What a weekend.
It was one of those weekends where you can't remember everything in the right order. Anyway this was the overriding theme - the departure of the Foucachons and the installation of the Briennens.
First event - Friday evening barbecue at the Foucachon's house, which is a seriously old landaise in the middle of the forest not that far from Casteljaloux. We left the barbecue at about midnight and Pat kept me awake (mostly) on the long way home.
Saturday was largely about preparation for Sunday and also about the International group's home meeting - also a barbecue, but this time held at the Griffinhaus. We have some visitors from a Chinese church in New York at the moment.
Sunday started warm and carried on that way. The church is air-conditioned, and that's just great ! So firstly the morning service. Sammy's last as pastor. He preached on Mark 6 and afterwards we stayed at the church for a picnic lunch, then to prepare for the valedictory / installation at 5pm. I rehearsed my reading (part of 2 Timothy) with one of our experts and instinctively got the liaisons right for "tu as apprises" and "tu les as apprises". Needless to say I stumbled over it during the service !
Afterwards we chatted with the many people who had come, including one chap who had turned up at 6 for the international service but he's a French-speaker, so I think he was OK about it !)
We crawled home to bed and slept in this morning. I went to the computermonger to get the dead PC and a disk box. I had to queue so long for the PC that I left without the disk box and we hightailed it up to the Foucachons to help with cleaning after packing.
First event - Friday evening barbecue at the Foucachon's house, which is a seriously old landaise in the middle of the forest not that far from Casteljaloux. We left the barbecue at about midnight and Pat kept me awake (mostly) on the long way home.
Saturday was largely about preparation for Sunday and also about the International group's home meeting - also a barbecue, but this time held at the Griffinhaus. We have some visitors from a Chinese church in New York at the moment.
Sunday started warm and carried on that way. The church is air-conditioned, and that's just great ! So firstly the morning service. Sammy's last as pastor. He preached on Mark 6 and afterwards we stayed at the church for a picnic lunch, then to prepare for the valedictory / installation at 5pm. I rehearsed my reading (part of 2 Timothy) with one of our experts and instinctively got the liaisons right for "tu as apprises" and "tu les as apprises". Needless to say I stumbled over it during the service !
Afterwards we chatted with the many people who had come, including one chap who had turned up at 6 for the international service but he's a French-speaker, so I think he was OK about it !)
We crawled home to bed and slept in this morning. I went to the computermonger to get the dead PC and a disk box. I had to queue so long for the PC that I left without the disk box and we hightailed it up to the Foucachons to help with cleaning after packing.
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