New Season Start - the Wanderers are off!

Right, time to put New Year resolution into practice...

The first chance of some exercise with the Wanderers is Saturday, 14, January 2012.
Volksdorf to Poppenbüttel with New Year’s lunch at the Gaststätt Alte Mühle Length approx. 9 kms. (5kms to the Alte Mühle and then 4kms to Poppenbüttel). Anyone not wishing to walk the whole way can catch the 276 bus to Poppenbüttel after lunch.
Meet on the U1 platform (direction Grosshansdorf) at the Jungfernstieg at 10.45 a.m..

Please wear warm clothes and suitable footwear – it will probably be wet underfoot in places. Terrain - mostly level past ponds and meadows (Teichwiesen ) and along woodland paths.)

Important! Please let Cicely know (tel. 040/860790) by Wednesday, 11 January, if you plan to come.

Happy New Year

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WISHING READERS A VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS

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Early delivery for Christmas ...

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.

STOP PRESS! Becket News Deadline

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.

HMS Lusty in town

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.

This week

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.