Forthcoming Services - see CALENDAR OF SERVICES

EVENTS - CURRENT or COMING SOON

Young Adults Group
The Young Adults Group (YAG) currently meets weekly o­n Wednesdays - see CALENDAR - and will be following the Emmaus course which can be joined at any time. To learn more or for directions contact Paul Townend (paulmorristownend@gmail.com)
or John and Victoria (victoria.byrum@gmail.com). Food will be shared as usual.

Annual General Meeting
This year's AGM took place at 8pm o­n Tuesday, 9 April 2013 in the Salle Feschmaart, Soeur Franciscaines, 50 avenue Gaston Diderich,
L-1420 Luxembourg. Activity reports for the AGM can be read here and reports given at the AGM will be posted here shortly.

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REGULAR EVENTS

Prayer Groups

The Prayer Group "Wellsprings" meets fortnightly - see CALENDAR - and here for an invitation. Please contact Susan at s.bolen@mac.com for more information.

The Prayer Group "Mothers' Prayers" meets regularly - see CALENDAR for dates. This is a group that is always ready to welcome mothers of any age. For general information please email Rani (ranisubaiya@yahoo.com) or call her o­n 621 181 848 or for 15 May Jena Goebel(jenagoebel@yahoo.com) for directions to her home.

Parents, Tinies and Toddlers Group
The Parents, Tinies and Toddlers Group meets(with a break for the summer) from 10am in the homes of members of the group, for coffee, biscuits and a chat, and a short time singing and praying together with the children - for dates see CALENDAR
The group is open to all Mums, Dads and Carers, including those whose children are at school, and members are encouraged to bring along anyone they know who may be interested.
For further details please contact the coordinator Samantha Grocock (621 215 936) who with a growing family is now looking for a replacement.

Young Adults' Group
The Young Adults' Group meets regularly at different venues for a mix of discussion, worship and socialising, with socials and themed discussion meetings normally o­n Wednesday - see CALENDAR and EVENTS. Any new members are very welcome - age range roughly 20s & 30s. Lifts are usually available from Luxembourg centre. Please contact Paul Townend (621 295 928) for further details.

Environmental Footprint Group
This group holds periodic meetings (see CALENDAR) to explore how best as a church, collectively and individually, we could reduce our carbon footprint in line with the policy of our Diocese. The group is open to everyone and you are invited to contribute any relevant information, ideas or suggestions to the group coordinator Philippa Seymour.
See INFORMATION for meeting reports and studies.

End of Month Congregational Lunch
Normally o­n the last Sunday in most months a Parish Lunch takes place at a nearby restaurant at 1pm. All are welcome, particularly newcomers, and children under 11 eat free! Details are given in the Notices at the 11am service. Speak to the Chaplain to know more and see CALENDAR for the next occasion.

Child Protection Training
Child Protection Training is a regular event in the life of our church and will be shown o­n the CALENDAR. All adults and older teenagers who work with children under the age of 18 in any kind of church activity are legally required by the Church of England to undertake Child Protection Training.

If you would like to attend this training just to find out more, whether or not you are actually involved with children at the moment, you are very welcome to join in. In particular, it would be good to have the growing group of dads who often stay with their own children in the Sunday morning crèche and in so doing, help out with some of the other tinies.

If you would like to be able to help o­n a regular or even occasional basis as a crèche or Sunday School helper, please speak to the Chaplain.

Please email the office or speak to the Chaplain if you are interested in coming.

EVENTS ARCHIVE - see DOCUMENTS / G

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CHURCH INFORMATION

Forthcoming Services - see CALENDAR OF SERVICES

NEWS/INFORMATION - LATEST

If the Chaplain, Reverend Chris Lyon, may be of assistance in this kind of situation, please do not hesitate to get in touch with him at office@anglican.lu.

Donation Envelopes
Donation Envelopes dated weekly are available at the back of the Church for those unable to come to Church o­n a regular basis but who would still like to make an offering - see GIVING for more information.

Children's activities and coffee after the service - please read here

Who's who in Church - at a glance
A compilation of photos of church officials - see also PHOTO GALLERY

NEWS/INFORMATION ARCHIVE - see DOCUMENTS / G

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AT CHURCH

3-5 'All Stars', 6-8 'Comets', 9+ 'Galaxies': These three groups start in the chapel with their families and then go downstairs to the hall with the Sunday School Leaders and Helpers. The Leaders and Helpers bring them back into the chapel to join their families in time for communion. At this point the children are the responsibility of their parents.

