Junior Church again in person, starting next Sunday (May 1st). This is when we are also going to be back in our own building at Zeughausmarkt.
If you have school-age children, please consider bringing them with you to church and letting them attend Junior Church, led by Miriam and team. They are going to meet in church at 10:30 (when our regular service also starts) and later move into our Junior Church room upstairs for their own activities.
In case you have any questions upfront, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us via info@anglican-church-hamburg.de.
