The recent concert of the Anhalt Brass Ensemble (June 13, 2005) at Trinity UCC in Collegeville was part of a series of events commemorating ten years of partnership between the Evangelical Regional Church of Anhalt (Evangelische landeskirche Anhalts)* and the Pennsylvania Southeast Conference of the United Church of Christ

Earlier events in the celebration included:

• a visit of five pastors (including our pastor, Rev. Martha B. Kriebel) as guests of the Evangelische landeskirche Anhalts from February 21 through March 3, 2005.
• A tour by the Gospel Choir from the UCC's Christian Network Outreach Church (Norristown, PA) to the Dessau region from May 19 - 30, 2005. The choristers, guests of the parishes, gave six concerts to standing room only crowds in the parish churches. They also sang during the mid-day worship service in the Berlin Cathedral and at a Sunday festival worship service in St. George's Church, Dessau, Germany.

The Anhalt Brass, guests of various congregations in the Pennsylvania Southeast Conference of the UCC, were in the United States from June 7 to 18, 2005 (The first seven of these days were spent in the Collegeville-Philadelphia area). They gave concerts in various churches and visited many historical sites.

*The Evangelische Kirche originated in 1817 as a result of a union between the Lutheran and Reformed Churches in the German state of Prussia.. The headquarters of the Evangelical Regional Church of Anhalt, a regional church body of 55,000 members is located in Dessau (southwest of Berlin)_ in what was formerly East Germany. The Pennsylvania Southeast Conference of the United Church of Christ is comprised of 190 congregations with a total of 60,000 members in Philadelphia, Bucks, Montgomery, Delaware, Chester, Berks and Schuylkill Counties.