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News about ACAS
ACAS AGM 6 May – Reports from 2017
The Minutes of the AGM in 2017 of St. Alban’s charitable association are available under the following link:
and the report on the activities of the association can be read here:
The AGM will take place after church on Sunday 6 May in the Centre Mounier. This is an opportunity to introduce projects for St. Alban’s to support.
ACAS General Meeting
The Annual General Meeting of the Association Caritative Anglicane de Strasbourg (ACAS) wil ltake place after church on Sunday 6 May.
Bishop’s Lent Appeal 2018
Sustaining a Ministry of Hope for Refugees in the Calais area of France
Bishop Robert’s Lent Appeal aims to address the plight of unaccompanied child migrants. ACAS, the charitable association of St. Alban’s, encourages everyone to give generously – please contact Victoria Sérenque for more details. On Sundays a box for your contributions is at the back of the church.
For further information about the appeal see the Diocesan website: http://europe.anglican.org/bishops-appeals/lent-appeal-videos
Madagascar sous le cyclone une fois de plus Cyclone hits Madagascar
Our prayers are asked for all those affected by the cyclone which hit the east coast of Madagascar on Friday, yet again damaging the settlement of Foulpointe, already devastated by a hurricane a year ago. The charitable associations ACAS and ACAMA are both involved in supporting the church in Foulpointe.
Worship Leader Voahangy Ramananjatovo writes:
Vents forts et pluies diluviennes à Madagascar: vendredi 5 janvier vers 13h le cyclone Ava a touché la côte est du pays. Il a génèré des vents moyens de 150 km avec des rafales allant jusqu’à 205km/h.
Un bilan du Bureau national de gestion des risques et des catastrophes lundi fait état de 27 morts et 13.000 sinistrés. Le cyclone Ava a fait de nombreux dégâts, notamment dans les districts de Fenerive Est, Soanierana Ivongo et Tamatave, dont Foulpointe; routes coupées, arbres déracinés, toitures envolées, cases détruites, inondations.
« Les bas quartiers sont inondés. Il n’y a plus d’eau et plus d’électricité. Certains câbles électriques sont tombés », raconte un habitant du quartier d’Andranomadio, à Tamatave. Dans cette ville, les refuges comme le gymnase et les établissements publics accueillent 170 sinistrés.
En tout, cinq écoles ont été détruites par le cyclone. Les cours ont d’ailleurs été suspendus dans les régions de l’est, mais aussi à Antananarivo. La capitale n’est pas épargnée par les pluies diluviennes. Près de 350 personnes ont été évacuées dans la capitale à cause des inondations.
Les gens n’étaient pas informés, sauf ceux qui ont l’habitude d’aller sur Internet car ils ne sont pas informés par les canaux de communication conventionnels comme les radios et les télés. Ils n’étaient donc pas du tout préparés.
L’information est générale. Nous attendons des nouvelles des correspondants à Foulpointe.
Beaucoup de prières.
Bredele for sale for St. Alban’s charitable association
Maryline William-Smith writes:
Anny’s wonderful talents have given us this year an excellent charity calendar and under her wise management, the bredele baking team has had its best production year so far.
With grateful thanks to all those lovely people who participated recently in the baking and/or packaging sessions, I’d like to confirm that our best crop of Bredele yet will be available for sale after Church on the Sundays in Advent while stocks last.
There have been some minor breakages and so today during the packaging session we tasted the quality of the varieties (well somebody has to!!) and we could confirm that the biscuits are absolutely delicious this year.
So do come with a generous heart and help ACAS, your church charity association, with plentiful purchases.
The baking team at work – and the result. 
PS: Bredele, for newcomers, are spicy tasty biscuits that are baked during Advent in Alsace and are an indispensible ingredient of an Alsatian Christmas. Anny Samuels is an accomplished Bredele artist.
