Neuchatel English Church
Summer Picnic
Sunday 23rd August
Boudvilliers Dog Club, from 11:30 am
*Details to follow, depending on the evolving Coronavirus situation
NEUCHATEL ENGLISH CHURCH: July-August 2020
Dear Friends of Neuchâtel English Church,
While we are waiting for our normal services to resume at the end of the summer, I’d like to pass on an invitation that we’ve just received about a « virtual » service broadcast on ZOOM by the Anglican church in Europe on the instigation of Bishop Robert, next Tuesday evening (07/07/2020) at 18.30, central European time, to mark the gradual end of lockdown.
Please read the following letter for more precise details. You can also join the event via YouTube if you prefer; details are also given below. I’m sure it will be worth watching and listening to, even if it means once again sitting in front of your computer screen or looking at your smartphone!
We are tentatively thinking of holding our annual Neuchâtel picnic on Sun. 23rd August and the postponed AGM on 27th September. Full details of these events will be available on our website in due course. There you can also find information about retransmissions of e-services from All Saints, Vevey which will continue during the summer holidays.
We wish you all a happy and healthy summer!
Yours sincerely,
Ann Morel Huber and all members of the Church Council
Dear All, Invitation to join a Pan Diocesan Service on Zoom, July 7th 1830
One of the surprising but gratifying outcomes of the pandemic has been our ability to join the Diocese together in prayer using Zoom. On Maundy Thursday for the renewal of ordination vows, at Pentecost focussed on our Churchwardens and across the Diocese focussing on Racial Justice we have worshipped together in a way that would have been thought unimaginable a few months ago.I would like to invite you all to a further special service to mark the next phase of our journey as edge out of ‘Lockdown’ in a variety of ways. The CV19 lockdown has significantly affected all of us in our Chaplaincy and Diocesan life, with anxiety being present for us often alongside a sense of creativity and resilience. We each have different experiences of this time but as we now move out of lockdown across the Diocese, there will be a Diocesan wide act of worship (via zoom) to mark this moment.
Our ‘Restoration Service’ will take place on Tuesday, 7th July beginning at 6.30pm CET. (please be in place on zoom from 1815). You are invited to join on Zoom where there is room for you all. However I would like to extend the invitation to all Church Members to join on You Tube. A link will be posted on the homepage of the Diocesan Website at https://europe.anglican.org/. Please pass on this invitation to your communities.
A Service to Mark our Pilgrimage through Lockdown
President: Bishop Robert Innes
Preacher: Rev’d Helen Marshall (Chaplain at St. Ursula’s, Berne)
Tuesday, 7th July beginning at 6.30pm CET on Zoom and on YouTube via the Diocesan WebsiteThe Zoom invite is here. The order of service and a reminder will be published nearer the time.
Topic: Diocesan ‘Restoration Service’Time: Jul 7, 2020 17:30 London
Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/98529983678?pwd=MmhVVU5CWDhQMkZ1RFBxWXRWdm9CZz09
Meeting ID: 985 2998 3678
Password: 223125
Meeting ID: 985 2998 3678
AGM
Sunday, 27th September 2020, 5pm
Deutschsprachige Kirchgemeinde premises
Rue des Poudrières 21,
2000, Neuchâtel
Regular Events
Every Wednesday at 2pm, Zoom bible study and prayer group. Please contact Abbie (neuchatelenglishchurch@gmail.com) for further details.
Sunday online worship with All Saints Vevey here
And don’t forget: If you can receive BBC 1, watch “Songs of Praise” on Sunday afternoons too!
*Due to Coronavirus the Neuchatel English Church AGM has been postponed until later in 2020. Further information will be forthcoming and will depend on the developing situation.
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Other Events
The following dates are subject to confirmation
2 retreats in October 2020, in Puidoux above Lake Geneva and in Cadenabbio by Lake Como: please consult News page
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