With the Macarena dance in front of the altar: Pastor couple from Bavaria shoots video - and becomes a YouTube star

The favorite song of their little son was used by a pastor couple from Franconia as the template for a funny self-made video about their profession.

• During

  Corona

  , a

  pastor couple

  from Franconia discovered their passion for video shooting.

• In a five-minute and twelve-second

  clip

  , the clergy joke about their profession.

• The video ends with an important

  appeal from

  the pastors.

Offenhausen

- What do Darth-Vader with a red lightsaber, the Spanish Macarena dance and a blue water pistol have to do with the pastor's profession?

The Bavarian

pastor couple

Martin and Ann-Sophie Hoepfner

give the answer

in a

music video

.

With the clip “A pastor must be able to do that”, the two Franconian pastors caused quite a stir.

Offenhausen: Pastor couple discovered passion for videos during Corona

In

Offenhausen

(district of Nürnberger Land) the spouses share a pastor's position, according to the

BR

.

There, too, the Hoepfners are feeling the consequences of the

corona pandemic

: In order

to reach

their sheep despite the

lockdown

, they began to record Christian messages for the Internet.

The pastors

owe

their most popular

video

- at least indirectly - to their young

son

.

The

three-year-old's

favorite song

- “A knight must be able to do that” from the

children's musical Ritter Rost

- was quickly changed by the parents to “A pastor must be able to do that”.

In exactly five minutes and twelve seconds, the clergy joke themselves and their profession - and thus become real

YouTube stars

.

Her video has been clicked over 25,000 times (as of December 5th, 5:03 pm).

Bavaria: Pastor couple with "homage to the most beautiful profession in the world"

“A small homage to the

most beautiful job in the world

: without any claim to completeness, great professionalism or perfection.

But with the passion with which we have followed our

vocation

for seven years - and hopefully will continue to do so for the next 30 years, ”write the pastors under their self-made clip.

A few insights: In one scene, for example, Martin Hoepfner runs after a mother fleeing from the church with a water pistol with the baptized person in her arms.

"Despite

Corona,

baptize diligently so that the sheep don't run away," the pastors trill.

At another point, the pastor in a

Darth Vader costume

and with a red light sword at the church entrance

ensures

compliance with the hygiene rules.

“A pastor must be able to do that”: Pastor couple dances the Macarena dance in front of the altar in video

"

We are always ready

for

hygiene security

before going to church," the clergymen sing in the background.

A

highlight of

the self-made clip: When the couple in black gowns performed the Spanish

Macarena dance

next to each other in front of the altar

.

The video ends with a

call from

the pastor couple: “Colleagues wanted - so that

the light doesn't go out

in the

rectory

” flickers in white letters across the black screen in the last few seconds of the clip.

"Our

hope

is that one or the other will find the video cool and think: maybe it would be something for me too," quotes the

BR

Martin Hoepfner.

According to a funny YouTube video: Pastor couple from Bavaria receives positive feedback

The video seems to be well received on the internet.

According to

BR, the

pastors have

now received positive feedback from Hamburg and other places.

The couple's film experiment is also favorably recognized by the Evangelical Church of Bavaria.

The Hoepfners are now even allowed to

produce

an

online children

's service

for Christmas Eve

.

Jan Böhmermann, on the other hand, made fun of the Middle Franconia police in his program “ZDF Magazin Royale”.

He made a sweeping attack against state power.

Read more stories from all over Bavaria here.

(kof)