Outbreak of plague in Madagascar / Épidémie de la peste en Madagascar
Our Malgache fellow-Anglicans are deeply worried about an outbreak of plague in Madagascar. According to the WHO, the outbreak has spread to the capital and port towns, infecting more than 100 people in just a few weeks. The WHO is rapidly scaling up its response to the crisis. The Strasbourg Malgache community has been supporting the rebuilding of an Anglican church at Foulpointe, near Tamatave, one of the coastal cities already affected.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2017/response-plague-madagascar/en/
The Malgache Worship Leader Voahangy Ramananjatovo writes :
“Endémique à Madagascar, la peste est responsable du décès de 19 personnes ces deux derniers mois, selon un dernier bilan communiqué jeudi par le ministère de la Santé.
« Nous avons enregistré 104 cas suspects de peste, dont 19 décès dans tout Madagascar », a annoncé le ministre de la Santé, le professeur Mamy Lalatiana Andriamanarivo. Soit une augmentation substantielle du nombre de décès depuis le précédent bilan officiel de l’épidémie, communiqué mi-septembre, qui faisait alors état de cinq morts.
« Cette année, la saison pesteuse a commencé assez tôt et de manière brutale », a souligné le ministre. Alors que la peste se manifeste généralement d’octobre à mars dans la Grande Île, le premier décès a été enregistré le 28 août. Après avoir contracté la maladie à Ankazobe, dans le centre du pays, le malade est mort dans un taxi-brousse à Moramanga alors qu’il tentait de rejoindre Tamatave, une localité située sur la côte est.
Mouvement de panique
Chemin faisant, il a contaminé deux passagers, décédés début septembre. Une succession de cas à l’origine d’un mouvement de panique, surtout à Tamatave, qui n’a pas connu la peste depuis cent ans, selon le ministère. Les pharmacies de la ville ont d’ailleurs été prises d’assaut par les habitants.
Avec deux décès, la capitale malgache, Antananarivo, n’est pas épargnée. Parmi les victimes, « une petite fille qui venait d’assister à un famadihana (tradition malgache de retournement des morts) à Fianarantsoa (centre) », a indiqué le ministère.
La peste réapparaît presque chaque année à Madagascar depuis 1980, à la faveur de la saison des pluies, de la tradition de « retournement des morts » et de la recrudescence des feux de brousse, selon le ministère. Développée chez les rats, puis véhiculée par les puces, la bactérie de la peste peut être foudroyante sous sa forme pneumonique – transmissible par la toux – en tuant son hôte en seulement 24 à 72 heures. Sa forme bubonique se soigne, si traitée à temps, avec des antibiotiques.”
Church Lunch at Baggersee 8th October 2017
The Churchwardens Denis Le Moullac & Pauline Dif write:
It is now the time of year when we start back to work and school. St. Alban’s Church too will begin a new and important phase in its life. This autumn we will be welcoming into our church family a new priest-in-charge Mark Barwick, his wife Corinna, and their two young children Madeleine and Elias. Mark will take his first church service with us on October 1.
We would like to use the occasion of our Annual Church Lunch at the Baggersee to introduce him and his family to our varied and diverse congregation in a memorable happy celebration together.
The lunch will be held after church on Sunday October 8 at the Baggersee venue (in a park on a large lake to the south of the Meinau, and a 10-minute walk from the tram stop “Hohwart” on the A line in the direction of Graffenstaden, along the rue du Languedoc).
It will take the form of a “pot-luck” meal. You are all warmly invited to attend and to contribute in bringing food and drink to share with everyone. There will be a list on display at the back of the church over the next few Sundays on which to indicate what you intend to contribute. You may also contact Pauline Dif (tel. 06.76.80.30.17 ) or Anny Samuels (tel. 09.80.52.95.02) to find out what may be needed.
During the lunch there will be a Tombola draw, with a good selection of prizes. The proceeds will go to help the work of ACAS, the church’s charitable and outward-giving association.
Come on Sunday October 8 to enjoy a good time together as a church community and to meet our new chaplain and his family informally over a convivial meal .
Fighting modern slavery in Pakistan – presentation on 6 September.
