Our Mission

As a Swiss church in the UK we are part of the wider Protestant tradition and the universal church of Jesus Christ. We live our faith openly, humbly and generously. We welcome people from all faith traditions and none. We are a place of belonging for people regardless of age, race, gender or sexual orientation.

Many in our congregation have a Swiss element in their biography, though that is not a requirement either! We love to meet people who live and work in the area and those who are visiting London as tourists. We recognise the importance of offering hospitality in a city that can be isolating and impersonal.

We are blessed to have as our home the beautiful Grade II listed building in Covent Garden. People often mention their feeling of serenity when they enter our building. It is a light, quiet and spacious place in the busyness of London life.  By fostering a strong local community we challenge the assumption that we have to face life alone.

We reach out to the Swiss people in London, as well as local people and the homeless. With our charitable and relational outreach we “seek the good of the city” (Jeremiah 29:7). Our church is a melting pot of people who would not usually meet. Elderly people, city professionals, students, artists, as well as people with lived experience of homelessness and poverty. We seek to be an inter-generational community which faces the good and the hard things of life together, thereby learning from one another in friendship.

Our Sunday services, concerts and art exhibitions create opportunities to explore the Christian faith at a time when many people feel disconnected from it.  We are oriented, in the words of the great 20th-century theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, by the question “who Christ is for us today”.