Iris bullinger
PASTOR
iris@villagemosaique.ch
Languages spoken: French, Swiss German
Born into a Methodist family in Winterthur, my life led me to Geneva after an apprenticeship as a technical draftsman at Sulzer. With my husband, I invested 30 years in a metal construction business. After raising my children, I became interested in university courses and was able to feed my intellectual curiosity. Finally, I challenged myself to study theology, which I completed with great joy and satisfaction.
The freedom I discovered in God gave me the courage to engage with a church. Thus, I began as a pastor in St.-Imier in 2019. Believing that the church must change and better adapt to society, I am committed with great conviction to this "Church Otherwise" project here in Lausanne. I am also involved at broader levels in the Methodist Church as a member of the Swiss council and treasurer of the central conference. What I love are connections and discussions, reading, playing games, singing, and dancing!
claudio neto da silva
PASTOR
claudio@villagemosaique.ch
Languages spoken: French, English, Swiss German, Portuguese, Swedish
Through his monastic experience and travels across various cultures, ideologies, religions, spiritual approaches, and natural therapies, Claudio enjoys promoting, in both his life and work, the priority of cultivating healthy relationships with ourselves and others, as well as with the life around us. His paternal grandfather was a Methodist pastor in Angola, and his maternal grandfather was a Reformed pastor in Bern (Wohlen).
A certified Life Coach, youth minister at the Reformed parish of Montreux-Clarens, certified preacher currently undergoing pastoral training at the University of Geneva, he is also a practitioner of holistic healing (kinesiology, aromatherapy, and nutritional therapy).
Father of two daughters aged 9 and 11, he returned to Switzerland with his wife and children after 12 years of living in Angola, Sweden, and the United States, where he worked as an adult education minister at the United Methodist Church of Princeton and created the coaching method Reconcile With Life (reconcilewithlife.com). Upon arriving in the canton of Vaud, he joined the co-creation of our intentional community "Village Mosaïque," as for him, the Divine is alive in relationships. "We relate, therefore we are '' is his motto. Village Mosaïque offers a wonderful opportunity to live the universal body (Christ), the flesh church, to follow the Living God, who protects, nourishes, and liberates the life force everywhere and at every moment of our lives.
erika stalcup
PASTOR
erika@villagemosaique.ch
Languages spoken: French, English
Born into a Thai Buddhist and American Christian family, Erika Stalcup grew up in an agricultural town in Kansas, USA. After studying music at the conservatory in Prague and at Emory University, Erika earned a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School in 2007 and a Ph.D. in the history of Christianity from Boston University in 2016. After serving in seven Methodist parishes in the United States, Erika worked as a pastor at the Evangelical Methodist Church of Lausanne from 2015 until the community chose to renew itself by supporting the creation of Village Mosaïque in 2022.
Erika feels she is most ministerial when she helps someone think a new thought or understand an old thought in a new way. She sees Christ as a bold advocate for social justice who simultaneously gathers people and breaks down the barriers that prevent us from living authentically as children of God. For her, the church is a community where we learn to practice our convictions through our actions and daily choices.
Erika is a member of SafePlace, a network of pastors who provide a safe space to discuss issues related to sexuality and spirituality.
Jennifer black
COMMUNICATION & DEVELOPMENT
jennifer@villagemosaique.ch
Languages spoken: French, English
Jennifer was born in Cleveland, USA. She grew up in the Episcopal Church, where her mother was the director of Christian education. Through the influence of this church, she understood from a young age the values brought by community life.
Having arrived in Switzerland in 2003, she is now naturalized. Married and the mother of an only daughter, she chose to put her career on hold to raise her. Despite being far from her family and the church of her youth, she strives to instill the same universal values in her child: love, forgiveness, welcoming others, living in relationship with the Divine.
It is in yoga that she found answers to her deepest questions about how to live spirituality in a material world, and it is in the practice of meditation that she daily experiences the words of Jesus: "The Kingdom of God is within you."
Delighted to join the Village Mosaïque team, she looks forward to contributing to office tasks and using her skills in communication and organizational development for the expansion of Village Mosaïque.