The Rev. Silas Lazar, from the Mission Revival Church in Montreal, Canada, is currently touring Europe as part of his ministry to raise support for his particular project in Pakistan. His concern is with persecuted families (women, children) working in brick-making factories in different parts of Pakistan who are mistreated, tortured, kept under bondage as debt payers from generation to generation, and are denied freedom. The Rev. Silas Lazar is the author of many Christian books; his most recent release is entitled “Remove your mountain by releasing your power” and is available as an e-book.
His tour will take him to Paris, Geneva, Marseille and Brussels, where he will present his project: beginning with the release of families from bondage it aims to reinstate them in the main-stream community. On 6th September he will be in Strasbourg to publicise this project at the home of the Jacobs family.
An open invitation is extended to anyone who would like to find out more about his work to join the Jacobs family on 6th September, 2017 at 5 rue de Wallonie, Apartment 4, 67000 Strasbourg at 12.00h (lunch will be served); the presentation should end at 13:30h.
Please let the Jacobs know if you can come – by email to:
jacobnaveed@yahoo.fr or
jacvic2007@yahoo.fr or
Tel. 06 68 74 07 20.
Children Sleepover 29-30 April
Aumônerie anglicane de Strasbourg
Anglican Chaplaincy Strasbourg
Association à but cultuel inscrite au Registre des Associations
du Tribunal d’Instance de Strasbourg,
Vol. LXXII, Folio N° 114, Dossier N° 229/1995
15 rue d’Austerlitz, 67000 Strasbourg
anglican.chaplaincy.strasbourg@gmail.com
Tél. 06 24 33 16 16
On a beautiful December day, we went for a trip in the Vosges looking for a chalet site able to welcome our « Children Sleepover » 2017. After a rather inconclusive first attempt, we finally discovered a chalet fulfilling all our expectations.
It is the « chalet des Amis de la Nature de la Chaume des Veaux » high above Hohwald. At 980 m above sea level, near the « Champ du Feu » ski resort, the house can be reached in all seasons via the Kreutzweg pass. The house offers 80 beds, split between 28 rooms of capacity for 2 up to 6. There are two big dining rooms, one called Le Ranch seating 35, the other one can seat 70, and the kitchen is well equipped.
It is an ideal child friendly site: they can play outside without any risk as there is no major road in the neighbourhood. In case of rain, there are tables for games such as “baby foot” (table football) and table tennis.
The ramblers will also be delighted as there are plenty of footpaths. The view from the magnificent terrace and the quiet surroundings alone ma
To get there, please take the Strasbourg-Colmar motorway, take the exit Mittelbergheim-Andlau, drive through Andlau and Hohwald (in the direction of Champ du Feu) after the village, turn to the right at the panel indicating Chalet des Amis de la Nature.
We will be able to spend a weekend devoted to our children and friends, in God’s Grace. ke the trip worth while.
We have confirmed our booking for the weekend of 29th & 30th April. Their rates enable us to offer even better tariffs than last year.
The weekend will cost 15 Euros per adult, 12 Euros per child up to 18 years of age, accommodation and food included. We have set up a family offer for 40 Euros. People joining us only for a day will contribute 5 Euros to the costs of meals and rental costs of the premises.
Please note that you will have to bring your sheets and pillow cases (or a sleeping bag). The detailed programme will be sent out later on.
Registration form
Surname: …………………………………………………………………………. first name:…………………………………………………………………………..
Number of people: ………………………………..
Will come for: – the whole weekend (*)
(*) circle your choice – only on the Saturday
– only on the Sunday.
Is planning to bring the following contribution to the meals (or drinks):
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………..………………………………………………………………………………………………
Is willing to help out on the following tasks: ……………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………….……………………………………………………………………………..
(Example: preparing meals, washing up, cleaning the reception areas before departure, leisure activities, etc.)
Please do register as soon as possible with either Pauline Dif or Anny Samuels.
Chalet details: tel. 03 88 69 36 16 – email: resa@chaumedesveaux.org
website: www.chaumesdesveaux.org (for further information).
Chalet details: tel. 03 88 69 36 16 – email: resa@chaumedesveaux.org
website: www.chaumesdesveaux.org (for further information).
www.saintalbans.fr/2017/03/30/