A full Thursday

Yesterday started at "the group" - a twice-yearly meeting for christian workers in Bordeaux and environs. It's a useful forum where we share encouragements and difficulties. 

Yesterday we learnt that one church had conducted a wedding for two bikers, and 140 bikers had filled the church for the occasion. Another church is nearing completion of their renovated premises - much better than they were. Some baptisms. Good stories of steady progress.

However another church has had its plans to build a church collapse and now the future is very uncertain. An American missionary faces huge problems of support due to the poor exchange rate and an accumulated debt to their mission. The poor exchange rate is knocking us Brits, too, but for this family their presence in France is under threat.

I shared the start-up at FAC and the start of English services and the folks seemed enthusiastic and took piles of flyers for their churches.

Then off to centre FAC for an afternoon of start-up meetings talking about plans for the Bible studies, English classes, Saturdays, Sunday prayer-breakfasts and a possible mission team at Easter.

Then the first Thursday meeting of the year. About 15 students came - some new faces. Fiona had a study prepared but she was unwell so we got people talking about the summer and the camps and stuff they'd been on, then what they'd learned over the summer, then what their hopes are for the coming year. I told them about the plans at FAC and we divided into groups to pray after reading Psalm 46 together.

Manu drove the Pessacais home - que du bonheur !

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