Dear La Côte Church family and friends,

I feel like I’m dipping my feet into parallel streams bubbling through this month of Creation Time. One of the streams is entitled “Deep Waters” which is a course produced by Green Christians, inviting participants to face into the grief of loss and damage to Creation. Louise Burrows is ably creating a safe space to share the gamut of emotions which emerge as we do this grief work. As the course progresses, the aim is to move forward with renewed realism and courage to focus on ways of caring more effectively for God’s good earth, even in the face of today’s challenges.

Bubbling streams, (Unsplash)
The second stream is a brook that gurgles with hope. We started Creation Time by exploring Jesus’ transfiguration, as a symbol of God’s transforming presence for the whole of Creation. This coming Sunday (14 Sept) in our morning worship in Divonne we will be hearing about positive and far-reaching ways of caring and protecting the natural world and resources.

Sarah French, writes: “In the Christian Tradition, hope is not passive – it is active, practical and transformative. It moves us to sow seeds of change, to persist in love, and to join God in his vision for renewal and restoration of all creation. The power of the small should never be underestimated: even small acts of care, courage, and faith can ripple outward to nurture creation and restore the Earth.”

Everyone is welcome to join us – and we would love to hear real stories of where you see hope in the struggles and triumphs of caring for our fragile natural home.

My prayer for this season is that, by God’s grace, we will nurture courage and hope to pursue bold, lasting change in our care for creation.

God help us to change.
To change ourselves and to change our world.
To know the need for it. To deal with the pain of it.
To feel the joy of it.
To undertake the journey without understanding the destination.
The art of gentle revolution.
Amen.
By Michael Leunig, A Common Prayer, 1990

We are delighted that Sarah has taken up the role of Church Environmental Officer, (CEO!) for La Côte Church. Sarah is an Independent Senior Advisor specializing in biodiversity conservation, policy, climate change, environmental education, and sustainable development. She has worked extensively at the intersection of conservation, policy, and climate resilience. This has involved working worldwide as an academic, consultant, and practitioner.

Sarah is an active member of several IUCN Commissions, and currently serves as Co-Chair of the CEESP Specialist Group ReSpECC (Religions, Spirituality, Environmental
Conservation, and Climate Justice), where she works to promote the role of faith and spirituality in environmental conservation and climate justice.

Warm regards,

Carolyn Cooke

Worship this Sunday

Sunday 14 September - Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity

10.00     Divonne - Morning Prayer - Café Hope (Sunday Club restarts)

16.00     Gingins - Holy Communion

Protect Versoix River 

As part of our Season of Creation, you may like to add your voice to the public consultation about the landfill development alongside the Versoix River. 

The Vaud Cantonal authorities are currently planning to develop a landfill in this area, which will potentially cause untold harm to the water, bird, plant and animal life that depends on the river and adjoining land.

Letters need to be sent by 19 September.  Click here for more information. If you would like help to write the letter in French please let Liz Le Feuvre know.

Worship coming up

Sunday 21 September - Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity

Bonmont Ecumenical Service for the “Jeune Fédéral” (traditionally a day of prayer and fasting for the State).  

8.30: Join us for a prayer walk in nature from Chéserex to the Cistercian abbey at Bonmont.

10.30: A service of Taizé music, readings, and prayers in the abbey – everyone is welcome.  

More information here.

16.00     Gingins - Evening Prayer (with Sunday Club. Please let Betty know if you are bringing children).

Sunday 28 September – Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity

PLEASE NOTE - If you are unable to attend one of our main services but would like Holy Communion or private prayer in person, please contact Carolyn Cooke or Betty Talbot.

Coming up this week

Morning Prayer

Monday to Friday at 7.30 and Saturday at 8.30 - online

Here is the link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84315258948?pwd=WWZaMTRzZEpnNHV3ekZYRFRUYU96Zz09

Meeting ID: 843 1525 8948 - Passcode: 82966

La Côte Playgroup - Thursday 18 September

The La Côte playgroup has reopened after the summer break. We welcome all caregivers with children aged 0-4 who would like to join us in the Divonne Parish rooms from 9.30 - 11.30 on Thursdays, no sign up necessary.

La Côte Blokes' dinner - 18 September

Thursday 19.30-22.00 - in Nyon at the Prieuré next to the temple

For more details – contact David Cooke

For full details on all activities that our regular groups offer please visit our website here.

Children & Youth programmes for the Rentrée

Youth Alpha Course -  14 September 18h30, Divonne parish room

We are very excited to start our Youth Alpha course this coming Sunday.  

