On May 28th, 2011, Pastor George E. Keck and Pastor Stephen E. Godsall-Myers (watering the tree) planted a flowering ash tree on behalf of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, U.S.A.
On the seminary campus, the partner tree for the university was planted next to the entrance to the Wiedemann Center. Dr. Jean Godsall-Myers (left, next to the tree) and Pastor Hans W. Kasch, Director of the LWF Center Wittenberg (right) later visited the cedar tree on campus.