Bilingual Services

Regular bilingual Sunday morning worship services are held with the French Reformed Church that meets at Condé-sur-Noireau, so that French- and English-speaking Christians can worship together.

Other joint meetings are organised too, such as the “English Carol Service” (see picture above, showing the choir singing a carol) each year in December, which reaches out with the Gospel to both French- and English-speakers in the area.

English Worship Services for Residents

Normandy Vision holds regular English-language worship services. This is aimed at the many residents in Normandy whose mother-tongue or second language is English.

Currently regular Sunday Worship services are held in Condé-sur-Noireau (See picture on right which shows the church building in which we meet in Condé), Vire (from Autumn 2009) and Houlgate. This is a work that is continuing to grow.

Summer English Worship Services
for Holiday-makers

During the summer holiday period, from early July through to the beginning of September, we also hold Sunday Worship Services in English for the benefit of the many anglophone holiday-makers and visitors to the area. (See the picture below, showing Philip Loose preaching at an English-language Sunday Worship service at Houlgate Evangelical Church during the summer of 2008.)

See the summer programme for details of services during 2009.

Bible Exhibitions

During the summers of 2008 and 2009, an exhibition on the theme of the Bible has been held in the Temple protestant in the town of Houlgate (See picture below, showing the Expo-Bible during 2008).

Further information on these exhibitions can be found on this web site: Expo-Bible 2009 and Expo-Bible 2008

Spiritual and Pastoral Ministry

This work is with both English- and French-speaking people, and it includes various types of ministry such as:

• Visiting the sick, whether at home or in hospital, ministering to them from the Bible and in prayer
• Taking funeral services

See Ministry for English-speakers for more information on this aspect of Normandy Vision's work

House Group / Bible Study

A House Group meeting for Christian fellowship and Bible Study is held regularly in the home of Philip and Simone Loose in connection with the congregation meeting at Condé-sur-Noireau.

Ladies Bible Study

Simone also runs a weekly ladies Bible Study in English. Ladies from various nationalities coming along each week to study the Bible and pray together.

Other Events

Various events, such as the seminars held each month during the autumn of 2006 at Houlgate Evangelical Church, have been organised. Before further events are organised, a review is being undertaken in the light of experience gained with these events to examine the best locations, times, formats, subects etc. for further events.

As an example, see the programme of seminars held during the autumn of 2006.