Sternsinger: Home visits and drive-in: That’s what the Herner Sternsinger offer

People in Herne and Wanne-Eickel should again receive the blessing of the Dreikönigssänger in the new year. The Epiphany singing is performed on the weekends from January 6th to 8th as well as from January 14th to 15th occur. Rebecca Goeke, youth and family officer at the Deanery of Emschertal, representing the parish of St. Christophorus in Wanne-Eickel, and Ute Strobel, community officer at the St. Dionysius parish in , report on how the 2023 carol singers campaign will be organized and what special features will be there herne

Herne and Wanne-Eickel: Dreikönigssingen 2023 will be hybrid

The focus of the carol singers is the blessing for the people in Herne and Wanne-Eickel. Rebecca Goeke says how important this is: “The blessing is very important to many people. Social contact is particularly important for old people.” In addition, the blessing at the beginning of the new year is a fixed point of reference.

However, the Corona pandemic was also two years ago for the carol singers, in which there were some alternative ways to convey the blessing. “It was two difficult years for the children, but also for the carers,” says Goeke. The challenge was to deliver the blessing at a distance. Getting back into the “pre-corona mode” is difficult. “We have children with us who have not noticed how the campaign actually works over the past two years,” says Ute Strobel.

So there will be hybrid forms of blessing in Herne and Wanne-Eickel when singing the Epiphany in 2023. In some cases, home visits are planned, for which the families can register with the respective communities. The corresponding registration forms are available in the respective churches. The following municipalities herne offer home visits:

The following municipalities Tub-Eickel offer home visits:

In addition to home visits, some parishes from Wanne-Eickel will send out blessing packages. This includes a cover letter with information about the campaign, a blessing sticker and a donation bag. Registrations for the blessing bags are possible via boxes set up in the respective churches. The following municipalities Tub-Eickel distribute blessing packages:

As a further special alternative, as with the last campaign, there will be a carol singer drive-in. The community St. Mary invite you to a drive-in around the Marienkirche, Bismarckstraße 72a, on Sunday, January 8th. In addition, during the 2023 campaign, for the first time on Friday, January 6th, a carol singer will stop at the Herner weekly market from the Herner municipality heart of Jesus give. From 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. the blessing will be delivered “to go”.

Carolinger Campaign 2023: Educational focus is on Indonesia

Every year, a country is selected that will be presented during the educational preparation for the carol singers, says Strobel in an interview with the WAZ. The focus is on a topic and an example project from a region of the respective country. “This year it’s about Indonesia,” said the Herner community officer.

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The example of the ALIT Foundation, a center for children in an Indonesian slum, shows how child protection and child participation can be promoted with the help of carol singers. Irrespective of this, the carol singers collected for children’s aid projects in around 100 countries worldwide. At the 64th Carolinger Campaign at the beginning of 2022, Carolingians in the Archdiocese of Paderborn alone donated 2,196,173.94 euros.

More information about the carol singers in Herne and Wanne-Eickel is available on the website www.st-dionysius-herne.de as well as on the website www.st-christophorus-wan.de to find.

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