At Kaiserwetter and with representatives from the parishes of Tutzing and Bernried, the new Tutzing pastor Anne Roß has been introduced to her office.
After the service, led by Dean Jörg Hammerbacher, representatives of the secular congregation and of the Tutzinger and Bernried monasteries also welcomed the new pastor.
Tutzing
- The new pastor comes from the Rhineland and will fill half a pastor's position. She has lived in Tutzing with her husband Philipp, who is also a pastor, and their three children (8, 5 and 2) since August. "We still had two months of parental leave, so we were able to enjoy two months of summer," said Roß in an interview with Starnberger Merkur. She likes what she has experienced and seen so far. “Super nice,” she says. That means something, because the 34-year-old has already lived in many places: in Leipzig, Bonn, Northern Ireland, Rome, Gambia and most recently with her family in Scotland, where she worked for the Church of Scotland. She speaks English, French and Italian.
She is looking forward to her new job in Tutzing. The pastor reports that the position was advertised for child, youth and family work. “That fits my phase of life.” She is looking forward to working with the confirmands. At the same time, the theologian wants to try to change the concept of the church and go as a pastor where the people are - and that is not necessarily a place of worship. “It's time we got out of church.” That could mean going to the playground where families hang out, but also being present at the weekly market. In addition to half of his pastoral position in Penzberg, Roß's husband has a quarter position at the regional church that has exactly that on the subject: "He will be out and about in marketplaces and playgrounds with a coffee mobile", says Anne Roß.
The pastor in Tutzing also has another quarter position at the Evangelical Church, namely in the newly created area that deals with dealing with sexual violence.
“I work in the prevention team,” she says.
In the home office, she and her team will develop training courses for the dean's offices on how to avoid and recognize sexual violence.
“We want to create a protection concept and raise awareness of this topic in all possible areas.” Roß will be responsible for the dean's offices in Bad Tölz, Rosenheim and Freising.
This is a demanding task, Roß is clear, but also a nice one: "This position gives me the opportunity to work constructively and to move the Church in a direction that I think is good."