Sunday School Library
Please encourage your child to continue their Christian Education at home with you by helping them select books from our Sunday School Library. It is available every Sunday morning downstairs during the refreshment time.

Tea, coffee and juice are served after the main 11am service. Please join us. For some time now we have been serving Fair Trade coffee and tea. It is obtained through Traidcraft, which is the UK’s leading organisation dedicated to fighting poverty through trade.
For people o­n the coffee rota, here are the instructions.

Contact Forms are available at the back of the church, mainly for newcomers so that we can keep in touch. An explanation is given o­n the form.
A printable copy of this form and explanation is also available o­n the DOCUMENTS page of this website.
Completed forms should be placed in the box at the back of the church or sent to the vicarage.

Electoral Roll Enrolment Forms are also available at the back of the church for people who wish to vote at the Annual General Meeting and be eligible for appointment to any of the official positions within our congregation. An explanation and form containing full details of eligibility are available o­n the DOCUMENTS page of this website.
Completed forms should be returned to the Anglican Office by the end of February to be entitled to vote at the following AGM.

Crèche and Sunday School children
A reminder to all parents that they are responsible for their children after the 11am service is finished. This is part of our Child Protection policy which has the safety of your child as its priority.

Crèche Helpers
Help is needed in our crèche! If you feel able to help out in our crèche o­n an occasional basis with our babies and tinies during the 11.00 am service, please contact Eyi' Geers-Faderin as our list of helpers reduces regularly due to teenage helpers moving o­n and other mums away o­n maternity leave. This is an important facility to offer young families – please think of helping out – any age (over 14) accepted! Details are here.

Church Safeguarding Policy
A Safeguarding Policy Document has been drawn up by the Church of England, including the Diocese in Europe to which this Chaplaincy belongs. Full details can be found o­n the Diocesan website here.

Readers / Sidespersons
Any member of the congregation who would like to read a lesson or act as a sidesperson from time to time should get in touch with Jane Wickens who organises the rota.
Readers / Sidespersons are responsible o­n their Sunday for handing out the books and taking the collection. Instructions for these tasks can be found here.

Flu epidemics
The Chaplain has received guidelines from the Diocesan Office for the giving of communion should flu rise to pandemic conditions within Luxembourg.
Should any people receiving communion prefer to receive in o­ne kind (i.e. bread o­nly), they are free to choose to do so.
While communion in both kinds is the norm in the Church of England, when it is received in o­ne kind o­nly the fullness of the Sacrament is nonetheless received.
The full guidelines issued for swine flu are available to read here.

GIVING

Church Money
Apart from the state-paid salaries of the Chaplains, all expenses of running our church here in Luxembourg are supported entirely by the generosity of the congregation. Without this support we would not have an Anglican Church in Luxembourg.

Day-to-day finances are managed by the treasurer o­n behalf of the Church Council, about 12 people elected by the congregation. All significant payments are authorised in advance by the Church Council. Annual Accounts are prepared and audited.

Church expenses are roughly €120,000 a year, or an average of €10,000 a month to be collected in o­ne way or another from the congregation. That works out at an average of €40 a month, or €10 every week, for each of the 250 adults who are currently coming to church. Some people can afford more, which compensates for those who can afford less.

There are four main ways to give: one-off donation (anonymous or not); monthly donation by bank standing order (only the treasurer knows); weekly envelopes (fill at home, put in collection); offertory (cash collections) during services. The choice of method and amount is entirely yours, although, particularly if you cannot be in church very often, a bank standing order is the easiest way to pay your share.

Flower Fund
Contributions to the Flower Fund will be gratefully received by Liz Alexander. There is a box at the back of the Church for your donations.

Charitable Giving
It is our policy to give at least 10 per cent of our Church income to charity each year, including the entire proceeds of our annual Church Fair, in addition to occasional special appeals for particular causes. The charities we supported in 2011 are here. If you would like to nominate a charity, please speak to or email the Church office or the churchwardens.

Children and Charity
Every week the children contribute their collection during Sunday School and this goes into the general church funds along with all the other offerings given by the congregation. At least 10% of this is distributed each year to different charities.

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