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After a year’s break from ”Bossey Day” an enthusiastic group of nearly 50 people spent the day at Château Bossey on Saturday 17th January, 2026.Chuck Wilson, along with help from Funke Stauble, designed and ran the day’s meeting using the theme “BE NOT AFRAID”. The day started with registration and welcome coffee followed by a […]

Sunday morning in Divonne a very enthusiastic group of children, parents and grandparents, along with friends, acted out the nativity story of the birth Jesus. As the story was narrated, we watched as Mary and Joseph arrived at Bethlehem and found shelter in a stable where Jesus was born during the night. Next we saw

The 2025 Advent Lunch took place in the Parish room at Divonne. The event was led by an incredible events team, comprising of Jenny Beighton, Karen Robson, Niki Low, Liz Bramley and Stephen and Gigi Talbot. Upon arrival, there was Christmas music playing setting the scene perfectly, and we were welcomed with a choice of

Saturday morning enthusiastic family members arrived at the Divonne Parish rooms to learn how to construct and decorate gingerbread houses. All the gingerbread house pieces were freshly baked by Gigi Talbot along with gingerbread men. As people arrived a set of house pieces, decorations and a bag of icing sugar was provided and Gigi gave

On Sunday morning 12th October in the Divonne church we welcomed two young sisters into God’s family and our church family through baptism. Olivia Florence and Louise Elisabeth Lachenal were presented by their parents for baptism. God-parents, family and friends and the congregationmade promises to pray for them, to care for them and to help

Thank you so much to everyone who came to our Board Game & Book Swap afternoon on Saturday the 11th of October. We had a lovely time playing board games together in an autumnal setting, with seasonal decorations and pumpkin soup! Everyone joined together at the end to play a few rounds of Uno, and enjoyed

Our final service in Creation Time followed 2 hours later with a wonderful display around the church that we were invited to look at as we entered a time of prayer and meditation.After the final blessing we were invited to “Go in peace to love and serve God in all Creation.”

At the end of our series of Worship for Creation Time we celebrated St. Francis Day with an Animal Blessing ServiceThere was a wonderful collection of very happy dogs with their owners spread around the church.We asked for God’s blessing on all the animals present and also on pets portrayed in the photographs that were

We live in a region of outstanding rural  beauty. We are surrounded by mountains, lakes, forests and farms. Every day, in every season we can notice, appreciate and be grateful for the seasonal changes around us. We can participate in our surroundings by walking, cycling, swimming, sitting still and breathing in the fresh air, and

Sunday 31st August was the first in a series of celebrations on the theme of Creation. The idea is to nurture active hope in caring for our beautiful world. We met in the church at Crassier for an all-age Holy Communion service with a pot-luck lunch afterwards. The church was beautifully decorated with a butterfly

On a very hot and sunny Saturday afternoon on 5th July Betty Talbot’s priesting service took place in the Protestant church in Crassier. Bishop Alison White and Archdeacon Peter Hooper had travelled from the UK to preside at this ceremony. There were more than 90 people present in the congregation who had come to support

Our annual Thanksgiving and gift day was celebrated on 15th June in Crassier church. There were a lot of moving parts to our celebration which reflected the dynamics of our La Côte Community where eveyone’s gifts are valued and go to make up this part of the body of Christ. This day was Trinity Sunday

On a beautiful sunny morning an enthusiastic group from our congregation met at the lovely Chapelle Notre Dame de Rianmont in the village of Vésancy in neighbouring France. We celebrated Ascension Day with a Holy Communion service.Afterwards we mingled outside and enjoyed coNee and cakes as we looked at the wonderful view of Lake Geneva.

On Easter Day we celebrated the “Risen and Conqu’ring Son” as we began to piece together the resurrection and explore how we practice the power and hope of resurrection in our daily lives. We celebrated the Risen Christ together with Paroisse de La Dole congregation in Gingins at a sunrise service followed by breakfast. In

For our service on Maundy Thursday La Côte congregation joined with Paroisse de la Dôle congregation and we learnt about the three rituals before Jesus began his way to the cross. Carolyn Cooke and Etienne Guillod lead us through the three dynamics of Christian Life. 1. Personnal: Anointing – we heard the story of Jesus

This year there were two celebrations of Palm Sunday. One in Divonne with Holy Communion and one in Gingins with Evening Prayer Both services started with the congregation processing outside. In Divonne we walked around the outside of the church building carrying our Palm crosses and singing. In Gingins we started our service at the

