Cours de le Marne





So Sunday morning found Catrin at Cenon, Gwilym at Lormont and us at Cours de la Marne. "The family that prays together...."

Anyway, the church at Cours de la Marne is a sister-church of the Pessac Baptist church and also the church in Floirac. They have a Bible class at 9:45 and the main service at 10:30. We sang some good songs and the service was led by a friend I haven't seen for a while. It was a good time, the pastor preaching from 2 Thessalonians 2.

On the tram back home we chatted with three ladies who had done a sponsored walk in aid of research on breast cancer , together with several thousands of others.

The children were invited out for lunch so we decided to try a recipe for american pancakes. Very nice ! We'll do them again this week with the kids.

In the evening we were missing lots of our regulars at the English Service, but we had other visitors to compensate, so we ended up being 3/4 American, eating chili and corn bread and counting the states as well as the countries !

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