Octoberfest TODAY Featuring King Ludwig’s Bavarian Band, Beer, Food and Kid’s Activities

King Ludwig’s Bavarian Band sets toes tapping and feet dancing. Guests enjoy authentic German food and drink while they catch up with old friends and meet new ones. You might go home with delicious homemade treats from the bake table, or offer the winning bid for silent auction items like Patriots or Celtics tickets, a wine basket, golf outing, Amalfi coast dinner, children’s art supplies, and other items. Kids get their faces painted and do spin art and other fun activities. Crafters offer their wares – textiles, woodworking, jewelry and more.

Throughout the event, representatives from agencies and organizations like Wellspring Multi-Service Center in Hull, South Shore Habitat for Humanity, and Ascentria (formerly Lutheran Social Services) are presented with a portion of the previous year’s proceeds. Another portion provides mission support through the New England Synod and the ELCA that helps fund new church starts (like Sanctuary in Marshfield), campus ministries at MIT and Harvard, seminaries, and more. The non-perishable food items that guests bring and their donations of money for the food banks are divided up between the Hingham Interfaith Food Pantry and Wellspring.

House of Prayer especially thanks The Boston Beer Company/Curtis Liquors for their donations, and we’re grateful to all the generous sponsors who’ve helped make Oktoberfest a success each of the last thirty-three years!

As Pastor Henry said to the congregation one Oktoberfest Sunday, “It’s not just a serving of sauerkraut. It’s God at work through us and with us bringing hope and help to those whom Jesus calls us to love and to serve. It’s not just making something for the bake table or setting up chairs or waving someone toward a parking spot. It is, over the years, building one-seventh of a Habitat house. It’s not just cutting cakes or selling pretzels or tending the grill, it’s God at work in us and through us. It looks and feels and is mundane in the moment, but the fruit of our collective labors is food on people’s tables through Wellspring and the Hingham Food Pantry, and it is services to teen mothers, immigrants, refugees, people with disabilities and more through Ascentria and other agencies we support.”