About Our Association
We promote church life and social community sustainably.
Our Purpose
The purpose of the association is the ideal and financial support of ecclesiastical and charitable purposes of the New Apostolic Church congregation Hamburg-Alstertal. This includes in particular the promotion of activities that serve the cultivation of faith, the promotion of Christian values and the building of community life.
Our Goals
The association collects donations and contributions to financially support projects and initiatives that serve these goals. Through close cooperation with the church congregation and the members of the association, measures are taken to strengthen the community and create lasting positive impact.
Our History
Our association grew out of the commitment of individual members of the congregation. For years, purchases for the congregation, from the mobile phone line to the broadcasting equipment, were paid for privately in advance. On 25 September 2022, members of the New Apostolic congregation Hamburg-Alstertal founded the support association to put this work on a lasting and broad footing.
On 22 June 2023 the association was entered in the register of associations at Hamburg District Court (VR 25331). The tax office has recognised it as a charitable organisation because it exclusively promotes religion and church purposes. On 16 January 2025 the general meeting amended the statutes once; this version has been registered since December 2025. The board works on a voluntary basis, and two elected auditors review the complete accounts and cash management every year.
Mission and Vision
Our mission: we raise the funds that a vibrant congregation needs and put them where they make the biggest difference: children and youth, church music, the church building and the livestreaming of services. Our vision: a congregation in Hamburg-Alstertal where every generation finds its place and nobody is excluded from the service, not even those who can no longer come to church.
Our Impact
Everything we collect goes to the congregation Hamburg-Alstertal. Our statutes name four focus areas, and in each of them something tangible has been achieved in recent years:
- Children and youth: In the church garden we built a garden house that we are converting into a youth cabin, a meeting place of their own for young people. The garden is getting a play area for children, and we purchased Bibles for religious education. For the youth cabin we received a grant from Hamburger Sparkasse.
- Church music: Our church is getting a new organ. With donations we make it possible for the instrument to be extended by a third manual. We also cover the licences that allow song lyrics to be displayed and broadcast during services.
- Church building: We complement the work of the church administration wherever something is missing in everyday congregational life, for example with an industrial dishwasher for the congregation kitchen, an appointment monitor in the entrance area and the redesign of the church garden.
- Live-streamed services: For several years, members who cannot come to church have been able to join the services from home. The association finances the necessary broadcasting equipment, the internet connection and the running services, and in 2025 and 2026 it funded the overhaul of the audio and video equipment in the church hall.
Transparency
Legal form and register
Registered association (e.V.), register court Hamburg District Court (Amtsgericht Hamburg), registration number VR 25331. Registered office: Dweerblöcken 8, 22393 Hamburg, Germany.
Charitable status
The association pursues exclusively and directly charitable purposes within the meaning of the German Fiscal Code (promotion of religion and church purposes) and is recognised as a charity. Donations and membership fees are tax-deductible; we issue donation receipts.
Board
Prof. Dr. Christoph Großmann, Gerolf Pabst and Volkert Tainz. The board works on a voluntary basis; any two board members represent the association jointly.