The greatest success of my garden this year: pattypan squash. 
Photo by Louise Burrows

Dear La Côte Church family and friends,

This coming Sunday, Louise Burrows is helping us give thanks for creation, by displaying creative expressions of wonder from among our community – photos, paintings, fabrics. Thank you to everyone who has contributed and to Louise for patiently curating our offerings.

When we think of awe and wonder in creation, we may be tempted to think of the more eye-catching splendour of mountains and glistening, pristine lakes. Equally, we may be delighted by our vegetable plots – healthy crops of leeks, courgettes and tomatoes!

This last summer, in spite of some disappointments, Louise found herself enjoying an unexpected wonder in a type of squash… and incidentally, she makes it into a mean and very tasty soup! I’ll let her explain.

“When I was planning my vegetable garden for 2025, I knew that it would be no ordinary year. My father had just died, and my mother was going to need my support, which would mean being away from my garden for extended periods of time, so I decided to do things a little differently. I chose a less ambitious range of seeds and included varieties I hadn’t grown before, like pattypan squash, feeling that I had less to lose than usual. Little did I know at that point that life held even more disruption in store, including a move back to the UK to plan, meaning that the garden got even less attention this year than normal.

My lack of time and attention has had direct consequences on the harvest. I got a fraction of the figs, because, due to my failure to keep them under surveillance, birds took all the fruit from the top of the tree. Many of my tomato plants are only half tied-up and are drooping down under the weight of unripe fruit, which the slugs have been demolishing while still green. I have decided to find a redemptive way of viewing this situation. The birds of the air, who neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, have been fed, and I have been inadvertently loving my slimy enemies (Matthew 6:26, Matthew 5:44).

The pattypan squash, however, have been an enormous success – but I don’t really know what to do with them…”

For more from Louise, do visit her blog: The Inner Garden – A patchwork of offerings from my inner and outer gardens.

Louise also reflects on her favourite part of the Nicene creed and how it inspires her to action in Creation, here.

We hope you can join us to renew our praise for the treasures of Creation.

Warm regards

Carolyn Cooke

Worship this Sunday

Sunday 5 October – Honouring St Francis

Children & Youth programmes for this Autumn

For under 5's - monthly, messy and godly play sessions. Dates and more details here

For primary school age children - Sunday Club during the 10.00 service at the Divonne church on the 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month, and during the 16.00 service at the Gingins church on the 3rd Sunday of the month.  More details here

For  youths - This week an Online session with Joy
exploring Jesus’ “I AM” sayings (flyer here) 

This is a wonderful opportunity for our young people to listen and ask questions with an experienced and engaging youth worker. Please speak to Carolyn if you'd like to know more. 

19h  - All ages youth together
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89334429017?pwd=QIadee1FKS0me54mIgm0J4PfkwkOCQ.1
Meeting ID: 893 3442 9017 Passcode: 479443
See here for more details.

Youth Alpha continues next week 12 October. More details here

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

Worship coming up

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.

Thank you for your Harvest Festival Offerings

Eric Cockshutt and I delivered the Harvest Festival offerings on Monday morning to Les Restos du Cœur in Divonne. Madame Jacqueline Reymond, who is in charge of the Divonne branch of Les Restos association, was there to welcome us and expressed her gratitude on behalf of the Restos association.

As is our custom, we will again this year channel our Divonne Harvest Festival contributions to Les Restos.

I would also like to seize this opportunity to express a huge thank you to those who helped to sort out the various offerings after the service; they did so in record time with remarkable efficiency. Also, it was gratifying to see that the offerings were all well chosen and suited to the needs of Les Restos' recipients. 

Georges Mills

An Opportunity to serve as La Côte Church Treasurer

La Côte Church is looking for a new Treasurer, as our current Treasurer is relocating. This role is about caring for our church’s finances, so resources are used wisely to support our mission. You’ll guide the budget process, approve payments, present reports, and encourage regular giving—all while supported by our accountants, auditor, and pledging administrator. With a smooth handover planned, this is a wonderful opportunity to serve the church in a meaningful and practical way. This role will be subject to safeguarding training.  

If you would like to know more, please contact Eric at +41 (0) 76 238 70 34 or eric.cockshutt@gmail.com

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

Monthly, messy and godly play session - Sunday 5 October

10.30 - Crassier. For the under 5's and their parents and carers. More details here

Online session with Joy - Sunday 5 October

Zoom sessions 19h for all ages.  See here for more details.

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

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

Services up to November 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

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.

Growth in Prayer and Reflective Living Programme - registration open for course starting January 2026.  More details here or contact Louise Burrows.

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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