Loved in to Life at The Field
General News – Sunday, July 5th, 2015‘The Field’ has long been an unofficial name for Lee Abbey’s well-loved campsite, so it seemed the obvious choice as title for what will be less of a ‘camp’ and more of a retreat for 18-30s in July/August 2015. The Field’s history is a huge part of its charm for the 35-strong...
Andy’s story
General News – Tuesday, June 30th, 2015I first met Andy about a year ago, I don’t want to say too much because he has written his story below, only that we feel honored that he has chosen to hang out with us and become a part of this community that is growing in Covent Garden.
In August 2014 I was walking past the Swiss Church...
Harvest
General News – Monday, October 27th, 2014I preached on harvest a couple of weeks ago and here is what I said…
As a Londoner I don’t really know much about Harvest.
So apparently what they do, them farmers in the country, they go around collecting all the plants in the field, and apparently this is a big job that involves things...
Broken Open
General News – Thursday, October 9th, 2014We had a great day yesterday at church, a group of teenagers from Switzerland who are doing a confirmation class together came and prepared a service and a meal for our Mothers Group (these days ‘grandmothers group’ is probably a more accurate name).
It was beautiful to witness the...
full of flavour
General News – Friday, September 19th, 2014So we are thinking about salt and saltiness this week.
Salt and Light
Matthew 5, Jesus says ‘You are the salt of the earth’
I had to work out what this really means, so i did a bit of research. Salt was very precious, in the middle ages it was known as White Gold and up to the 20th century it...
All broken, all beautiful
General News – Thursday, July 31st, 2014Homelessness is a part of our story here at the Swiss Church. This connection is partly because of our locality, we are on the border between the two boroughs (Camden and Westminster) who together host 40% of all rough sleepers in London, and partly because of who we are, a church. As a church...
Ezra: taking a stroll accross the Middle East
General News – Thursday, October 31st, 2013In the book of Ezra we read how the exiled Israelite s traveled back to Jerusalem from Babylon, which is modern-day Baghdad.
This journey was over 700 miles and took them over 4 months to complete.
They started off near Baghdad not too far from the current border with Iran and would have...