Fontainebleau Anglican Church
18, Boulevard Maginot
77300 Fontainebleau.
As you can see from the maps below, the chapel is situated just off
boulevard Maginot, the road leading from Paris to the Fontainebleau
chateau, on the premises of Lycee Jeanne d'Arc Saint Aspais. A back
entrance is available in rue de Fleury, with parking spots on Sundays.To
find us, enter the lycee from Bd. Maginot through the green gate and
walk down towards the chapel on your left, at the other end of the
premises.
We don't look like a church from the outside - more like a school
playground, of course, but don't let that put you off!
General plan of Fontainebleau 40ko Enlarged area around church 282
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Contacts
Chaplain
Rev John Wilkinson,
9 rue des Provenceaux,
77300 FONTAINEBLEAU, France
Tel: 01 60 71 86 55(+33 1 60 71 86 55 from outside France)
email
chaplain@fontainebleauchurch.org
Church Warden and Administration
Margaret Sylvester-Thorne
16A, Chemin du Terroir,
77920 SAMOIS sur SEINE, France.
Phone : 01 64 24 62 30 (+33 1 64 24 62 30 from outside France)
email admin@fontainebleauchurch.org
What
makes us church.
‘… let us focus on the
promise of God
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 ...Help
Now
The best way to be fully integrated in our church family is to get
actively involved in one of our areas of ministry. We encourage you
to try your hand at something, maybe from the extensive list below
or from the more limited Sunday rota service list:
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Welcome newcomers at services......
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Help with the Crèche Sparklers (0-2's)
or Sunday School: 3-5's Explorers, 5-7's Adventurers, 8-11's Trailblazers
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Help lead the
Youth Group (12-18s).
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Pray with and
for people as a part of the Prayer ministry.
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Pray before
any of our Sunday services.
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Help with coffee
after the Sunday service.
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Offer to host Sunday lunches
Cater for the
occasionnally shared Sunday lunches in the cafeteria, ALPHA course
dinners, and other regular or special church functions.
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Volunteer for
bookstall/library duty at Sunday services.
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Participate
in the singing group or worship team.
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Play the piano.
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Lead prayers.
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Drama.
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Give your testimony
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Help with the
preparation of the All Age Services - Look after the sound desk,
the computer and Video Projector.
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Get involved
in our ALPHA courses.
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Help with content
for our newsletter and Church magazine.
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Respond to the
needs of visitors to church on weekdays.
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Lead or host
one of our homegroups.
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Help with church
administration.
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Be a reader.
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Help look after
the web site.
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Help organise
social events, such as our Thanksgiving and Maundy Thursday dinners.
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Tidy the pews
each week.
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Join the cleaning
team.
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Bring and arrange
church flowers.
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Tidy the noticeboards.
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Help the Publicity
team and distribute flyers to hotels, campsites and shops in the
local area (Fontainebleau, Avon, Samois...).
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Serve on the
church committee which oversees all of these activities.
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Help the Treasurer.
Please contact the church
assistant for details of ministry opportunities in these areas.
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Welcome:
The Fontainebleau Anglican Church welcomes people of all ages, from
all denominations (or none!) and from all over the world: many countries
are represented beyond the United Kingdom and France, such as the
United-States,  Australia,
Canada, Finland, Germany, Jamaica, South-Africa, Spain, Venezuela...
Resident or just just passing we would love to see you.
We have a morning service every Sunday, with Sunday School and creche
for the kids. The church organises a varied programme of activities
during the week and special events at different times of the year.
See the monthly newsletter for more information
on our activities.
There are plenty of opportunities to get involved in the life of our
church.
Jesus is for sharing - Lent Course 2008
This year's Lent course will be 'launched' at the Ash Wednesday service
on 6 February at the Chaplain's house.
For each of the following five weeks there will be four opportunities
to participate in groups following the course.
The purpose of the course is to help understand our calling from
Jesus to share Him and His gospel with those around us; to face up
to some of the difficulties we have in fulfilling that calling; and
to give us some pointers towards doing it!
We shall do this by looking at the Bible passages together and discussing
what God is saying to us from them.
There will be no practical exercises or anything embarassing like
that - not in this course anyway!
You can still join the course even if you are unable to come to the
Ash Wednesday service. each study will stand alone so that if you
miss one it's not the end of the world.
Don't tell anyone, but if you can't make it to the groups, you can
even do it on your own!!
Group listing are shown in the newsletter
on page 3.
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- Holy Communion
2nd and 4th Sundays
10.30
- Morning Service with activities for children. Holy Communion
on the first and third Sunday of the month. The children
will start in their groups and then be called into the chapel to join
the rest of the church family for the celebration of Holy Communion.
2nd and any
5th Sundays: Services of the Word
The children start in church with us and then go out part of the way
during the service to their groups.
4th Sunday: Family Service
All the family stay together in the chapel for the duration of the
service
Sunday
School (4 - 11 yrs) meet during the 10h30 service,
giving a positive Christian experience through Bible Stories, creative
activities, etc.
Youth
Group (12 - 18 yrs) - seeking
to show that the Bible is not just a set of stories but is relevant
for young people today, meets once a month during the 10h30 service,
and for other socials.
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