October 2 2025, 19h to 21h

Laudato Si’ 10 years later

A decade after the late Pope Francis published his groundbreaking encyclical on care for our common home, the Roman Catholic Church in Geneva partners with the Protestant Church of Geneva in inviting us to reflect on where we are now and, in particular, what we might do as local congregations.

Speakers

Guillermo Kerber, member of the Ecumenical and Francophone Society for the Theology of Ecology (SOFTE)

Keys to understanding Laudato Si’ and its sequels

Loraine d’Andiran, pastor of the Protestant Church of Geneva, EcoÉglise ambassador

A Protestant and spiritual perspective on ecology

Daniel Chambaz, former Director General of the Geneva Cantonal Office for the Environment, EcoÉglise Notre-Dame

Implementing Pope Francis’s call in a Geneva parish

October 14 2025 at 18h
Safe and Legal, Welcome or Not

The second of two Zoom meetings on Mediterranean Hope, the mission project in 2025 of the Presbytery of International Charges

To register, email Fiona Kendall

September 9 2025 at 18h
Labels, Borders and Boats

The first of two Zoom meetings on Mediterranean Hope, the mission project in 2025 of the Presbytery of International Charges

To register, email Fiona Kendall

Save the date  . . . . . . . Saturday 22 November 2025 09h30 – 15h00

 

Salle de Delices

Grand Saconnex

Save the Date!

First ever joint congregational Away Day
for the Church of Scotland, Geneva
and the Scots Kirk, Lausanne

• Time to get to know our sister congregation – and each other
• Sign up and information: Christine Colliar

Our next meeting will be held at the Café Papon on Monday 30 June at 14h00.  We are currently reading Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.  CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than fifty-five languages. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Best of the Best” award; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck and the essays We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. Her most recent work is an essay about losing her father, Notes on Grief, and Mama’s Sleeping Scarf, a children’s book written as Nwa Grace-James. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.

Documents

• 2025 ACM agenda
• 2024 minutes
• Annual congregational report 2024

• Treasurer’s report
• 2024 accounts
• Representation letter
• Independent examiners’ report
• 2025 and 2026 budgets

Read during morning worship on Sunday 16 March 2025

Notice is hereby given that the Vacancy Procedure Committee of the Presbytery of International Charges on 7th March 2025 approved the following course of action in regard to the charge of The Church of Scotland Geneva:

1. To release Rev Laurence Twaddle from the charge on 31st May 2025;

2. Determine that the charge will become vacant on 1st June 2025; and

3. Determine that the appointment of the Rev Graham Austin as Interim Moderator in the deferred linking of The Scots Kirk Lausanne with the charge will now relate to the prospective linking of The Scots Kirk Lausanne with the charge

This action will proceed unless at least four persons, who are either communicant members of this congregation of The Church of Scotland Geneva or full members of Presbytery, together or separately submit to the Presbytery Clerk a request for this proposal to be considered at the next meeting of the Presbytery. Any such request must set out the relevant reasons.

You should submit any such request by email to the Presbytery Clerk, Rev Derek Lawson, at clerk@internationalpresbytery.org by 24th March 2025.

If four valid requests are received, then the implementation of the foregoing course of action will be suspended and the approval of Presbytery will be required.

Notice is further given that the Presbytery of International Charges meeting in Paris on 7th March 2025 passed a Deliverance in the following terms:

“Presbytery agrees to the Basis of Deferred Linking of The Scots Kirk Lausanne and the Church of Scotland Geneva becoming a Basis of Linking; and encourage the Nominating Committee and the Interim Moderator in the ongoing process.”

Derek G Lawson, Presbytery Clerk

Our fourth book club afternoon will be on Wednesday 12 March at 14h00 in the Salle Théodore de Bèze, to discuss Bonnie Garmus’s book Lessons in Chemistry.

All are welcome to join us.

The third of our congregational book club afternoons, organized by Gillian Friedli

This time we shall meet in the Salle Théodore de Bèze, to discuss Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. We are always happy to welcome new members to share in the discussion.

Dame Muriel Spark (1918–2006) was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist.