Welcome
Our next Service will be on Palm Sunday, 2 April, at 10.30 am.
There will be a service on Maundy Thursday at 6 pm, on Good Friday at 12 noon in Chapelle St Guiraud, Puissalicon, and on Easter Day at 10.30 am.
We are a mixed group of different ages, backgrounds and traditions, who meet in the Chapel of the Église Protestante Unie de France in the village of St Pargoire, 10 km north east of Pézenas. St Pargoire is within a 60 minute drive of Montpellier, Béziers, Lodève, Sète and Narbonne. We'd love to welcome you to our services and church events, especially if you are new to our "Parish".
Our church life focuses around the service of Holy Communion. We follow the order laid down in Common Worship. Our regular services are on the first and third Sundays of the month at 10.30 am, but there are services or events at other times and sometimes at other venues, especially on notable days in the Church's year, such as Easter, Christmas and Lent. Refreshments are served after the service, providing an opportunity to chat and make friends.
Second-hand books are available for sale at each service, currently raising money for the work of The Red Cross in Ukraine. Members bring to services basic foodstuffs and other provisions to be given to Restos du Coeur and Languedoc Solidarity with Refugees. Our Music Team welcomes suggestions for hymns, via email to the chaplaincy email address.
Our chaplaincy is one of the 95 worshipping communities in the Archdeaconry of France within the Church of England's Diocese in Europe. Click HERE for the Archdeaconry website in a new window.
Latest News
Link with Fenoarivo in Madagascar Photos have been added and we have just sent a donation to Fenoarivo following the devastation caused by Cyclone Freddy.
Our Lent Group will meet each Wednesday in March. We shall be meeting in one another's homes to follow a course based on the film Casablanca before sharing a simple lunch provided by our hosts. Donations given at the lunches will be used to support Languedoc Solidarity with Refugies and to send money to Madagascar for the basics needed to help the poorest children attend school.
The Future Sadly the meeting on 13 February failed to move forward the plan to recruit a chaplain to serve our chaplaincy, St Michael’s in the Gard and St George’s, Vernet-les-Bains. Another meeting with the Archdeacon, by Zoom, is planned for 17 April.
In February, Barbara, used money given by the congregation to shop for Restos du Coeur Bébés, who sent the thank you letter below (and beside it in English).
L'équipe de Pézenas vous est très reconnaissante de l'aide apportée. Grâce à vos généreux dons, notre armoire est de nouveau remplie de produits d'hygiène. Nous vous remercions de votre soutien et de la confiance que vous nous accordez, ce qui nous permet d'améliorer le quotidien de nos familles les plus démunies.
The Pezenas team is very grateful for your help. Thanks to your generous donations, our cupboard is once again filled with hygiene products. We thank you for your support and the trust you place in us, which allows us to improve the daily lives of our poorest families.
Safeguarding
Safeguarding is at the heart of our Christian faith. We are all made unique and in the image of God. Jesus came that we might have life and have it in abundance.
The chaplaincy takes its safeguarding obligations seriously. There’s an on-line training programme on the diocesan website HERE. This is open to everyone and we ask all our members to do the Basic Awareness training. Our Safeguarding Officer says:
Safeguarding does not just concern the chaplaincy council, but every member of the congregation. Everyone has a responsibility to themselves and to others to be aware of what safeguarding means and the issues surrounding it, importantly an awareness of limits and boundaries. As conscientious Christians we are not immune from over-stepping boundaries, indeed, in our desire to do good, we often run the risk of doing so.
In common with other churches, we have systems in place to ensure that we meet our obligations. If you have any questions or concerns, you should contact our Safeguarding Officer, Steven Hopkins, in complete confidence by email on [email protected] or by phoning him on 04 67 85 00 53.
Alternatively, you can speak with Roger or one of the Churchwardens.
Full information is on the Safeguarding page on the OUR-CHURCH tab above: click here for direct access.
Our Chaplain, Assisting Priests, Readers and Church Wardens
Revd Roger Smith
I moved to live permanently in the Hérault in 2011, after many years in Rothwell, Northants. As Chaplain, I am keen to welcome people of all types and traditions to All Saints.
Julie Johnson
Julie is a Reader licensed to this chaplaincy.
Patricia
Together with my husband Francis, we welcome people attending All Saints.
I also answer all the queries arising from e-mails, issue the notices and organise the rota, as well as preparing the church for worship and tidy up afterwards.
Nigel
I am the backroom boy in the team. I produce the agendas and other papers for meetings.
I also deal with the correspondence between the Église protestante unie, the local administration and other local bodies.
Jane Griffin
I was licensed as a Reader in the Diocese of Salisbury eleven years ago, and have permission to lead worship at All Saints. We have a house in the Herault where we spend part of the year, and enjoy worshipping with the congregation at All Saints when in the south of France.
