Charity – Phoenix Lodge N° 847 – Donation to the Evangelisches Kinderheim Sonnenhof e.V.

It was a warm and sunny day on June 19th 2019 when our reigning Worshipful Master, WBro Jake Knox carried out one of his last official duties in the chair on behalf of Phoenix Lodge N° 847.

Phoenix had been given a sum of 700€ from the Grand Lodge of British Freemasons in Germany, as a charity initiative instigated by the Grand Master, and tasked with increasing this amount and donating the final sum to a worthy cause, within ‘cable tow’.

The cause chosen was the The Evangelical Children’s Home Sonnenhof, which looks back on a long Christian- humanist tradition. It was founded in 1894 by Alexander Spengler, a pastor of the Lutheran community, who supported distressed children and their parents. In 1906 he opened a children’s home: the Sonnenhof in Berlin- Spandau.

Throughout the masonic year the lodge championed this cause and through donations from the brethren, a donation from our sister lodge Schwarzer Adler at a combined Christmas Festivity and money collected at a very successful Burn’s Supper the entire amount available was increased to a very fruitful 2.500,00€.

WBro Jake received a very warm welcome indeed from the management, staff and room-mates at the home and was treated to a tour of the whole set up including the residential groups in the ‘House Nemo’, the offices, the basement and the garden. The Ev. Kinderheim Sonnenhof e.V., currently has 69 employees, who look after 60 persons between 2-17 years, partly in residential groups and partly as a youth welfare institution.

Here we see Frau Becker, Managing Director and Head of the Children’s Home, thankfully accepting the donation in the form of a symbolic check for the amount of 2.500, – €. This money will be primarily used to build a bicycle shed in the grounds of the area. To date, children and adolescents have had to carry their bikes cumbersomely through the narrow staircase of the house to protect them from theft and the weather in a narrow basement room. Any residual money will be used to refurbish the tired and worn seating in the much-used consultation room.

The brethren of Phoenix and the WM, WBro Jack Knox are very proud of this combined charity achievement and are delighted to have contributed in some small way to improving the lives of others.

Fraternally, WBro Jake Knox

Charity Efforts — Doric Lodge

Find below a message from brethren from Doric Lodge


Please find attached the Newspaper report from the Osnabrücker Zeitung (NOZ) and the photo that accompanied it. The same is expected to appear in the Bissendorfer Kurier and the Oldenburger Zeitung!

 

 

 

SGH Schlaganfall-Kinder

Thank You

Dear Brethren All, Many thanks to all of you who attended the Half Annual Communication! YOUR attendance made it that little bit more special! The Empty Chair Ceremony, we carried out for the 100 years memorial of the Armistice, remembering all of the fallen, from which ever Country or Creed, was well received. Again, thank YOU!

Keys of Münster 881 set to restart!

Keys of Münster 881 are set to have their first meeting in October after handing in their Warrant in December 2017. The Warrant will be returned over before the meeting opens. I am sure we all wish them the very best of fortune!

GL-BFG to Support Medecins sans frontieres / Ärzte ohne Grenzen

Grand Lodge will be donating funds to assist Medecins sans frontieres / Ärzte ohne Grenzen Doctors who are assisting resident Doctors in Rafina to treat those who suffered burns during the recent Fires. If you would like to support our efforts, please contact your Lodge Secretary or Charity Steward, or simply transfer Funds to the Grand Lodge Charity Account stating “Fire victims in Greece”. THANKS IN AVDANCE!

Reminder: Member’s Area Access

Hello Member of GLBFG,
This message is to remind you that we are keeping a collection of digital documents in our Member’s area. This collection includes —but is not limited to— the GL Regulations, 2018’s yearbook, and some summonses from Lodges within our GL.

You need a password to get to the member’s area. You can request a password via your secretary which in turn should communicate with the Grand Secretary. You will understand this process is a must and any request made directly to the webmaster will be ignored.

I am more than happy to receive requests to put up useful documents and summonses in the Member’s area.

Cheers,

Germán

Grand Master and Deputy Grand Master VGLvD

Great News! The reigning Grand Master and Deputy Grand Master of the United Grand Lodges of Germany, Christoph Bosbach and Bernd Brauer, have been nominated unanimously by the Senate to remain in office for a further Term. The Vote will take place at the Konvent in Berlin in October, and I hope all Lodges have registered their representative to vote!

A short reminder about our Guestbook

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Call for Papers – Quatuor Coronati

Dear members,

Find below a message from Martin Papenheim, member of Lodge Niederrhein:


Call for Papers

I greet you well. I am pleased to send you a call for papers for the forthcoming conference of Quatuor Coronati Germany in March 2019. The topic will be “British and Anglo-American Freemasonry in the German speaking countries”,  and I really hope that many of the members of our Grand Lodges will participate. There are so many among us (as you!), who know a lot about the history, the structure, the rituals, and the other activities  of this kind of freemasonry.

So please distribute this call for papers, and don’t hesitate to contact me, if you have any brother in mind, who would like to participate and whom I should contact personally.

Sincerely,

Martin Papenheim
Deputy Master
Quatuor Coronati Lodge 808 GC, Bayreuth

Documents and Events

Hello members,

I added the installation dates of each lodge for the next 12 months, you can see the information in the Events section. Additionally, you can find the GL regulations and billets from Thistle & Saltire 1040.

I look forward to receive more information from you to publish on the page!