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Cornerstone No. 186, page 3 I wish to say a big thank you to the people who are leading worship at Lausanne in the coming months – those coming in to lead services, and those within the congregation who are stepping up to the plate – as our American cousins would say – to make sure that Sunday by Sunday the gospel is proclaimed, the prayers are said and the hymns sung. I hope to manage to lead worship on a Sunday myself. For now, we continue to hold each other in our hearts, and in our prayers – and especially those who need those prayers most. Every blessing Laurence Twaddle Visiting the Scots Kirk pulpit The Rev. Erika Stalcup serves as pastor (ordained deacon) of the Eglise Evangélique Méthodiste in Lausanne. She was born in Kansas, USA, into a United Methodist family and after graduating from high school spent a year studying flute performance at the Prague Conservatory of Music in the Czech Republic while living at the International Baptist Theological Seminary. Her curiosity about Methodism led her eventually to explore a call to ministry. She achieved a bachelor in music degree in Atlanta and then went on to do a Master of Divinity degree at Yale. She then undertook a PhD in History of Christianity at Boston University and was ordained a deacon in full connection in the New England Conference. She is married to a Swiss and now lives in Lausanne. Cornerstone Publishing Programme 2017 Edition August-September October-November December 2017-January 2018 Number 187 188 189 Deadline for text 16 th July 17 th September 12 th November