Evangelisches Gemeindehaus Miesbach: Action week for the inauguration

Created: 04/10/2022, 07:00

By: Sebastian Grauvogl

Have come up with some ideas: (from left) Pastor Erwin Sergel, deaconess Marion Schönsteiner, district manager Marlies Mehrer and church musician Andrea Wehrmann with the program of the action week.

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One ceremony is not enough for the evangelical parish of Miesbach.

She inaugurates her renovated and extended parish hall with a campaign week.

Miesbach

- There is a sentence that appears in almost every greeting at the inauguration of a new building: "Now it's time to fill the rooms with life." Seen in this way, the Protestant parish of Miesbach is ahead of its time.

Two days before the official ceremony (Sunday, October 16, 2 p.m.) for the opening of the refurbished and extended parish hall, she starts an extensive program of events.

Actions for all ages and many interests are planned for a full ten days.

Some of them should then regularly find a place in the calendar, others will be continued depending on the response.

"We'll see what comes out," says Pastor Erwin Sergel.

Exactly this openness was the intention of the project, which was subsidized by the EU funding program Leader, from the very beginning.

The central meeting place is the new foyer, which is known to serve as an “inclusive coworking space for volunteers, social projects and artists”.

With the action week, the initiators around district manager Marlies Mehrer want to give an initial insight into what this means in practice.

Whether at the pub quiz (Saturday, October 15, 8 p.m.), at the network breakfast inclusion (Tuesday, October 18, 9 a.m.) or at the Biblical culinary evening with theologian Matthias Binder and a four-course menu (Friday, October 21 , 5.30 p.m.): "Now we finally have a suitable space to be able to offer such formats in an appropriate atmosphere," enthuses Sergel.

Inclusion café finally has a name

The same applies, of course, to the most prominent offer to date: the inclusion café, which opens its doors for coffee and breakfast every Thursday at market time in Miesbach (8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.).

In the meantime, the child has also been given a name, reports Sergel.

"Café Lila" made the race in the specially announced competition.

"Short, memorable and appealing," says the pastor.

You can also test the new coffee machine every Sunday after the church service at the church coffee shop, which is also new.

Incidentally, visitors to the campaign week can even help shape it themselves.

The preparatory meeting (Wednesday, October 19, 10 a.m.) in the foyer is open to the public.

Likewise, all choir rehearsals that are taking place in the hall or youth room these days.

According to Sergel, anyone who raises their voice with the Rainbow Gospel Voices can see this as a dress rehearsal for the performance at the Long Night of Music (Saturday, October 22nd, 6 p.m.).

Church musician Andrea Wehrmann used her large network of renowned musicians to play all the rooms in the church and community center with acoustic delicacies.

Game night and escape rally for families

The Protestant youth also made contacts.

In cooperation with the Weltdiscoverer shop and the city library, it organizes a game night (Friday, October 14, 5 p.m.), which also marks the start of the campaign week.

The family escape rally (several dates) also promises playful excitement, which sends groups of two to eight people aged five and up on a puzzle journey through the parish hall and church.

Meanwhile, things are more comfortable at the International Women's Breakfast, which celebrates its return from the Corona break in the hall.

The new Monday get-together for seniors aged 60 and over is to become a permanent fixture there in the future.

The information event is planned for Monday, October 17, at 4 p.m.

Two classics from past community life round off the program: the ecumenical Taize prayer (Saturday, October 15, 6.30 p.m.) and the cinema in the church, this time with the Rosenmüller film "Beckenrand Sheriff" (Tuesday, October 18 , 7.30 p.m.).

An important signal for Sergel: "Our established events should also continue to have a place in community life." And the new ideas the opportunity to develop in that direction.

For example, the 15-minute cultural moments that bring music, art, dance or literature to the foyer in the style of an open stage every day at 5 p.m. during the campaign week.

It reappears here too: the openness that runs like a red thread through the project.

The program

and further information and registration options are available at www.mies ach-evangelisch.de.

Admission is free, but donations to finance the remaining 75,000 euros of the community center project are welcome.

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