Meet Vicar Alice Rothgordt

Vicar Alice Rothgordt led HOLY COMMUNION in our church on German Thanksgiving Sunday October 6, 2024. We will hear her FIRST SERMON in the service led by her on Reformation Sunday October 27, 2024. She will continue these services twice per month (German and Bilingual).

Vicar Alice Rothgordt will be tending to the pastoral care needs of especially our German-speaking congregational members for one year timeframe during which Pastor Annika Klappert is on maternity leave. Our congregation is blessed that she was interested in spending one year in Canada and was sent by the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD). Get to know Vicar Alice and contact her for pastoral care at Cell: (416) 567-2487, vicarrothgordt@martinluther.ca

Her office hours are usually Fridays, 10 am to 2 pm. Meet up with her at our outdoor food ministry “Bowls and Blessings” in front of the church doors Fridays at 12:00 noon.

Starting October 27, 2024 you can listen to her 15 minute German radio devotions which air every Sunday at 9:30 am live on CHLO Radio station AM 530 during the German hours (8:00 to 11:30 am, a multilingual radio station broadcasting from Brampton, Ontario). These are later archived as a podcast recording on our Radio Devotions webpage.

She will be introducing herself further at Dinner Church on Wednesday October 30, 2024 at 7:00 pm and will continue to be part of the monthly Dinner Church events. Potluck, come join in!

She will also be leading our Bible Study sessions this year which are once a month on Zoom together with two other German Lutheran congregations: Martin Luther Church Ottawa and the German Lutheran Church in Washington, D.C. The next one will be Tuesday November 15, 2024 at 7:00 pm and we are awaiting the 2025 schedule.

Vicar Alice was born and raised in Hamburg (northern Germany) and studied theology in the city of Kiel and Hamburg while working after my studies in the Eastern part of Germany in a smaller city of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern for two years to get experience with practical pastoral training. She is deeply convinced that not only church services can strengthen faith, but also interpersonal encounters and being together with other people to discuss the existential topics and big questions of life. She has experienced it for herself, that God can show himself sometimes in the little things and not always necessarily when we are waiting for him or expect him to show his presence.