To La Côte Church family and friends and visitors,

Dear *|FIRSTNAME|*,

This coming Sunday is Advent Sunday. We will be focusing on Advent Hope and exploring on what our Christian hope is founded, even when life around us seems to be in turmoil.

Although it is easy to let the gloom of darker days and long nights enter our lives, Advent is also an encouragement to celebrate the coming of God to us in human form, and one day coming again. We also seek to be alert to God drawing near in our every day lives and pray for eyes and hearts to be open to the divine presence with us today.

I encourage you to mark the passing of the days of Advent by lighting a candle at some moment each day either as part of an Advent wreath or just a single candle. Here is a simple prayer as you light the candle – praying it for yourself and for those on your heart at the moment:

Come, Lord God, lighten our darkness

Come, Lord God, fill us with your love

Come, Lord God, keep us in your peace

Come, Lord God, be known among us

Come, Lord God.

(Adapted from A Celebration of Winter, David Adam)

And today we also pray this prayer for our "North American" sisters and brothers as they celebrate Thanksgiving. Congratulations to you all!

As we embark on Advent - here is our Christmas programme. We hope you will be able to join us in worship and will find refreshment, friendship and comfort among us. Please also consider who you could invite to come along and share with us during this season.

In addition, two of the services are being prepared and led jointly with local churches : Jazz Carols and Blue Christmas. Publicity for Blue Christmas service will be out soon.

Worship this coming Sunday 28 November

ADVENT SUNDAY – celebrating ADVENT HOPE

8.45     Divonne          Early Morning Said Eucharist

10.00   Divonne          Advent Morning Prayer 

16.00   Gingins           Taizé Evening Prayers jointly with Paroisse de la Dôle  

PLEASE REGISTER WITH Liz Bramley for each service.

PLEASE CONTINUE TO REGISTER WITH Liz Bramley for all our services - to give us an idea of our numbers. IF you come along and have not registered – be assured you are very welcome! We will simply take a means of contacting you just in case someone from the congregation tests positive to Covid in the following weeks.

REFRESHMENTS

Due to an increase in Covid cases in our region, we will offer refreshments outside after our services, so please wrap up in warm outdoor clothes!

Coming up this week

Tuesday 30 November 9.30-11.00 – BIBLE STUDY – ON LINE

https://bit.ly/3wdsmeW

Meeting ID: 971 117 768

Passcode: 387090

MEET ANNE de TREVERRET – Administrative assistant to the Chaplain.

I hope that you will make Anne feel welcome and support her as she finds her way with us.

If you’d like to say hello and be in touch with her – here is her email address anne.detreverret@lacotechurch.ch.

Children’s Choir

Welcoming all children - bring your friends !

Starting up on 21 November – A chance to learn and enjoy singing Christmas Carols

Three rehearsals – 21 November, 28 November, 5 December – straight after the morning services at La Côte Church

And then helping to lead the singing at a Christingle and Carol service on 12 December at 16.00 in Gingins. See HERE for more details.

Worship next Sunday 5 December

2ND SUNDAY IN ADVENT - celebrating ADVENT FAITH

10.00   Crassier        Advent Holy Communion

Charlie Whetham father of 3 of our youth at La Côte, has come up with an idea to support our young people in their faith during our Sunday morning services.

Charlie writes : " With a growing and intellectually-curious group of children in the church, we would like to be able to pass on to them the huge accumulated wisdom which you each have. We are exploring a series of mini-seminars for the children during Sunday services. Read more

For this initiative, we will need a third faciliator to work with Charlie and Ed Kelley.

Please contact Charlie Whetham if you are interested.

Coming up elsewhere

Poetry workshop with Etienne Guilloud – Envie d’écrire? Petit parcours de poésie thérapie…

4 & 18 November, 4 December - Gingins Parish rooms 19.30-21.30

021 331 58 23 OR etienne.guilloud@eerv.ch to book or find out more.

An invitation from Mark Charles :

COMMUNITY CHOIR - COME AND SING and BE A FOUNDING MEMBER of HTC COMMUNITY CHOIR
No previous experience necessary, no need to read music, all voices and ages welcome and do bring friends!
ENTHUSIASM VITAL! We will be singing a variety of repertoire: some religious; some secular.  

On Thursdays 6.30 -7.45, at Holy Trinity Church, Rue du Mont-Blanc, 1201 Genève

Hope to see you all there – I’m looking forward to working with you!

An invitation from Peta Tracey :

TRIVIA NIGHT - HOLY TRINITY ADVENT

Do join us for this fun quiz, hosted by Holy Trinity Church Geneva on Zoom on 3 Dec. at 7pm.

Peta & John Tracey took part in the last one and can recommend it! No need to get a team together.  The Quiz is free and gives us all an opportunity to respond to the Bishop's Advent appeal for climate disaster impacting on the Diocese. Read more

Please register with Michèle in the HTC office: admin@holytrinitygeneva.org

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.
Safeguarding is an integral part of the wellbeing of our Church community.
We are here not only to work with you through the formalities of short training or administrative safeguarding checks but to support you in strict confidentiality if concerns relative to abuse arise.
You can count on our understanding and goodwill in all things safeguarding.

Christine Warren, Cate Bichara and Liz Martinez

Contact email: Safeguarding@lacotechurch.ch

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