This will be a great chance to explore the big questions about our lives and purpose and where faith might fit in. No prior knowledge of Christianity needed. This is a course for those who have been Christians a while – and for newcomers who’d like to find out more. All of us have much to learn and this will be a chance to explore and grow together in a safe and relaxed setting. You can also bring along friends.

The first session is entitled Welcome to the Conversation.  Come along to share food, get to know each other and explore some great questions.

Please complete the registration forms here and let us know by 12th September as Betty is kindly cooking Chinese food for us. Lucky Alpha Course - yum!

Further information and to sign up to Alpha here.

For primary school age children our Sunday Club is also starting back up on 14 September. More details here.

For under 5's - more details here 

For 11 years and upwards - Online sessions with Joy. More details here

You can find more information on all our programmes here or contact Betty Talbot. 

The Wonder of Creation

As part of this season, Louise would love to receive any of your creations – paintings, drawings, photos, sculptures, arrangements, poetry, prose – which express the beauty of Creation. We hope to display and share these expressions of wonder in our service on 5th October service.

More details here.

Connect La Côte

Saturday 11 October

‘Connect La Côte’ is a project aiming to foster community across generations, languages/cultures and beliefs, and help create connection between people and the environment.

‘Connect La Côte’ is set up in partnership with La Côte Anglican Church, as a church-adjacent project: connecting people to one another both within and beyond church circles and offering a welcoming space without being a religious organisation ourselves.

For more information contact contact@connectlacote.ch

Recent Happenings at La Côte !

If you would like to have a look at some photographs of recent happenings at La Côte Church please go to our website https://www.lacotechurch.ch/recent-happening/

ChurchSuite - New September/October Rotas

Services up to October have been added to ChurchSuite.

Please double check any services that you have been scheduled for and arrange to swap if you are no longer available. For further information, click HERE

It is very important that you check ChurchSuite on a regular basis to view when you are next serving, and it is very helpful if you could fill in any dates you would like to help, and also to add in your unavailabilities. Click HERE for how to do this or contact Liz.

In the future we will also be sending out an email to all those scheduled for the coming month so that you have more notice to double check your availability or arrange a swap.

Happening Elsewhere

Tyrrian Livesley is once again organising a collection of second-hand clothes in good condition for Eastern Europe - this time warm clothing for autumn and winter will be greatly appreciated.  Please see the attached information here for details of how and when to drop off your donations.  Thank you very much!

Ignatian Spirituality Community

Ignatian Way Day - Saturday 11 October.  Full details here.

If you would like someone to explore your spiritual life with and have a desire to deepen your relationship with God, then spiritual accompaniment could be for YOU! Click here to find out what the Ignatian Spirituality Community can offer you.

Diocese in Europe
Environmental Champions Conference 2025 Online 1st October at 19h00

Details here 

Coup de Main / The Lost Food Project

(combatting food waste)

Members of la Côte Church take part in a food bank in Nyon. Click HERE for more information and if you'd like to participate.

Thank you so much to everyone who has been bringing dried food and tins for distribution through the wednesday food bank.  

Our stocks are running low at the moment and we would be grateful for any of the following contributions:

Donations of pasta, rice, pulses (dried or tinned), tinned tomatoes and tinned fish (tuna, sardines or mackerel). If you attend church in Gingins, please leave any contributions at the back of the church. 

Alternatively, please contact either Carolyn or Caroline Allsopp-Leitner 

Thank you once again.

From your safeguarding team

Your safeguarding team promotes and works towards keeping our church a safe place where our congregation can feel secure and cared for.

All information can found here

And you can come and talk to us - Cate Bichara and Liz Martinez

Contact email: Safeguarding@lacotechurch.ch

Pledging and Giving online and in person 

Many thanks as ever for your giving to the life of our church and thus to our mission and service within and well beyond our community.

Pledging gives stability to the church finances and ensures that budgets can be planned realistically. So however large or however small your commitment, please consider pledging. Contact our pledge administrator, Mark Warren (mark.warren@yahoo.fr) for further details.

If you are at church without any cash but would like to give to the collection there is a solution: we have a bank or credit card reader at church to contribute to the collection using your card.

Here are the bank details for our church:

IBAN            CH42 0022 8228 5504 9740 H
Holder          The La Côte Anglican Church Development Association, 1267 Coinsins 
BIC               UBSWCHZH80A

You can also do so by scanning the QR code below using your bank app.

You may also like to remember La Côte Anglican Church in your will.
Merci beaucoup, thank you very much!

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