DECEMBER 2010 TO ALL ANGLOPHONES LIVING IN OR VISITING CHAMONIX. Welcome to our first newsletter specifcally for you. We are the little church opposite the Chamonix station and would like to let you know what is going on for the community in conjunction with us. You are very welcome – whatever your belief – to join in any of the offered activities or simply to contact the team here if we can be of help to you in any way. We look forward to serving you whilst you are here in Chamonix. A Christmas message from Isabelle Pierron – our Pastor. The Gift of God. The Good News of Christmas is that God keeps his promises : Jesus is here! The heart of God beats in the heart of a man, humble and fragile. And when God gives, He gives completely. He does not look at what He's spending. God gives neither gold, nor paradise, nor a free ticket to the Kingdom ! He gives himself. God made himself human in Jesus, a man among men; so that we can fully experience our own human condition. Jesus, Son of Man - the Way for humanity. This is why Christmas is for every day. Because it's about each one of us receiving the gift of God for ourselves ....every day! So the time of Advent is given to us to prepare to celebrate Christmas "all together" . I hope you will find the time to pray and rest in God in the midst of all the party preparations. I hope you will recognise the love which lies behind the shining gifts. I hope you will have the courage to share and show solidarity with those who find themselves, like the child in the manger, "reduced to sleeping on straw"! I wish you a Christmas of generosity, of sharing, of joy and of peace! Isabelle Pierron

Mums & Tods (or dads, nannies, grannies !) Thursday mornings 10am - 12 noon (except school holidays) Kids Club, 7 - 11 year olds at the presbytery, 24 passage du temple With Barbara Falkiner and the pastor, Isabelle Pierron In French and English Fridays from 6.30 – 8.00pm 5 and 19 November- 3 and 17 December 7 and 21 January - 4 and 18 February 18 March 1stand 5 April - 13 and 7 May 10 and 24 June For the young people from 12 - 16 years From 2pm Saturday to 4pm Sunday 29 and 30 January 26 and 27 March 14 and 15 May for 16 year olds 25 and 26 June

Christmas Eve Friday 24th December Singing in the street- Christmas Carols 4pm in front of the Post Office AND Christmas Eve service at 6pm Temple of Chamonix (little church opposite the station), ≈ Christmas Day Services Chamonix Saturday 25th December at 10:30am Followed by Christmas lunch in the Presbytery All Welcome (contact Isabelle) Megève Saturday 25th December at 6pm

Every Sunday throughout the year Informal Prayer and praise in English and French at 6pm in the "Temple " (litle Protestant church opposite the station) Eglise Reformée de France Pasteur Isabelle Pierron Téléphone 0450558560 24, Passage du Temple, Chamonix, 74400

A few words about baptism We get many requests for Baptism.......Why ask for your child to be baptised ? to to to to to to to to

thank God for this new life give your child into God's hands express your joy at being a family receive God's blessing show faith demonstrate the love of God express hope give your child his place in the church

Baptism is a gesture of love on the part of God By faith we recognise that we are « children of God ». Would you like to have your child baptised? Would you like to talk about it beforehand? Understand better? Think about it? Call or come and see Pastor Isabelle Pierron

Are you worried? Do you need help ? Would you like to pray with, or be prayed for by others? Call Barbara Falkiner, Cathie Gregg, Isabelle Pierron - 0450531417 - 0450536469 - 0450558560-