Church at Blaye
Today the Floirac church decamped to Blaye to meet with the Blaye church at Chateau Segonzac (the proprietor belongs to the Blaye church).
The service was helpful. We sang 'He is exalted', 'Holy, Holy, Holy', 'Thine be the glory', and some that don't exist in English. (We will have to memorise the Lord's prayer and a song they use for grace).
The service was followed by a fellowship lunch with lots of slightly unrecognisable food, plus our sausage rolls.
The chateau is beautiful and the proprietor is working on producing a proper Blaye wine with all the normal complexity but only half the alcohol. The law forbids anything that weak from being called wine, so it's known as Lir. Watch out for it in Waitrose if you're into that kind of thing.
Two women came to faith at the service - a real cause for rejoicing to Sammy and Carol. You wait a long time for conversions France.
The Blaye church has no pastor. Sammy preaches there almost once a fortnight. Other weeks they meet and share together or maybe a retired pastor can take the service.
The group needs systematic teaching, but it's quite small and the town has only about 5000 people. Would it be right to put a missionary pastor into that situation? Could a church there realistically become self-financing in the France of today? What is the right thing to do?
The service was helpful. We sang 'He is exalted', 'Holy, Holy, Holy', 'Thine be the glory', and some that don't exist in English. (We will have to memorise the Lord's prayer and a song they use for grace).
The service was followed by a fellowship lunch with lots of slightly unrecognisable food, plus our sausage rolls.
The chateau is beautiful and the proprietor is working on producing a proper Blaye wine with all the normal complexity but only half the alcohol. The law forbids anything that weak from being called wine, so it's known as Lir. Watch out for it in Waitrose if you're into that kind of thing.
Two women came to faith at the service - a real cause for rejoicing to Sammy and Carol. You wait a long time for conversions France.
The Blaye church has no pastor. Sammy preaches there almost once a fortnight. Other weeks they meet and share together or maybe a retired pastor can take the service.
The group needs systematic teaching, but it's quite small and the town has only about 5000 people. Would it be right to put a missionary pastor into that situation? Could a church there realistically become self-financing in the France of today? What is the right thing to do?
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