On the 1st Sunday in Lent at Gingins church we had the privilege of welcoming Leilani Vallabh into God’s family and our church family through baptism. Leilani’s parents brought her to church for this ceremony along with family and friends. There were three Godparents who, along with her parents, made promises to care for Leilani,

On February 2nd, 2025 Louisa Nixon was baptized in Gingins church before the Candlemas Service. Louisa had spent several months preparing for this next step in her Christian life with guidance from her mother Susan and Rev. Betty Talbot. Her parents, brother and a neighbour were there to support her on this special day. Afterwards

The morning service in Divonne was our Nativity Play. The church was packed full with families and friends who all enjoyed the performance telling the Nativity Story. The “cast” was a range of young children to not so young adults who told the story of waiting for our Saviour and of his birth. After the

Sunday 1st December was the first Sunday of Advent. Advent is a time of waiting to celebrate the greatest gift ever given – the gift of our Saviour Jesus Christ. On this day our first service was an early morning said eucharist at the church in Crassier. Here we were 11people who celebrated Communion as

On Friday morning, 29th November, members of the WOW group, along with friends, spent a wonderful 2 hours making 100 christingles. These will be distributed at the Christingle church service on the first Sunday in advent, 01.12.24.

The auction on Saturday evening was a fun-filled and heartening community builder, as well as making just over CHF 10’000,-! There was good food to eat and a great mix of young and not so young church members and invited friends and neighbors. Thanks to everyone involved making this evening happen and also to everyone

On Friday 25th a group of 15 young people from Holy Trinity Church, Geneva and our La Côte Church went on a stunning autumn hike in the Jura. Our online youth leader came to Switzerland to join the youth in person. On Saturday everyone met together at Holy Trinity Church for more fun, friendship and

OCTOBER 13th 2024 On October 13th La Côte welcomed members of the WCC Ecumenical Indigenous Peoples Network who were convening at Bossey for their first ever in-person meeting. Representatives from all over the globe from Papua to Panama, Sweden to Southern Africa work together to give a voice to indigenous people especially on spirituality, land rights,

On Sunday 6th October, for the feast day of St. Francis, there was a very popular blessing of the animals service held in Gingins church. We gave thanks for all animals –  large and small, wild ones, farm animals and those in our own homes. We asked forgiveness for human cruelty and carelessness towards animals

Saturday 28th September 2024 Many thanks to everyone who prepared and hosted our indoor autumn Garden party. An enjoyable, welcoming afternoon, beautifully laid out, with music, delicious afternoon tea and Pimms.

The Harvest Festival in Divonne was very well attended. The service started outside church and move inside to carry on worshipping. The donated foods (including food bought with donated cash) were delivered to Restos du Coeur. This amounted to a huge 148kg of food and will be used to help 48 needy families (104 people).

This spring a 100 year old grand piano was donated to Gingins church. This is a wonderful gift but the piano will require costly attention to restore and tune the instrument. There was a successful first fund raising event on Friday 23rd August at Gingins church to start a fund to look after this beautiful

Betty Talbot was ordained Deacon on Sunday 30th June 2024 at Holy Trinity Pro-Cathedral in Brussels.She was supported by members of her family who had travelled from Switzerland, Australia, Singapore and Luxembourg and also by friends from La Côte Anglican Church here in Switzerland.

La Côte Anglican Church Community Day 2024 was a truly special time for us all. Reunited together, after a four-year COVID induced break, this moment of contemplation and reflection was led by the Reverend Ray Andrews. Ray joined us from Valencia, Spain to lead us on a spiritual journey to ponder the meaning of “spirituality

At Council meetings from August onwards there was a lot of discussion on what fundraising events the church could run to help to break even with our budget. Three things were decided on: Thanks very much to Council for organizing these very successful fundraising events. Also huge thanks to everyone involved in the three events

1st SUNDAY IN ADVENT Our Christingle service fell on the first Sunday in Advent so as well as lighting the Christingles candles we also lit the first candle on our Advent Wreath. Two days before the service a team of volunteers assembled 100 Christingles in anticipation of the very popular service. In the service, as

This group regularly meets for a delicious lunch at the Auberge de la Réunion, Coinsins. Delicious food and great company makes for a wonderful lunch time activity. Would you like to join us at the Auberge in Coinsins for lunch at 12.00 on the fourth Sunday of each month? We are offered a choice of

The last W.O.W. meeting before the summer break turned into a line dancing lesson. This was gifted to W.O.W. by the person who had bid for the lesson at the auction held last December. Everyone had a great time as you can see in the photographs.